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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

How the Finch Stole Christmas

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Andrews, Donna. How the Finch Stole Christmas . New York: Minotaur Books, 2017. It's nearly Christmas in Caerphilly. Michael is di...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Nile Crossing

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Beebe, Katy. Nile Crossing . Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2017. A boy in Ancient E...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Homegrown

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Jennings, Matt with Jessica Battilana. Homegrown . Photographs by Huge Galdones. New York: Artisan, a division of Workman, 2017. Chef ...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Murder in Montego Bay

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Lennon, Paula. Murder in Montego Bay . London: Jacaranda Books, 2017. Lennon penned the first in a series featuring Jamaican detective ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Twelve Slays of Christmas

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Frost, Jacqueline. Twelve Slays of Christmas . (Christmas Tree Farm Mystery, no. 1). New York: Crooked Lane Books, 2017. What a fun co...

Death Overdue

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Brook, Allison. Death Overdue. (Haunted Library Mystery ; 1). New York: Crooked Lane, 2017. Carrie, a floating librarian at a Connecti...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Reading the Census when Indexes Fail to Locate the Individual

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Monday night my persistence paid off. As I reviewed information on Judd Emerson Leys, my second cousin once removed, I noticed a gap in ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

This Side of Murder

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Huber, Anna Lee. This Side of Murder . New York: Kensington, 2017. Verity Kent goes to an English island with some of her husband Sidney...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

The Life and Times of Martin Luther

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Roth-Beck, Meike. The Life and Times of Martin Luther . Illustrated by Klaus Ensikat. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Books for Young R...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder

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McDowell, Marta. The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes That Inspired the Little House Book s. Portland, Oregon: Tim...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

An Echo of Murder

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Perry, Anne. An Echo of Murder: A William Monk Novel . New York: Ballantine, 2017. The murder of a Hungarian man whose shop faces the r...

Strange Scottish Shore

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Gray, Juliana. A Strange Scottish Shore . New York: Berkley Books, 2017. In 1906, the Duke of Olympia and his assistant Emmeline Truelo...
Friday, September 15, 2017

Common People

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Light, Alison. Common People: The History of an English Family . London; New York: Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014. Histor...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Death of a Busybody

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Bellairs, George. Death of a Busybody. Scottsdale, Arizona: Poisoned Pen Press, 2017. Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is called ...
Monday, September 04, 2017

Alison Light on the value of local history (and the FAN Club)

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I'm reading (and digesting) a book by historian Alison Light focusing on her own family heritage. Yesterday I shared a quote on Facebook...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

Genealogical Advice from 1899

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Yesterday Blaine Bettinger wrote about the relevance of an article in a 1910 issue of the Record for today's researcher. Later yesterd...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Encountering the History of Missions

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Terry, John Mark and Robert L. G allagher. Encountering the History of Missions: From the Early Church to Today . Grand Rapids: Baker Ac...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Plume

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Simler, Isabelle. Plume . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2017. I love this book! A cute cat is exploring his feathery...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Bibliomysteries

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Penzler, Otto, ed. Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores . New York: Pegasus, 2017. As with most col...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

The Address

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Davis, Fiona. The Address . New York: Dutton, 2017. An architect selects a girl working in a London hotel who saved his daughter from ...