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Most years I try to pick out and read at least one Christmas novel during the holidays. I thought I would share some of the titles I've enjoyed in years past. Some of the novels I've read are fairly traditional. I've never been a fan of Charles Dickens, but A Christmas Carol really is worth...
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12-01-2008
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Filed under: fiction, Stewart O'Nan, Terry Pratchett, Christmas, holiday, Charles Dickens, Maeve Binchy, Dave Barry, Elizabeth Burg, Christopher Moore, David Baldacci
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LIzzie is very excited when her cousin Rosanna, a year older than her, moves to Gettysburg to live with Rosanna's sister. Lizzie's father and her twin brother have enlisted in the Union army, even though her twin, Luke, is only old enough to be a drummer. The two girls become best friends, and...
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Fourteen-year-old Amy had just completed a babysitting course, but as Peg Kehret wrote in the first paragraph of Stolen Children , "it did not cover what to do if two thugs with a gun showed up. She had to figure that out by herself." As you can tell from the title, Amy and her 3-year-old charge...
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Miss Stretchberry loves poetry, and makes it part of her classroom every day. In Love That Dog , we meet Jack, who thinks poetry isn't for boys, and that he can't understand it. The story is told through Jack's poetry assignments. As the year unfolds, he finds that poems do have something...
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Dave was normally a pretty noisy 5th-grader. In fact, maybe he was a loudmouth. But after reading about Gandhi, and how for many years he spent one day a week not talking at all, Dave thought it was worth finding out what it would be like to keep silent. After about a half day of trying silence on his...
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I have never knitted and rarely do I crochet. So, when I first heard about The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs, I dismissed it as just another of the trendy knitting-themed novels to hit the shelves since yarn crafts started making their big comeback. I just wasn't interested in reading...
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Redbelt , written & directed by David Mamet, is not your typical martial arts movie...it has very few action scenes. In fact, calling it a "martial arts movie" is a bit belittling, as it is first and foremost a drama. While it started extremely slowly, I ended up getting drawn in and loving...
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professor.knowsitall@evpl
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11-10-2008
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Filed under: action, suspense, reviews, fiction, trailers, good and evil, romance, thrillers, box-office flops, drama, firefly/serenity, tim allen, david mamet, chiwetel ejiofor
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When I was a kid, I loved to prop myself up in a wing chair by the fire, stick my feet out, and read a good book. While I don't have a fireplace in my house, I have established a comfortable little reading ritual for myself when the nights are cool, and this fall I'm reading a few books that...
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Several fiction books about Elections and the Presidency: Vote for Larry by Janet Tashjian Josh Swensen made national news as Larry, an anti-consumerist blogger, in The Gospel According to Larry . He's back, and running for President in Vote for Larry . He knows he's too young to serve, but wants...
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Life as you know it totally and forever changed due to natural disaster. Rebuilding infrastructure, restoring power and being reduced to basic survival. As Evansville rebuilds, cleans up, and moves on after remnants of Hurricane Ike hit, consider the courage of Miles and Seth, two teens who survive deadly...
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Dick Francis is an author I came to by way of listening to someone else talk about what she likes about his books. Dick Francis books are set against a background of the English horse-racing world, and character, especially such values as loyalty and courage, are as central to the books as the action...
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1/ Twilight (movie) release 3 weeks earlier than planned. When Warner Brothers decided (on their own) to postpone the new Harry Potter movie, that decision left an opening in the Fall schedule, so the Twilight movie starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart as Edward and Bella will now be in theaters...
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Amongst the blogs I subscribe to through the aggregator Bloglines are a couple of book group/book discussion blogs, Book Club Girl and Book Group Buzz , a Booklist blog. This week Book Club Girl had a touching post about a forthcoming book, Hannah's Dream . Her post includes a video of a zookeeper...
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Is anyone familiar with this publisher and the Usborne Books? I don't mean Mary Pope Osborne, but that's what came to mind when my next door neighbor started raving about the beautiful educational books she buys for her daughter. Then I remembered, I have one on my bookshelf- On the Beach a lift...
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For some wacky fun, join us at McCollough Branch for "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," a program based on the popular book series by Jeff Kinney. We'll have some crazy activities, mostly involving toilet paper, and you can earn "Mom Bucks" just like Greg and Rodrick. Be there at 3:00 p...