Books
The 2017 National Book Awards
Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in…
Read MoreChristmas Books for Children
The Twelve Days of Christmas by Britta Teckentrup Charming version of the classic Twelve Days of Christmas. Each page is die cut to reveal gifts corresponding to these twelve special days. Children are delighted to see each new gift appear as the pages are turned. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski This new…
Read MoreNew Books 11/27/17
Cookbooks, Christmas-themed books, sister-themed books and some short stories and novellas are part of the line-up, along with the latest adventure in Clancy’s Odessa files and a new Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade A portrait of the seventh American president focuses on…
Read MoreNew Books 11/13/17
This week’s book cart includes some Christmas offerings – a cozy mystery by Donna Andrews and a retelling of the Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire that Kirkus calls a “delightful, mystical, mythical confection” by an author “who likes nothing more than to work at the dark edges of a fairy tale.” Two new historical biographies by award…
Read MoreThe Christy Awards
The Christy Award™ is a program of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) and is the foremost award honoring and promoting excellence in Christian fiction since 1999. It is named for Catherine Marshall’s novel, Christy, which has sold over 10 million copies since its publication in 1967. These awards were established to acknowledge the value and impact…
Read MoreNew Books 11/6/17
Hot off the press, these new books are ready for checkout at your library! Deep Freeze by John Sanford When a woman from a community where he exposed school-board corruption years earlier is found dead, Virgil Flowers identifies clues linking the case to a 20-year high school reunion and its related traumas, dramas and…
Read MoreNew Books 10/30/17
An eclectic mix of books that defies grouping in categories including a cook book, a western, some sci-fi, a cozy mystery, history, how-to, graphic novels, a celebrity tell-all and more. Adventures in Slow Cooking by Sarah DiGregorio The James Beard-nominated food writer revamps the slow cooker for the modern home cook, providing ingenious ideas…
Read MoreMan Booker Prize 2017
The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over four decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in…
Read MoreNew Books 10/16/17
Political books seem to be published in groups as this week’s list demonstrates. If you don’t like the opinions expressed in the group on this list, be assured there will be other groups of political books expressing a wide variety of opinions – something for which anyone can find disagreement. You may prefer not to…
Read MoreNew Books 10/9/17
Libraries transform lives in many ways. Several of this week’s new books can make your life better! Whether you need to overcome perfectionism, better understand your personality type, strengthen your spiritual life, or find a new job, it’s only a book away (if you apply what you read!) The Blind by A. F. Brady As…
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