A Terrible Glory : Custer and the Little Bighorn– the Last Great Battle of the American West
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Recent decades have seen important new findings regarding the Battle of the Little Bighorn. What has been needed next is a clear narrative for scholars and lay readers alike embracing all of the recent research; literary agent Donovan has written just that. First he provides the context of the campaign […]
Unbecoming a Lady
Hollywood Crows : a Novel
Synopsis: When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What […]
Buckingham Palace Gardens : a Novel
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: ?Anne Perry's 25th novel featuring her 19th-century police inspector, Thomas Pitt. But unlike so many detective series gliding on cruise control, this mature work provides a fine introduction to Perry's alluring world of Victorian crime and intrigue. Ever the master of her milieu, she delivers sumptuous descriptions of […]
Miss Julia Paints the Town
Publishers Weekly: Julia Springer Murdoch has survived widowhood, scandals and her share of delightfully harebrained adventures in eight previous Miss Juliaoutings; here she tackles a town's worth of problems. Smarmy New Jersey developer Arthur Kessler plans to tear down the old Abbotsville, N.C., courthouse and replace it with condos, but more pressing is the fact […]
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware Novel
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Kellerman serves up all the elements his fans have come to love in the 22nd entry in his Alex Delaware series (Obsession, etc.), including an intriguing plot, likable regular characters supported by an interesting secondary cast, diabolical villains, witty dialogue and a sense of humanity and justice. Alex and his LAPD detective […]
Monkey and Me
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Allie Ann Marie Clement. Synopsis: A little girl and her toy monkey love imitating different animals, everything from jumping like kangaroos to waddling like penguins! Open this book and play along with them.
Gallop
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Jonathan Stephen Simpson. Synopsis: There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not […]
Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
The New Yorker: At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main […]
Not a Stick
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Drake Patrick Murphy. Synopsis: What holds more imaginative possibility than a cardboard box? A stick, of course! In this second book by New York Times bestselling author and Theodore Seuss Geisel Honoree Antoinette Portis, a plain old stick is a gateway to […]