by ta | Jan 28, 2010 | Fiction
Our Lady of Fatima is a close knit and very well decorated town in New Jersey. It’s prince, Bartolomeo di Crespi is the town’s best and only interior decorator. B, as he’s better known, gives up a New York City career in design so that he can be a...
by ta | Jan 19, 2010 | Fiction, Staff Picks
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few...
by Michelle | Jan 12, 2010 | Fiction
Elizabeth Kostova, known for her debut novel The Historian, is back with The Swan Thieves (released today.) Summary: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert...
by Michelle | Dec 13, 2009 | Fiction
December 16th at 7:00 p.m. Kristin Cashore, the NY Times best-selling author of Graceling and Fire, will be visiting the library on Wednesday, December 16th. Borders Books will be selling copies of both after the event if you would like to have the author sign one (or...
by maturid | Dec 9, 2009 | Fiction
Reeve Lindbergh, herself an accomplished memoirist, writes a wonderful review of Jamison’s book in the Washington Post that can be found on the Amazon site. “To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory...
by ta | Nov 12, 2009 | Fiction
On Monday evening, we had the pleasure of hosting New York Times Best-selling author, Matthew Pearl. At the end of a wonderful presentation about his work and the making of his book The Last Dickens, a member of the audience asked what books he was reading. Here are...
