This will be my next book club submission! Local, some Dutch flavor ... woohoo!

Quoted: The former reporter and Olympia resident sets his books in small towns in Western Washington, creating indelible characters with rare abilities to see hidden things

Good audio book. The narrator is great.

Quoted: Download The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone and transfer the audio book to your iPod or MP3 player. Get The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone from the Audible.com online audiobook store.

Skip ahead to 34:47 into this interview to hear a Chimes friend, Phil Christman, mentioned!

Quoted: After 30 years' silence, David Rhodes is back with small-town life and a cougar in the hay mow in his new book, Driftless.

LOVE this site. Makes finding the best deal on books easy. Sorts by price, including shipping charges, thank you very much.

Quoted: Search engine that finds the best buys from among 150 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books for sale. Includes textbooks and international titles.

Sheesh, lots of good books coming to the library this month.

Quoted: Incorporating real historic events, such as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the 1919 Boston police strike, Lehane "captures the sense of a country coming of age" (Booklist).

Hard to top "The Scarlet Letter" when it comes to this topic, but always intriguing.

Quoted: A family's conflict becomes a battle for life and death in this gripping and original first novel based on family history from a descendant of a condemned Salem witch.

New to the Everett library. I'm keeping a list of "potentials" for book club. But the book we're finishing now touched heavily on slavery, which this book does as well. So probably in a year or so will come back to this one maybe.

Quoted: Food aficionado Capella (The Food of Love) brews a tale of a young poet-turned-coffee-expert in 19th-century England.

Christian Bell recommends this book. Dotting ... er, Faving ... for future reference when it's my turn to pick again for our book club.

Quoted: Robinson's beautiful new novel, a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead, is an elegant variation on the parable of the prodigal son's return.

Phil Christman wrote this

Quoted: Driftless, Rhodes' new novel, is an act of loving and intelligent attention to those who remain [in the Midwest].