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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?

  Chemistry by Weike Wang At first glance, the quirky, overworked narrator of Weike Wang’s debut novel seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life: she is studying for a prestigious PhD in chemistry that will make her Chinese parents proud (or at least satisfied), and her successful, supportive boyfriend has just proposed…Continue Reading Check Us Out!

Come and see what’s new in the Blough-Weis Library Leisure Collection! The Impossible Fortress : A Novel by Jason Rekulak It’s May 1987. Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would…Continue Reading Latest Additions