Friday, June 22, 2007
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Monday, March 26, 2007
New Non-fiction @ The Library
New non-fiction recently added to the library collection: Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: a Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals by J. Moussaieff Masson
Big Birthdays: the Party Planner Celebrates Life's Milestones by David Tutera
Bird-By-Bird Gardening by Sally Roth
Blood and Thunder: an Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
The Family Kitchen: Easy and Delicious REcipes for Parents and Kids to Make and Enjoy Together by Debra Ponzek
First Into Nagasaki: the Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War by George Weller
Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt by Megan Nicolay
The Good Good Pig: the Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
Home: the Blueprints of Our Lives
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
TheMeasure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Native Plants of the Northeast: a Guide for Gardening & Conservation by Donald Leopold
Noise by Bart Kosko
The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Our Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People by Mark Owens
The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions by Michael Konik
A Star is Found: Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies by Janet Hirshenson
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
What Color is Your Parachute?: a Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
When the Dancing Stopped: the Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake by Brian Hicks
Who Let the Blogs Out?: a Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs by Biz Stone
The Winter Garden by Val Bourne
You, On a Diet: the Owner's Manual for Waist Management by Michael F. Roizen
These books are available for check-out now. If the book you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
New Audio Fiction
New audio fiction recently added to the library collection: The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
Red Lily by Nora Roberts
The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
Short Straw by Stuart Woods
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
These audiobooks are available for check-out now. If the audio you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
Labels: what's new for adults
New Audio Nonfiction
New audio non-fiction recently added to the library collection: The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
Six Frigates: the Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian Toll
This I Believe: the Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
These audiobooks are available for check-out now. If the audio you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
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Labels: ReFeReNCe RooM, what's new for adults
Thursday, March 08, 2007
All Booked Up Reads Ireland for April
Join All Booked Up, our book discussion group, on Wednesday, April 4th, at 6:30 p.m. for a chat about Ireland by Frank Delaney. Pick up your copy at the Circulation Desk.
From the Publisher's Weekly
BBC reporter Delaney's fictionalized history of his native country, an Irish bestseller, is a sprawling, riveting read, a book of stories melding into a novel wrapped up in an Irish history text. In 1951, when Ronan O'Mara is nine, he meets the aging itinerant Storyteller, who emerges out a "silver veil" of Irish mist, hoping to trade a yarn for a hot meal. Welcomed inside, the Storyteller lights his pipe and begins, telling of the architect of Newgrange, who built "a marvelous, immortal structure... before Stonehenge in England, before the pyramids of Egypt," and the dentally challenged King Conor of Ulster, who tried, and failed, to outsmart his wife. The stories utterly captivate the young Ronan ("This is the best thing that ever, ever happened"), and they'll draw readers in, too, with their warriors and kings, drinkers and devils, all rendered cleanly and without undue sentimentality. When Ronan's mother banishes the Storyteller for telling a blasphemous tale, Ronan vows to find him. He also becomes fascinated by Irish myth and legend, and, as the years pass, he discovers his own gift for storytelling. Eventually, he sets off, traversing Ireland on foot to find his mentor. Past and present weave together as Delaney entwines the lives of the Storyteller and Ronan in this rich and satisfying book. Agent, Ed Victor. (Feb.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Labels: all booked up, book discussion for adults, events/activities for adults
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Light 'n Lively Reads Sweet and Low for March
Copies of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low are available at the Circulation Desk. Pick up a copy and join the Light 'n Lively book discussion group on Thursday, March 22nd at 1:00 in the library.From the Publisher
Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. It is also the story of immigrants to the New World, sugar, saccharine, obesity, and the health and diet craze, played out across countries and generations but also within the life of a single family, as the fortune and the factory passed from generation to generation. The author, Rich Cohen, a grandson (disinherited, and thus set free, along with his mother and siblings), has sought the truth of this rancorous, colorful history, mining thousands of pages of court documents accumulated in the long and sometimes corrupt life of the factor, and conducting interviews with members of his extended family. Along the way, the forty-year family battle over the fortune moves into its titanic phase, with the money and legacy up for grabs. Sweet and Low is the story of this struggle, a strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, and of an extraordinary family and its fight for the American dream.
Labels: book discussion for adults, events/activities for adults, light 'n lively
Friday, February 23, 2007
New Fiction Added Week of February 20th
New fiction added to the library collection last week: The Double Bind by Christopher Bohjalian
High Profile by Robert B. Parker
Sisters by Danielle Steel
Step on a Crack by James Patterson
Traveler by Ron McLarty
These books are available for check-out now. If the book you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
Labels: what's new for adults
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
All Booked Up Reads Life of Pi for March
All Booked Up has selected Life of Pi by Yann Martel for their March meeting. Pick up your copy at the Circulation Desk and join the group on Wednesday, March 7th at 6:30 p.m.
From the Publisher
Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us question what it means to be alive, and to believe. [ read more... ]
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