Jan 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney Lillian Boxfish is the highest paid woman working in advertising during the 1930’s. She works for R.H. Macy’s in New York City and is also a successful poet and writer. She is fiercely independent and while she...
Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sing You Home By: Jodi Picoult The award-winning author Jodi Picoult has become one of my favorite go-to writers when I need a thought-provoking good read. Picoult, 50, hales from Hanover New Hampshire and is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard; pretty...
Jan 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Green Glass Sea By: Ellen Klages Moving to Los Alamos, New Mexico during WWII means eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan will live with her mathematician father on a deserted military base called “The Hill”. Unlike most military bases, “The Hill” is full of computer...
Jan 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Best Man By: Richard Peck Disclaimer: Richard Peck is one of my favorite children’s authors. I was introduced to Richard Peck when I happened to pick up a copy of “A Long Way from Chicago”. I fell in love with his writing style and...
Jan 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen By: Kate Williams There are countless biographies about Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family, not to mention a very popular Netflix show, The Crown. As an Anglophile, I assumed there wasn’t much more to learn about...
Jan 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Tween Book: A Growing-Up Guide For The Changing You By: Wendy L. Moss, PhD and Donald A Moses, MD The time between childhood and the teenage years can be difficult for many young people. This book, published by the American Psychological Association, is an...
