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A review of Tekkon Kinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto

 The 2008 Eisner Awards (the "Oscars" of comics) were announced last week at the San Diego Comic-Con. The winner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan is ...read more

Reviewed by Barbara - Alicia Ashman on August 6, 2008 | 2 comments

No escaping the summer
A review of Wild Blue Yonder by Jean Thompson

 Even though the weather is always there, the heat and humidity of August can sometimes make the weather seem particularly inescapable. This all-encompassing anticipation is at the heart of the novel ...read more

Reviewed by Library Staff on August 5, 2008 | 0 comments

Streets of New York
A review of North River by Pete Hamill

 New York author Pete Hamill returns to Manhattan in his latest novel; a story of Depression-era doctor James Delaney's life on Horatio Street in Greenwich Village. The ...read more

Reviewed by Lesley - Central on August 4, 2008 | 0 comments

A Journey through America's past

A review of Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War is a book that deconstructs our nation’s, and the South's in particular, continued fascination with the Civil War.  In his youth, journalist ...read more

Reviewed by Library Staff on August 2, 2008 | 0 comments

Murder in Cornwall
A review of Careless In Red by Elizabeth George

 There is good news for fans of Elizabeth George and her British mystery series, featuring Thomas Lynley.  She is back in form with ...read more

Reviewed by Mary K. - Central on August 1, 2008 | 0 comments

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
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