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Isa Does It Vegan Recipes

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/11/17/isa-does-it-vegan-recipes/
Title: Isa Does It—Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week Author: Isa Chandra Moskowitz Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2013 Summary/Review: Don’t be scared because “Vegan” is in the subtitle—you don’t have to be one to enjoy this cookbook!...

The Circle

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/03/13/the-circle/
Title: The Circle  Author: Dave Eggers  Publisher: Alfred A Knopf  Summary/Review: Dave Eggers’ book The Circle has been labeled everything from heavy handed to visionary and stunning. Even though I did want to withdraw into a world of luddites for a short time after...

One Summer

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/02/16/one-summer/
Title: One Summer: America 1927 Author: Bill Bryson Publisher: Doubleday, 2013 Summary/Review: Reading this book is like having a friendly historian take you by the arm and walk you through a momentous summer in America a long time ago – 1927. Not just any...

Just What Kind of Mother Are You?

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/01/11/just-what-kind-of-mother-are-you-2/
Title: Just What Kind of Mother Are You? Author:  Paula Daly Publisher: Grove Press, 2013 Summary/Review: The words that no woman ever wants to hear. “Just what kind of mother are you?” Lisa Kallisto is sure people are asking that question of her. She...

Staff Favorites (2013)

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/12/10/staff-favorites-2013/
As the year 2013 comes to a close, we’d like to reflect on the books that we loved that were released this year.  See something you like?  Find a similar book by clicking on the tag! Care of Wooden Floors: Will Wiles  (Fiction, Humor,...

Isa Does It

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/11/24/isa-does-it/
Title:  Isa Does It:  Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week Author:  Isa Chandra Moskowitz Publisher:  Little, Brown and Company, 2013 Summary/Review: Don’t be scared because “Vegan” is in the subtitle—you don’t have to be one to enjoy this cookbook!...

NOS4A2

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/11/14/nos4a2/
Title: NOS4A2 Author: Joe Hill Publisher: Harper Collins, 2013 Summary/Review: This story begins with a very young Victoria McQueen, a bike, and her encounter with a magic bridge. We are then introduced to a man named Bing Partridge who befriends a monstrous, evil, and...

Help for the Haunted

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/10/31/help-for-the-haunted/
Title: Help for the Haunted Author: John Searles Publisher: William Morrow, Sep. 2013 Summary/Review: Since I am not a fan of ghost stories, I was reluctant to read a book titled “Help for the Haunted” for worry that I would not sleep afterward, but...

Just what kind of mother are you?

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/10/20/just-what-kind-of-mother-are-you/
Title: Just What Kind of Mother Are You?  Author: By Paula Daly  Publisher: Grove Press, 2013  Summary/Review: The words that no woman ever wants to hear. “Just what kind of mother are you?” Lisa Kallisto is sure people are asking that question of her....

Fin and Lady

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/10/06/fin-and-lady/
Title: Fin and Lady Author: Cathleen Schine Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books, 2013 Summary/Review: When Fin is orphaned at the age of 11, his half-sister Lady becomes his guardian.  He had last seen Lady six years earlier when his enraged father tracked her down in...