Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacobs (2018; 355 pages) Mira Jacobs starts this book with a conversation she had with her biracial (half-Jewish, half-Indian) 6-year-old son who is starting to get obsessed with Michael Jackson. Like all children, he has a lot of questions: “Who taught Michael Jackson to dance?” “Is that [...]
Books have been made into movies and television shows so often in the last few years that it can sometimes be a surprise to learn that a given media property isn't based on a bestselling novel. With the spring release of the film After, the 2014 novel by Anna Todd has seen a burst in [...]
Have you tried Playaways? Playaway audiobooks are self-contained devices that play audiobooks. They run on a battery (provided by the library at check out), so you can just plug in headphones or connect to your car stereo with a male to male cable and go! We've even got cables you can check out to connect [...]
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 [...]
If you're looking for a super charming, cozy but not TOO cozy story set in a picturesque small town, pick up Evvie Drake. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (2019; 304 pages). Evvie was leaving her husband. She had packed bags, she had a plan of where she would go, she was loading up [...]
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 [...]
Are you a genre reader? Do you gravitate toward mysteries or is fantasy your special favorite? Our PAC (public access catalog) can help you find books in your favorite fiction genres! Your first step is to do a search in the catalog for "fiction". If you're starting from our main webpage, you're going to want [...]
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. [...]
I love a good culinary memoir or nonfiction book. Although I am not a great cook myself, I love reading about people who are and who have chosen to make their careers in the competitive and fast-paced culinary world. Here are some of my favorites: Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business by Matt [...]
