Hello WooReaders! We're back with a new challenge for the winter. Join the WooReads: Winter Reading Challenge for Adults for a chance to win a L.L. Bean tote bag featuring the WPL logo. All you have to do is log at least 9 books from December 1- February 28 to be entered into the drawing. Stay inside and snuggle up with a book this winter season!
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Enjoy these book reviews
submitted by your fellow patrons through our WooReads challenge.
This is an entertaining cozy set in Tuscany, Italy. Nell Valenti is helping to set up a cooking school in an old villa surrounded by beautiful olive groves and forest. The premiere class is soon marked by a murder in its midst. Lots of humor and intrigue with a generous number of suspects, mysterious twists and red herrings. ~Mary R.
The author, who was born with a neuromuscular condition that allows him to walk extremely short distances, uses a wheelchair most of the time. He wrote this book at the time in his life where he and his wife had a one year old son. This life-changing event that he was not sure was ever in his future, caused him to reflect on his life thus far. This is not a long book, but an important one in terms of the rights of the disabled. Well worth the time.
~ Linda J.
Ever wondered what really happened in history? The lucky protagonist (or some may say unlucky) receives a job of a lifetime: time travel and document what really happens. It doesn't come easy though. Historian Madeleine Maxwell suffers many hardships because time is never easy on anyone. This science fiction novel is appropriately named and certainly a page turner. ~ Lex P.
An extraordinarily comprehensive overview of most of the people involved in the decision Roe v. Roe: not just the story, in extraordinary detail, of Norma McCorvey and her family (parents, siblings, cousins, children, partners) but the lives of the lawyers involved, the judges who handed down the decisions, the prosecutors who fought the other sides of the court cases. Don't start this book unless you are willing to spend the time to appreciate the detail and the thoughtfulness of the almost 500 pages of the primary text. The notes run another 140 pages, and in them are buried myriad details to delight or surprise. ~ Deb E.
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