Tired of the same old lunch? Feeling rushed in the morning trying to prepare a brown bag? Can’t stand to eat yet another PB&J? Then, try this week’s staff pick Beating the Lunch Box Blues: Fresh Ideas for Lunches on the Go! by J.M. Hirsch. Filled with simple, quick ideas […]
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This week’s staff pick is one our staffer read as part of the Reader Harder challenge, fulfilling the self-improvement category. It’s Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Life and Love from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed. The book is a collection of letters from “Dear Sugar” , an online advice column […]
This week’s staff pick is the unnerving, psychological thriller The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich. Morgan Prager’s life was running smoothly, happily engaged and finishing her thesis on victim psychology, when one day she returns home to find her finance mauled to death and her three […]
This week’s staff pick is a two volume graphic novel from award-winning author Gene Luen Yang. Set in China during the Boxer Rebellion, Boxers & Saints details the history of both sides engaged in the conflict. In volume 1 readers follow Little Bao as he recruits an army of […]
To coincide with our current nonfiction gallery book display, this week’s staff pick is the hilarious travelogue A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. This is the story of what happens when two novices set out to hike the entire 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson, while […]
This week’s staff pick is a dystopian page turner. The story travels back and forth in time to a period before the “Georgian Flu”, a deadly virus that wipes out 99% of the population, and twenty years after the end of civilization. Following several characters whose stories weave together in […]
This week’s staff pick is an enchanting adult fairy tale this novel was made into the movie Stardust. Utterly charming, this staff favorite is an adventure story like you haven’t seen before. We also have the audiobook read by the author, and it’s top-notch. “In the sleepy English countryside of […]
This week’s staff pick is the beginning of an excellent fantasy series. Cover aside, our protagonist is Kate, a mercenary in a world gone topsy-turvy, and she’s funny, determined, and can kill you three times before you hit the floor. A couple of our staffers love this series, since each […]
This week’s staff pick is the lyrical, beautiful and lovely book The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. Our staffer loved it, and we can pretty much guarantee this will be very popular with bookclubs. A truly excellent novel about love, loss, grief, and starting over, we can’t recommend this one enough. […]
This week’s staff pick is an old staffer favorite, and one that at least one of our staffer’s periodically rereads, because it’s that good. The novel is written entirely in letters and diary entries, and is completely engaging and utterly delightful. ““ I wonder how the book got to […]