Category Archives: Audio book

‘For One More Day’ by Mitch Albom

I’ve never been a big fan of audio books. I remember being in middle school and getting ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ on cassette because it was on my required reading list for that year. I listened to it in … Continue reading

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From farm boy to Harvard: Author to speak in Lancaster

He might have started out as a Canadian Mennonite farm boy, but Dr. Joseph B. Martin ended up as the dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His memoir, “Alfalfa to Ivy: Memoir of a Harvard Medical … Continue reading

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‘The Paris Wife’ by Paula McLain

After watching Midnight in Paris, I found myself on a nostalgia kick. I rummaged through my bookshelves and pulled out everything I owned by T.S. Eliot, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. When I saw “The Paris Wife” by Paula McLain on the … Continue reading

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Audio books to the rescue

My family’s planning a three-hour car ride to go to a picnic, after which, we’ll drive the three hours home again. For the ride there, we have the car stocked with books, notebooks and toys for the children. But the … Continue reading

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“Still Alice” by Lisa Genova

Daily Record/Sunday News librarian Joan McInnis reviews “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova: Alice Howland was at the top of her game. At 50 she had achieved her life’s goals — tenure as a professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard and … Continue reading

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Listen to “Darkfever”

Bantam Dell has officially launched the audiobook podcast of New York Times best-selling author Karen Marie Moning’s “Darkfever.” This the first joint effort between Bantam Dell and one of its authors to release the full version of a book for … Continue reading

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