by envisionmg | Sep 13, 2017 | Reading Lists
Amy, one of our junior pages, really enjoyed these books (especially the first one on the list!), and thought that a young reader in your home might, too. Trumpet of the Swan – E. B. White “Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike...
by envisionmg | Sep 11, 2017 | Graphic Novels, Patrick Recommends
COMICS, GRAPHIC NOVELS, AND POPULAR CULTURE Most of us have heard of comics and graphic novels, but what are they really? Comics and graphic novels are a form of Sequential Art. They are a series of illustrations read in a specific order. Manga is a form of...
by envisionmg | Sep 5, 2017 | Patrick Reviews, Pop Culture Spotlight
Since the Golden Age of Comics heroes have been plagued by an army of unusual and bizarre foes. Jon Morris has collected the best of the worst in The Legion of Regrettable Super Villains. These rogues are organized by era, running from the Golden Age to Modern Age of...
by envisionmg | Aug 30, 2017 | Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 1282 Peter III of Aragon Intervenes in the War of the Sicilian Vespers In 1266 a...
by envisionmg | Aug 24, 2017 | Jim Reviews
One of the lesser known benefits of working in a library is getting to empty the book drop. This means you get to see some of the books that are trending within your community. That is how home came across A Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec. I checked it in and...
