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It seems that along with these cooler days, I’m hearing the leaves crunching under my feet more often, and seeing little kids playing football with those huge marshmallow-y helmets. I’m thinking that fall is coming and it’s not going to be stopped, even though hardly any of my tomatoes have ripened. I do love fall [...]

Looking at our blog stats, I see that our recent Eat, Pray, Love read-alikes post has been  far and away our most popular lately. While I haven’t read the book, it seems to involve a fair amount of traveling and eating. So, since summer is a great time to travel and a good time to [...]

There are lovers and there are haters of Elizabeth Gilbert’s smash hit memoir Eat, Pray, Love out there. A book this popular generally generates strong feelings one way or another. The hold list for the book has been growing steadily, ever since the movie version starring Julia Roberts has been announced. All of you Eat [...]

This week’s picks come to us from the list of LA Times Book Prizes award winners for history and science & technology. Below are two of each.

Check out the new features and whole new look of Novelist! Or if you are new to Novelist, this is a great resource for finding books in a series, read-alikes, reviews and recommendations on what to read next. To access Novelist: –Click here if inside the library –Click here if outside the library One of [...]

This week Alex is sharing some good nonfiction that she’s read recently.

Here are some great nonfiction titles suggested by Tammy for this week:

For the most part, I’m stuck in town all summer. This is more or less self-inflicted, so I can’t complain too much. However, I still occasionally get the childish why-can’t-I-go feeling when I see cars with camping gear heading over the bridge out of town.

Here are some great nonfiction titles suggested by RuthRose for this week: