Category: Staff Picks

Jill

Hotel Kitsch

This book had a recent mention in a New York Times article about, of all things, the sale of heart-shaped bathtubs at the Cove Haven/Poconos

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Jill

Roctogenarians

Laura Ingalls Wilder began publishing her Little House books when she was 65 years old. Frank Lloyd Wright’s final design for New York City’s Guggenheim

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Jill

T-Shirt Swim Club

The brother-sister team of Ian and Alisa Kramer offer both the dramedy and clinical perspectives about how difficult it is for overweight people to find

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Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Jamie

Swan Song

After reading other Robert McCammon books, I decided to take a chance in reading another to see if it matched his outstanding writing in the

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Drood by Dan Simmons
Jamie

Drood

I decided to try another Dan Simmons book. After reading the Hyperion Cantos I knew nothing would top that series, but I was curious about

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Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
Jamie

Beacon 23

This sci-fi adventure was a very quick read and a very interesting concept. Beacon 23 is a “lighthouse,” in outer space, to help ships who

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Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
Dana

Middle of the Night

This was a fun, twisty book that should appeal to Gen X and Millennials. In the late 1990s, a boy was taken from his backyard

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The Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Dana

Long Island Compromise

This is the follow-up book to the author’s popular Fleishman Is in Trouble, and it will resonate with fans of the TV show Succession. The

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Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Jill

Long Island

It’s not required to read the prelude to Colm Tóibín’s Long Island – this story stands alone; or your point of reference could simply be

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