Shelf Life

Our Shelf Life Blog features the latest recommendations chosen by library staff and volunteers.
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 1:13pm
The New Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook by Ellen Brown

Fried chicken. Cornbread. Sunday morning bacon. Apple Brown Betty. All of these delicious, home-cooked foods traditionally come out of a cast-iron skillet. At my house, we have three or four of them that have been passed down through generations. While Ellen Brown’s New Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook has takes on these basic things, it opens a wider range of flavors and techniques from around the country and around the world.

Wed, 12/10/2014 - 3:34pm
The Dogs of Winter by Bobbie Pyron

In Bobbie Pyron’s The Dogs of Winter, five-year-old Ivan doesn’t know where his mother went. Maybe she traveled to the City to find work. She had lost her job at the bakery, so they hadn’t had anything good to eat for a long time, and the house had no heat. The bad man who lived with them just said she was gone. Forever.

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 12:20pm
The Big Elephant in the Room by Lane Smith

When one friend starts to ask another about The Big Elephant in the Room, it quickly turns into a laundry list of minor wrong-doings. Perhaps the "big elephant" is how he scarfed down all the crunchy-nut ice cream. Maybe it is the fact that he still has that video game that he borrowed ages ago.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 6:14am
The Next Life Might Be Kinder by Howard Norman

The Next Life Might Be Kinder, by Howard Norman, has one of those great first lines:  “After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alphonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me.”

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 7:34am
The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero

For his first published novel, cartoonist and writer Edgar Cantero has given the world an exquisite and mysterious work of speculative fiction in The Supernatural Enhancements. The narrator, a twenty-something European man who only goes by A. Wells, inherits the Axton House, an old plantation mansion in Point Bless, Virginia, after he learns of a second cousin, (“twice removed”) who has recently committed suicide by jumping out of a window. To A.’s surprise, the suicide follows a familiar pattern in the Wells family tree: the same age, the same time of the year, and the same method of suicide…and the worst of it is, A. is getting especially close to falling in with the same death pattern himself.

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 12:20pm
Journey by Aaron Becker

Journey is Aaron Becker's first picture book, and what a debut! Using his artistic prowess rather than text, Becker delivers a blockbuster fantasy adventure worthy of the multiplex, with sweeping landscapes, amazing sets, and glorious detail.

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