The Dutch House by Ann Patchett At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs … Continue reading What We’re Reading: March 2020
What We’re Reading: February 2020
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming … Continue reading What We’re Reading: February 2020
What We’re Reading: January 2020
Happy New Year! Thanks to our Adult Winter Reading Challenge, our staff and volunteers have been stuck with their noses in books all month long. Check out what we've included on our reading logs: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in … Continue reading What We’re Reading: January 2020
What We’re Reading: December 2019
Check out what our librarians read at the end of 2019! The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú Francisco Cantú was raised in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, he joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed … Continue reading What We’re Reading: December 2019
What We’re Reading: Fall 2019
Check out what our staff is reading this time of year! Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s … Continue reading What We’re Reading: Fall 2019
What We’re Reading: July 2019
Check out what the librarians are reading this month! Our favorites are marked with an asterisk*. Miss Bethany is reading... Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren’t close friends on the job, but end up living … Continue reading What We’re Reading: July 2019
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