by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 29, 2012 | Fiction, Staff Picks
“Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she’s checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its...
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 19, 2012 | Fiction, Staff Picks
Reviewed by Charlotte “When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for...
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 15, 2012 | Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal
Reviewed by Kim Abby Radwell has an unusual psychic talent. She’s able to find, unlock and channel psychic energy from so called “hot books” and use it to disable people. After a near deadly incident in a client’s library, Abby receives a...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jan 31, 2012 | Fiction, Staff Picks, Staff Review
“The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory; Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units,...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jan 18, 2012 | Fiction, Mystery
It’s no secret ’round these parts that I love the show Justified, which is based on a character, namely one US Marshall Raylan Givens, who appears in several of Elmore Leonard’s short stories/novels. Apparently, Lenoard became re-enamoured with his...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jan 9, 2012 | Fiction
Reviewed by Kim John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby. Names that shall ever live in our collective memories, even for those of us who weren’t born yet. Have you ever wondered about the many what ifs regarding that infamous day? Well, Stephen King takes...
