Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) This book is directed to teens but it’s a great adult read, too! The narrator, Jam, joins fellow troubled teens who have been through trauma in a New England...
View ArticleBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) What is really significant when you or a loved one is seriously ill or aging? Gawande examines our medical process and how we have progressed in science and medicine...
View ArticleHow We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) You may have seen Steve’s PBS series that chronicles the book. The available DVD version is a great short-cut. I found the book engaging, akin to the interesting...
View ArticleThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) Incredible telling of an intelligent, kind man’s journey to fit in to two worlds – that of a boy raised by a single, struggling mom and an incarcerated father from...
View ArticleA History of Loneliness by John Boyne
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) The story is told, true to an old Irish yarn, by the main character, Odran. His father and brother tragically died when he was young and his mother claimed he was...
View ArticleH is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) There is a richness of words and description as the author takes us through her process of recovering from the death of her father and delving into the world of...
View ArticleSerena by Ron Rash
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) I think this is a case where the movie, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, is better than the book. I felt that the story about a timber empire owned by...
View ArticleThe Undertaker’s Daughter by Katherine Mayfield
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) Kate Mayfield has written a light and interesting memoir of growing up in a funeral home in Kentucky in the ’60’s. Her story portrays herself as a young girl and her...
View ArticleSo You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) Jon Ronson has interviewed numerous people who have been publicly shamed – lost jobs, marriages, health…..We aren’t talking about long ago thieves and law breakers but...
View ArticleDaughters of the Samurai by Janice P. Nimura
Reviewed by Marcy (Library Staff) The book opens with a colorful description of the environment in a Japanese traditional Samurai compound. As the chapters begin we are introduced to five young girls,...
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