by envisionmg | Aug 28, 2015 | Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim War at the Edge of the World is the first book in a series by Ian James Ross. Aurelius Castus is a newly arrived centurion to a Roman Legion stationed in 4th century AD northern Britain. Britain is a pretty quiet billet for Castus, who had come from service in...
by envisionmg | Aug 26, 2015 | Reading Intersections
Fall down the rabbit hole with us! In our Reading Intersections series, we’ll give you a place to start and where to go next, piling titles on until you’re neck-deep in books, graphic novels and movies on a similar theme. If you love English Georgian drama (or are...
by envisionmg | Aug 24, 2015 | Mystery, Patron Recommendations
“At the high-end designer consignment shop Snapdragon, Helen Hawthorne must cater to the whims of snobby-yet-frugal customers like Chrissy, who comes in to sell a purse and ends up causing a scene. But when Chrissy is found dead in a dressing room with a...
by envisionmg | Aug 19, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
Recommended by Jen “Two decades after the end of the Cold War, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy. With no formal training, everything he knew about spying he’d learned from books, movies, video games, and TV....
by envisionmg | Aug 17, 2015 | Rachel Reviews, Staff Review, YA Fiction
Staff review by Rachel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a book that has been lingering on my tbr list for years, and I finally read it as my #ReadHarder pick for an independently published book. Unfortunately, it was kind of meh once I’d...
