What happens when a literary author goes renegade and rewrites the vampire novel playbook? With The Passage, Justin Cronin leaves the literary arena behind (he won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the Stephen Crane Prize for his past novels) and leaps (bat like!) into the world of speculative fiction. But this is no teenage love [...]
Rethinking your plate? Eating local? Eating less—or cooking more? Food itself (organic, sustainable, local) is in the news. No longer are American fed by our own family’s farms; now our dinner is dished out by big agribusiness. Do factory farms make us sick? Does the American diet provide the nutrition we need? How do we [...]
In Being with Animals, Barbara J. King explores why we are fascinated by the animals around us. King begins with the dawn of time in the Chaudet Cave, where prehistoric humans painted images of aurouchs, mammoth, and deer on the walls. Dogs likely walked over the Bering Strait with the first Americans; 10,000 year old [...]
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) have been bestsellers throughout Europe. The John Tyler Libraries have all three of the books in the collection. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the first in the series), disgraced [...]
Itching to see the world? Don’t have the time or budget for world travel? No worries, we have you covered. Sit and explore the world from the comfort of home by turning the pages in books that will take you to the most intriguing places on earth. Discover Italy or safari in Africa with our [...]
Why buy the whole book when you can get the chapters (one at a time) for free? Charles Dickens published novels in serial form, or chapter by chapter, in newspapers and magazines. The idea continues today as newspapers serialize longer works. Fans can read the book chapter by chapter in the newspaper, on the web, [...]
Earth Day is Thursday, April 22. Founded in 1970, earth day is now celebrated globally in 175 countries. Why celebrate only one day? There are so many ways to have an earth day every day: Bring reusable bags when shopping, Switch incandescent bulbs to fluorescent Recycle paper, plastic, glass and electronics whenever possible Use the [...]
Spring is coming…as are the Spring Literature Circles. Simple to join; just choose a title and read the book. Attend the discussions and share your thoughts with fellow students in a relaxed atmosphere. The Library has all of the titles-be first to check them out! We have true stories, thrilling mysteries, and even a love [...]
Helen Simonson’s witty novel of manners focuses on the character of Major Ernest Pettigrew (now retired), a classic stiff-upper-lip English widower. The Major is horrified by the changes in his village, by his yuppie son, and by the general lack of manners in the modern world. Isolated by position, lack of connection to family and [...]
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. ” Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has at last arrived at the Midlothian Library. The book has circulated several times at Chester since it was received–readers cannot get enough of the classic regency romance, now [...]