MPL Buzz – Our Staff Blog

• Dead Wake September 23, 2016
  This month, the Light Bite Book Club got a history lesson from Eric Larson by reading his book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Many of us remembered very little of our pre-WWI history, so the author’s excellent research and writing skills really brought us up to speed. Before reading the book, we […]
• DVDs Coming in October September 21, 2016
  If you like to reserve upcoming DVDs early, this list is for you. Place your holds now! Alice Through the Looking Glass; Cafe Society; The Darkness; Free State of Jones; Ghostbusters; Home Fires – Season 2; Ice Age: Collision Course; Independence Day: Resurgence; The Infiltrator; The Legend of Tarzan; Lights Out; Mike and Dave Need […]
• Red, White and Clooney September 16, 2016
  Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and about 400 others star in the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. This one feels more like an Avengers movie than the disappointing “Age of Ultron,” bringing back favorites like Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), War Machine (Don Cheadle), and Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), and […]
• Dying for a Taste: a Sally Solari Mystery September 15, 2016
  Dying for a Taste, the debut novel by Leslie Karst is for mystery and foodie aficionados. After her mother dies, Sally Solari leaves her job as an attorney and returns home to Santa Cruz, California to help her dad run the family restaurant, an old-style Italian eatery. It is not what she dreamed of doing […]