Meg is helping her Grandfather run Owl Fest 2019 at the Caerphilly Inn at Christmas. When its 200 ornithologist guests are stranded by a snowstorm, one of the most cantankerous and least-loved professors is killed. Time for Meg to step in, with help of her extensive family, to solve theContinue Reading
You don’t have to have lived in the 1950s to enjoy The Man that got Away. However, it is eminently easier to understand if you’re from England. There is a murder, a con man, and a criminal mastermind in Brighton, a beach town on the English coast in1957. Only youngContinue Reading
The game is afoot in the excellent Sherlock Holmes tale of spies and revolution, the Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols. Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft enlists Holmes’ help with a mysterious French manuscript. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is ostensibly a book recording a conference of Jews describingContinue Reading
Scientific studies have shown that exercising your mind will keep you mentally young. The Best of Cryptograms is conveniently large-print for those of us getting older, which is all of us if you think about it. The large-print is also double spaced giving you plenty of room to write twoContinue Reading
“All our thoughts [are] reflected in our bodies; the reverse is true as well.”—from the Art of Reading Minds. Reading minds is achieved by reading body language—no New Age mumbo-jumbo is necessary. This book can make you a body language expert. “You already do it, but you could do itContinue Reading
Better Watch Out (A Merry & Bright Handcrafted Mystery) by Christina Freeburn Author Guest Post Favorite Holiday Reads By Christina Freeburn It’s that time of the year, where I start making my list and checking it twice for the newly released and new-to-me holiday books. From November 1 until JanuaryContinue Reading
What if I told you there was a way to stimulate your creativity? In My Creative Space, the author does just that with 48 ways to enhance yourself or your environment to encourage creativity. My Creative Space explains how to make your home or office a space that encourages imaginationContinue Reading
Read and Buried: A Lighthouse Library Mystery by Eva Gates Character Guest Post Into the Center of the Earth By Lucy Richardson from the Lighthouse Library Series by Eva Gates My employment contract says “other duties as assigned”. I guess descending toward the center of the earth qualifies. Although I’dContinue Reading
“Don’t worry. I promise to stay completely out of it this time.” are the last words spoken by Assistant Librarian Lucy in Read and Buried before she gets involved up to her neck in the mystery and murder. The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library is being renovated to shore up itsContinue Reading