by envisionmg | Nov 23, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Sci - Fi
Ok, small confession: although I am a huge fan of all things Star Wars – books, movies, tv shows, comics etc etc etc – I don’t really like Jedi. Hold it! Before you throw rocks at me for this blasphemy, let me explain. Yes, people who can do double...
by envisionmg | Nov 20, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
One Soldier’s War is the memoir of Babchenko’s service as an infantryman in the Russian army during the First and Second Chechen Wars in the 1990s. Both these wars grew out of attempts by Chechnya to break away from the Russian Federation. Fresh out of college,...
by envisionmg | Nov 12, 2015 | Reading Lists
A selection of these and other titles on France can be found on display just beyond the New Book Room. Fiction: Murder in the Marais (An Aimee Leduc Investigation) by Cara Black “Private investigator Aimée Leduc must decrypt a digitized photo from the 1940s. But...
by envisionmg | Nov 9, 2015 | DVD/Movie, Patron Recommendations
One of our patrons had glowing things to say about The Water Diviner starring Russell Crowe. He highly recommends checking it out. About this film: “In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing...
by envisionmg | Nov 4, 2015 | Graphic Novels, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel Lumberjanes, vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis “Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed...
