Reading Suggestions for You!Summit by Harry FarthingRecommended by Denise Getts9/6/2016Summit by Harry Farthing is an extraordinary first novel, combining mountain climbing thrills, historical fiction and a compelling mystery that beckons to be answered! The author expertly blends two timelines: 1939 and Josef Becker has been blackmailed by the Nazi party to try to be the first person to scale Mount

Reading Suggestions for You! – “Consider the Lobster”Recommended by Joshua Colby8/30/2016Whether you are on the hunt for a book to revitalize your love of the written word, searching for a book that can be funny sad scary interesting weird all at once, or looking for a book that explores what it truly means to be a human in this strange age

Reading Suggestions for You! – “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”Recommended by Erin Lngan8/23/2016Zucchini, cucumbers, and tomatoes, oh my!!! If your garden is overflowing with produce right now you may not feel the need to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. But if you are accepting extra cucumbers from your neighbor and wishing you had enough fresh basil

House at the Edge of Night, City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, and Cooking for PicassoRecommended by Lynn M. Piotrowicz8/16/2016Don’t you love it when you finish a book, close the cover, put it aside, and say “Wow that was a great story!”  It is a rare book that garners that visceral reaction.  So, you are probably wondering what type of

Reading Suggestions for You!Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II by J.K. RowlingRecommended byDenise Getts8/2/2016Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts I & II is the eighth book in the sensational Harry Potter series and returns fans back to that magical world once again! It is 19 years since Harry vanquished the Dark Lord and we

Reading Suggestions for You!”Since You’ve Been Gone” by Morgan MatsonRecommended by Molly Glover8/9/2016  Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson is a perfect summer read. In this novel, the main character, Emily Hughes, is deserted by her best friend Sloane and is left to find her own way, despite the fact that she has always followed Sloane’s lead in the past.   READ

Reading Suggestions for You!LEVIATHAN by Scott WesterfeldRecommended by Hugh Russell7/12/2016  “Leviathan” by Scott Westerfeld is one of my favorite books of all time.  It was the first YA book I read back when I was twelve years old and began expanding my horizon.  It is an oddball of a book, but this is one of the reasons it stuck with me

Reading Suggestions for You!”Everyone Brave is Forgiven” Recommended by Lynne Lawrence7/26/16 Alistair Heath’s return to England on leave will make you weep, partly for his pain, which is so exquisitely expressed, and partly because you understand in that moment that he can no longer live among us.  READ MORE 

The Whale: A Love Story by Mark BeauregardRecommended by Lynn Piotrowicz7/19/2016  I AM HAVING A WHALE OF A GOOD TIME!  Brilliantly composed, beautifully depicted, and boisterously rambunctious, this book captures the reader with its prose and delicious imagery.  Writing in the style of Melville and Hawthorne, Beauregard transports us to another place and time with such resounding success.   READ MORE 

Reading Suggestions for You!The City of Mirrors by Justin CroninRecommended byDenise Getts7/6/2016  You know me: give me a government conspiracy, end-of-the-world virus, vampire book and I’m in heaven! That’s exactly what Justin Cronin delivers in his epic Passage Trilogy that ends with The City of Mirrors.  What began in 2010 with The Passage, continued in The Twelve in 2012, ends brilliantly