by envisionmg | Jul 18, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by JimEric Jager’s Blood Royal may not take place at the time of Dumas’ The Three Musketeers (in fact, it takes place 200 years before in 1407) but it would be a good choice for anyone who likes Dumas or French history. It has street fights,...
by envisionmg | Jul 4, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by JulieAbout the book: “Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times – the improbable, intimate account of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the...
by envisionmg | Jun 25, 2014 | Children's Literature, Staff Review
Reviewed by RachelBy all accounts, Neil Gaiman’s children’s book Coraline is a strange and creepy piece of fiction. It features another set of parents for its protagonist, Coraline Jones, who live through the hallway behind the door that goes nowhere. Copies of her...
by envisionmg | Jun 23, 2014 | Staff Review
Reviewed by JimIt’s been a good spring/summer for the historical spy novel genre. A couple weeks ago David Downing’s Jack of Spies came out and now we have Alan Furst’s Midnight in Europe. Fans of Furst will immediately recognize the style and plot...
by envisionmg | Jun 19, 2014 | Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Carol4.5 Stars. Remarkable historical fiction about a Southern family’s views on slavery pre-Civil War, and the relationship between one of the daughters, Sarah Grimké, and her slave, Handful. Grimké and her sister, Angelina, become passionate about...
by envisionmg | Jun 12, 2014 | Michelle Recommends, Staff Reading, Staff Review
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age – W. Bernard Carlson Here’s the thing: I may never again want to hear the words commutator, stator or rotor, but I will very probably never get enough of Nikola Tesla. Most everyone has heard the name, but aside from...
