English
Español
简体中文
Русский
Our Reader’s Advisors are always coming up with new and exciting titles for you to check out! On this blog, we will post various book-related news and reviews, as well as our monthly Book Lovers Annotations, which are a list of titles chosen by our Book Lovers Club that meets once a month, and annotated by one of our diligent Reader’s Advisors.
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2020 Part II May 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Animals at Lockwood Manor By Jane Healey This is a debut novel set in England in 1939. Hetty Cartwright, only 30 and single, is given the responsibility of taking care of the mammal collection of…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2020 May 7, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Afterlife By Julia Alvarez A return to adult fiction by renowned author Alvarerz. Antonia Vega, an immigrant from the Domenican Republic, her sisters and an undocumented pregnant teen-ager all that center stage in this novel…
Quarantine Reading Challenge April 28, 2020 - Have you been reading as much as we have? The staff at the Morristown and Morris Township Library realize that many people have upped their reading while under quarantine. And while being stuck at home isn’t fun, we thought we…- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2020 Part II April 15, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Book of Lost Friends By Lisa Wingate Lisa Wingate based this historical fiction on actual advertisements she saw in Southern newspapers after the Civil War. Three women from Louisiana head out for Texas. Two are…
- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2020 April 2, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein (These books are all available as ebooks) Dear Edward By Ann Napolitano Twelve year old Edward is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills every other person on board the aircraft,…
National Poetry Month April 1, 2020 - Enrich your lives with poetry during April, which is National Poetry Month, and during this time of collective hibernation. You can enjoy the magic of poetry from a variety of online resources! You can sign up to receive A Poem…
Suggestions for Purchase Through the Cloud Library App! March 17, 2020 - While the Library is closed, we hope you’ll be enjoying our many resources you can use from home! One of those is Cloud Library, a platform for reading ebooks and listening to digital audiobooks. Our collection is always growing, and…- Book Lovers Recommendations March 2020 March 13, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein All My Mother’s Lovers By Ilana Masad A debut novel. When Maggie’s mother dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home, and when she finds five envelopes addressed to five men along with her mother’s…
- Book Lovers Recommendations February 2020 February 13, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Cursed Edited by Marie O’Regan This is a collection of short stories by many different writers that is a combination of fairy tales, magic, and stories to inspire shock and fear-all based on the…
- Book Lovers Recommendations January 2020 January 16, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Before She Was Found By Heather Gudenkauf Three twelve year old girls sneak out to go to an abandoned rail yard during a sleepover. Later that night, one is found bloody and beaten and…
- Book Lovers Recommendations December 2019 December 19, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Before and After: The Incredible Real-life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate After author Lisa Wingate published her novel “Before We Were Yours,” which was…
- Book Lovers Recommendations November 2019 November 14, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Nicole Chung wrote this memoir about her struggle for her own identity. She was born to Korean parents who had come to the US but released her…
- Book Lovers Recommendations October 2019 October 14, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Dominicana by Angie Cruz The author has based her story on the life of her mother. In 1965, 15 year old Ana marries a man nearly twice her age and moves from the Dominican…
- Book Lovers Recommendations September 2019 September 26, 2019 - All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital in 2009 with no memory of her past. She discovers a cache of letters in her home which start to jog her memory. The…
- Book Lovers Recommendations August 2019 August 13, 2019 - All That You Leave Behind By Erin Lee Carr Journalist David Carr died suddenly at age 58. He left behind twin daughters and lots of memories; this memoir was written by one of his surviving children. Talent as well as…
- Book Lovers Recommendations July 2019 July 29, 2019 - Alternative Remedies for Loss By Joanna Cantor Olivia is 22 and has left college to care for her mother. After her mother’s death, Olivia finds that the rest of her family is moving on, but she is adrift. She finds…
- Book Lovers Recommendations June 2019 June 25, 2019 - All the Rivers By Dorit Rabinyan A young Jewish woman, studying in New York in 2003, meets a handsome painter, who is Palestinian, also living in New York. Their attraction is strong, but when each one returns; one to Tel…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2019 May 15, 2019 - The Art of Dying Well By Katy Butler This is a non-fiction book that offers practical advice for people as they age. We have many books on preparing for childbirth and child development, but not much to help us prepare…
- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2019 April 22, 2019 - The Age of Light By Whitney Scharer This is the fictionalized story of Lee Miller, who was a Vogue model in the 1920’s. She aspired to be a photographer and travelled to Paris where she met the surrealistic photographer, Man…
- Book Lovers Recommendations March 2019 March 22, 2019 - The Au Pair By Emma Rous Seraphine Mayes never understood why her mother threw herself off a cliff on their Norfolk estate right after she gave birth to Seraphine and her twin brother, which just so happened to be the…