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Here are some Young Adult books that are sure to grab your attention. So take a chance on one or more of these books. Baseball: America In fact and fiction Reader's Club invites you to experience the passion of America's favorite pastime. Southern Literature This month we feature great fiction titles by Southern writers. Take a look at what some of our staff have been reading.   Here is an excerpt from Charlotte Observer Arts Critic Lawrence Toppman's review of The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake:
Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” gets the attention this year because of the movie tie-in, but Peake’s more or less contemporary trilogy digs deeper into the twisted psyches of its characters. Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast, inherits a vast castle full of eccentrics in part 1, defends it against a murderous conniver in part 2, then abandons it to plumb the terrifying outside world in part 3. Peake composed in labyrinthine sentences, lolling in language for the sheer pleasure of the sounds, but his sharp pen dissected an England whose class structure was tottering and whose international influence was waning. Partly adventure, partly satire, partly exaggerated character study, partly fantasy – and all bizarrely compelling. Read more Celebrity Reviews
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Read our Sabrina Jeffries Interview “I have loved to read for as long as I can remember! Some of my first memories are of my mom reading to me. She spent countless hours with my sister and me in our tiny hometown library. The librarian, Mrs. Amy, always patiently helped me find something good to read. My high school English teacher also inspired a love of literature. While I read an enormous amount of fiction as a child and young adult, the past few years have found me reading mostly non-fiction and graphic novels. I started reading non-fiction when I began working in reference. One of my responsibilities was to check in all the new non-fiction books. So many of the books struck my interest that they never made it to the shelves!” Read Book Reviews by our Featured Reviewer
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At the tender age of twelve, Sabrina Jeffries decided she wanted to be a romance writer. It took her eighteen more years to get there, during which she took a detour to get her Ph.D. in English Literature from Tulane University, but once she got the chance to write romances, she never looked back. Now her sexy and humorous Regency-set historicals routinely land on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists and have won several awards, from the Booksellers’ Best to the Maggie. Her current series, the School for Heiresses, features the spirited graduates of Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies, unconventional heiresses who prove a match for society’s most irresistible rogues. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and son, where she writes full-time.
Reader’s Club honors Laura, a librarian at Sugar Creek Branch Library. She is an enthusiastic reader and a reviewer of several entertaining non-fiction books for adults. Here is what she has to share with us:
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