Posts by Callie C

  This week’s shelf offers some next-in-series books including characters Dave Robicheaux, Pike Logan, and Vasya, the heroine of the Winternight series, in addition to books by other favorite authors and some new authors to discover. The Best of Us by Robyn Carr During her aunt Helen’s visit, Dr. Leigh Culver takes her to Sullivan’s…

Science and technology take the front row on this week’s shelf of books.  Four of our selections are listed on the Smithsonian’s Ten Best Science Books of 2018 list, four more will help you improve your technology skills, and another will develop your inner scientist in the garden.   Blogging for Dummies by Amy Lupold Blair…

With our smartphones we have almost instant access to a plethora of facts covering almost any topic.  However, there is a lot to be said for a serial publication first published in 1868.  Top news stories of the year, U. S. facts and history, consumer information, sports and science are just a few of the…

An author’s work can be furthered long after they are gone, such as two examples on this week’s shelf.  Tom Clancy passed away in October of 2013, but Jack Ryan, who first appeared in Clancy’s best-seller The Hunt for Red October, is still protecting the United States in Marc Cameron’s Tom Clancy Oath of Office.  In another…

Current topics are on this shelf from the causes behind the opioid crisis to current research on medical marijuana, along with the 2018 Booker Prize winner by Anna Burns and a spin-off of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.   Abandoned by W. Michael Gear A sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a…

If you are in the Christmas spirit you will find several books on this shelf that might interest you from the fiction of  Donna VanLiere and Richard Paul Evans to Country Living’s Christmas at Home book of ideas for decorating, baking, and crafting.  But there are also plenty of good selections to take you away…

Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma (LTAIO) Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma is a great way to connect with neighbors over books and ideas.  It is a reading and discussion series which consists of 4-5 sessions, each featuring a book from the chosen discussion theme. A humanities scholar opens each session telling about the author’s life,…

Among this modest shelf are the latest from David Baldacci, Janet Evanovich and Stephen King, along with a couple of new history books by two Pulitzer Prize nominees. Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink Spotting her late wife in news-report backgrounds, truck driver Keisha Taylor stumbles into an otherworldly conflict on the nation’s highway systems.…