Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The marriage of opposites : a novel / Alice Hoffman (2015 historical fiction, F Hoffman) Dreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
Under the wide and starry sky : a novel / Nancy Horan (2014 fiction, F Horan) Imagines the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson and American […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The girl from the Savoy / Hazel Gaynor (2016 historical fiction, F Gaynor) After taking a job as a chambermaid at a grand London hotel, Dolly Lane finds herself propelled […]
Saturday Reference Librarian Christine’s Pick
The white queen / Philippa Gregory (2009 historical fiction, F Gregory) A tale inspired by the War of the Roses follows the conflict from the perspective of Elizabeth Woodville, who […]
Anonymous Reference Librarian’s Pick
The passion of Artemisia / Susan Vreeland (2002 historical fiction, F Vreeland) A sweeping novel, set against the beautiful backdrops of Rome, Florence, and Genoa, vibrantly recreates the life of […]
Saturday Reference Librarian Christine’s Pick
Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts / Leo Tolstoy (2002 ed historical fiction, F Tolstoy) Tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and […]
Library Director Glenn’s Pick
Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee (1999 fiction, F Coetzee) In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student […]
Circulation Assistant Holly’s Pick
The winter sea / Susanna Kearsley (2010 fiction, F Kearsley) Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
West of sunset : a novel / Stewart O’Nan (2015 historical fiction, F O’Nan) A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood finds him reflecting on past […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The Paris architect : a novel / Charles Belfoure (2013 historical fiction, F Belfoure) A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied […]