by envisionmg | Dec 1, 2014 | Staff Picks
I tend to always have way more books than I could possible read. As a result there is a big stack of books on my beside table that threatens to crush me in my sleep. I can’t review them because I haven’t read them yet but they all have a story for why they...
by envisionmg | Nov 14, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
Recommended by Linda A true story of Louis Zamperini, a famous runner and survivor of a Japanese concentration camp in WWII. The story chronicles his life as a mischievous youth, his preparation for the Olympics, his abuse as a prisoner and the effects war had on his...
by envisionmg | Jun 3, 2014 | Jen Recommends, Staff Picks, Staff Review
The Perfume Collector – Kathleen TessaroAfter receiving an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, newlywed socialite Grace Monroe must uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor. Weaving through the decades from 1920s New York to 1950s Monte...
by envisionmg | Apr 25, 2014 | Staff Picks
About Orphan Train: “Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a...
by envisionmg | Jan 17, 2014 | Staff Picks
About the book: Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as...
by envisionmg | Nov 30, 2013 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
The Silk Road, that myriad of trade routes crisscrossing Asia in the middle ages, has always held a certain fascination for me. The imagery alone is spellbinding: trackless deserts, vast mountain ranges and endless steppe and in this massive space, caravans of camels...
