by ta | Jun 22, 2010 | Fiction, Summer Reading
There are so many great summer reading lists out there right now, and we will be featuring several of them here. But we thought we’d start out with some of the books that our staff are hoping to read this summer. Insignificant Others – Stephen McCauley...
by ta | Jun 21, 2010 | Fiction, Historical Fiction
When Loyal Ledford, returns to the Mann Glass Factory after being wounded at Guadalcanal, he has trouble readjusting to his old life. He drinks to drown the horrors he saw there and finds the most comfort talking to an African-American veteran, Mack Wells. Though...
by ta | Jun 8, 2010 | Audiobooks, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize, Mantel has called Wolf Hall a response to Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons. The ruthless character in that play is tempered in Mantel’s fictionalized account of the life of Thomas Cromwell. Her Cromwell is still...
by ta | May 19, 2010 | Audiobooks, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Told from the point of view of Cleopatra Selene, the only daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Moran’s latest historical novel gives an interesting glimpse into the life of a young Egyptian woman as she learns to make her way in Rome. Octavian (Caesar...
by ta | May 18, 2010 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper...
by ta | May 17, 2010 | Book Awards, Fiction
If you’re looking for a good mystery, The Edgars and the Agathas were recently announced. The Edgars Best Novel Best First Novel Best Young Adult The Agathas Best Novel Best First Novel
