Operations Manager Yira Massey recommends All My Sisters and Me by Sheryl Lister. If you’re looking for a wholesome story that centers around love, family and friendship, I recommend All My Sisters and Me by Sheryl Lister. This is a book about four tall, dark and handsome brothers raised in a good and loving home, and the four sisters-in-law trying to learn to love and get along with each other and find their place in the family. Papa Aaron loves his wife and isn’t afraid to show it. … [Read more...] about Book Review: All My Sisters and Me
Library Book Club Reviews
Book Review: The Kite Runner
Communications Manager Kyla Merwin recommends The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Of the zillion books I’ve read – from Go Spot Go to my current obsession, The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus – I only closed the cover of two books with tears spilling down my cheeks. One of them was Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. (Spoiler alert: Inman dies at the end. I read this book twenty-five years ago, and I’m still upset about it.) The other was The Kite Runner—a book that refuses to let go … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Kite Runner
Review: In the Woods
Librarian Andrea Nelson recommends In the Woods by Tana French. Back in December of 2023, I wrote a Library recommendation that deviated from the typical book review. I recommended everything Tana French has ever written. I wasn’t mocking the time-honored tradition of librarian book reviews; I simply could not decide which was my favorite. Since then, my husband Rod has urged me to pick a Tana French novel for the Community Library Book Club. Those of you who regularly attend our … [Read more...] about Review: In the Woods
Books Review: Twist
Director of Library Operations Pamela Parker recommends Twist: A Novel by Colum McCann. Irish author Colum McCann grapples with human disconnections in his most recent novel, Twist (2025). He does so by taking us on a sea-faring adventure off the coast of Africa aboard a vessel that repairs underwater fiber-optic cables. Periodic damage to these lines threatens global communications and … [Read more...] about Books Review: Twist
Book Review: The Antidote
Director of Programs and Education Martha Williams recommends The Antidote by Karen Russell. I have long been a fan of Karen Russell and her zany hyper-realism. But even if you didn’t love Swamplandia (her first novel set in a gator-wrestling theme park in the Everglades) or short stories like “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” where fifteen girls are painstakingly reeducated by nuns, I hope you’ll be intrigued by The Antidote—Russell’s most sweeping narrative yet. Set during … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Antidote
Book Review: Here Beside the Rising Tide
Information Systems Manager Will Duke recommends Here Beside the Rising Tide by Emily Jane. At first glance it might seem trite that Emily Jane creates a heroine, Jenn, who is a wildly successful author of “action smut,” her term, not mine; flowing hair, deep kisses, and washboard abs do have cameos in this novel. There is also, of course, a pushy editor who loves Jenn, not romantically but in a “You go girl!” way. But do any of us want to read another book about an … [Read more...] about Book Review: Here Beside the Rising Tide
