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...
by envisionmg | Sep 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from...
by envisionmg | Sep 5, 2015 | Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
Words in Air: the Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell “Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that “you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.” The feeling was mutual. Bishop said...
by envisionmg | Aug 19, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
Recommended by Jen “Two decades after the end of the Cold War, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy. With no formal training, everything he knew about spying he’d learned from books, movies, video games, and TV....
by envisionmg | Aug 5, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Staff review by Rachel I don’t remember when “feminist” became such a buzz word in the pop culture strata during the last 3-5 years, but I do know that I started noticing it in my vocabulary a lot just last year. I may not have all my beliefs in...
