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"sTORI Telling" by Tori Spelling

by librarianinheels@evpl on Tuesday, September 9 2008, 9:41am

Tori Spelling is the daughter of Aaron Spelling - the famous, super-rich producer of classic cheeseball TV hits like Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Dynasty, and Melrose Place, to name a few. In 2006, Spelling died, and his daughter...

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Filed under: nonfiction, reviews, oaklyn branch, chick lit, biography, celebrities

"Pride and Prejudice" the movie

by GoldensRule@evpl on Monday, September 8 2008, 3:53pm

I know, I know, this is supposed to be a book blog. However, since P&P is based upon one of the most beloved novels of all time, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, I could not resist noting the differences between the 2001 BBC, A&E version...

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Filed under: jane austen, Pride and Prejudice

"Death's Half Acre" by Margaret Maron

by GoldensRule@evpl on Monday, September 8 2008, 9:40am

If you're not familiar with author Margaret Maron, you should be. Maron sets her mysteries in North Carolina. Her protagonist, Judge Deborah Knott, is the youngest of 12 and the only girl. In this installation there is murder, 2 to be exact, as those...

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Filed under: fiction, margaret maron, mysteries

MP3 Players for Downloadable Audiobooks

by Meditatinglibrarian@evpl on Monday, September 8 2008, 8:16am

As the Library moves towards providing more materials as downloadables, questions about devices to play them on arise. We can't recommend devices, but we can point folks towards reviews and recommendations by others. On our OverDrive site , you can...

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Filed under: audiobooks, digital library, MP3 players, OverDrive

"Fugitive Denim": Casual Day from a Global Perspective

by Bufkinite@evpl on Saturday, September 6 2008, 3:27pm

A world-renowned fashion designer starts out to make a "green" line of denim wear, using organic cotton, paying living wages to the growers, cutters, and seamstresses who all have a hand in bringing the product to market. Can it be done? To...

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Filed under: nonfiction, reviews, books, fashion, denim, Rachel Louise Snyder, blue jeans, clothing industry

"Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

by myzticrhythmz@evpl on Saturday, September 6 2008, 2:09pm

Okay; I admit it. I have never liked vampires. From a very young age, I have been really very scared of them. So when the Twilight books came out, I was reluctant to take them on. Sure, Harry Potter had his Dementors, but you could be pretty sure Harry...

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Filed under: reviews, fiction, teens, Vampires

"This I Believe" edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman

by GoldensRule@evpl on Friday, September 5 2008, 3:38pm

This I Believe is this years One Book One Community pick for Southwestern Indiana. Originally started in the 1950's by Edward R. Murrow, it was reinvented in 2005 by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman. A collection of thought-provoking essays from the famous...

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Filed under: nonfiction, reviews, events, book discussions, one book one community

unusual book titles

by Meditatinglibrarian@evpl on Friday, September 5 2008, 7:18am

I subscribe to an email newsletter called Shelf-Awareness . It's written mostly for bookstore folks, but it keeps me up-to-date about what books are being featured in the news media, etc. Today's newsletter contained an article about The Diagram...

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Filed under: book prizes

"The Lost Daughter" by Elena Ferrante

by Guatemama@evpl on Thursday, September 4 2008, 11:06am

An odd and perhaps even a little disturbing novel, The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, is the tale of a divorced mother who finds herself at a loss after her two daughters move out to live with their father. So she packs her bags and goes on holiday...

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Filed under: reviews, Italy, Mothers & Daughters, Divorced Woman, Elena Ferrante

"The Case of Abraham Lincoln"

by googler@evpl on Thursday, September 4 2008, 9:26am

I'm currently reading Julie M. Fenster's nonfiction book The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President , and really enjoying it. This may be partly because I've never read a biography of Lincoln...

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Filed under: nonfiction, reviews, lincoln

So good, you may want to Cry Wolf again

by E-Ville Librarian@evpl on Wednesday, September 3 2008, 9:17am

Here is a post from Seeker@evpl, whose posts can be found on the EVPL Research blog : Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs "Becoming a werewolf brought nothing but problems to Anna every since she'd survived the vicious attack that turned her. Now, she...

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Filed under: reviews, fiction, books, werewolves, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters, Fantasy

"The Condition" by Jennifer Haigh

by MediaPhile@evpl on Saturday, August 30 2008, 4:09pm

With its sympathetic portrayal of a family in crisis, "The Condition" reminds me of Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and Joyce Carol Oates' "We Were the Mulvaneys." All three novels convey the message that every...

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Filed under: reviews, families, turners syndrome

"The Lace Reader" author hits it rich!

by MediaPhile@evpl on Thursday, August 28 2008, 4:43pm

I recently heard Brunonia Barry talk about her very successful first novel, "The Lace Reader," a Mary Higgins Clark sort of adventure/love novel set in contemporary Salem, Massachusetts. Barry, a former scriptwriter with theatre experience who...

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Filed under: witchcraft, salem, suspense, psychic

"The Book of Kells" by Bernard Meehan

by Bufkinite@evpl on Thursday, August 28 2008, 9:43am

The Book of Kells is a lavishly illustrated manuscript book created as a Alter Book sometime between 800 and 900 AD at a monastery in the town of Kells, in Ireland. It is the most lavishly decorated of a series of gospel manuscripts produced between the...

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Filed under: nonfiction, books, book arts, illuminated manuscripts

"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer

by Guatemama@evpl on Wednesday, August 27 2008, 10:24am

In looking for the next "good" book to read I happened upon a review of this title and was quickly drawn in by... well, just about everything. It centers around an unlikely book group. It makes mention of and draws parallels with some great...

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Filed under: reviews, Mary Ann Shaffer, World War II, Channel Islands, Guernsey, historical fiction, debut novel

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