Attention Book Groups

Here's an older option for your book group, written in 1975. In The Monkey Wrench Gang eco-terrorits take the law into their own hands and embark on a "beautification" program of Arizona and Utah. Their ultimate goal is to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam, and along the way this team of misfits--A.K. (Doc) Sarvis, Bonnie Abzug, George Hayduke, and Seldom Seen Smith--wreak havoc across the Southwest.

Attention Book Groups

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a fictional story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past. Available as a book group to go bag

World Book Night -- Sign Up Deadline Extended!

Hey Everybody!

If you wanted to sign up to volunteer to be a book giver on World Book Night, but just haven't found the time, I have good news! The deadline has been extended to February 7th!!

To fill out an application to be a book giver, click here. If there's an easier way to share a book you love with as many people as possible, I haven't found it!

Happy Reading!

Attention Book Groups

Try The Paris Wife as your next book group discussion book. This book follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris. Available as a book group to go bag.

World Book Night

Hey Everybody!

Coolest thing coming down the pipes! Have you heard about World Book Night? It was a big success in the UK last year, where volunteers were given 20 copies of a book title and sent out to distribute them to citizens in the community. And this year, publishers in the US are banding together to try it out here!

Here's the website with information about World Book Night and how it all works. And here is the list of titles that will be given away on World Book Night in the U.S.

But quite possibly most important, here is the page where you go to sign up to be a book giver! By volunteering, you commit to spending some time on April 23, passing out free copies of the book that you selected from the above list. The week before April 23, there will be a party in the area (we are hoping here at Herrick, but the good folks at WBN will let us know in advance where the local pick-up point will be) where you'll be able to pick up your box of books and get ready to give them away!

Coolness, right?

Help spread the word so that Holland can be a player in this project and--as always--

Happy Reading!!

Attention Book Groups!

Once Upon A River, a fiction book set in West Michigan is now available as a Book Group to Go bag:

Margo Crane, a beautiful and uncanny markswoman takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother in this novel from the National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell.

From Page to Screen

Here she comes! Stephanie Plum hits the big screen with the January 27 release of One for the Money. Katherine Heigl brings Janet Evanovich's popular character to life.



Checkout the book here, if you want to remember how Stephanie got her start.