Reviewing the quantum thriller Dark Matter
By: Kristin Milks, OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. What if you could live a life you thought was lost? Walk through a door and be a different version of yourself. Would you do it? Are you happy with the choices you’ve made? Jason wakes up in…
Reviewing the mysterious The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
The roaring ‘20s don’t feel so fun for Martha, who has to start working as a maid for the wealthy Sewell family on the Upper East Side of New York City. Martha has heard the stories about crazy Rose Sewell who used to be a…
Reviewing the captivating The Girls by Emma Cline
By: Emma Kanagaki, Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. Now that we’ve entered June, summer reading has officially begun! I’ve had a copy of The Girls by Emma Cline on my shelf for a while now, but just needed the long weekend and some sunshine…
Reviewing The Widow by Fiona Barton
By Emma Kangaki, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive The marriage thriller novel is alive and well for 2016! If you’re a fan of The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison or The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, then you will enjoy the…
Reviewing American Housewife by Helen Ellis
By Rachel Kray, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive First off, let me just say one thing: this book is hysterical. I was reading this while I was traveling and could not contain my laughter on an airplane and a train. Yes, I was…
The Gap of Time: re-imagining Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
By: Liz Tousey, a librarian and Analyst on the OverDrive Collection Development Team. The first novel in a new series featuring re-tellings of Shakespeare’s classic stories by modern authors, The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson is a beautiful new interpration of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale for…
Put on your pageant dresses because we’re reviewing Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
By Kristin Milks, a librarian and Collection Development Specialist with OverDrive Put on your Dolly records, get out your tiaras, and make sure your pageant smiles are plastered on your face because Julie Murphy’s new book Dumplin’ is here. Willowdean is a Texas teen who…
Reviewing Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
It happens a couple times a year that you come across a book that hits all the right notes and leaves you wandering around the house afterward wondering what you do with yourself now that you are finished with it. I found myself in this…
Under the Big Tent: Reviewing Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
Grown-ups tend to exaggerate. We can go so far as saying they lie for the sake of children’s happiness. Fostering hope, imagination, and wonder is part of the adult code of conduct with kids. In Cassie Beasley’s middle grade book Circus Mirandus, Micah’s grandpa Ephraim has…
Reviewing Armada by Ernest Cline
Being a Librarian is awesome. It really, really is. One of the many reasons I love my chosen profession is Advanced Review Copies. I’ve been not-so patiently awaiting the arrival of the new Ernest Cline book, Armada, for months now and I was ecstatic when…
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