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Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
Vivian Forest, a single mother with a busy career in social work, has the chance of a lifetime – a trip overseas to the Sandringham Estate in England with her Read more...
Posted by Sheila H. on January 21, 2020
The Shape of Night
Ava Collete is a food writer from Boston, looking to get away for the summer to finish her new book of historical New England recipes. It might be more fitting Read more...
Posted by LaRaie Z. on January 14, 2020
Adult Services: Best of 2019
Enjoy Westmont Public Library’s Adult Services Librarians favorite books we read in 2019! Full Throttle by Joe Hill My favorite story out of the anthology was “Late Returns”. In it, Read more...
Posted by Book Rex on January 7, 2020
Snapshot
In the near future, the police of New Clipperton have new tool for fighting crime: they can recreate a facsimile of the entire city for a given 24 hour block Read more...
Posted by Gil N. on January 7, 2020
Where To Go When: Unforgettable Trips for Every Month
We all have our dream destinations to visit on our bucket lists. But a good question most people ask is “when is the best time to go?” Part of the Read more...
Posted by Holly H. on December 31, 2019
Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen
Yasmin Khan, a human rights campaigner who likes to immerse herself in different world cuisines, has recently introduced her cookbook “Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen.” Her visit to Israel Read more...
Posted by Sheila H. on December 24, 2019
Educated: A Memoir
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where the madness lies?” Tara Westover grew up the youngest of a devout Mormon family, home bound in the rural mountains of Idaho. Read more...
Posted by LaRaie Z. on December 17, 2019
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories
A woman takes up bodybuilding on a whim, starts getting huge but her husband doesn’t notice. A sales clerk at a clothing store waits on someone who cannot find anything Read more...
Posted by Gil N. on December 10, 2019
The Castle on Sunset : Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
The Sunset Strip is famous in Los Angeles, but how much do we really know about one of its most iconic and storied buildings? From Jean Harlow’s taking of lovers, Read more...
Posted by Holly H. on December 3, 2019
Titans: The Complete First Season
The first season of Titans is a superhero story is the spiritual successor to that violent, gritty blend of comic book film-making which began with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Read more...
Posted by Justin W. on November 26, 2019
Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch
It was the stillness of the mountain that invaded Eduardo Strauch’s mind, body and soul, making him unable to talk about his survival of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Read more...
Posted by Sheila H. on November 19, 2019
Such a Fun Age
Alix Chamberlain is a white, successful Manhattan mom with two kids, a loving husband, and an amazing babysitter her daughter adores. She started as a blogger and has built her Read more...
Posted by LaRaie Z. on November 19, 2019
A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder
After a year spent “mourning” the sudden death of her philandering husband (who died in bed with his mistress no less) American born countess Francis Wynn is ready to move Read more...
Posted by Gil N. on November 12, 2019
The World That We Knew
This novel begins in Berlin in 1941 and follows the life of a young Jewish girl, Lea, whose mother, Hanni, will do anything to keep her safe. She consults a Read more...
Posted by Holly H. on November 5, 2019
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
Imagine crouching before a creature’s silk-lined burrow where a furry Tarantula (nicknamed Claribel) will emerge, to catch a glimpse of its pink tipped feet – this just part of the Read more...
Posted by Sheila H. on October 28, 2019