Category Archives: Book Review

The Nebraska Library Commission has created a number of activities and games to go along with this year’s One Book for Nebraska Kids and One Book for Nebraska Teens book selections, which are available on the Library Commission’s website: http://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/OBOK/. … Continue reading →

20 Book Series Worth Your Kids’ Time

The ever-intrepid Dorothy Martin is in France, visiting Mont-Saint-Michel; currently without her husband Alan, who is down with a broken ankle, Dorothy visits the site alone, only to fall and need help getting back down to sea level. While conversing … Continue reading →

Because the book is always better! https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/books-you-need-to-read-before-watching-them-on-netflix?utm_term=.gwZYZPN4PM&bffbbooks#.xpgKpXy2XE

In High Jinx by Shannon Esposito, Elle Pressley is a doga (doggie yoga) instructor on Moon Key, a getaway for the very rich.  Invited to a party by one of her clients, Elle finds the hanged body of the owner … Continue reading →

Looking to update your historical fiction section?  Here is the Top 10 Historical Fiction List 2016 from Booklist.

Antiques Cymru is coming to Llanelen in Murder on the Hour, the 7th installment of Elizabeth J. Duncan’s Penny Brannigan series. During the event, a local woman is killed and the quilt she had evaluated by the show goes missing. … Continue reading →

From the BBC: 100. The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938) 99. There but for the (Ali Smith, 2011) 98. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947) 97. The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis, 1949-1954) 96. Memoirs of a Survivor (Doris … Continue reading →