Coronation Street Celebrates its 50th Anniversary

The long-running British drama - Coronation Street - is celebrating its 50th anniversary today - December 9. Based in the fictional Manchester area of Weatherfield, Corrie follows the trials and tributionals of its working class characters. Canadians are some of the most keen fans of this television serial.

The Lincoln Public Library has a wide range of Corrie books and DVDs.

New additions to the library's collection include the movie DVD Romanian Holiday featuring Roy and Hailey Cropper and 50 Years On The Street: My Life With Ken Barlow by William Roache.

Raise a pint to Ken, Dierdre, Rita, Betty and all the other fasinating and infuriating characters on Coronation Street.

Happy Birthday Corrie!

Shakespeare's Bastard

Richard B. Wright has done it again with his fictionalized memoir of Shakespeare's illegitimate daughter.

Well researched and elegantly written, it is a must read for all who love historical fiction and Canadian writing. St. Catharines based author.

Put it on hold today!

December Top Ten Books and DVDs

Top Ten Novels

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Patterson, James - Don't Blink
Child, Lee - Worth Dying For
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Parker, Robert B. - Painted Ladies
Sandford, John - Bad Blood
Grisham, John - The Confession

Top Ten DVDs

Toy Story 3
Letters to Juliet
How to Train your Dragon
Date Night
When in Rome
Robin Hood
The Back-up Plan
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
The Karate Kid
The Bounty Hunter

New Vampire Fiction

Do you want a different twist on vampires? Do you want more action and less romance? Try 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin.

The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control.

The Passage is the first in a triology.

An Indigo recommended read.

Put on a hold today!

Canada Reads Finalists Revealed!

The five Canada Reads finalists have been revealed along with the celebrity defenders.

1. Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis - defended by Ali Velshi
2. The Birth House by Ami McKay - defended by Debbie Travis
3. The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou - defended by Georges Laraque
4. Essex County by Jeff Lemire - defended by Sara Quin
5. Unless by Carol Shields - defended by Lorne Cardinal

The hour-long debates will air on CBC Radio One on February 7, 8 and 9 2011 at 11 a.m. and again at 8 p.m.

Overdrive E-books have arrived!

The Lincoln Public Library now offers Overdrive e-books. Check out the database section of the Library's website. Click on Overdrive and then choose the Lincoln Public Library from the list of libraries. You sign in with the full 14 digits of your library code and the pin is the last four digits of your telephone number.

A selection of fiction and non-fiction titles are available. Not all titles can be used with all types of e-readers, so check the specifications for each.

Enjoy using your e-reader with these FREE titles from your public library!

2010 Governor General Award for Literature Winners

Fiction (English): Cool Waters, Diane Warren
Non-Fiction (English): Lakeland, Allan Casey
Poetry (English-language): Boxing the Compass, Richard Greene, Cobourg, Ont.
Poetry (French-language): Effleurés de lumière, Danielle Fournier, Montreal.
Drama (English): Afterimage, Robert Chafe, St. John's.
Drama (French): Porc-épic, David Paquet, Montreal.
Fiction (French): Ru, Kim Thuy, Montreal.
Non-fiction (French): C'est ma seigneurie que je réclame: la lutte des Hurons de Lorette pour la seigneurie de Sillery, 1650-1900, Michel Lavoie, Saint-Raphaël, Que.
Children's literature, text (English): Fishtailing, Wendy Phillips, Richmond, B.C.
Children's literature, illustration (English): Cats’ Night Out, Jon Klassen, Los Angeles (originally from Niagara Falls, Ont.)
Children's literature, text (French): Rose: derrière le rideau de la folie, Elise Turcotte
Children's literature, illustration (French): Rose: derrière le rideau de la folie, Daniel Sylvestre
Translation (to English): Forests (Forêts, by Wajdi Mouawad), Linda Gaboriau, Montreal.
Translation (to French): Le cafard (Cockroach, by Rawi Hage), Sophie Voillot, Montreal.

Sentimentalists Wins Giller Prize

Johanna Skibsrud's novel, the Sentimentalists won the Giller Prize on November 9.

