Category: Highlights

Smile by Roddy Doyle Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name…Continue Reading Now Lending . . .

  The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed New York Timesbestselling trilogy that began with The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016, and The Obelisk Gate, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds…Continue Reading Latest and Greatest

Glass Houses by Louse Penny When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of…Continue Reading Please Read Us

 Tangerine by Christine Mangan  The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends—once inseparable roommates—haven’t spoken in over a year. But there Lucy was, trying to make things right and return to their old rhythms. Perhaps Alice should…Continue Reading Empty Nightstand? We Can Help!

Three Days in Moscow by Bret Baier Moscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for freedom and confronted the Soviet empire. In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in January, Bret Baier illuminated the extraordinary leadership of President Dwight Eisenhower at the dawn of the Cold War. Now in his highly anticipated new…Continue Reading Latest Acquisitions

A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? In this stunning novel, prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very…Continue Reading Hot Off the Press

Asking for a Friend by Jessica Weisberg A delightful history of Americans’ obsession with advice–from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and our circumstances in…Continue Reading Newest Arrivals

  Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by…Continue Reading Need a New Read?

Apart from all the love she clearly still had for me, V seemed to be under the impression that I had wanted the relationship to end.  Her breezy tone was so far removed from the V whom I knew that I wondered for a moment if she had been kidnapped and someone else was writing…Continue Reading Our Kind of Cruelty

Victoria: the Queen by Julia Baird When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public’s expense, and republican sentiment was growing. The Industrial Revolution was transforming the…Continue Reading What’s New?