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Halloween is Almost Here

by Shh_ImReading@evpl on Thursday, October 1 2009, 9:16am

Halloween is almost here and new books for Halloween have been arriving at the library over the past month. Here are the two that have me most excited: Ghoulish Goodies by Sharon Bowers is a whole 150-page cookbook just for Halloween! Extreme Halloween...

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Filed under: nonfiction, Food, holiday, cookery, cooking, recipes, decorating, Tom Nardone, Sharon Bowers, Halloween, pumpkins

Recent Chick Lit Reads

by KickinLibrarian@evpl on Wednesday, October 14 2009, 4:33pm

In the past few weeks since my last blog post, I have been on a chick-lit rampage. I have been speed-reading through recent releases like I don't have a hundred other things to do. Laundry piled up, kitchen didn't get cleaned, and packing for...

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Filed under: humor, reviews, fiction, books, chick lit, London, funny, love, women, friends, Sophie Kinsella, Amy Sohn, Paula Froelich

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

by HRevvdon@evpl on Saturday, October 31 2009, 8:59pm

I have been trying to go back and read a literature classic once a month, for October I chose to read The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton. I have watched the Scorcese film with Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder several times...

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The Library: An Illustrated History by Stuart A. P. Murray

by Bufkinite@evpl on Monday, October 5 2009, 6:01pm

This very readable and lavishly illustrated book is a survey of libraries, from the earliest gatherings of clay tablets in the library at Nineveh to the present grandeur of the Library of Congress. It is full of the characters of library history as well...

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Filed under: reviews, books, History, books and reading, libraries, pictorial works

Halloween Thrillers are treats for your eyes and ears.

by this.is.not.here@evpl on Friday, October 2 2009, 5:54pm

Since it's Oct. and Halloween is just around the corner it is only fitting to dip into the library's collection of thrillers. There's a new chapter in the Chelsea Cain trilogy of terror. The newest one is called Evil at Heart . in which Gretchen...

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Filed under: sequels, suspense, psychological fiction, serial killer, dectectives, horror, Halloween, thrillers

Great Scot! (aka, Grateful American)

by myzticrhythmz@evpl on Friday, October 23 2009, 12:11pm

Many celebrity biographies possess certain similarities: ambition, failed relationships, struggle, and frequently, addictions and/or abuse. So much of the success of the book depends not only on how the author has dealt with these situations in real life...

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Filed under: humor, audiobooks, books, alcoholism, celebrities, memoir, Scotland, Craig Ferguson, talk shows

It's time for a ghost story...

by bookchick@evpl on Monday, October 26 2009, 5:18pm

Do you remember reading ghost stories as a kid? That shivery feeling you got up and down your spine, the hair standing up on the back of your next and the feeling of being watched? Douglas Clegg brings back the traditional ghost story in a small volume...

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Filed under: ghost stories

Nancy Drew fans--don't miss this one

by this.is.not.here@evpl on Thursday, October 8 2009, 11:51am

After my gory blog about the Trilogy of Terror by Chelsea Cain I began to investigate what other books she had written. Funny I should use the term "investigate". This title Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: a Parody by Chelsea Cain caught my eye...

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Filed under: mysteries, Chelsea Cain, Nancy Drew

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

by HRevvdon@evpl on Friday, October 16 2009, 6:48am

Originally published in Sweden as Män Som Hatar Kvinnor , which means “men who hate women” in Swedish, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) by Stieg Larsson is a very dark mystery. Stieg Larsoon died in 2004 leaving three related novels...

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South of Broad by Pat Conroy

by HRevvdon@evpl on Saturday, October 31 2009, 8:24pm

Recently while I was on a vacation trip I started reading Pat Conroy’s latest novel, South of Broad (2009). I was staying with friends and they had both just finished reading it. They were both disappointed because it was “just so unbelievable...

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