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Staff book review: Grace’s Guide by Grace Helbig
Grace Helbig is most famous for being a YouTube personality. She has also appeared on TV and earlier this year launched her own TV show. And she’s an author! This, her first book, is a self-improvement guide aimed at older … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: The Man Who Touched His Own Heart by Rob Dunn
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first “explorers” who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts’ chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak
Available in Youth Services. A book with no pictures? What could be fun about that? After all, if a book has no pictures, there’s nothing to look at but the words on the page. Words that might make you … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Located on our New Fiction shelf. The fascinating lives of the characters in Almost Famous Women have mostly been forgotten, but their stories are burning to be told. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, resurrects … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
Available in our fiction section. The stories of Alice Sheldon, who wrote as James Tiptree Jr. ( Up the Walls of the World ) until her death in 1987, have been heretofore available mostly in out-of-print collections. Thus the 18 … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: The Good Lord Bird
Available in our Fiction Section Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an … 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
Staff Book Review: My Drunk Kitchen by Hannah Hart
Located on our New Books shelf One day, sad cubicle dweller and otherwise bored New York transplant Hannah Hart decided, as a joke, to make a fake cooking show for her friend back in California. She turned on the camera, … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
Located in Youth Services Once upon a time, there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything! But one autumn night, while walking in the woods, the little old lady heard . . . clomp, clomp, shake, … Continue reading
Staff Book Review: Necessary Lies by Dianne Chamberlain
Located on our New Books Shelf After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother’s aging, her sister’s … Continue reading
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