by envisionmg | Oct 9, 2015 | Mystery, Staff Picks
Quieter Than Sleep by Joanne Dobson “Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts’s elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined–and that not even...
by envisionmg | Oct 7, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
By Jim Mezrich’s Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs is a hard book to categorize, which says to my mind that it will appeal to a wide variety of readers. It could be read as a history of Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s; it could be read as...
by envisionmg | Oct 2, 2015 | Graphic Novels, Jim Reviews
One of the best parts of doing interlibrary loan (besides having the god like power of summoning books from all corners of the globe 😃 ) is all the books, music, movies and tv shows you encounter because other people have asked for them. Andrew...
by envisionmg | Sep 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from...
by envisionmg | Sep 28, 2015 | Fiction, Staff Picks
“Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force, one of the exalted few. He spends his days cheating death in the skies above the Mojave Desert and his nights at his friend Pancho’s bar, often with his wife, Grace. She and Harrison are...
