Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

When I went home a little while back, I saw a copy of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in my little sister's room. Feeling a bit nostalgic, I went home and started reading the battered copy on my bookshelf. I don't know how many times I have read this...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2009 9:04 am by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: reviews, fiction, books, historical fiction, teens, families, Mothers & Daughters, poor, World War I -- Fiction, growing up, love

Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs

Anyone familiar with John Krakauer's book Under the Banner of Heaven will be familiar with the polygamous, Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS). In that book Krakauer recounts how religious polygamy was often used as a cover for pedophilia...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 5:08 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, families, relationships, Brent Jeffs, polygamy, Warren Jeffs, abuse, Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, cults

Love As Always, Kurt: Vonnegut As I Knew Him, by Loree Rackstraw

In September of 1965 Lorree Rackstraw was a graduate student in her second year at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, apprehensive about her new teacher, a relatively unknown writer named Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut had published just three books: The Sirens...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 1:21 am by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, World War II, families, biography, memoir, old man, WWII, Word War II -- fiction, books and reading, love, friends, relationships, Loree Rackstraw, Kurt Vonnegut, writers

The Wedding Girl

Are you a fan of the Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella? If so, let me introduce you to Kinsella's alter ego, Madeleine Wickham. Both personas write about English women who have found themselves in a predicament. Whether it be money (Shopaholic...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2009 9:54 am by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, chick lit, families, Mothers & Daughters, English, love, family secrets

The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

It's every parent's worst nightmare.... you wake up early one morning to find that the child that you tucked into bed the night before is gone -- not playing in another room or downstairs watching TV, but truly, hopelessly, nowhere to be found...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 6:21 pm by Guatemama@evpl

Filed under: reviews, fiction, families, Missing persons, family secrets, The Weight of Silence, Heather Gudenkauf

The Night of the Roundtable

I looked at my daughter's soccer schedule, and said, "Oh, great! You don't have practice on Aug 25 th . That's the night of the Roundtable." My son looked at me quizzically, and said, "the Knight of the Round Table?" It...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2009 1:11 pm by kiya@evpl

Filed under: book discussions, one book one community, families, poor, author visit, growing up, Racism, African Americans, Gregory Williams

The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

Okay, all you fans of The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood listen up. Whether you read the book or just watched the movie , you won't want to miss out on this one... the latest foray into good ol' Louisiana family drama by author Rebecca...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 10:20 am by Guatemama@evpl

Filed under: families, Mothers & Daughters, southern novels, Louisiana, Rebecca Wells

I Heart The Spellmans!

Back in January, I wrote a little bit about Lisa Lutz 's Spellman series. Last night I finished the third installment, Revenge of the Spellmans . It is EXCELLENT! This has become my new favorite series, since I've begun to grow tired of Janet...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 11:17 am by Shh_ImReading@evpl

Filed under: fiction, sequels, families, series, private investigators, Lisa Lutz

Animal Dreams -- Books for Lunch at Red Bank Branch

On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at noon we will be discussing Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver at Red Bank Branch Library . I could hardly put Animal Dreams down while I was reading it and I hope you'll enjoy it too. Codi, her father and the other...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 12:58 pm by Shh_ImReading@evpl

Filed under: red bank branch, fiction, book discussions, families, nature, love, Arizona, fathers, small town, sisters, Barbara Kingsolver, friends

E Can Write More Than Songs

Mark Oliver Everett is probably better known simply as E, the lead singer and creative force behind the Eels, but a few months ago he published a memoir under his full name called Things the Grandchildren Should Know . He might be a little younger than...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2009 3:28 pm by Shh_ImReading@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, families, celebrities, memoir, death, Mark Oliver Everett, music

The Longest Trip Home

After reading several mixed reviews on John Grogan's newest book , I took the plunge and decided I'd see for myself. I really didn't think there was any way I could like the book as much as the bestselling " Marley and Me ", but...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2009 11:08 am by wag.mado@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, humor, book discussions, faith, dogs, families, memoir, love stories, illness, growing up

Lisa Lutz's Izzy Spellman Novels

I read The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz during our 2008 summer reading program, how about you? It was good enough, I read Curse of the Spellmans right afterwards. What a quirky family! The books focus on a wild private investigator named Izzy Spellman...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2009 2:41 pm by Shh_ImReading@evpl

Filed under: fiction, sequels, families, series, private investigators, Lisa Lutz

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

Many fans of the Oprah book club will remember author, Wally Lamb, from his previous books, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True . After a lapse of many years, Lamb is back with this new epic which is rather heavy both in subject matter...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 10:53 am by Guatemama@evpl

Filed under: families, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Littleton Colorado, Connecticut, psychological fiction, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Columbine High School Massacre

Strong at the Broken Places

This book's preface begins, " These are the faces of illness in America. Do not look away.......Quite simply, they are us. " If you have ever known someone with a chronic or terminal illness, you probably already know that each person approaches...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 4:55 pm by wag.mado@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, central library, books, faith, alcoholism, families, biography, illness, muscular dystrophy, ALS, lymphoma, Crohn's disease, bipolar disorder

"House at Sugar Beach" by Helene Cooper

I just finished one of those books that will stay with me for a long while. Helene Cooper's memoir, The House at Sugar Beach: in Search of a Lost African Childhood is remarkable and haunting. Her journalistic expertise opens the reader up to a privileged...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 12:41 pm by wag.mado@evpl

Filed under: audiobooks, books, families, biography, Africa, Liberia, civil war, memoir

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