Bethany Books Talk – May 29, 2009
Rianne, from the Library’s Support Services department, discusses these books:
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Straight Into Darkness by Faye Kellerman
A booklist based on this talk is available on our BookGuide site
Bethany Books Talk – May 1, 2009, Part 2
Susan from the Eiseley Branch Library discusses these books:
Night Road by A. M. Jenkins
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America by Albert Marrin
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Nation by Terry Pratchett
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope by Emmanual Guibert
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
A booklist based on this talk is available on our BookGuide site
Bethany Books Talk – May 1, 2009, Part 1
Susan from the Eiseley Branch Library discusses these books:
The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories by Miles J. Breuer
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
City of Thieves by David Benioff
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Shrine of Murders by C. L. Grace
Paper Towns by John Green
Austenland by Shannon Hale
What Angels Fear by C. S. Harris
The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
A booklist based on this talk is available on our BookGuide site
Gere Books Talk – April 27, 2009, Part 1
Scott discusses:
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin
March of the Penguins (DVD)
A booklist partially based on this talk is available on our BookGuide site
Gere Books Talk – March 30, 2009
Shannon discusses these books:
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
The Billionaire’s Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace
A Good Year by Peter Mayle
My Life in France by Julia Child
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer Lee
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Blindspot by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister