We are migrating to a new library catalog on October 28. This also means we will have a brand new library app! The app can be found here: Google Apple Current checkouts, holds, lists, and reading history will then continue with the new app. When you sign in to the new app, you will use […]
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We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle So, what is a bestseller? And should I care? As book lovers, we hear a lot about “bestseller lists”. Probably the most well-known and referenced is the New York Times Best Seller Lists, which are ranked lists of books sold in the United States. Notice I […]
Orphan Train: Book Review By Michelle Hudson, Communications & Development Associate for Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library. Critically acclaimed author Christina Baker Kline highlights the true story of thousands of abandoned children who were relocated from the East Coast to the Midwest between 1834-1929 in her international bestseller Orphan Train. Set in present-day Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Love and Ruin by Paula McLain Knowing the ending doesn’t spoil this new novel at all. Paula McLain, Cleveland author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun, never expected to write this new novel. The Paris Wife was her luminous, bestselling historical […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle So much more than it seems. The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro is a novel that pulls the reader in to a world of art and artists, but also history. Yes, it’s another World War II historical fiction novel. Yes, the Holocaust plays […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Social Readers: What will your book group read ? I think of book club participants as social readers. Unless you are reading aloud to someone (one of the joys of sharing time with children!), the act of reading is a solitary one. You […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Bookstores are learning from libraries. Several years ago, libraries voiced concern about losing the interest of patrons who might be drawn to the glamour of bookstores. Since then we have been doing our best to emulate many of the marketing ideas found in […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle The holiday season has arrived, and we are lending many seasonal music CDs and DVDs from our library building collections. Are you aware that the “collection” of the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library includes our digital collection of eBooks, audiobooks, movies and music available through hoopla? In the hurried days ahead, […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Which doorways do you pick? Last month I had the rewarding experience of learning about personal doorways into a book from Nancy Pearl, the famous Seattle librarian (have you seen the Librarian action figure? That’s her!). She is an expert in matching books with readers, and […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Have you noticed a trending sub-genre in books and film over the last couple of years? I call it the “The Women behind the Scenes” theme. Currently, three titles are trending: Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore; The Woman Who Smashed […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle As the new Collection Services Librarian for the Willoughby-Eastlake Library System, I am thrilled to be immersed in the world of books and reading. I have found book discussions to be an enrichment to my own solitary reading experience. The best discussion books […]
