This debut novel by Emily Littlejohn has all the elements of a great mystery: compelling characters; a vivid setting (the mountains of Colorado); strong writing; and of course, a puzzling murder. Gemma Monroe is a police officer in the small ski town of Cedar Valley, Colorado, who is called to investigate the murder of a…
Books can offer comfort at the darkest of times. That’s the message in The Bookshop on the Corner, and it was a happy coincidence that I happened to be reading it during the turmoil of our election last week. This book was the perfect antidote to political and media stress. It’s gentle, sweet, and reassuring…
I’m not normally a music-recommending sort of person. Honestly, I have a hard time keeping up with what’s new. But I’ve been in sort of a music slump lately – you can only listen to the Hamilton soundtrack so many times -- so I did some digging around for new albums that sounded interesting. And…
Eleanor Flood is a crackpot. Well, she’s not, really, but that’s what I thought when I started reading this brilliant, funny story of a day in this character's life. In a direct, quirky, first-person narrative, Eleanor tells us that she’s not happy with her life. “Today will be different” is her mantra. Everything seems great…
In her first foray into adult fiction, best-selling young adult author Gayle Forman has written a book that every working mother will relate to. Maribeth Klein, adopted daughter, magazine editor and forty-four-year-old mother of twins, is working so hard trying to juggle all the pieces of her life that she doesn’t realize she’s having a…
This book asks a question that many of us contemplate: What if we had chosen a different path in life? How would that impact not only the structure of our lives, but who we really are on the inside? In Dark Matter, the main character, Jason Dessen, actually gets to meet his alternate self. A…
Sometimes you read a book and while you know it’s really good, you also have the sense that it is really important. Homegoing is one of those books. It’s not just compelling fiction; it’s also a tale of what it has meant to be black in America and in Ghana over the past three centuries.…
The Charles Manson killings were a defining moment of the late ‘60’s. I remember learning about them later, as a teenager, with a kind of horrified fascination. Author Emma Cline was also fascinated by Manson, and became fixated on the man and the commune he created. It was this obsession that led to her writing…
Have you been "Exercising Your Mind" through our Summer Reading Program? If you haven't, there's still plenty of time to sign up at either of our libraries or on the Bookmobile. If you've already finished the program (good job!), please take a short survey to let us know how you liked the program. There are three…
I loved the blurb from Chris Cleave on this book: "Singular, spectacular, and touchingly tentacular." I don't think I could sum it up any better than that. If you're a dog lover, this moving novel will leave you weeping, or at least a little choked up. If you aren't a dog person, though, don't avoid…
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