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...
by envisionmg | Jan 12, 2015 | Staff Picks
I could go on ad nauseam about all the fantastic books I read last year, but for brevity’s sake, here are half a dozen of my 2014 favorites. (All but two of the following titles were published in 2014.) The Glass Sentence by S. E. Grove “In 1891, in a...
by envisionmg | Dec 29, 2014 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jen Recommends, Staff Picks
If you like the gore of 16th century childbirth, rich historical descriptions and strong female characters, these are the books for you! The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich “Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies...
by envisionmg | Dec 17, 2014 | Non-fiction, Poetry Collections, Staff Picks
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar “A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of...
