by envisionmg | Apr 29, 2015 | Staff Picks
“Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky...
by envisionmg | Apr 27, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews, YA
by Jim The obvious hook of Georg Rauch’s memoir Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army is how did a Jew end up in the German army in World War II? Until I read this book I would have thought it was impossible, but apparently it was a thing...
by envisionmg | Apr 23, 2015 | Fiction, Memoir, Staff Review
Recommended by Julie The House at the End of Hope Street – Menna van Praag “Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she’s never seen before, 11...
by envisionmg | Apr 21, 2015 | Fantasy, Staff Review
Recommended by Linda The Secret Prince is a story of magic, adventure, surprise, fairytale and deception. As an infant, Thorn, is left by a cave entrance and is cared for by an old man. The old man teaches Thorn survival skills and stories of the mean king who took...
by envisionmg | Apr 17, 2015 | Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Carol Early in the 20th century Jewish families were leaving the “old country” for America. Addie Baum’s family was one that settled in Boston in the poor section of the North End. Of three sisters, Addie is the youngest and only born...
