January: NonFiction Pick If you like reading books and looking at art,you will enjoy this beautifully illustrated book which explores the relationship between books, the artist and Western painting from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. This book appraises works by…

January: NonFiction Pick A young black man is accused of rape and is sentenced to the electric chair. As various members of the township consider and reflect on what Willie’s execution means, an intricately layered and complex portrait of a…

January: Fiction Pick This historical fiction novel is set mostly in the 1940s during WWII in London. This is about a young woman who is recruited into MI5 and how it affects her entire life.  Exquisitely written there are many…

January: Fiction Pick A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty” (New York Times Book Review). Elly

PIC FIC: Wordless Wonders January: Young Reader Picks These books without words still tell amazing stories!   Little Barbarian by Renato Moriconi This story ends with a twist that parents and kids will love and never see coming!   Imagine!…