Over the past few months, the #metoo and #standup movements have gained a great deal of momentum and more and more women are finding the courage...
Mystery 1-2-3
Greetings, mystery readers! and welcome to the first and only edition of Mystery 1-2-3, brought to you by the Heights Matchmakers! What is Mystery...
Chocolate and Ashes
This year, the 14th of February is both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday, a conjunction that hasn’t happened since 1945. Whether you tend towards...
The “Perfect” Nanny
It is my pleasure to post my colleague John's guest post: Leila Silmani’s The Perfect Nanny is one of those novels you will hear about. Much like...
Tangerine-Captivating: The book, the characters, the locale
Tangerine, the debut novel written by British author Christine Mangan, won't be published until the end of March, but reserve it at your library...
Mystery: Max Wirestone
Meet Dahlia Moss, who is not a detective, okay? She just happens to be around crimes and murders and arrests a lot. Dahlia is the protagonist of a...
Alternatives to Fire and Fury
Since its well-publicized release three weeks ago, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House has been flying off library shelves. If you’ve...
Winter Weather-Cozy Couches-Riveting Reads
Winter is the perfect time to snuggle up on your couch or in your bed with a good book, a cup of tea or hot chocolate and just read for hours as...
Nonfiction Favorites: A Dozen from 2017
My favorite kind of nonfiction is memoir, especially stories about people raised in non-conventional families. This year I enjoyed: We Are all...
Non-Fiction: Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
Happy New Year! It's very rare for me to read non-fiction, and I ended the old year AND started the new with a Must Love book for English majors: A...
17 Titles I loved in 2017(Plus 2)
Another year is over, and, as usual, there were so many good books to read! Here is a sampling of what I really enjoyed. There are two moving...
Let’s Revisit the Past…
As we settle into a new year, we usually take stock of the past 365 days and all that happened, both good and bad. It's also a popular time to look...
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