I’m sure that you’ve seen the signs by now. There are leaves on the ground, pumpkins on every doorstep, and ghost and bats aplenty adorn every house and hall. Halloween is just around the corner! There are many different ways to celebrate, from dressing up and going out to eating unholy amounts of candy in…Continue Reading Dying for a Scary Story?
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.Two have…Continue Reading Must Reads of the Week!
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once…Continue Reading New Additions – October 22nd
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Grab one of these new titles just recently added to the Leisure Reading Collection at Blough-Weis Library!…Continue Reading This Week’s New Additions
In the Country of Women by Susan Straight In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American…Continue Reading Leisure to the Rescue!
A collection of books published by Siglio are currently on display at the Blough-Weis Library just outside of the Caruso Innovation Center, so feel free to have the front desk direct you towards a reading experience that you won’t soon forget! And come hear Lisa Pearson, founder of Siglio Press, as she presents this year’s Publishing & Editing Lecture,…Continue Reading Beautiful Siglio Press Books on Display in the Library
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father’s death, Erasmus Kemp has had…Continue Reading New To Us
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso…Continue Reading And Introducing . . .
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. In a moment of…Continue Reading Break With a Book
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