Staff Picks

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…

I don’t think this book needs any introduction. Even people who have never read it know the outline. The boy who lived and the evil wizard Voldemort…

Summary: Hans Brinker and his sister, Gretel, have grown up in poverty ever since his father lost his mind in an accident when they were very young…

Summary: “One boy… One dragon… A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky dis…