Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It, What We Learned, and 100 Easy, Wholesome Recipes Your Family Will Love By: Lisa Leake I found myself intrigued and challenged by Lisa Leake’s cookbook 100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It, What We Learned, and 100 Easy,...
Sep 8, 2015 | Highlights in History
Noblesville and Hollywood – Part 2: Lillian Albertson By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian While it’s fun to find Noblesville connections to famous people, sometimes those connections can be minor. Lillian Albertson (August 6, 1881 – August 24, 1962) was an...
Sep 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Ugly Animals: We Can’t All Be Pandas By: Simon Watt Don’t be put off by the cover of this book. It features the blobfish, the squatty, woeful-looking deep-sea dweller with a rivulet of slime peeking out of his mouth. It may look like a pottery project that...
Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Since You’ve Been Gone By: Morgan Matson This book is a 2015 nominee for YALSA’s Teen Top Ten award. Sloane and Emily are an unlikely pair of best friends. Sloane is outgoing and adventurous while Emily is quiet, shy and, well, non-adventurous. Right...
Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
El Deafo By: Cece Bell El Deafo is an autobiographical non-fiction book about the experience of becoming deaf as a young child. The author contracted meningitis at the age of four, which resulted in her becoming profoundly deaf. El Deafo describes the author’s...