Skibsrud's novel deals with complexities of the father-daughter relationship.

The library has ordered a copy, and we are taking holds. The book was published by a small publishing company, and it is doing its best to print enough copies to meet demand. Please be patient!

Top Ten Canada Reads 2011

The top ten titles for Canada Reads have been announced:

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis

The Birth House by Ami McKay

The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall

Essex County by Jeff Lemire (graphic novel)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Unless by Carol Shields

Place your holds on these titles today!

Room wins Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Emma Donoghue's novel Room, about a five-year-old boy named Jack who, along with his mother, lives imprisoned in an 11 by 11 modified garden shed, won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize at the 10th annual Writers’ Trust Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony Tuesday in Toronto.

New Playaway Titles

The Lincoln Public Library is now a member of a PLayaway pool with other libraries in Ontario. In addition to the selection of Playaways at the Fleming (Beamsville) Library, both the Fleming and Moses F. Rittenhouse (Vineland) Libraries will receive a new selection which will be changed every four months.

If you have not yet tried a Playaway, it is a good time now with the increased selection. A Playaway is a preloaded audiobook on a device like a MP3 player. You do not have to transfer an audiobook yourself as it is already there. You just supply the headphones and the AAA battery.

Contact your branch for more information on the new Playaways.

November Top Ten Books and DVDs

Top Ten Books

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Patterson, James - Don't Blink
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Sparks, Nicholas - Safe Haven
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya - Secret Daughter
Collins, Suzanne - Mockingjay
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy
John Sandford - Bad Blood



Top Ten DVDs

Date Night
When in Rome
Bounty Hunter
Leap Year
Avatar
Valentine's day
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Clash of the Titans
Invictus
Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2010 Governor General's Literary Awards Nominees

Nominees for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced Wednesday in Toronto. The English-language finalists are:

FICTION

Waiting for Joe (Random House Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Sandra Birdsell, Regina

Room (HarperCollins Publishers; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Emma Donoghue, London, Ont.

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass (Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Drew Hayden Taylor, Curve Lake, Ont.

Cool Water (Phyllis Bruce Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Dianne Warren, Regina

Annabel (House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Kathleen Winter, Montreal

POETRY

Boxing the Compass (Signal Editions, an imprint of Vehicule Press; distributed by LitDistCo), Richard Greene, Cobourg, Ont.

Circus (Signal Editions, an imprint of Vehicule Press; distributed by LitDistCo), Michael Harris, Westmount, Que.

&: A Serial Poem (Fitzhenry & Whiteside; distributed by the publisher), Daryl Hine, Chicago, originally from New Westminster, B.C.

Exploding into Night (Guernica Editions; distributed by University of Toronto Press), Sandy Pool, Toronto

Deepwater Vee (McClelland & Stewart; distributed by Random House of Canada), Melanie Siebert, Victoria

DRAMA

Afterimage (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Robert Chafe, St. John's, N.L.

Scratch (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, Toronto

Courageous (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Michael Healey, Toronto

Such Creatures (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Judith Thompson, Toronto

Lady in the red dress (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), David Yee, Toronto

NON-FICTION

A History of Marriage (Penguin Group (Canada); distributed by the publisher), Elizabeth Abbott, Toronto

The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son (Random House Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Ian Brown, Toronto

Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada (Greystone Books, an imprint of D&M Publishers; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Allan Casey, Saskatoon

Burmese Lessons: A Love Story (Random House Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Karen Connelly, Toronto

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 (Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), John English, Kitchener, Ont.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: TEXT

Me, Myself and Ike (Orca Book Publishers; distributed by the publisher), K.L. Denman, Powell River, B.C.

Tyranny (Tundra Books; distributed by Random House of Canada), Lesley Fairfield, Toronto

Free as a Bird (Dundurn Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press), Gina McMurchy-Barber, Surrey, B.C.

Fishtailing (Coteau Books; distributed by Publishers Group of Canada), Wendy Phillips, Richmond, B.C.

