by envisionmg | Feb 3, 2016 | Fiction, Staff Review
In The Fortune Hunter Daisy Goodwin has crafted a tale that weaves together fiction with historical fact. At the core of this novel is a love triangle between the handsome and dashing British Captain Bay Middleton, a young heiress by the name of Charlotte Baird, and...
by envisionmg | Dec 28, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
When Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Judy Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and...
by envisionmg | Nov 30, 2015 | History, Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War – Dan Hampton The Hunter Killers’ prologue reads a bit like a combined manufacturer’s manual for a...
by envisionmg | Nov 20, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
One Soldier’s War is the memoir of Babchenko’s service as an infantryman in the Russian army during the First and Second Chechen Wars in the 1990s. Both these wars grew out of attempts by Chechnya to break away from the Russian Federation. Fresh out of college,...
by envisionmg | Nov 4, 2015 | Graphic Novels, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel Lumberjanes, vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis “Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed...
by envisionmg | Oct 22, 2015 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews, Staff Review
By Jim I admit I picked up this book because of the cover. I first saw it on the new book display by the circulation desk in the lobby (if you haven’t checked that display out you really should, there are a lot of gems there). And everything on the cover of The...
