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Fangirl Down

fangirl down

Midland recommends this book because: even if you don’t care about golf, it’s a fun romp that feels full of hijinks. The perfect book to make you smile. Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his “promising” career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs,…

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Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Mushrooms

Pocket Guide to Mushrooms covers 158 of the most common mushrooms found in the UK and also in northern and central Europe, each mushroom is identified and presented with expert photography in this informative yet highly portable book. It is as visually impressive as it is easy to use, with many stunning full-page images to…

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The Women – Kristin Hannah

The Women - Kristin Hannah

Sarah recommends this book because: both thought provoking and emotional, this book is a tour de force and sure to be one of the most talked about books of the year. “When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative…

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Mushrooms of the Northeast

Hundreds of full-color photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northeast. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, with the…

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Convenience Store Woman

The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi “Smile Mart” for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but in…

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Love Poems – Pablo Neruda

A collection of love poems by Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda, presented in Spanish with English translations on facing pages.

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