The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling, the steamy follow-up to The Ex Hex, is the perfect read before Halloween if you like funny, witchy romances! Both Sterling novels are set in the quaint Georgia town of Graves Glen, known for its incredible Founders Day, aka Halloween, celebrations and Penhaven College. What most of the townspeople don’t know is…
How many movies have you watched from home over the last few years? What TV shows have you been binge watching? Today we take for granted the wide range of visual and audio entertainment that is available to us on demand, whenever and wherever we want it, but it was not much over one hundred…
Here is the thing you should know before you read Mary Laura Philpott’s Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives: Everyone is FINE. Kids, parents, pets: they all make it through. Normally, I am spoiler-averse, but the description of this book does not put one’s mind at ease, especially if, like me, one is prone…
I was feeling a little blue facing the long Labor Day weekend, knowing I would be stuck on the couch resting a badly sprained ankle encased in a boot. The beautiful weather beckoned me to go for a hike, but I knew I had to stay inside. Luckily, I had a couple library books to devour over…
Do you ever finish a book and immediately want to go back and start it all over again? This book did that for me. Luminous, delicate, and poignant, it is the story of Agnes and Polly, two lifelong friends in their 80’s who always spent summers together at their family homes on Fellowship Point, Maine.…
It's the most important school supply on your child's list AND the smartest card in your wallet — your library card! September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, the annual celebration of the power that public libraries offer the community. Whether you’re a library regular, new to our district, or getting the kids back in school,…
For a woman who wrote a book titled This is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch, Tabitha Carvan sure knows a lot about the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. A lot. As in, she has a top ten list of Benedict Cumberbatch characters ranked by hairstyle. Also, she knows what movie Benedict Cumberbatch was watching when he…
With high-tech suspense and intricate plotting – it’s time for enigmalogist Jeremy Logan to save the day and prevent a thousand people from dying in Chrysalis by Lincoln Child. Logan is not an expert in virtual reality, but when he is called to help find the extortionist who has already killed one board member and…
The driving character of the novel Horse is Lexington, the most famous American racehorse of the 19th century. But this story is so much more than about a great stallion who sired champions. Geraldine Brooks uses Lexington as a backdrop to write about the consequences of one of this country's greatest sins, slavery. The sweeping novel effortlessly weaves back and forth from before the…
Jaq Walker is an aspiring filmmaker whose subject is her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, a “town out of a fable.” Many of Savannah’s denizens agree – the city does resemble a fairy tale, with its lush beauty, storied history, and high society trappings. But Jaq knows that fairy tales and fables are two very different…
