Staff Picks

“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…

Ruminate: 1: to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly; 2: to chew repeatedly for an extended period https://buff.ly/40PYeHg Mag…

I have to say this is about the best fiction I have read in the last few years. Mick Herron’s book is the beginning of an 8-book series based o…

Summary: Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the Northern Ireland village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employmen…

February is a housecleaning type of month for me. It’s far enough into the year that my new year’s resolutions are habits or abandoned, and I’m mostl…