Reviews

Staff Review

Top 10 Prague (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide)


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 26, 2011

As a Prague native, I like looking at books about Prague, especially, guidebooks. I am always curious to see what recommendations are made to visitors coming to my home town. Recently, I have picked up a DK Eyewitness travel guide, Top 10 Prague. I am really impressed by it.  It truly highlights the very best that Prague has to offer.

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The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom


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Apr 25, 2011

This debut novel takes a slightly different look at plantation life at the turn of the 19th Century. At its onset, Lavinia, a seven-year-old orphaned Irish indentured servant, is taken to live with black slaves in the Kitchen House of a Virginia tobacco plantation.

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A Garden In Paris

By Stephanie Grace Whitson

Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 22, 2011

In A Garden In Paris, Mary Kathleen Davis was once a vibrant young woman with hopes and dreams for a beautiful future.  Now, 26 years later, she is a widow, emotionally separated from her only daughter Elizabeth, and trying desperately to find some sense of who she is and where she’s going.  Her thoughts turn to a time in Paris many years ago and a man who loved her desperately.  She too had been in love yet walked away to marry the security she felt she needed in her life.  If only she’d known the cost

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Mystic Warriors by Rosanne Bittner


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Apr 22, 2011

          In Mystic Warriors, the third of the Mystic Indian series, the sacred white buffalo robe has been stolen from the Lakota people.  Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, knows that much misery will befall them from such a loss, but even she wasn’t prepared for what was to come.

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In the Company of Others by Jan Karon

By Jan Karon

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Apr 20, 2011

In this second book in The Father Tim series, Father Tim and Cynthia have traveled to a B & B in Ireland for some R & R and soon become involved with owner’s families and other guests. There is a bit of mystery with a break-in to Cynthia’s room and later a stolen painting. And there are various relationship issues going on.

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Chosen

By Chandra Hoffman
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Helen H.
Apr 19, 2011

Chloe Pinter loves helping families realize their dream of having children through her job at a private adoption agency. And she’s good at it. But as one family’s dreams come closer to fruition, another family’s dreams are shattered, and Chloe is left to pick up the pieces.

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Mystic River by Dennis Lehane


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Apr 12, 2011

Arguably the author’s best work to date, this dark and brooding mystery is set in a blue-collar Boston neighborhood where there are few secrets. In 1975 three boys – Jimmy, Sean and Dave - were playing on the street when two men, posing as policemen, abducted Dave. He escaped the abuse four days later.

Staff Review Apr 12, 2011

Despite being the only wizard in the phone book, Harry Dresden still hurts for business. The occasional consult for Karrin Murphy of Chicago Special Investigations doesn’t quite pay the bills. So when Harry gets a missing husband call he takes the job, even though it’s not his specialty.