Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered
This is the best-selling book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the hit podcast, “My Favorite Murder!”The authors shared personal stories about mental illness, addiction and eating…
The World We Make (The Great Cities, Book 2)
Again, N.K. Jemisin has surprised me and surpassed my expectations in this continued urban fantasy of the Great City series. Her take on multiverse theory is like nothing I’ve ever…
Library receives three grants from local Foundation
The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., recently was the recipient of three grants from the First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania.
Library participates in ‘Together We Read’ program
Booklovers in Lycoming County can now join readers from 16,000 public libraries and colleges across the United States enjoying this year’s Together We Read: US digital book club selection.
Library adds Ancestry Library Edition to online resources
The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., will host its monthly Coloring Club for adults from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the first Tuesday of each month, with the next session on Feb. 7.
Attack of the Black Rectangles
This is an amazing middle-grade book about censorship and intolerance that everyone should read. Mac opens a copy of his classroom text to find that some words are blacked out.…
November 9
Fallon is an 18-year-old aspiring actress about to move from LA to New York City when she meets Ben in a diner. They quickly have feelings for each other but…
Pieces of Her
This is a psychological mystery in which Andrea Cooper learns that her mother, Laura, is not the average, middle-class, PTA mom she thought she knew. It turns out, Laura had…
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
This was a fascinating, high-concept murder mystery that can best be described as Quantum Leap meets Agatha Christie. From the first page, you know someone – Evelyn – is going…
The City We Became (The Great Cities, Book 1)
When I first started reading this book, I kept saying to myself, “Wow, this is so weird … but wonderful … and different.” Once I realized where the story was…