by envisionmg | May 11, 2015 | Audiobooks, Patron Recommendations
An audiobook-loving patron recently recommended the following two titles, both of which, she noted, have good narrators: First up, a work of “inspiring” non-fiction: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. “In this memoir adapted for...
by envisionmg | Nov 17, 2014 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
A patron returning Gemini said it was terrific. Here’s a bit more about the book, taken from the publisher’s summary: “Dr. Charlotte Reese works in the intensive care unit of Seattle’s Beacon Hospital, tending to patients with the most...
by envisionmg | Feb 27, 2014 | Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s summary Leila Meacham’s Somerset:One hundred fifty years of Roses’ Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with...
by envisionmg | Nov 12, 2013 | Patron Recommendations
About the book: It’s been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on...
by envisionmg | Nov 4, 2013 | Patron Recommendations
About the book: When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship that has been charming readers from Thailand to Turkey. A Street Cat Named Bob is an international sensation, landing on the bestseller list in England for 52 consecutive weeks and...
by envisionmg | Aug 29, 2013 | Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s summary: “When Jacquetta is married to the Duke of Bedford, English regent of France, he introduces her to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy. Her only friend in the great household is the duke’s squire Richard Woodville, who is at her...
