Local journalist Heather Shumaker is generating a lot of discussion with her new book on parenting, It's Okay Not to Share. As you might guess from the title, this book isn't your typical "I need to make the world perfect for my child or he/she won't turn out right" tome. Instead, Shumaker lays out for us her Renegade Rules, rules that are based...
Sixteen of Aesop's fables have been restyled for the contemporary fashionista but suitable for anyone. Bright and bold illustrations perfectly complement each fable. The original Aesop's fables are appended in case you aren't familiar with one, and there were a couple that were new to me. See how many people or situations you recognize. ...
Can you remember the first time you smelled Chanel No. 5? My earliest memory is around the age of 15 when my best friend’s mother gave her a bottle because she never used it. I was immediately hooked. I wore the fragrance every time I visited her, and I was over there a lot. ...
I opened this book with total excitement because I love John Irving and even though I’m a librarian and I work surrounded by books, I had no idea he had a new novel coming out until it was in my hands at the library. What a wonderful surprise! On the first page of In One Person readers meet the main character, Billy, and a librarian he has a mad...
Remembering Che shows the revolutionary man from an extremely intimate point of view as his wife, Aleida March, recounts their life committed to the cause first, and each other second. There has been much published about Che’s life and his politics. ...
This is a quietly disturbing and mysterious story told through the eyes of 13 year old Lizzie, whose best friend Evie disappears one day. Lizzie starts to play detective and thinks she has it figured out as far as who in the neighborhood is responsible for Evie’s disappearance. She starts dropping clues and hints for the police and Evie's father....
Escape from Camp 14 details the story of Shin Dong-Hyuk, who was born in a North Korean labor camp in 1982 and escaped to the South Korea at the age of 23. Written by the journalist, Blaine Harden, the facts of Shin’s life are grim. As one of 50,000 prisoners in the camp, Shin struggled daily to survive, subsisting of starvation level rations sup...
In New York City circa late 1920s an independent young woman from Brighton Beach meets an independent young woman from the heart of the Midwest and together they create a social scene for themselves in Manhattan. Kathryn, or Katey, may as well be from as far away from Manhattan as possible for all she knows about the finer things in life. ...
It's driving me nuts.This new romantic mystery by Janet Evanovich, co-written with Dorien Kelly takes place in a small town on the Lake Michigan coast, an hour drive *south* of Traverse City and a half hour *north* of Frankfort. ...
Local journalist Heather Shumaker is generating a lot of discussion with her new book on parenting, It's Okay Not to Share. As you might guess from the title, this book isn't your typical "I need to make the world perfect for my child or he/she won't turn out right" tome. Instead, Shumaker lays out for us her Renegade Rules, rules that are based...