by envisionmg | Aug 12, 2021 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
The patron’s comment: “That was so good!” About Hour of the Witch: “Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World,...
by envisionmg | Aug 9, 2021 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews
Ghosts starts and ends on Nina Dean’s birthday but, in between, the reader gets to spend a year in the life of someone trying to figure it out. She falls in love and also out of it, she starts arguments and then reconciles them, she struggles and makes mistakes...
by envisionmg | Aug 4, 2021 | Staff Reading, Summer Reading
The Sweetness of Water – Nathan Harris “In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their...
by envisionmg | Aug 2, 2021 | Fiction, Sarah Reviews
In a town where supernatural beings are known to exist, human children are raised with the knowledge they need to protect themselves. Vampires plague the small town of Fulton Heights, Illinois but the residents know that so long as they stick to curfew and remain...
by envisionmg | Jul 29, 2021 | Staff Reading
The Forest of Vanishing Stars – Kristin Harmel “After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is...
