Our patrons love a good mystery, and the Library staff does, too. Even better is a chance to meet mystery writers! We have such an opportunity coming up here at the Library on Monday March 11. Three mystery authors will be joining us in the Lamb Room for lunch and book talks. So naturally on our March list we are recommending their new books! Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris features a budding landscape designer who turns sleuth to solve a mystery right here in Connecticut. Yesterday's Fatal by Jan Brogan is about a mysterious death that is ruled an accident, but an investigative reporter digs in to investigate. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny features Chief Inspector Armand Gamache solving a perplexing murder in Quebec. We have multiple copies of all these books. Come in and take one home and sign up to attend the lunch and book talk on Monday the 11th.
Also on the Fiction list of recommendations, we have a new book by Jacqueline Mitchard: Still Summer. Three friends and one daughter set sail for a grand adventure but it turns into a survival story when the weather turns against them.
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day: Tipperary by Frank Delaney. The author tells the history of late 19th and early 20th century Ireland, though one man's experiences. We are thrilled that the author will be here on Sunday March 16.
Great nonfiction reading recommendations: Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thurbon is a fascinating record of travels that entertains and instructs. The author made his way via bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel. Great armchair travel reading for this time of year!
House Lust: America's obsession with our homes by Daniel McGinn is a must-read. Have you become absorbed in construction projects in your own home? Do you keep adding on and building bigger? Do you read the real estate ads even though you have no plan to move? If you do any of these things, you have house lust, according to the author. He does a nice job of dissecting how we got to this point...especially since we all grew up in smaller homes ourselves. Another home-related book is The Warmest Room in the House: how the kitchen became the heart of the twentieth-century home by Steve Gdula. The author traces the history of the kitchen in the American home. An entertaining read and a trip down memory lane as well.
Keep reading...and tell us what books you have enjoyed lately!
Also on the Fiction list of recommendations, we have a new book by Jacqueline Mitchard: Still Summer. Three friends and one daughter set sail for a grand adventure but it turns into a survival story when the weather turns against them.
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day: Tipperary by Frank Delaney. The author tells the history of late 19th and early 20th century Ireland, though one man's experiences. We are thrilled that the author will be here on Sunday March 16.
Great nonfiction reading recommendations: Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thurbon is a fascinating record of travels that entertains and instructs. The author made his way via bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel. Great armchair travel reading for this time of year!
House Lust: America's obsession with our homes by Daniel McGinn is a must-read. Have you become absorbed in construction projects in your own home? Do you keep adding on and building bigger? Do you read the real estate ads even though you have no plan to move? If you do any of these things, you have house lust, according to the author. He does a nice job of dissecting how we got to this point...especially since we all grew up in smaller homes ourselves. Another home-related book is The Warmest Room in the House: how the kitchen became the heart of the twentieth-century home by Steve Gdula. The author traces the history of the kitchen in the American home. An entertaining read and a trip down memory lane as well.
Keep reading...and tell us what books you have enjoyed lately!
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