Archive for 09/2014

How-to

Visit the Library before - and after - your vacation!

I started planning my trip to Montreal a year ago. My friends and I had all read every Louise Penny mystery, and the lure of French-speaking Quebec was powerful. We wanted to practice our French, eat really good bread, see St. Joseph's Oratory, and at least in my case, visit the John Fluevog store on Rue St. Denis. And half the fun was learning about the city before we got there.

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Give me more! Teen trilogies for everyone.

What's the fix for saying goodbye to your favorite book? Find a trilogy that you love. Books being marketed to teens today have broad appeal. Like all good fiction they have the ability to stretch your imagination, pull at your heart, quicken your pulse and take you to another time and place....just sometimes with werewolves and zombies in the mix. So don't pass up a book just because it has "High School" on the spine label.

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