A small cabin without running water, indoor plumbing, or electricity, in the wilderness of Minnesota is the setting for Rebecca Rasmussen’s new novel, Evergreen. In it, the young Evaline joins her new husband Emil who hopes to build their life as a taxidermist to the numerous hunters and sportsmen who live in the region’s lumber towns. Although a city girl, Evaline embraces ... Read More...
The Care and Management of Lies
Thea and Kezia have been friends since childhood and have just finished college to begin their teaching careers in The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. That is until Kezia decides to marry Thea’s brother Tom, leaving Thea feeling isolated and betrayed. While Kezia adapts to married life and being a farmer’s wife, Thea throws herself into the suffragette ... Read More...
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
For many, there are few ideas more compelling than that of perfect love. To meet the one person who understands you at your deepest level and loves you unconditionally; a true soulmate. Lydia Netzer takes this dream and puts it on the page in the quirky How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky. Irene Sparks is a prickly astrophysicist attempting to create a black hole in ... Read More...
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
Sweet sixteen—a time of so many changes. Learning to drive, first dates, preparing for college, and, if you’re Emily Shepard, a nuclear reactor meltdown near your tiny town in Vermont, your parents disappearing, and being evacuated from your school with only the clothes on your back. This is sixteen as seen by Chris Bohjalian in his new novel, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands. When ... Read More...
Happy Birthday
I want to wish a happy birthday to the woman who made me the reader I am today: my mother. Thank you for every book you gave me for my birthday and at Easter, for telling the school librarian that you were aware of the books I was reading and she did not need to be involved, all the Nancy Drews and later the first editions of authors I loved, and for letting me stay up way past ... Read More...
ALA and Las Vegas
This past weekend Jed and I traveled to Las Vegas for the largest library conference in the United States. 13,000 librarians at the convention center to look and learn about new technologies, upcoming book releases, and new library programs. I used to attend when I was a librarian and it is one overwhelming mass of activity. This year I went for my blog, to see what are some of ... Read More...
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