April is National Addiction awareness month as we here want everyone to know we do have materials that can help.  So if you are having a hard time with an addiction, have a family member suffereing, or just want to know more, please check out what we offer. Soulbriety : a Plan to Heal Your Trauma, Overcome Addiction, and Reconnect with Your Soul by Elisa Hallerman ~ On her fifth anniversary of sobriety, Elisa Hallerman still awoke with a hurting heart. This is not right. I am not happy. Sobriety was supposed to fix her, right? Isn’t that what sobriety is all about? Hallerman quickly reali ..read more

We are excited to show off our new media this month.  Check these out! AUDIOBOOKS (CDs)   End of Story by A. J. Finn ~ “I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”  So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds her ..read more

It’s National Library Week!  Spend your week reading all stories and accounts about your favorite place:  The Library! Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr ~ Ellie loves working in her local library in the small town of Ligonier. She loves baking scones and investigating the mysterious and captivating in her spare time. And there is nothing more mysterious and captivating than the intriguingly beautiful, too properly dressed woman sipping tea in her library who has appeared as if out of nowhere. The pull between them is undeniable, and Ellie is not sure that she wants to resist. Prospero ..read more

Those April Showers are coming in strong.  Find a new book to curl up with this Spring! ADULT FICTION The Mars House: a novel by Natasha Pulley ~ In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London’s Royal Ballet, has become a refugee on Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. In Tharsis, January’s life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger—a person whose body is not adjusted to Mars’s lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January’s job choices, housing, and even transportation options are dictated by this second ..read more

We celebrate National Women’s Month this month with the biographies of women who has inspired changes in our lives and history. The counterfeit Countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust by Elizabeth B White ~ World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of “Countess Janina Suchodolska,” a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland’s Nazi occupiers. Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of Aktion&nb ..read more

In recognition of March being Irish-American Month, we’ve found a treasure trove of books about Irish and Celtic Mythology.  Which one will you choose? ADULT FICTION The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher ~ 1922 – Brigid Heron is a powerful witch and healer in the seemingly lost, but charming small town of Evermore on a forgotten isle in Ireland. However, there is one thing that she longs for above all else: a child of her own. She is even willing to be seduced by the mysterious Luc Knightly, head of the Knightly coven, whose pull is potent and impossible to resist. When their child is bor ..read more

Spring is almost here! How about checking out the latest books in our collection while listening to those March winds! Adult Fiction Big Time by Ben H. Winters ~ Grace – The best part of Grace’s job at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health is that she can clock out at five. She’s got things to do–like care for her aging, cantankerous mother, her angsty and remarkably bright teenager–with little time for herself to spare. Which is why Grace is peeved when in the late evening, she’s called into work. A woman has appeared at a local hospital, injured, shaken, and with an unusual po ..read more

ADULT FICTION Dixon Descending by Karen Outen ~ A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn’t allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can’t refuse. The brothers are determined to prove something–to themselves and to each other. Dixon interrupts his orderly life as a schoo ..read more

New Year.  New Books.  Exciting new adventures for everyone!  Check out our latest!   FICTION Upside Down by Danielle Steel ~ Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City—and the distance from Ardith’s Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of th ..read more

Our last blog post of the year and we are revealings our favorite books of 2023. Curious what tickled our fancy? Check them out! Ellen Connuck Children’s Librarian Ploof by Ben Clanton and Andy Chou Musser “It’s a sweet interactive picture book about a cloud that promotes engagement with reading and social and emotional learning skills.” – Ellen Ploof is a puffy cloud who’s a little lonely – but now you’re here, and the fun can begin! Can you help Ploof overcome their shyness? Play pretend? Make Ploof laugh with your funny faces, find their hiding spot, give them a high five! Full of imaginat ..read more