All About Books

For Halloween, "All About Books" reaches for a very scary book introduced by librarian Jennifer Jackson who has been a horror novel fan since she was 10. “Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones.

He grew up in the second poorest county in the state, his alcoholic father had killed himself. As a college dropout, he was riding a garbage truck. In the book “Heartland” author Keith O’Brian describes just how close basketball legend Larry Bird came to slipping away in a forgotten town.

After a less than stellar undergraduate career, a young man takes an unspecified job with an elderly Italian noblewoman at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills. A breezy and witty novel, “Villa Coco” by Andrew Sean Greer.

At one time it was almost romanticized as an affliction of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty. In his book “Everything is Tuberculosis” author John Green tells the scientific and social history of how the disease has shaped our world- and how our choices will shape the future.

Guinevere and her brother raised themselves in the woods behind their Vermont home. Their mother was busy writing a fantasy series which would later explode in popularity. “The Children: a Novel” by Melissa Albert explores having two childhoods- one known to the public, the other not known.