Your local library card gets you access to more things than the standard (and still most-important) act of book-borrowing.

Like Norwegian Wood, this book is bound for great things, and has already been chosen as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week over Christmas. What's more, we have a passion for wood-burning stoves.

NONFICTION: Scott W. Berg’s “The Burning of the World,” about the Great Chicago Fire, joins an exceptional list. Burning books = bad. Books about burning = almost inevitably good. There may ...

Wood-Burning Stoves to Heat Your Home and Your Heart There’s an intimate and soothing ambiance to a room designed around one of these old-school devices, which friends and family can’t help ...