Scars (WestSide Books; distributed by Chapters/Indigo), Cheryl Rainfield, Toronto

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: ILLUSTRATION

Uirapuru: based on a Brazilian legend text by P.K. Page (Oolichan Books; distributed by University of Toronto Press), Kristi Bridgeman, Victoria

Owls See Clearly at Night: a Michif alphabet text by Julie Flett (Simply Read Books; distributed by Publishers Group Canada), Julie Flett, Vancouver

I Know Here, text by Laurel Croza (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Matt James, Toronto

Cat's Night Out, text by Caroline Stutson (Simon & Schuster/A Paula Wiseman Book; distributed by Simon & Schuster Canada), Jon Klassen, Los Angeles, originally from Niagara Falls, Ont.

The Quiet Book, text by Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; distributed by Thomas Allen & Son), Renata Liwska, Calgary

TRANSLATION: FRENCH TO ENGLISH

Sheila Fischman, Montreal, The Blue Notebook (Talonbooks; distributed by Publishers Group Canada), English translation of Le cahier bleu by Michel Tremblay (Lemeac Editeur/Actes Sud)

Sheila Fischman, Montreal, On the Proper Use of Stars (McClelland & Stewart; distributed by Random House), English translation of Du bon usage des étoiles by Dominique Fortier (Editions Alto)

Linda Gaboriau, Montreal, Forests (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), English translation of Forêts by Wajdi Mouawad (Lemeac Editeur/Actes Sud)

Liedewy Hawke, Toronto, High-Wire Summer (Cormorant Books; distributed by University of Toronto Press), English translation of L'été funambule by Louise Dupre (XYZ editeur)

Lazer Lederhendler, Montreal, The Breakwater House (House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), English translation of La maison des temps rompus by Pascale Quiviger (Les Editions du Boreal)

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Man Booker Prize Winner

Howard Jacobson wins Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question

Read more: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/10/12/man-booker-prize/#ixzz12BN93Qy0

Author Reading - October 20

The Lincoln Public Library is hosting an author evening on Wednesday October 20, at at the Lincoln Centre, 4361 Central Ave. Beamsville with William Connor, the author of Coleraine which has received many excellent reviews, and Robert Lindsey, author of Royal Spring.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for refreshments and the readings begin at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are $5 in advance from both the Fleming Library (4996 Beam St. in Beamsville)or the Moses F. Rittenhouse Library (4080 John Charles Blvd. Vineland) and $7 at the door.

2010 Giller Prize Finalists

The 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists are:

David Bergen for his novel THE MATTER WITH MORRIS, Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Alexander MacLeod for his short story collection LIGHT LIFTING, Biblioasis
Sarah Selecky for her short story collection THIS CAKE IS FOR THE PARTY, Thomas Allen Publishers
Johanna Skibsrud for her novel THE SENTIMENTALISTS, Gaspereau Press
Kathleen Winter for her novel ANNABEL, House of Anansi Press

October Top Ten Lists

DVDs

Date Night
When in Rome
The Bounty Hunter
Leap Year
Invictus
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Avatar
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Valentine's Day


Books

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Reichs, Kathy - Spider Bones
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Collins, Suzanne - Mockingjay
Evanovich, Janet - Sizzling Sixteen
Sparks, Nicholas - Safe Haven
Connelly, Michael - Reversal
Patterson, James - Don't Blink
Roberts, Nora - The Search

September Top Ten

Fiction

The Search by Nora Roberts
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Private by James Patterson
House rules a novel by Jodi Picoult
Savor the moment by Nora Roberts
Postcard Killers by James Patterson
Take Four by Karen Kingsbury
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark


DVDs

The Bounty Hunter
Leap Year
Invictus
Valentines Day
Tooth fairy
Avatar
Dear John
The Princess and the Frog
The Book of Eli
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Free Downloadable Audiobook Websites

Yesterday while searching the Internet, I found a couple of free downloadable audiobook websites. Both offer audiobooks from books out of copyright (i.e. 50-70 years published).

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/Top_100

http://librivox.org/

Both should download to handheld devices.

