Today, April 2nd, marks the anniversary of one of the most beloved, classic author of children's stories: Hans Christian Andersen. In honor of the greatest Dane of them all, International Children's Book Day is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books. So why not stop by a library today to check out our collection of children's books both…
Read moreIn 1988 Su Meck was twenty-two and married with two children when a ceiling fan in her kitchen fell and struck her on the head, leaving her with no memory of who she is or anything that has ever happened to her. Not only are her husband and children strangers to her, but she must relearn simple life skills, including how to read and write.…
Read moreFrank Chambers, the scuzzy main character in James M. Cain's noir masterpiece The Postman Always Rings Twice, is not a nice guy. He will not come to a happy end. Nor will his adulteress in crime, Cora. These folks are dour, desperate and defeated. They plot. They murder. They rot from inside out, like a tapeworm slowly sucking the humanity from their life-blood. The Postman Always…
Read moreThe gadgets of today mean news is constant and everywhere. From an air crash to a murder, a celebrity interview to a political scandal, The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton analyzes the impact events have on our minds. Why is a celebrity's life fascinating and war in a far off land...boring? And, how is this shaping our everyday worldviews? Jacki @ Central
Read moreJean Hanff Korelitz's addictive and disconcerting mystery You Should Have Known will make you wonder... Grace Reinhart Sachs, a therapist in Manhattan, contends that there's no good reason for women to keep choosing the wrong men, if they'd just listen to their instincts. She's about to publish a book, titled 'You Should Have Known', with advice on how to spot a creep on the first date…
Read moreIt's a very simple idea: a woman receives a notebook with newspaper clippings from the Bintel Brief, a long-running letter column in turn of the century Yiddish newspaper The Forward. When she opens this notebook, the ghost of Abraham Cahan springs to life and they read the columns as they interact in the present. This is the charming premise of Liana Finck's graphic novel A…
Read moreImagine coming to terms with your life and realizing that you are boring and everything bad that has ever happened to you was of your own doing. This is what happens to Liam Pennywell in the Anne Tyler book Noah's Compass. After suffering a head injury, Liam becomes obsessed with gaining back his lost memories of the night of the accident. He has plenty of…
Read moreOn Such a Full Sea is about a future America where society is strictly organized by class, and long abandoned urban areas have become labor colonies. Descendants of those brought over years ago from ruined provincial China make up the labor class. They work to provide perfect produce and fish to the exclusive villages that surround the labor settlement. When the man she loves vanishes,…
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