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January 10, 2017

by Mary-Lynne Monroe

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Bridget Jones’s Baby: the Diaries by Helen Fielding —

by Addison Fleming on January 27, 2017

Bridget Jones’s Baby is the fourth installment of Helen Fielding’s series chronicling Bridget Jones’s chaotic and humorous singleton lifestyle. Elements of the novel parallel Bridget Jones’s Diary, primarily Bridget’s indecision over which [...]

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore —

by Brandon Sanford on January 27, 2017

This is the story the people of the town would tell: there was an old water tower, so old it had become a danger, like an old tree ready to topple to the next storm. So the people of the town brought down that water tower like a tree, breaking [...]

A World From Dust: How the Periodic Table Shaped Life by Ben McFarland —

by Michael Barton on January 26, 2017

The astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan described in his groundbreaking television program Cosmos the fact that much of the matter in the universe, including the atoms that make up humans, was birthed in the fiery furnaces of stars [...]

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter —

by Maria Whelan on January 26, 2017

Karin Slaughter’s heart-racing psychological thriller The Kept Woman follows Will Trent, an officer at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who stumbles upon a crime scene that hits incredibly close to home. When Will learns that the gun found on [...]

Chaos: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell —

by L Ruby Hannigan on January 25, 2017

New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell returns again with riveting novel number twenty-four in the Kay Scarpetta series. What a difference a day makes in the busy life of Dr. Scarpetta. As the Medical Examiner in Cambridge [...]

Buddy’s Bedtime Battery by Christina Geist, illustrations by Tim Bowers —

by Laura Di Giovine on January 25, 2017

For tired parents wanting to establish a routine to get their children to bed, Christina Geist’s playful book Buddy’s Bedtime Battery may just be the ticket. Buddy wants to keep pretending to be a robot, even though it’s bedtime. “I am not a [...]

Deborah Rising by Avraham Azrieli —

by Mary-Lynne Monroe on January 24, 2017

One brief chapter in the biblical book of Judges speaks of the only woman to act as a Judge in Israel. That woman’s name is Deborah. Avraham Azrieli’s novel Deborah Rising transports the reader to the life of the young Deborah. With his book, he [...]

The Littlest Family’s Big Day by Emily Winfield Martin —

by Laura Di Giovine on January 24, 2017

Bestselling author Emily Winfield Martin’s latest book, The Littlest Family’s Big Day, follows a little bear family (and their tiny adopted fox) as they explore their new home in the woods. The family moves into their house in a tree trunk and [...]