Summary: On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a…
Summary: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s, and her all-male team at Hastings…
It’s road trip season, and I’ve got some nonfiction audiobooks to recommend. Each of these will help you get lost in the great storytelling as the miles pass you by.
It’s midsummer, and I’ve been reading some great new books. Each of these novels has a strong sense of place, and although they deal with serious life topics, they are also humorous and touching. I enjoyed reading them and hope…
Season two of Only Murders in the Building is set to be released June 28 on Hulu. If you’re waiting to see what kind of trouble Charles, Oliver and Mabel get into, I’ve put together a list of great mysteries…
Summer Adventure is almost here! This year’s theme is “Oceans of Possibilities,” and here are some adult nonfiction titles to learn about our wonderful underwater worlds. If you are looking for other titles, please let us know. Be sure to…
The pandemic made it difficult for me to focus on reading back in 2020 and for much of 2021. The seemingly endless bad news cycles, my low attention span and general lack of interest in reading (gasp!) made it hard…
SUMMARY In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more…
With Ramadan in full swing, I thought I’d share some Adult & Teen “Ramadan Reads” that I’ve enjoyed. The titles I’ve chosen reflect the richness of the faith and how it’s practiced by American Muslims. Muslims believe Ramadan is the…