by envisionmg | Aug 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field Bosworth was the last major battle of the Wars of...
by envisionmg | May 18, 2018 | History, Uncategorized
A small sample of the many new history book titles arriving at the library in June The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler A sweeping account of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, the archeologists racing to...
by envisionmg | Apr 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ready Player One is generating a lot of 80s nostalgia. And we’ve got the solution. Fiction King, Stephen Cujo Summary: Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has...
by envisionmg | Mar 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
In honor of Women’s History Month we offer a selection of books of Historical Fiction and History featuring women. These books are located on our Read This Book Display in the library and many others in our Fiction and Non-fiction collections. Historical Fiction...
by envisionmg | Feb 14, 2018 | Reading Lists, Uncategorized
Conant, Jennet. A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS Summary:A stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as an OSS agent in the Far East. Prud’homme, Alex France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child...
by envisionmg | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Silk Roads is the History Book Group title for January. I tend to devour books on the silk road. There’s something about towns with names like Samarkand and Merv and Bukhara that just ignites my inner adventurer. That said, this is not that book. At least not...
