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Reader reviews on Goodreads for this title seem to be either in the "love it or hate it" category - not many in between. I fell on the love it side of things, but can definitely understand why some…
Last updated 3 weeks 5 days ago
… she has her son Jacob, she's panicked and scared as many new mothers are and she latches onto Priscilla Johnson. …
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My first Joe Abercrombie reads were his Shattered Sea trilogy, so A Little Hatred, introducing his Age of Madness series, is my introduction to the world of Angland (a world created with a cast of…
Last updated 3 weeks 5 days ago
… in his First Law series). My being a novice in this new setting didn't hinder my reading experience as … worker against employer as more and more are losing their jobs to the machines that are taking over industry. The …
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Self Care, a new novel by Leigh Stein, is a breezy beach read with satirical bite.
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… Self Care , a new novel by Leigh Stein, is a breezy beach read with …
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In this Spanish language graphic novel for school age kids, Olivia is bored out of her mind after moving to a small town from the city. Things quickly begin to change when she starts exploring the…
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… when she starts exploring the woods that surround her new home. There, Olivia meets a strange old lady who gives …
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Sharon M. Draper did an outstanding job reminding and educating us about slavery in the United States by crafting this one of a kind story about a 15 year old girl named Amari. Based on Amari’s…
Last updated 3 weeks 5 days ago
… that never seemed to find morning. She was traded a new life full of heartbreak, murder, rape, beating, branding, …
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I've had Lessons in Chemistry on a list of "books I will probably read some day" since before it even came out. The initial appeal was the cover.** Then I read the blurb: 60s era woman scientist…
Last updated 3 weeks 5 days ago
… finally got me to do so? Friends who wanted to watch the new AppleTV adaptation together and required that I get the …
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Book club kit
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell…
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… College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy …
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Benny Oh hears voices. And not just any voices: he hears the thoughts and mutterings of all things, from the soft shirts in his dad’s closet to the Frisbee someone tossed up onto the school roof.…
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… as the young patients call it—where he meets a new friend who calls herself The Aleph (after a Jorge Luis …
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Kids app
If you've been following my reviews for any amount of time, you know that I'm a big fan of the Sago Mini apps because they feature open-ended play and are perfectly suited to younger users but still…
Last updated 5 days 9 hours ago
… as well. I was a little concerned when they unveiled this new subscripiton based app called Sago Mini School, but I am …
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In an era where thinking about the future is an increasingly depressing task, A Psalm for the Wild-Built was just the story I needed. This novella by modern-day sci-fi superstar Becky Chambers…
Last updated 3 weeks 5 days ago
… do not venture. Along the way, they meet an unexpected new friend– a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap. All …
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Kids app
Telling time on analog clocks was a skill that was difficult for me to learn as a child, so I am always on the lookout for new great ways to teach it to my own kids. This app does a nice job of…
Last updated 5 days 9 hours ago
… me to learn as a child, so I am always on the lookout for new great ways to teach it to my own kids. This app does a …
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Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties -- sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick and clocking in and out of her admin job. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New…
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… then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including a wife who has agreed to an open …
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In book two of her series (after The Dark Lake), author Sarah Bailey transplants Detective Gemma Woodstock from a small rural Australian town, to Melbourne where she struggles to find her place, both…
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… to find her place, both in the large city and in her new job with the Melbourne police. Up until now Gemma has …
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Let’s face it; some kids prefer to read non-fiction. These are the kids who are fascinated with almanacs and world records books. If you’ve got one of these kids in your house, check out the new DK…
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… you’ve got one of these kids in your house, check out the new DK findout! non-fiction series for kids . Aimed at ages … Dr. Gill Jolly, a woman with one of the most dangerous jobs on earth – volcanologist. And in Pirates young …
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Have you ever taken a haunted history tour of the Wisconsin Dells? Options include a haunted trolley, haunted canyon, haunted mansion and ghost boat tours to get you started. Now …
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… is so freaked out that she moves away and tries to start a new life in Washington, D.C., but the Dells keep pulling her …
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I absolutely love Maira Kalman’s artwork. Colorful and sweet with an endearing naivete, her work is like a cotton-candy version of a better life but with melancholic undertones. I love it and I want…
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… words. Pulling unexpected quotes and centering whole new worlds around them, Kalman uses her paintbrush, her …
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One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no…
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… move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, The Leavers is the story of how one boy …
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Colin Cotterill has been on and off my mystery radar over the years. I'd read his first book The Coroner's Lunch a while ago and came back to Cotterill every now and then. But much as I enjoy Laotian…
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… coast of Thailand. Jimm is less then thrilled with her new life. "We'd moved to a village surrounded by coconut …
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Clark introduces readers to a new fantasy world in this latest novella and I'm so here for it.
Eveen is a an undead assassin. When she died she was offered a chance at an undead life - though she has…
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… Clark introduces readers to a new fantasy world in this latest novella and I'm so here for …
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Impact story
Throughout these last few weeks, several rescues have happened due to the flooding waters.
Here's one story that might not make the headlines - but makes those of us at Madison Public Library very…
Last updated 3 weeks 4 days ago
… of our staff’s response - their willingness to face new challenges and commitment to their communities, even …
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Mary Balogh is a hit or miss author for me. I always admire her writing, but she doesn't always grab me emotionally. Her newest is definitely a hit. A lovely, warm story that strikes all the right…
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… strikes all the right notes. Alexander Westcott is the new Earl of Riverdale, a title he never expected to inherit …
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I read the first book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, A Deadly Education, last year and loved it. Harry Potter meets the Hunger Games with a scrappy, angry underdog protagonist and an odd-…
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… to go back and re-read the whole trilogy now with these new eyes. The entire series has themes woven throughout about …
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Book list
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … that killed the love of Feyi's life and she's almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a … Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. Available to …
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It’s a fantasy for a lot of people; rent out the house, pay off some bills and give it all up for an adventure. For the Wilson family from Des Moines, Iowa this fantasy became a reality when they…
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… from their Croatian adventure make up the wonderful new book Running Away to Home . If you enjoy a travel memoir …
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I know channel surfing is becoming a thing of the past as more and more of us are moving to streaming at will, but I'll date myself and admit I'm still a frequent surfer. And when I'm bouncing around…
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… watch. One of those? Die Hard starring Bruce Willis as a New York cop loose in a skyscraper where terrorists have …
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