by envisionmg | Aug 1, 2016 | Reading Lists, Tracy Reviews
Reading list curated by Tracy | The Summer Olympics are around the corner, with the opening ceremony set to take place Friday, August 5th. To help you get inspired and excited for the Olympics, we’ve compiled a list of nonfiction and fiction books related to the...
by envisionmg | Jul 22, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
You know how one book leads to another? The Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Greg Steinmetz is one of those. I was reading The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance and the name Jacob Fugger was mentioned. It was almost nothing; just a mention...
by envisionmg | Jul 20, 2016 | Booklists, Reading Lists, Summer Reading
We asked our staff to list four books they planned to read over the summer – here are the titles they responded with: The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware “In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a...
by envisionmg | Jul 15, 2016 | Non-fiction
An out-of-the-corner-of-my-eye glance at a line-up of books focused quickly when one in particular – it’s cover full of two animated faces, the title writ large, a particularly urgent newspaper headline – caught my attention. I thought it was a...
by envisionmg | Jul 13, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History, 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. 1174 William I of Scotland is Captured by Henry II of England In 1173 the sons of...