Staff Reviews

  • Ron – March 2026

    The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What we do, Think, Believe, and Buy by Susan Wise Bauer A look at the experience of sickness and our cultural adaptations to it, from the dawn of recorded history right up to modern times. A very entertaining and accessible read, although a frightening one at times,…

  • Helen – March 2026

    The Lion’s Run by Sara Pennypacker If you’re like me and think, “surely there isn’t anything else to say or learn about World War II?!,” someone like Sara Pennypacker finds something new. In The Lion’s Run, I learned more about the Nazi’s, what was taken from people in France, about the Resistance, than I could have imagined. In any book…