What's one of the best books you've read recently? Why did you like it?

"'Breaking Dawn' by Stephenie Meyer. I would say it would be the second best book of the series. It's an easy read and a fast read. Yes, I would [recommend it]."

"We like to read 'The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.' I think the way the animals are involved is just really humorful. We like Winnie the Pooh."

-- Tara and Issac Green

"'The Wednesday Wars' by Gary D. Schmidt. It's about a young boy growing up and learning to do what's right. All the boys attend a Catholic school and he's Protestant. The teacher makes him stay after class and read Shakespeare. It's a really good book. I highly suggest it."

-- Amber Burton

"I just finished 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series by C.S. Lewis. I don't know which one was my favorite. I really liked 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.' It's number five in the series of seven. I just liked how it paralleled every day life and also religion."

-- Karla Smith

"I'm reading everything my daughters read, young adult fiction. We haven't read the 'Twilight' series but we have read Stephenie Meyer's 'The Host.' My two daughters, 13 and 15, read it. It's really good actually. My oldest is 15 and she and I are big science fiction fans. I really like the genre. It was really cool."

-- Dalliene Jessop

"Well I've reading Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' series. I'm reading 'Breaking Dawn' and it's really good. [My wife] is just sad the series is ending. He read Meyer's 'The Host' in a day. Once I start a book I want to finish it. I enjoyed it. It's an easy read and an enjoyable. The characters are so well-developed you feel like you know them and can relate to them."

-- David and Misty Bingham

"S. Michael Wilcox's 'Fire in the Bones.' I'm reading it in a book group. It's about William Tyndale, the father of the English Bible. He made sure the Bible got published. He was a man with a mission ... something he was supposed to do ... and he was going to perform that mission."

-- Marilyn Andengaard

"I'm reading three different books at the same time. I'm re-reading 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' by Harper Lee. It is the library's book for the [upcoming] Big Read. It's one of my favorites. I saw the movie when it first came out. I wish it had been assigned reading at my school. It's about this little girl and seeing things through her eyes ... It's a deep-thinking book and allows you to put yourself in the child's place. I'll be participating in this year's Big Read like I did last year. I'm taking time off work."

-- Jolene Tate

"'The Orchard: A Memoir' by Adele Robertson. It was published by the author's daughter after she found her manuscript. It was during the 1920s and the mother was trying to run an orchard during the Great Depression. It was about how she kind survived the Depression and kept it going by herself. She says she's going to gets some advice about running a farm ... and [then] it just ends. It was really good; the purity, intent and description of what she went through."

-- Danielle Kennington

"'Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust' by Immaculee Ilibagiza. It's about her in the Rwandan genocide. She was trapped in a bathroom. She wrote a very good story about it. She was honored as one of four people during the Freedom Festival. I did get to see her in the parade. That was sure neat. [I] just [liked] her courageous strength to live through that and to forgive. It was very inspiring."

-- Heather Schauers

"'Worlds in Collision' by Immanuel Velikovsky. It's the best book I've ever read. I've got three copies of it and I've given them all away as gifts. It's very old. It's about a theory that's since been proven as fact that the world [literally] got turned upside down during the Egyptian dynasty. He was a contemporary of Einstein, a Jewish doctor in the Soviet Union and he goes to Germany. He's passionate about studying the Egyptian dynasty. He makes this discovery and nobody believes him. He wrote a companion book [with evidences]."

-- Manny Kepas