Month: March 2014

Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh “The Dane family has been keeping secrets in the Ozark town of Henbane for years. An outsider steals the heart of one of the Dane brothers, and the secrets threaten to unravel. When sixteen-year-old Lucy’s friend is […]

Watching the Oscars on Sunday night, I was struck once again by how many of the year’s best films were adapted from books.  Here are just a few of the nominations I spotted that have their roots in the printed word. Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith Also published as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, BBC […]