Author: Merry Mao

Fairfield Public and Fairfield Woods Branch Libraries will be closed on Saturday, August 30, Sunday, August 31, and Monday, September 1 for Labor Day.

All skill levels and ages welcome: This year’s Private Eye July honors the amateur sleuth, and welcomes charming new gumshoes like Laura Lippman’s Mrs. Blossom to the ranks. Elsewhere in the issue, megapopular fanfiction writer Brigitte Knightley makes her trade debut with a Harry Potter-inspired romance...

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Good things are in the works at the Fairfield Public Libraries! In our ongoing efforts to offer the highest quality library services to the Fairfield community, we have made the decision to migrate to a new integrated library system (ILS). This is the system...

The 13 books to read this Halloween, whether you’re a thrill-seeker or a homebody, a wee trick-or-treater or an adult looking forward to a night on the couch, thank you very much.  Elsewhere in the issue, we’ve got paranormal romances to keep the spooky...

It’s time to say goodbye to Darren Mathews and Attica Locke’s acclaimed Highway 59 mystery series. Elsewhere in the issue, Librarian Amanda Jones reveals what it was like to stand up to book bans, TJ Klune shares what inspired his sequel to The House in...

Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...

If you like Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, try the following: By Teen Reviewer, Rhys

TW: child abuse/neglect, miscarriage, homophobia The novel Monday’s Not Coming is complex. The novel focuses on the mysterious disappearances of black children and the faulty system that frequently causes the kids to fall between the cracks. These are two extremely serious themes. The narrative...

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating manages to be light and romantic, while simultaneously dealing with the issues and perspective of a culture that rarely sees the light of day in Western storytelling. The dual-perspective plot follows two Bengali (one Indian, one Bangladeshi)...