Staff Picks

“Oaths sworn… loyalties tested… forces collide. It’s been only months since Eragon first uttered ‘brisingr’, an ancient language te…

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. Emily Dickinson  All gardeners, no matter how passionate t…

I have learned quite a lot from participating in our BPL Watercolor Workshop for over two years.  We all encourage and learn from each other, but one…

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author.  On a dark, wet even…

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman ARE Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in the 21st century. The series is full of clever allusions and witty tak…

Alice and her mother have never stayed in one place until her grandmother, an author of a dark twisted fairy tale book, dies. Her mother is then brou…

Written by a witty mortician, each chapter of this book visits a new location to look at the vastly different ways people around the world treat deat…

“Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns… Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of…

March is when the promise of spring seems to be in our thoughts and with that promise of spring comes thoughts of gardening.  I am an avid gardener a…

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time — and another triumph…