The debut novel of freelance writer Elizabeth Blackwell is a remaining of the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, While Beauty Slept is a stellar debut sure to please both fans of fairy tales and historical fiction. From the publisher: I am not the sort of person about whom stories are […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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A new thriller series opener by Patrick Lee, Runner is a novel with a breakneck pace sure to please fans of authors like Lee Child, Nelson DeMille, and Steve Berry. From the publisher: Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of […]
The author of Promise Not to Tell delivers a gripping literary thriller touched with both mystery and horror. From the publisher: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in […]
Valentine’s Day is around the corner… This February treat yourself to something unexpected! Take a chance, and check out a book from the Main Library’s Teen Room “Blind Date with a Book” display. Happy reading everyone!
Photographer Donna Marie Yost’s work is on display near the Circulation Desk at the Library until mid-March 2014.
Strange Bodies a literary thriller about identity and horror comes from Marcel Theroux (Far North). The Guardian said that Strange Bodies exhibits “a capaciousness of imagination and sympathy: its exploration of human vulnerability, the notion that consciousness may be no more than “a trick of the light”, is moving as well as thought-provoking, as elegiac as […]
A novel of magical realism by Rachel Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry), Perfect, is about the world-shattering event on a seemingly normal day in the life of young Byron Hemmings. A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells […]
Young adult novels seem to have the market cornered on dystopian novels which makes Pierce Brown’s debut novel Red Rising something of anomaly. Set in a future where social castes are color coded Red Rising is a an adult-targeted dystopian novel about revenge and justice. “I live for the dream that my […]
While plenty of anecdotal evidence exists that books are good for you apparently has taken until now for scientists to attempt to actually codify how they are good for you. The article linked below discusses a study at Emory University which examined brain activity (via fMRI) after reading Robert Harris’ […]