November 30, 2006
Bebe Moore Campbell, 1950-2006
Bestselling author Bebe Moore Campbell died on Monday due to complications from cancer. Her works include Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir and her latest 72 Hour Hold.
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African American Literature Bookclub Remembrance
Posted by Grace at 12:12 PM
November 27, 2006
New Bestsellers 11/27/06
The following books are appearing on the best seller lists for the first time this week. For a complete listing see our collection of Best Seller Lists.
Titles that were new last week are noted with **.
The Criticas Fiction and Nonfiction lists have been updated for November.
E = Essence Magazine
NYT = New York Times
PW = Publisher's Weekly
USA = USA Today
* = Titles that have previously appeared on the bestseller lists but are new to our catalog.
Fiction
Isabel Allende. Ines of My Soul **
Born into a poor family in Spain, In?s, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. When her shiftless husband disappears to the New Workd, In?s follows only to find him dead. She then begins a love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro.
Mary & Carol Higgins Clark. Santa Cruise
On the maiden voyage of the Royal Mermaid, a group of guests gets caught up in a mystery revolving around two stow-away criminals. (NYT #8, PW #10, USA #14)
 Nelson DeMille. Wild Fire **
Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions. (NYT #5, PW #2)
Carl Hiaasen. Nature Girl
When a rude telemarketer calls while Honey Santana and her son are having dinner she decides to teach him a lesson in good behavior. She lures him and his mistress with a pitch for Florida real estate and includes her ex-husband and 12-year-old son in her plot. (NYT #4, PW #5, USA #8)
Karen E. Quinones Miller. Satin Nights
The sequel to 'Satin Doll,' continuing the story of Regina Harris and her three girlfriends, dealing with divorce, single parenthood, and romance in Harlem. (E #3)
 Mary Monroe. God Don't Play
Annette Goode finally seems to have the perfect life. Out of the blue she starts to receive hostile letters, and vicious phone calls. Someone won't rest until the life Annette has worked so hard to build is torn down. (E #5)
Mary B. Morrison. When Somebody Loves You Back
In this follow-up to Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This, NBA star Darius Jones juggles the women in his life. (E #2)
James Patterson. Cross
Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Now, years later, his former partner asks for assistance on a serial rapist case that has connections to Maria's death. (NYT #1, PW #1, USA #1)
 J.D. Robb. Born in Death **
Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's supposedly what friends are for. (NYT #6, PW #6)
 Jeff Shaara. The Rising Tide **
The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation?s most poignant chronicle of World War II. With you-are-there immediacy, painstaking historical detail, and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events that pulled America into the vortex of this monumental conflict. (NYT #12, PW #9)
Omar Tyree. What They Want
Male model Terrance Mitchell had no plans to settle down, until one day one of the beautiful women broke through his defenses. (E #4)
Nonfiction
Martha Stewart. Homekeeping Handbook **
Martha shares her tips on everything from setting a table to creating floor plans to polishing silver. (PW #12)
SEA OF THUNDER, by Evan Thomas. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) The naval war in the South Pacific, 1941-45. (NYT #16)
Posted by Grace at 12:20 PM
November 17, 2006
2006 National Book Awards Announced
The National Book Awards are awarded annually for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people's literature. It is sponsored by the National Book Foundation, a consortium of publishing groups.
Fiction
Richard Powers. The Echo Maker
After a near-fatal car accident, 27 year old Mark Schluter's sister reluctantly comes to nurse him back to health. Upon waking from a coma, Mark thinks his sister is an identical imposter.
Nonfiction
Timothy Egan. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.
Poetry
Nathaniel Mackey.% Splay Anthem
Young People's Literature
M. T. Anderson. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. One: The Pox Party
Posted by Grace at 04:15 PM
November 14, 2006
New Bestsellers 11/13/06
The following books are appearing on the best seller lists for the first time this week. For a complete listing see our collection of Best Seller Lists.
E = Essence Magazine
NYT = New York Times
PW = Publisher's Weekly
USA = USA Today
* = Titles that have previously appeared on the bestseller lists but are new to our catalog.
