This month's pick is The Bishop's Pawn by Steve Berry. Books are available for check out. History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968, when King was assassinated by James [...]
This month's pick is The Bishop's Pawn by Steve Berry. Books are available for check out. History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James [...]
February's pick is The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey. Books will be available for check out at the Adult Circulation Desk. Frances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. As the first female cabinet [...]
This month's title is "The Indigo Girl" by Natasha Boyd. Books will be available for checkout at the Adult Circulation Desk. The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry [...]
December's pick is The "It's a Wonderful Life" Book by Jeanine Basinger. Tells the entire story of the film's production and presents us with an extraordinary wealth of original material. More than 200 photos.
October's title is The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. "Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and [...]
September's pick is Confessions by Kanae Minato. "After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first [...]
June's pick is "The Stolen Marriage" by Diane Chamberlain. "1944: Hickory, North Carolina Tess DeMello has just ended her engagement to the love of her life when she is forced into a strange and loveless marriage to an enigmatic man. With no way out and growing racial tensions in a small rural town, can Tess [...]
Rescheduled from May 17th. This month's choice is "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg. We also have the second book in the series, "The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop", for those who'd like to continue the story. Both books are available for check out. It's first the story of two [...]
Our selection for April is Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult. Books are available for pick up at the circulation desk. Lone Wolf looks at the intersection between medical science and moral choices. If we can keep people who have no hope for recovery alive artificially, should they also be allowed to die artificially? Does the [...]
