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Fables is a marvelous read for anyone interested in the old storybook characters turned slightly on their heads and given a mature audience rating. I’ve recently started reading more graphic novels because I have the attention span of my one-year-old. The first book in the series focuses on the suspected murder of Rose Red [...]
Leo Babauta is the kind of author that flies under the radar for only so long. After reading The Power of Less for the third time, I realized that his advice is really sticking with me. This is a rare find of a book. Babauta is a proponent of simplifying one’s life, releasing ourselves [...]
Fiction 1 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons. 2 I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets. 3 UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King. When a Maine town is trapped by an invisible force field, a [...]
I became interested in Marcia Muller’s novels back in the eighties when one on the library’s paperback spin racks caught my eye. “Pennies on a Dead Woman’s Eyes” intrigued me because of the title, and the artist did a nice job on the cover also. I had no previous knowledge of the author, but I [...]
If you are interested in reading A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book you might enjoy these readalikes: The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pear In the 400s, as the Roman Empire settles into dust, landowner-turned-bishop Manlius attempts to record the ideas of his teacher, the Neo-Platonist Sophia. In the 1300s, this treatise (“The Dream of [...]
Those who would wish to direct readers with a moral reading compass just hate snarky narrators who would rather commit violent drug-fueled crimes or masturbate to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony than go to school. Often criticized and deemed unsuitable for readers because of its unflinching scenes of criminal violence, blasphemy, and an unrepentant sociopathic protagonist, Anthony [...]
September 15 – November 9, 2009 Library atrium (open space between youth and adult areas) View photos of this year’s entries. Now in its 3rd year, the altered books project at TSCPL invited participants to express their creativity and recycle at the same time. Staff members Brea Black and Zan Popp taught a [...]
David Baldacci’s new thriller, True Blue, is due out in October. It features Mason “Mace” Perry, an ex-DC cop who was framed for a crime and sent to prison for two years. Mason is now out of prison and trying to become a “true blue” again. A vindictive district attorney wants Mace back in prison. [...]
If you are interested in reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall you might enjoy these readalikes: My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives [...]
If you are interested in reading Anita Shreve’s A Change in Altitude you might enjoy these readlikes: Home Safe: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg Helen Ames is a popular and prolific writer living in Oak Park, Illinois, much like Elizabeth Berg. But Helen has lost her ability to write. Her inner world is as stunned [...]
With complex plots and provocative dramas, Daniel Silva writes intelligent spy stories. If you like Daniel Silva, here are some readalikes you might enjoy. Killing Ground by Jack Higgins Intelligence operative Sean Dillon stops a man at Heathrow Airport. His name is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a [...]
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