From the Research Desk

  More Summer Reading Suggestions       419, by Will Ferguson A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: ‘Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help … ‘...

Need a good book to read on the beach or for your summer get-away?  Try one of these from the library’s collection: A Big Little Life: a Memoir of a Joyful Dog, by Dean Koontz  She arrived with her name, Trixie. I joked sometimes that it sounded more like a stripper than a dog. But if it sounded more like a stripper than a dog, it sounded more like an elf or a fairy than a stripper. Elves and fairies...