by envisionmg | Oct 13, 2012 | Fiction
FINALISTS: Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group USA, Inc.) Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King (McSweeney’s Books) Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) Ben Fountain, Billy...
by envisionmg | Sep 18, 2012 | Fiction
Throughout the month: If you sign up for a new card, you will be entered to win a Kindle Fire. Drawing to be held on Sept. 24th. Send us a picture of you with your library card, and we’ll post it to our website. Send your picture to [email protected]...
by envisionmg | Jul 27, 2012 | Anticipated Fiction, Fiction
If you’re feeling nostalgic for coming of age stories about gen-xers, here are two books about twenty-something women trying to find their way at the end of the 20th century. Stuck in the office by day, Odile and Sybil, try to express their creative natures...
by envisionmg | Jul 24, 2012 | Fiction, Fiction/Mystery, Historical Fiction
If you have already read The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game, this book is a must read. If you haven’t read the others, you’ll want to go back and read them first. I wish I had re-read both before starting The Prisoner of Heaven as all three...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 21, 2012 | Fiction, Summer Reading
Summer is officially here. Here are a few beach reads you might want to take with you when you cool off by the sea. Beach House Memories- Mary Alice Monroe “In 1974, America was changing, but Charleston remained eternally the same. Lovie had always done what was...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 14, 2012 | Fiction
Publisher’s Summary: “Take one out-of-work pastry chef . . . Teeny Templeton believes that her life is finally on track. She’s getting married, she’s baking her own wedding cake, and she’s leaving her troubled past behind. And then? She finds her fiancé...
