by envisionmg | Jun 8, 2015 | Audiobooks
The following unabridged titles are now available at the library in CD audiobook format. Come in and check them out! At the Water’s Edge / Sara Gruen While her husband, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into her...
by envisionmg | Jun 5, 2015 | Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim The great thing about Scott Lynch’s Lies of Locke Lamora (Book 1 of the Gentlemen Bastards series. Followed by Red Seas Under Red Skies and Republic of Thieves) is that it incorporates great character development, world building and lots of plot twists. Since I...
by envisionmg | May 26, 2015 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Picks, Staff Review
When talking about books (or films, or music) I do my level best to steer clear of certain adjectives that–since the dawn of time and/or the creation of the word–have been repeatedly beaten against a very sharp, very large rock. Any nuance these...
by envisionmg | May 18, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
By Jim Now that we are through the first year of the hundred year anniversary of World War 1 I thought it would be interesting to read a history of that first year of the war. So I picked up Peter Hart’s Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the...
by envisionmg | May 11, 2015 | Audiobooks, Patron Recommendations
An audiobook-loving patron recently recommended the following two titles, both of which, she noted, have good narrators: First up, a work of “inspiring” non-fiction: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. “In this memoir adapted for...
