One of my passions as a genealogy librarian is encouraging people to write their family history stories. I firmly believe that the names, dates, and places on our family trees are much more interesting to most of our family if they are shared in interesting stories. Are you ready to write your family story? Probably…
I would never have picked up this book had a friend not recommended it to me. I thought it might be self-congratulatory or preachy. But Melissa Gates is neither of those things. Quite the opposite: she is humble and refreshingly honest about how hard it can be to make change in the world. This book…
Erica’s Pick Of The Week is an unexpected, genre-defying gem.
Martha had a full and busy life volunteering at the seaside village’s library and helping her friends and family out by doing the chores they had no time to do— laundry, mending their clothes and watching sister’s kids and much more. She never said no to a request for a favor even though her house…
Liane Moriarty is one of the most popular authors around. Besides Big Little Lies, which has become a big HBO miniseries, almost all of her other books have already been optioned for Hollywood. I think people love her work because her characters are so relatable and her stories are so clever. Moriarty succeeds again with…
