Measure What Matters

In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page […]

Little Fires Everywhere

“[Ng] captures her setting with an ethnologist’s authority…And there are time-capsule pleasures in her evocation of 1997…The writing is poised.” —Wall Street Journal 

Quiet Until the Thaw

“A delicately calibrated tuning fork, resonating at a cosmic pitch…awe-inspiring…This is an ardent, original and beautifully wrought book.” – The New York Times Book Review

Alex and Eliza

Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift Store.

Soar

★ "Jeremiah's voice is perfect: plucky, vulnerable, pragmatic, smart, and immensely endearing. Bauer masterfully manages the various plotlines. . . An outstanding, tender exploration of courage and the true nature of heroism and, for good measure, a fine homage to America's game, as well." —Kirkus, starred review

Cyrstal Storm

“An otherworldly epic…evocative and intricate.”—Publishers Weekly

The Genius of Birds

Donated by GP & Karla Houston in memory of Sam Houston. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research— the distant laboratories of Barbados and New Caledonia, the great […]