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Her brave deeds and noble qualities
A review of The Heroines by Eileen Favorite

 It's not easy being a literary heroine. Her plight is quite often tragic.  It's exhausting keeping up with all of the drama.  So it's understandable that she might need a brief reprieve from her life on paper in order to continue on with her difficult plot.  Wouldn't it be wonderful to spend a little time at a bed and breakfast in Prairie Bluff, Illinois, where one could relax, rejuvenate and let off a little steam before returning to the tragic fate that awaits? In Eileen ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on July 31, 2008 | 0 comments

History and foresight
A review of Journals, 1952-2000 by Arthur M. Schlesinger

 When Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. died in February 2007, his death marked not only the passing of a popular and probing scholar, but of a leading proponent of a political era that seems unlikely to reappear. From his beginnings as a speechwriter for Adlai ...read more

Reviewed by Katie H. on July 30, 2008 | 2 comments

Searching for mom
A review of When We Get There by Shauna Seliy

 I just finished reading When We Get There by Shauna Seliy.  In this sad but beautiful novel, Lucas is a 13-year-old boy living in a mining town in 1974 Pennsylvania as the coal mines are beginning to shut down.  But not before Lucas' father is blown to smithereens in the King mine ...read more

Reviewed by Lisa - Central on July 29, 2008 | 2 comments

The Aliens have landed! The Aliens have landed...in Wisconsin?
A review of Way of the Wolf by E.E. Knight

 Way of the Wolf by E.E. Knight is the first book in his ...read more

Reviewed by Gregg - Sequoya on July 26, 2008 | 0 comments

Romance: upstairs, downstairs style
A review of A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

 Originally published as a young adult novel in 1981, A Countess Below Stairs has recently been re-printed as a trade paperback edition - and legions of ...read more

Reviewed by Jane J - Central on July 25, 2008 | 0 comments

Gatsby's still great
A review of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 I groaned when I learned I would have to reread The Great Gatsby for a school assignment.  Reread the one about the guy with the fancy library?  Come on.  I don't know how it happened, but a literature professor friend of mine and I were so bored with Gatsby that we started telling ...read more

Reviewed by Jon - Central Library on July 24, 2008 | 0 comments

If you had to have a body transplant
A review of: Airheads by Meg Cabot

 Whose body would you choose? Meg Cabot’s latest series starter, Airhead, is over the top entertainment.  It starts out with a crazy accident that crushes our ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on July 23, 2008 | 0 comments

In the year 1000
A review of The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey

 What was life like in the year 1000?  The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium : An Englishman's World tackles that question by taking a peek into the everyday lives of the ...read more

Reviewed by Library Staff on July 22, 2008 | 0 comments

The perfect number is lonely
A review of 5 is the Perfect Number by Igort

I caught an earworm tonight. It is Harry Nilsson's golden oldie, One ("is the loneliest number") as sung by Aimee Mann.  You know, her cover featured in the film ...read more

Reviewed by Barbara - Alicia Ashman on July 21, 2008 | 1 comment

A classic detective
A review of An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson

 In her debut novel, Nicola Upson puts classic mystery author Josephine Tey to work as a detective.  In An Expert in Murder Tey is journeying by train from Inverness to London where her play Richard of Bordeaux is entering its final week.  She makes ...read more

Reviewed by Liz - Alicia Ashman on July 18, 2008 | 0 comments
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