All branches of the Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, May 27, 2013, in observance of Memorial Day.

This installment: a novel that ranges from cold to hot climes, Strayed’s advice on love and life, and a charming older book revisited on CD.       Inside by Alix Ohlin...
Mystery IQ Quiz, part 2:   Here are matched authors, characters, and locations.  Louise Penny              ...
This installment: an intimate, quotidian journal by a favorite writer; a delightfully weird New Mexican novel, and a true life story of hard times and redemption.     Winter...
Test Your Mystery IQ: answersHere are the answers to last week’s mystery quiz:  match the authors to their series characters. Louise Penny       ...
This installment—three novels: mysticism and cyber-ingenuity in the Middle East; Martha’s Vineyard in the ‘40s with nasty domestic drama, and the Bad Boy of British Books does it...
Mystery readers:  can you match the popular mystery writers below with their fictional detective characters?   Type your answers in the comments box.     (Answers...
As a  new pope is chosen,  the world’s attention is focused on Rome.  While waiting for the white smoke, you could pass the time reading a novel about intrigue in the Vatican....
This installment three novels: British literary machinations; an artist arises from a Japanese internment camp, and a mixed martial arts hopeful meets more than his match.    Alys...
While you’re wearin’ the  green and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this weekend, put yourself in the mood by reading a good novel set in the Emerald Isle  (these authors...
This installment: 3 novels. Technology brings the dead to life (kind of; a contentious relationship between a chaperone and her rebellious charge, set in the ‘20’s; and a British drama...