Monthly Archives: November 2014
The Season of Giving at Braswell Memorial Library
We want to wish a happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the Rocky Mount Area and beyond. This is the time of year when many of us want to give back to our community. One great way to do … Continue reading
What Do You Fancy? Staff Recommendations
I’m a bit of a magpie, I’ll ready anything shiny, but right now I’m enjoying historical fiction and crime fiction. Two of my favorite authors of the moment are Tana French and Jo Nesbo, … Continue reading
Teens’ Top Ten
YALSA has realsed their Teens’ Top Ten list for 2013-14. They are: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Griffin) Splintered by A.G. Howard (ABRAMS/Amulet Books) The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Teen) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: Orphan Train
Available in our Fiction section. The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a … Continue reading
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