10 Underrated Canadian Authors

Bill Gaston

One thing you’ll notice about our list of underrated authors: the vast majority of them are short-story writers. It’s difficult to countenance the lack of interest in short fiction here in Canada, given that it’s the best thing we do as far as our literature is concerned. True, Gaston is also a novelist – and his 2000 novel The Good Body is one of the most criminally underrated Canadian books of the last 15 years – but it’s in his short stories that he is at the peak of his powers. Surprisingly, given the short form’s constraints in terms of space, it is here that Gaston feels most free to be stylistically adventurous; his stories are funny and sad, often at the same time, rich in literary allusion, and honed to a razor’s sharpness. Whether they are riffing on Malcolm Lowry or the notion that every red-blooded American needs only two things – a gun and a beanbag chair – Gaston’s stories are scabrous, inventive, and above all, fun.


Clark Blaise

As Philip Marchand has said of “Canada’s greatest unsung writer”: “It is testament to the vagaries of literary reputation on this wilful and iniquitous planet of ours that Clark Blaise remains unknown to most Canadian readers.” Those who have read Blaise will likely be familiar with his non-fiction bestseller Time Lord, not the four volumes of his Collected Stories that have sold somewhere in the low hundreds. Though he became a member of the Order of Canada in 2009, Blaise has never won a GG. And yet his body of work – and one can speak of it as a coherent body – is an entertaining and profound monument to the craft of the short story.

Caroline Adderson

Another sometime novelist (her new novel, The Sky is Falling, is out in September), Adderson is one of this country’s best – and least heralded – short-story writers. Like Lisa Moore, Adderson’s stories have been characterized as “difficult” by people groomed to expect some neat moral at the close, or some clever twist à la Poe or Maupassant. Adderson, who rightly acknowledges that stories are closer in spirit to poetry than to novels, is more interested in language than in traditional notions of plot or character development; her stories are small stylistic masterpieces. Never showy or ornate, they epitomize Jonathan Swift’s prescription for good writing: “Proper words in proper places.” Although in Adderson’s case, the word “proper” should be understood as “unexpected and delightful.”

Ray Smith

Do a Wikipedia search for “Ray Smith” and you’ll be taken to a disambiguation page with six Ray Smiths, a list that includes a noted American entomologist, but no Canadian author of that name. This is one indication of how far Smith is from ever having “arrived.” And it’s a shame because in a long – and, to be honest, wildly uneven – career Smith has written some of the most truly original books ever published in this country. It’s hard to think of another writer we have who has pushed the form of the novel as far, and few whose best work so demands our attention.

Lynn Coady

Nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for her first novel, Strange Heaven, Coady has yet to receive the broad recognition she deserves, despite a string of books that are as diverse as they are engaging. Coady writes with an authority and power that belies her relatively young age. Unafraid to shy away from tough subjects – addiction, physical and psychological abuse, mental illness – her books are nevertheless bracingly funny and full of life. Her facility with dialogue (frequently laden with profanities) is matched by few writers in this country, and her style is as direct and forceful as a roundhouse to the temple. Her 2006 novel Mean Boy, a satire of writers and academics that is infinitely livelier than anything Robertson Davies ever produced, was woefully overlooked by the award juries that year, proving once again that unpretentious novels that dare to have a sense of humour have no place in the upper echelons of CanLit.

Douglas Glover

Glover might seem like an odd choice, since he did win the GG in 2003 for Elle, but it was a review of that book in Maclean’s that also identified him as “probably the most eminent unknown Canadian writer alive” (he was a student of Clark Blaise, you see). And how much has changed? Glover’s transgressive brand of historical fiction hasn’t won him the wide readership that more conventional practitioners of the form enjoy, and his short stories have received about as much attention as those of any other short story writer whose name isn’t Alice Munro. He deserves a higher profile.

Russell Smith

Another odd choice, perhaps, since Smith has never been far from the media spotlight. But he has become (in)famous more for his somewhat intemperate commentary on gender politics and his columns on men’s fashion than for his fiction. Like Coady, Smith’s first novel (How Insensitive) was nominated for the GG, but he’s been pretty much ignored by award juries since then, despite the fact that his 2004 novel Muriella Pent is hands down one of the best Canadian novels of the new century. Smith provokes strong reactions from people who haven’t read him; were they to do so, they would discover one of the finest prose stylists working in Canada today.