Fiction
Karen Marie Moning. Darkfever
When MacKayla Lane's sister is murdered in Ireland, MacKayla journeys there to find answers only to discover she has the extraordinary power of to see beyond the world of man and into the realm of the Fae. (PW #12)
 Adriana Trigiani. Home to Big Stone Gap
Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home to Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding close her tight circle of family and friends. But with her daughter Etta, having flown the nest to Italy, Ave Maria has reached a turning point. When a friend's postcard arrives with the message "It's time to live your life for you," Ave Maria realizes that she must go in search of brand new dreams. But before she can put her foot on the path, her life is turned upside down. (NYT #12, PW #14)
Nonfiction
Mireille Guiliano. French Women for All Seasons
The author follows up French Women Don't Get Fat with additional suggestions for living the good life. (PW #10)
 I. Rombauer, M. Rombauer & E. Becker. The Joy of Cooking, 75th Anniversary Edition
The bestselling cookbook of all time comes full circle with an expansive revision based on the celebrated 1975 edition, restoring the voice of the original authors and returning the focus to home-style American cooking. (PW #6)
 Denzel Washington. A Hand Guide to Me
In his debut as an author, Denzel Washington shares his personal story of the mentors who helped guide his life--more than 70 of America's leading personalities in theater, sports, business, and politics who in turn tell their life-changing stories of mentorship. (NYT #6, PW #14)
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Philip Yancey. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat?the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect?of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? Does it change God?s mind or ours?or both? This book is an invitation to communicate with God the Father who invites us into an eternal partnership through prayer. (#8)
Posted by Grace at 01:50 PM
November 08, 2006
New Database: Science Online
We're pleased to be able to offer a new database - Science Online from Facts on File. Science Online is a science database geared towards middle and high school students.
As an example, a search for carbon returns over 1300 entries dived into Topics, Terms & Principles, Diagrams & Images, Experiments & Activities, and Biographies. Entries range from short definitions to encyclopedia articles.
To access the database, visit the Science & Technology section of the database page. You will need your library card number to log in.
Posted by Grace at 02:47 PM
November 07, 2006
New Bestsellers 11/6/06
The following books are appearing on the best seller lists for the first time this week. For a complete listing see our collection of Best Seller Lists.
Publisher's Weekly Audio Fiction & Nonfiction lists have been updated for November 6, 2006.
E = Essence Magazine
NYT = New York Times
PW = Publisher's Weekly
USA = USA Today
* = Titles that have previously appeared on the bestseller lists but are new to our catalog.
Fiction
Richard Ford. The Lay of the Land
With The Sportswriter, in 1986, Richard Ford commenced a cycle of novels that ten years later?after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award?was hailed by The Times of London as ?an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.? Now, a decade later, Frank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely in thrall to life?s endless complexities than ever before. (PW #14)
 Stephen King. Lisey's Story
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott, a novelist, two years ago. When she starts to go through his papers, she journeys into the darkness he inhabited. (NYT #1, PW #1, USA #4)
 FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $17.95.) Seeking peace, a wealthy businessman retreats to a small town, but his lovely and charitable neighbor won't stay away, reprint of a 1984 novel. (NYT #10)
Robert Parker. Hundred-Dollar Baby
penser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him. (NYT #6, PW #5)
R. A. Salvatore. Road of the Patriarch
" After aiding King Gareth Dragonsbane by heroically defeating the Witch-King in bestseller Salvatore's Promise of the Witch-King (2005), the human assassin Artemis Entreri and his elven partner in vengeance, Jarlaxle Baenre, face challenges from the evil wizard Knellict, Knellict's Citadel of Assassins and the Dragon sisters in this bloody, brooding sequel." - Publisher's Weekly (NYT #13, PW #9)
Nicholas Sparks. Dear John
When Savannah Lynn Curtis comes into his life, John Tyree knows he is ready to turn over a new leaf. An angry rebel, John enlisted in the Army after high school. While their love grows, Savannah vows to wait while John finishes his tour of duty. 9/11 changes all that and John must choose between love and country and Savannah must decide to wait or move on. (USA #3)
 Danielle Steel. H.R.H.
Christianna, a European princess determined to make a difference in the world, volunteers for the Red Cross in East Africa, struggling to hide her identity from her coworkers. (USA #13)
Nonfiction
Paula H. Deen. Paula Deen Celebrates!
Paula shares with fans old and new how she celebrates a year's worth of holidays and special occasions. (PW #13)
Ina Garten. Barefoot Contessa at Home
Ina shares her life in East Hampton, the recipes she loves, and her secrets to making guests feel welcome and comfortable. (PW #10)
 Erik Larson. Thunderstruck
The interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush". (NYT #8, PW #8)
Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz. You: On a Diet
The betsellering authors of the You series of books, present information on the best way to lose weight. (USA #1)
Posted by Grace at 10:34 AM
November 02, 2006
New Books, Movies, Audio Lists Updated
The New Books, Audios, and Movies lists have been updated with titles cataloged in October 2006. We apologize that there was no listing for September.
For the most up-to-date listing, please check the catalog's New Additions, New DVD, New Video, New Audiobook or New Music browse searches.
Posted by Grace at 04:41 PM
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