The Bookish Life of Nina Hill By Abbi Waxman 2019, 332 pages As I was straightening the Lucky Duck books last Monday evening, I happened upon The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. It was initially the contrasting teal and goldenrod coloring that drew my eye and then the title piqued my interest. Once I [...]
The Dark Crystal (1982) Jim Henson’s cult classic fantasy movie is set in an ambiguous “another world, another time.” The Dark Crystal followed Jen and Kira, last survivors of the Gelfling race, and their mission to restore a missing shard from the Dark Crystal before an apocalyptic planetary conjunction. But their quest will take them [...]
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim, 2019 (369 pages) eBook copy from Overdrive/Libby Playaway copy Also in our Lucky Duck collection! Everyone in town has the same question: What really happened that night? Several lives were forever altered by a fiery explosion in an old barn, home to a hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) chamber that looked [...]
Ruth Ware, best-selling author of The Woman in Cabin 10, The Death of Mrs. Westaway, and others, has a new book coming out in August. The Turn of the Key is on order and will soon be available. It's about a woman who takes a position in a lovely modern home in the Scottish Highlands. [...]
All of us are guilty of occasionally putting our child in front of a screen so we can go to the bathroom or put the groceries away, but the regular use of devices to distract, soothe, or busy a child may come with unforeseen consequences. The use of technology with very young children (0-5) is [...]
Hello from Youth Services! As many of you know, it is our busiest time of year for many reasons - Summer Reading Club, Cultural Passes, and LOTS of reading requests! One subject I have been asked about for kiddos are books that question gender norms. I’ve started keeping a list of these books and I’d [...]
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez 2019, 367 pages "Kristen Peterson doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to [...]
The Moon used to be a byword for "impossible" until the historic flight of Apollo 11. NASA accepted the challenge outlined in President John F. Kennedy's famous 1962 speech to go to the moon before the close of the decade and delivered the impossible on schedule. On July 20, 1969 two American astronauts, Neil [...]
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, has a new book that came out in June and is getting a lot of talk. City of Girls is Vivian's story of her life from the age of 19, when she was kicked out of Vassar College in 1940. Drawing comparisons to Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame (and [...]
Yesterday was my birthday! Cheers to all the other July birthdays coming up! To celebrate, here are some of my favorite birthday read alouds for kids: Bears and a Birthday by Shirley Parenteau (2015) Another in this series of sweet, gentle rhyming books about a group of bears. This time they're making a cake. [...]
