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 9, 2015 | Mystery, Staff Picks
Quieter Than Sleep by Joanne Dobson “Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts’s elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined–and that not even...
by envisionmg | Sep 28, 2015 | Fiction, Staff Picks
“Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force, one of the exalted few. He spends his days cheating death in the skies above the Mojave Desert and his nights at his friend Pancho’s bar, often with his wife, Grace. She and Harrison are...
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 | May 26, 2015 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Picks, Staff Review
When talking about books (or films, or music) I do my level best to steer clear of certain adjectives that–since the dawn of time and/or the creation of the word–have been repeatedly beaten against a very sharp, very large rock. Any nuance these...
by envisionmg | Apr 29, 2015 | Staff Picks
“Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky...
