Varina by Charles Frazier
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) Charles Frazier’s debut novel, Cold Mountain, was a bestseller, National Book Award winner, and the basis for an Oscar-winning film. People who like Cold...
View ArticleThe Darkling Bride by Laura Andersen
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) As I anxiously await Kate Morton’s newest release, I picked up this read-alike from the author of The Boleyn King. The Darkling Bride has all the elements of a...
View ArticleThe Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) I cried at the end of The Great Alone. Actual, dripping-down-my-chin tears. It was that good. And when I tried to remember the last time I had cried while...
View ArticleDona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) When the PBS list of 100 top books came out earlier this year, I got a copy and started checking off the ones I had read. Turns out, I’ve got some work to do: I...
View ArticleBeartown by Fredrik Backman
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) I love Fredrik Backman and have read all of his novels, but I was a little slow to pick up Beartown. Reading the descriptive blurb on the back, I assumed I was...
View ArticleA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) A few years ago, Amor Towles’s debut novel, Rules of Civility, was a bestseller. I read it, but I truly can’t remember a darn thing about it. In my opinion,...
View ArticleUs Against You by Fredrik Backman
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) I am always a fan of Fredrik Backman’s work, but I must say that Us Against You is one of his weaker novels. It is the sequel to Beartown–the best novel I read...
View ArticleDopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by...
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) Dopesick is not an enjoyable book to read. But, for many Americans, it is a necessary education on a critical topic: the opioid epidemic that has scourged the...
View ArticlePetty by Warren Zanes
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) I have never before read the biography of a rock star, but Tom Petty and I have a long history. I have been a fan since I danced in my living room to “Free...
View ArticleWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Reviewed by Katy Z (Library Patron) I grew up with crawdads in my backyard, where it ran down to a murky lake. I can’t say I ever heard them sing, though, and that’s what first intrigued me about Delia...
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