Posts by Jenny Baum

These horror-adjacent titles are thrillers and chillers that skirt the horror genre yet still maintain a Hitchcockian flair that will keep readers on the edge of their seat.

Il y a plusieurs de merveilleux livres écrits dans la langue française. Nous avons sélectionnées quelques auteurs et livres qui sont exceptionnels à notre avis.

Nous avons trouvé ces livres géniaux sur les environs de Paris. Nous espérons que, vous aussi, vous trouverez dans un état d’esprit parisien.

Women, sometimes writing under pseudonyms, were an important and influential part of the early science fiction landscape.The list is not comprehensive, but it gives you an idea of the wealth of science fiction work by women there is to explore.

These birds have a long history of being tools of communication and have played important roles in many wars. Here are some titles, both nonfiction and fiction, that delve into that history along with a book to kick off the list that takes a contemporary look at our relationship with pigeons.

There’s a lithograph of Edgar Allan Poe walking across High Bridge in the mid-1800. If you wanted to follow in his proverbial footsteps, you could take a lonely, socially distanced walk over this very same bridge today.

We have a wide selection of e-audiobooks that patrons can access wherever they are and in conjunction with their fitness pursuits, whatever they may be.

Consider the weight of a book. (A big book.) Then consider its emotional weight... both can be a lot to carry around.

When Shakespeare placed a play within a play in Hamlet, his titular character realized "The play's the thing." This short list of recommended fiction all have a featured play within the narrative from Vanity Fair to Station Eleven.

I was inspired by the movie Xanadu in which Olivia Newton-John is a Greek muse incarnated as a girl named Kira who inspires others to achieve. I got to thinking about books that were inspired by great works of art or by the lives of artists and created this list.

For anyone still contemplating running away with the circus, here is a small selection of some new circus-themed reads for adults.

Decorate your bookshelves this Halloween with spooky novels.

Here are some links to online environmental resources.

Waiting in line is a great equalizer, and it's usually inevitable. Most everyone, if asked, would say they hate waiting in line, but there can also be a few rare moments of camaraderie.

We predict that in the year 2016 we will read several books about time travel.

The Girl on the Train movie is slated to be released October 7, 2016. As that is still a ways away, here are some novel releases to tide you over.

Imagine, if you will, a time when photocopiers had supplanted the lowly mimeograph machine. This technology gave way to the birth of the zine.

This summer, why not explore some great nonfiction science reads about animals, both on land and underseas, and the ways in which they continually surprise humans.

What are some book club books about book clubs? Or books that mention what books the characters are reading?