It’s common knowledge that when a large factory closes, many employees are affected and sometimes a city cannot recover from that type of financial loss. Janesville takes a close look at the General Motors plant closure in Janesville, Wisconsin which Read More …
Category: Adult Picks
JELL-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
Author Allie Rowbottom, a fourth generation heiress to the Jell-O fortune, contends that her family is under a curse related to the time-honored gelatin dessert. This curse manifests itself in various ways, from squabbles over money to alcoholism, mental illness, Read More …
Goodreads Best Books of 2018
The 10th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards have come to a close and we are excited to announce the winners. Click on the titles below to find these items in our catalog and happy reading!
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
Questionable use of police force. People divided by racial injustice. Controversy ensues. Sound familiar? This very timely story is told in alternating perspectives from Rashad and Quinn. Rashad is a black boy who was brutally beaten for a crime he Read More …
Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
Under East Germany’s hardline Communist government, the lives of ordinary citizens were bleak. Any neighbor or coworker could be a Stasi informer, and tight family bonds were the only ones that could be trusted. In Forty Autumns, former U.S. Army intelligence Read More …