Reviews

I don’t know what it is about Jeannette Walls that intrigues me so. Maybe it’s her fast talking (so fast she’s hard to understand) or her crazy childhood (portrayed in The Glass Castle) and her crazier mother. Whatever it is, I know I will never miss one of her books.

This great non-fiction book for readers of all ages presents the accumulated human knowledge of the last 32,000 years. The history of the world is represented via the most significant charts, sketches, drawings and illustrations.

Heat Wave is the first book purportedly written by Richard Castle. Richard Castle, in turn, is the title character of the ABC crime drama, Castle.

Two librarians from the Johnson County Library, Christine Peterson and Gregg Winsor, discuss Bernard Cornwell's novel "1356" and some other favorites from the historical fiction genre. Listen to the discussion, or check out the books they discussed

“Suspense” and “thriller” are among the tags for this book. I wasn’t sure at first if those descriptions fit. The book is about a woman, Christine, who wakes up every morning with no memory.  She has no idea who she is, where she is, or even how old she is. I figured this would be more of a drama than a thriller.

The Krewe of Hunters is a unit of the FBI that uses paranormal means to investigate unusual crimes. In Lily, Arizona, a 100-year-old skull has been found and it is up to Jane Everett, forensic artist for the Krewe, to identify her. Working with Sheriff Sloan Trent, Jane uncovers a mystery from the past with ties to a current string of murders.

This sequel to the dreamy and delightful The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is at least just as good as the first book, possibly better.

This audiobook rocks! Seriously. But if language, blood, bodily functions, and the mind of a teenage boy gross you out, this is probably not for you. However, keep in mind that this audiobook is very entertaining and if you think you can handle the previously mentioned, go for it!

Eighty Days is about two young women who went around the world in 1889 in opposite directions.   Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland both traveled alone and were trying to bet the fictional hero Phileas Fogg from the Jules Vernes book “Around the World in eighty days”, an

Elizabeth Kelly’s The Last Summer of the Camperdowns begins quietly – the young daughter of a retired-movie-star mother and a campaigning-for-senate father lives a charmed life in a big house in Cape Cod.