Reviews

Released over a year ago in June of 2012, The Chaperone, by local Kansas author Laura Moriarty, is still sizzling hot among readers! Set in the summer of 1922, The Chaperone opens in Wichita, Kansas during prohibition.

This book was mentioned to me by a patron who was on a Scandinavian Crime Fiction kick.

The Shining Girls is creepy. Really creepy.

16 year old America Singer, citizen of Illea-caste 5, was just chosen as one of 35 girls who will compete for the hand of Maxon Schreave, Prince of Illea-caste 1.  So begins The Selection, a “Hunger Games meets the Bachelor” dystopian novel by Kiera Cass.  Any

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format.

When you work in a library, how can you not pick up a book titled Killer Librarian?

I had to read this book twice to grasp its power. In its richness, it honestly deserves a third reading. The book jacket describes The Yellow Birds as "…the unforgettable story of two soldiers trying to stay alive." And it is that, but it’s also, and I would argue even more so, a cautionary tale.

For Jasper Francis Dent, every day is Take Your Child to Work Day.  His father, Billy Dent, teaches him the jargon, the tools and the skills to one day take up the family profession: serial killing.

John Ross is a Knight of the Word, a magical champion for the world who is plagued with nightmares of a future he seeks to prevent. Nest Freemark is a young woman gifted with unusual abilities and friends, who seeks to know more about the dark secret of her birth. Both live in a world amidst our own, where magic and the wondrous are present.