by envisionmg | Nov 2, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
The following titles are recommended by Charlotte. Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving About the book: “For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships....
by envisionmg | Oct 22, 2015 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews, Staff Review
By Jim I admit I picked up this book because of the cover. I first saw it on the new book display by the circulation desk in the lobby (if you haven’t checked that display out you really should, there are a lot of gems there). And everything on the cover of The...
by envisionmg | Oct 16, 2015 | Non-fiction, Under Appreciated Titles
Every once in a while we come across a book that we think our patrons will just love. We buy it for the library and then it sits on the shelf and sits on the shelf. This series is a way for us to promote under appreciated books we think you might enjoy. The Great War,...
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...
