Book Reviews

Deep State by Chris Hauty and Lost Hills by Lee Goldberg
March is Women’s History Month and I’d like to be able to…

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Teenage sleuths are all well and good, but what becomes of them…

Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Around the holidays I kept seeing the same book for sale everywhere…

No Ivy League, written and illustrated by Hazel Newlevant
There’s no denying that art has power. A work of art in any…

Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar & Kathleen Van Cleve
In preparing for the library’s Black History Month celebration…

Who Says You’re Dead? Medical and Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel, MD
The trolley problem is a hypothetical thought exercise meant…

“Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking” (Einat Admony and Janna Gur) by Lisa E. Brown
Do you know what a shuk is?
I must admit that the term was…

Counting your read books — how many will you read in 2020? by Jeana Gockley
The end of the year and the start of a new one is typically…

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helen Tursten Review by Patty Crane
Helen Tursten is a Swedish mystery writer with two very successful…

Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence
Librarians love books. We love the smell and the feel of books.…

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma and Manga Claus: The Blade of Kringle written by Nathaniel Marunas, illustrated by Erik Craddock
One of the things I like best about the holiday season are the…

Why? by Adam Rex and Claire Keane & Saturday by Oge Mora
The end of the year is always a scramble to chip away at my TBR…

“The New Frontier: 112 Fantastic Favorites for Everyday Eating” (Ree Drummond), by Lisa E. Brown
Do you have any authors that seem like old friends? You read…

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
Rhett and Link met in the first grade at Buies Creek Elementary…

Men of Valor by Irene Hannon; Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center; Something Read, Something Dead by Eva Gates; Bloody Genius by John Sandford
My book choices lately include a police procedural, Christian…