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The Night Circus

Posted on: October 19, 2017 at 2:53 pm, in

The Night CircusBy Erin Morgenstern Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus is a spellbinding fairy tale of a novel.  Jumping back and forth through time, and moving from London to Cairo to Boston to Montreal, The Night Circus makes you feel as though magic is everywhere, if you just know where to look. Hector Bowen makes […]

Station Eleven

Posted on: September 22, 2017 at 1:12 pm, in

Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel A famous actor has a heart attack on stage as he performs King Lear; a paramedic-in-training jumps out of the audience to perform CPR; and a 7-year-old actress watches her mentor pass away.  Outside the theatre, snow is falling, and a deadly flu is quickly spreading across the […]

Miss Emily

Posted on: August 25, 2017 at 2:08 pm, in

Miss EmilyBy Nuala O’Connor “Oh, chimerical, perplexing, beautiful words!  I love to use the pretty ones like blades and the ugly ones to console.  I use dark ones to illuminate and bright ones to mourn.  And when I feel as if a tomahawk has scalped me, I know it is poetry then and I leave […]

History of Wolves

Posted on: August 10, 2017 at 12:37 pm, in

History of Wolves History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Told through the perspective of 14 year old Linda/Madeline, History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund is an incredible first novel filled with emotion, power and depth exploring Linda’s coming of age in a remote community in the northeastern US. Linda lives in a shack on the […]

Book of the Month: July – Wanderlove

Posted on: July 4, 2017 at 10:54 am, in

by Kirstin Hubbard18-year-old Bria Sandoval has just graduated from high school, and already her life is not going as planned. Her parents are fighting a lot. Her boyfriend Toby has broken up with her. A talented artist, she has been accepted to the art school of her dreams, but she’s decided not to go. Her […]

The Boomerang Effect

Posted on: June 19, 2017 at 9:00 am, in

The Boomerang EffectBy Gordon JackThis is the first book that I have read in a really long time that actually had me laughing out loud. Let’s just say the domino effect is in full force here, one bad decision can start a landslide!Lawrence Barry is a junior and reminded me a little bit of Ferris […]

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Posted on: June 1, 2017 at 12:30 am, in

by Trevor NoahYou probably know Trevor Noah from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.  Trevor was a surprise pick to replace the indomitable Jon Stewart, but the South African comedian has slowly come into his own and as you read his new memoir, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, you might start to […]

Book of the Month- June – We Are Still Tornadoes

Posted on: May 31, 2017 at 12:00 am, in

We Are Still TornadoesWe Are Still Tornadoes by Michael Kun and Susan Mullen follows the friendship of Catherine and Scott as they move on from high school. We learn about the ups and downs of Cath and Scott’s lives this first year out of high school through their letters to each other. Cath has gone off […]

Strange the Dreamer

Posted on: May 16, 2017 at 1:49 pm, in

   by Laini Taylor As a young orphan, Lazlo Strange loved nothing more than listening to a good story.  At the monastery where Lazlo was raised, an old monk would tell him countless stories of a wondrous place far from their war torn land. Two hundred years ago this mysterious land of riches was cut […]

The Japanese Lover

Posted on: May 12, 2017 at 2:23 pm, in

The Japanese LoverBy Isabel Allende The Japanese Lover is a love story steeped in history, using San Francisco as a backdrop for its measured progression. The book opens with Irina, a care aide at Lark House, a seniors’ home in San Francisco.  Irina’s life begins in poverty in her native Moldova.  As an immigrant to […]