Posts by Callie C

Beliefs, inspiration, family grief, and silence are featured in this week’s selections along with a couple of authors who crank out a book every month (with a little help from others!)  Don’t see anything of interest?  You can suggest library purchases and/or request that we order your book from another library through interlibrary loan.  …

Our favorite authors never seem to write fast enough!  We wait with anticipation for the next book about characters who have become as familiar as our friends.  Bestselling authors David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, and Janet Evanovich are three of those who top this week’s list.  If you’ve been waiting to hear more about Will Robie,…

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in…

  The Twelve Days of Christmas by Britta Teckentrup Charming version of the classic Twelve Days of Christmas. Each page is die cut to reveal gifts corresponding to these twelve special days. Children are delighted to see each new gift appear as the pages are turned. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski This new…

Cookbooks, Christmas-themed books, sister-themed books and some short stories and novellas are part of the line-up, along with the latest adventure in Clancy’s Odessa files and a new Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child.   Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade A portrait of the seventh American president focuses on…

This week’s book cart includes some Christmas offerings – a cozy mystery by Donna Andrews and a retelling of the Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire that Kirkus calls a “delightful, mystical, mythical confection” by an author “who likes nothing more than to work at the dark edges of a fairy tale.”  Two new historical biographies by award…

The Christy Award™ is a program of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) and is the foremost award honoring and promoting excellence in Christian fiction since 1999. It is named for Catherine Marshall’s novel, Christy, which has sold over 10 million copies since its publication in 1967.  These awards were established to acknowledge the value and impact…

Hot off the press, these new books are ready for checkout at your library!   Deep Freeze by John Sanford When a woman from a community where he exposed school-board corruption years earlier is found dead, Virgil Flowers identifies clues linking the case to a 20-year high school reunion and its related traumas, dramas and…

An eclectic mix of books that defies grouping in categories including a cook book, a western, some sci-fi, a cozy mystery, history, how-to, graphic novels, a celebrity tell-all and more.   Adventures in Slow Cooking by Sarah DiGregorio The James Beard-nominated food writer revamps the slow cooker for the modern home cook, providing ingenious ideas…