by envisionmg | Sep 8, 2020 | Fiction, Jen Recommends
It hasn’t been a great summer reading year for me. Nothing has appealed to me and I can’t seem to stick with ebooks, so I re-read two favorites on my bookshelf that I’ve enjoyed in years past. One is filled with the magic of a special garden, the...
by envisionmg | Aug 13, 2020 | Fiction, Staff Review
Lydia is a bookstore owner in Acapulco. After she befriends a customer with similar reading tastes, she learns he is the head of a Mexican cartel. Even when her journalist husband writes an expose on this cartel, she does not believe her life is in danger. When...
by envisionmg | Aug 4, 2020 | Fiction, Staff Review
The author of THE ORPHAN TRAIN has written an exceptional novel based on the real life of the title subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World. With alternating timeline chapters she has painted an historically accurate portrait of Christina’s family life...
by envisionmg | Jul 16, 2020 | Audiobooks, Fiction, Michelle Recommends
The real crime here is that Forever and a Day appears to be the only audiobook actor Matthew Goode* has narrated. Though imagined—imagined because I cannot know, of course, if he has or hasn’t been thought of—perhaps an even more egregious crime is that not a...
by envisionmg | Jun 8, 2020 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
Our patron’s thoughts on the book: “The author is a local woman ( Peabody) and has written four books, her latest, Willow Run, was writtnen at the young age of 95. Her other books are Kwa Heri Means Goodbye, A Door Just Opened Africa Calling Me Back and...
by envisionmg | Jun 3, 2020 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
Our patron’s thoughts on the book: “Every page is a gem. Interlocking stories of Olive Kitteridge as she and her neighbors in Crosby, Maine, deal with love, families, aging, disappointment and the endearing foibles of human beings.” The...
