We’ve added some great new manga series recently! We got the new bestsellers for you including Chainsaw Man and Spy X Family. There’s a new companion to an old favorite – My Hero Academia Team Up Missions. Plus we’ve got some new favorites: Way of the Househusband, Whisper Me a […]
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Christina Baker Kline’s A Piece of the World is an easy book to review. As the selection for our March Second Saturday Book Club, it generated a great deal of discussion from those in attendance. There was much to discuss; the tormented protagonist, the simultaneously stark and beautiful tone of the […]
March is Irish-American Heritage month, and here at the library we’re celebrating the achievements, literary contributions, and music of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants. Library Event: Live Irish Music Concert: Charlie Zahm and Tad Marks. Sunday, 3/25 @ 2pm. Main Branch. Charlie Zahm is one of the most popular soloists […]
YALSA’S Teen Top Ten titles were announced today! This is a list of the top ten books from the previous year (2014) voted on by teens throughout the United States. Click here to learn more!
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. […]
Filled with magic, necromancy, ‘zombies’, a talking cat, and a teenage girl having to save her father and well, the world. This is a wonderful adventure and the beginning of the Abhorsen trilogy, although Sabriel can be read as a standalone novel. Perfect for young and old readers, this has […]
This week’s staff pick is weird but really good (reportedly). Hawkins has been repeatedly hailed as a cross between Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill, and the genre-bending The Library at Mount Char definitely reflects that. This is a novel where you won’t know what’s going on immediately, but it’s an […]
This week’s staff pick is the debut from author Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes. Our staffer found it powerful, harsh, and multifaceted. On the surface, they said it seems like ‘one of those’ fantasy novels, but it quickly sucked them in, and they really enjoyed it. The first […]