Recommended by Lynne Lawrence5/4/2017This is quite an extraordinary book.  How, you ask, can there be anything more to say after hundreds of writers have delved into this topic?  Holocaust literature is almost a genre unto itself.  And judging from the length of Hayes’s bibliography, he has read most of it.  But now, with the passing of the generation that perpetrated,

As reviewed by Penny Petkiewicz 4/11/17We are all faced with making the decision whether we will eat genetically modified food. I had decided not to partake of it and mentioned this to my daughter, who happens to be a doctor. “Mom,” she stated firmly, “You will not become what you eat.” Now that statement made sense, but it got me

Reading Suggestions for You!Recommended by Denise Getts4/5/2017This is a murder mystery that is at times brutal, but also funny, imaginative and compelling.  I fell in love with the characters, the village and the wonderful prose by Jess Kidd.  Such wonderful descriptions of every day events made it almost like poetry.  I laughed out loud at parts and gasped in horror

Country teacher: autobiography of an undistinguished personJohn H. FullerWe are fortunate here in Henniker to have a window to the past given to us by John H. Fuller, who taught in Vermont and New Hampshire schools in the early twentieth century.  He was born in 1876, and his autobiography chronicles memories of life beginning the late 1800’s up until 1952.The

Recommended by Lynne Lawrence3/21/2017Nothing more exciting for those of us who garden than those seed catalogs which show up in the mail just in the nick of time to save us from the winter doldrums.  I always tell people my garden is at its very best right now – when it’s a glorious plan, full of perfectly blended colors, lush

Reviewed by Lynn M. Piotrowicz3/14/2017On Monday I started Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. When my spouse arrived home it was stated, “you must really like that book because you have that look on your face.  You get an intense look when you are into a book.”  Mind you, I am sitting in the middle of the couch surrounded by darkness

Reviewed by Lynn M. Piotrowicz3/7/2017I recently devoured a book called Setting Free the Kites by novelist Alex George.  Reminiscent of the great characters in John Irving’s Hotel New Hampshire and the atmospheric Empire Falls by Richard Russo, George takes us to a fictional town on the coast of Maine.  Anyone who has visited the Maine coast will recognize the cold

I recently devoured called Setting Free the Kites by novelist Alex George.  Reminiscent of the great characters in John Irving’s Hotel New Hampshire and the atmospheric Empire Falls by Richard Russo, George takes us to a fictional town on the coast of Maine.  Anyone who has visited the Maine coast will recognize the cold surf, the dilapidated mills, and the