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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sensitive characters, layers of secrets, and intense action all characterize books written by Greg Iles. If you enjoy books by Greg Iles, here are some readalikes . Animosity by David Lindsey Ross Marteau is reknowned for his sensual sculptures of rich women. After a relationship goes sour, he departs Paris to return to his Texas hometown, where [...]
If you are interested in reading Rebecca Wells’s The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder you might enjoy these readlikes: Morning Sky by Judith McCoy-Miller Nothing will ever be the same after boisterous Aunt Lilly Verdue arrives in the new settlement of Nicodemus, Kansas, in the early summer of 1880. Her brother-in-law is not at [...]
Doubt is a fascinating movie that takes us into the complicated world of human relationships, interactions, and assumptions. It is set in a Catholic Parish in 1964 and revolves around a young priest, Father Flynn, who is portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, his new ideas, and his relationships with his students and the nuns who teach and [...]
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