by envisionmg | Dec 10, 2015 | Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
You’ve already read Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex, you’re this-close to making plans to see the film (starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Ben Whishaw), and the whole thing has provoked a...
by envisionmg | Nov 30, 2015 | History, Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War – Dan Hampton The Hunter Killers’ prologue reads a bit like a combined manufacturer’s manual for a...
by envisionmg | Nov 20, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
One Soldier’s War is the memoir of Babchenko’s service as an infantryman in the Russian army during the First and Second Chechen Wars in the 1990s. Both these wars grew out of attempts by Chechnya to break away from the Russian Federation. Fresh out of college,...
by envisionmg | Nov 2, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
The following titles are recommended by Charlotte. Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving About the book: “For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships....
by envisionmg | Oct 16, 2015 | Non-fiction, Under Appreciated Titles
Every once in a while we come across a book that we think our patrons will just love. We buy it for the library and then it sits on the shelf and sits on the shelf. This series is a way for us to promote under appreciated books we think you might enjoy. The Great War,...
by envisionmg | Oct 7, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
By Jim Mezrich’s Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs is a hard book to categorize, which says to my mind that it will appeal to a wide variety of readers. It could be read as a history of Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s; it could be read as...
