To kick off Women’s History Month check out this week’s staff pick, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A short essay, based on a Tedx talk, it’s thought-provoking, humorous and filled with personal anecdotes. Adichie discusses gender roles, equality and why everyone should call themselves a feminist. […]
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National Book Award Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates revives Marvel’s Black Panther series with this week’s staff pick, Black Panther 1: A Nation Under Our Feet. Beautiful art and an engaging political story make this a stand out read for both adults and teens. Read up on Black Panther now before the […]
This week’s staff pick takes us to Australia for a look at friendship, motherhood, marriage and the secrets we hide. In typical Moriarty fashion, Big Little Lies is a smart, twisty page turner that you won’t want to put down. A perfect fit for book clubs! “Madeline is a force […]
Follow Bill Bryson as he travels from Southern England to the northernmost part of Scotland with this week’s staff pick, The Road to Little Dribbling. Readers can always count on Bryson to be both hilarious and informative and this one is no different. Perfect for arm chair travelers and Anglophiles. […]
We continue our journey around the world with this week’s staff pick State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Dr. Maria Singh journeys deep into the Amazon to collect the body and belongings of a now deceased colleague; the same colleague who was sent in to investigate Dr. Annick Swenson, a […]
The Adult Winter Reading Program has just started and this year’s theme, Read Around the World, fits perfectly with our staff pick of the week In the Country by Mia Alvar. A short story collection focusing on Filipinos that spans multiple countries and cultures, told through an engaging, unique […]
Many staff members were huge fans of Homolka’s first book, The Skinnytaste Cookbook, and we’re equally excited for her newest, Skinnytaste Fast and Slow: Knockout Quick-Fix and Slow Cooker Recipes. Featuring 140 delicious, healthy recipes that can all be broken down into either slow-cooker or 30 minutes or less. Time […]
The first staff pick of 2017 happens to be one of the best reviewed books of 2016. You may have seen The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead on just about every year end best-of list, and our staffer agrees. Follow escaped slave Cora as she travels north on the Underground […]
Get into the holiday spirit with this week’s staff pick Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh. The hilarious, zany story of Olive the dog who, after mishearing a popular song lyric, decides to head to the North Pole and help Santa with his deliveries. A short, laugh out loud […]
This week’s staff pick, The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, was published in 1979 and covers the space race with particular attention given to The Mercury Seven: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, the late John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. Wolfe compares the astronauts in training to the […]