Before Boris Karlov’s stumbling antics or cartoonish green skin, Frankenstein offered us something really horrible. The silver screen diluted, and perhaps demeaned, this classic
The Tomb of Zeus is a historic mystery set on the island of Crete in 1928. We are introduced to a cast of colorful
Down the Cannon is an action-adventure story set in Northfield, MN. Milton Grubbs now leads a band of thieves that robs college students, but
Reveiwed by Kalin Heidgerken-Greene Come for lurid visions of well-deserved damnation and stay for a rich, multi-subject masterpiece! Dante’s Divine Comedy was completed in
A new verse translation by Robert Pinsky New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994 Reviewed by Edward Malnar Come for lurid visions of
Review by Jamie Stanley I think that all bugs are amazing. Super Fly is about true flies, taxonomic order Diptera. Written for the amateur
Review by Katlin Heidgerken-Greene This slim volume doesn’t look like much, but it’s packed with images – of early Northfield people, documents and artifacts
Review by Jamie Stanley Big Brother is a farm kid fascinated by wheels. It starts when he is a small boy playing with his
Review by Catherine Stricklan In the lead up to the Defeat of Jesse James Days (September 8-12) in Northfield, I read the adult graphic
Review by Edward Malnar What is just? If you fight to overthrow your government, abandon its legal system, and then are asked to replace
Review by Jamie Stanley A Gathering of Old Men is set in the farm country of Louisiana This story is about the murder of a
Review by Janet Mitchell Many books inform us about the climate issue, but few do so with the compelling combination of science and memoir.
Review by Alexa Ochocki Illustrated by Victo Ngai In this story we follow a young girl and her family as they flee their homeland,
Review by Jamie Stanley Historical fiction is one of the most popular fiction sub-genres. It addition to transporting readers to the past, it is
Review by Lori W. Widowed and pregnant in 1970, Carly finds out that her unborn baby has a heart defect. The doctors tell her
Review by Julie J. If you are looking for a novel that catches you in the first chapter, and doesn’t let go, this is
Review by Kyle S. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow added another hit to his bibliography with this epic biography of our 18th President Ulysses
Review by Catherine Stricklan A year ago this month, I started a Zoom book group with friends as a way for the six of
Review by Jamie Stanley Many people are familiar with the movie Laura directed by Otto Preminger (1944), but they are less familiar with the novel written
Review by Jamie Stanley Li Juan knew that the mind-numbingly cold winter she spent living in a “burrow” with a family of nomadic Kazakh
Review by Carlotta Walls LaNier When Black eighth grader Carlotta Walls learned that Little Rock Central High School would be integrated in 1957, she
Review by Jamie Stanley It is the spring of 1945. You are a civilian from New York hired to investigate the murder of a
Review by Catherine Stricklan Early on in A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet I read the line, “Building wormholes was not a glamorous profession”
Review by Jamie Stanley If you are a fan of the heist novel as I am, The Great Train Robbery should be on your must-read list.
Review by Tyler Gardner The coincidence of this book being donated to the library Sci-Fi collection and the new Teen Librarian, Catherine, telling me
Review by Emily Lloyd It’s winter in St. Petersburg during the siege of Leningrad, and 17-year-old Lev has never been so tired, hungry or
Review by Ellie Ray Katherine May’s Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times is a good December read to get you settled in
Review by Myrna Mibus The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman is a story with a fairy-tale feel complete with an age-old curse, family
Review by Jaye Lawrence Not since Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have I so enjoyed the page-turning yarn of a New York private detective
Review by Sylvie Weissman Gregory Maguire’s The Wild Winter Swan is a miraculous little book. It’s Manhattan in the 1960s, and teenaged Laura Ciardi – mostly
Review by David Wolff Tochi Onyebuchi’s War Girls is a young adult sci-fi novel set in 2172’s Nigerian Civil War. It’s a time when much of
Review by Sylvie Weissman Okay, I get it – no one wants to read an apocalyptic novel right now. But you really should make
Review by Myrna Mibus Filled with short, beautifully written essays about the natural world and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, World of Wonders is the book you
Review by Jessica Peterson White There’s a special place in my heart for perfectly rendered novels under 200 pages, and Here We Are will be added
Review by David Wolff It’s fairly standard practice to describe a new fantasy series as epic in scope, but I’m at a loss for
Review by Sylvie Weissman Taking place in a world where women’s futures are decided on the day of their first period – a white
Review by Jessica Peterson White Many a Minnesota reader has been enthralled by Peter Geye’s writing, most recently in his 2016 novel Wintering. His new
Review by David Wolff Set in modern day India, Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A Burning kicks off with Jivan, a young Muslim woman, offhandedly critiquing the
Review by Jessica Peterson White With Rodham, Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld brings us a very different take on speculative fiction by inviting us to wonder: what if
Review by Jessica Peterson White Every city has a soul, but what if the city’s soul had a body? What if you woke up
