by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 4, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes–in a plain, green journal–the truth about his own life and leaves it in his...
by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 2, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
” It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown begins, Oona faints and awakens...
by Tracy Horodyski | Feb 28, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“The similarly determined Alice Vega of Louise Luna’s The Janes is a former bounty hunter, now private investigator, known for her skills in locating missing people and her relentless drive to find answers no matter the method (which readers will remember from...
by Tracy Horodyski | Feb 26, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue...
by Tracy Horodyski | Feb 24, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“A Longer Fall, Charlaine Harris’ sequel to An Easy Death, is just as gritty as its predecessor. Harris’ prose is blunt and uncomplicated, matching Lizbeth’s general sensibility, and lending the novel a welcome readability. This straightforward style meshes well...
