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A Word from Our Author: Sam Graham-Felsen at Open Book Spring 2017

June 19, 2017July 6, 2017 Written by admin

We continue our Open Book highlight with debut author Sam Graham-Felsen’s discussion of Green. A debut novel of race and privilege in America that you haven’t seen before: a coming-of-age story about a life-changing friendship, propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable voice. Infectiously funny and sharply honest in the face of injustice, Green is a wildly original […]

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Tune In Tuesday: Yaa Gyasi, Author of the LibraryReads Pick Homegoing

August 9, 2016July 25, 2016 Written by admin

Called “an inspiration” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Homegoing is a novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing […]

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A Word from the Author, William Geroux

April 19, 2016June 7, 2016 Written by mmeekins

One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-Boat assault off the American coast against the Merchant Marines who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort. Mathews County, Virginia, is a bleak strip of land along the Chesapeake with almost nothing to offer–but it sent […]

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Laurie R. King celebrates National Library Week!

March 30, 2010 Written by rherica

Dear Librarian: You love libraries. I too love libraries. To celebrate National Library Week, which starts April 12, I am asking my readers to tell me about their fantasy library: the absolute, ultimate, perfect ideal of a library. They can write a description, do a drawing, invent a floor plan, whatever strikes their fancy, just […]

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Regency Romance Q&A with Mary Balogh

February 26, 2009 Written by admin

I tend to dabble in the romance genre, whenever the mood happens to strike. Or when I hear about Mary Balogh’s latest series of novels coming this spring! I so thoroughly enjoyed my first introduction to Mary Balogh with her Simply series, featuring the teachers of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath. Our […]

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An Apple a Day

January 29, 2009 Written by admin

A must read book for the organic obsessed, the diet depressed, and the everyday food lover, who wants to separate nutritional sense from nonsense. Library Journal recently had a Q&A with the author of AN APPLE A DAY, Dr. Joe Schwarcz. My favorite quote from the interview: “An overall balanced diet allows for a few […]

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