Eric Ormsby

In 2006 a landmark work in Canadian poetry was published: Time’s Covenant, essentially Eric Ormsby’s collected poems to date. You wouldn’t have known this, or for that matter, even known about the book at all, from its reception, as it was widely ignored by reviewers and didn’t even get shortlisted for a GG. But then, Ormsby’s whole career has been mostly spent below the media radar and off the prize lists. Could it be that he isn’t considered Canadian enough? One hopes not. Though born in the U.S. and now living in England, Ormsby is one of the two or three best English-language poets we can fairly lay claim to. A fact that should be recognized someday.

Diane Schoemperlen

Schoemperlen has built a career out of experimenting with form in fiction. Her novels and short stories have won praise from a small coterie of admiring readers, and her 1998 collection Forms of Devotion even won a Governor General’s award. But none of that has resulted in her catching on with the broad mainstream of CanLit consumers. Perhaps her formal experimentation – stories that use multiple choice questions rather than a traditional narrative, or a novel (In the Language of Love) built around the 100 stimulus words on the psychological Word Association Test – is too challenging for readers more accustomed to the soothing, easily digested fiction of certain writers on the previous list. But Schoemperlen’s abiding themes are not far removed from those of Alice Munro or Carol Shields; if readers would simply open themselves to something a bit more stylistically unfamiliar, they might discover a world of riches they never knew existed.

Sharon English

Most of the writers on our underrated list are veterans who have spent their careers toiling in the suburbs of oblivion. Sharon English, however, is still an up-and-comer, with only two story collections under her belt – though they should have been enough in themselves to raise her profile considerably. Her debut, Uncomfortably Numb, stood out as a strong collection of linked coming-of-age stories (no mean feat in this country), but it was Zero Gravity that really announced her arrival as one of our sharpest new talents, wedding precision of language to a remarkable moral and imaginative range. That it made it onto the Giller longlist was slight consolation, given the presence of both Ondaatje and Vassanji in that year’s final five.

National Post
August 25, 2010

British Television Shows on DVD

Do you love the great comedies and dramas from the British television networks? Do you find it hard to find them on DVD at your local video store? The Lincoln Public Library has a large selection of wonderful shows such as Midsomer Murders, Allo, Allo, On the Buses and many more.

The complete list of British television shows at the library is found on our website from this link: http://www.lincoln.library.on.ca/ReadersAdvisory/BritishTV_Series.htm

Come check out our collection at both the Fleming and Moses F. Rittenhouse Libraries.

August Top Ten Books and DVDs

Top Ten Books:

The Search by Nora Roberts
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
Private by James Patterson
House Rules by Jodi Picoult.
Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
Take Four by Karen Kingsbury
Family Ties by Danielle Steel
Shadow of your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark


Top Ten DVDs:

Bounty Hunter
Leap year
Invictus
Valentines Day
Tooth fairy
Avatar
Up in the Air
Dear John
The Blind Side
It's complicated

Trillium Award Winner

The winner of the 2010 Trillium Book Award is Ian Brown for the Boy in the Moon.

If you haven't read this moving book, please reserve this book at the Library.

July Top Ten Books and DVDs

Top Ten Novels

House rules by Judi Picoult
Savor the moment by Nora Roberts
61 hours by Lee Child
9th judgment by James Patterson
This body of death by Elizabeth George
Eight days to live by Iris Johansen
The Shadow of your smile by Mary Higgins Clark
Storm prey by John Sandford
Deliver us from evil by David Baldacci
The Girl with the dragon tattoo Stieg Larsson


Top Ten DVDs

Blind Side
Invictus
Leap year
Valentines Day
Avatar
Up in the air
The Princess and the frog
Men who stare at goats
Sherlock Holmes
It's complicated

To reserve any of these titles, come into either library location, telephone or login to your library account with your library card number from the library's website: www.lincoln.library.on.ca

June Top Ten

Top Ten Books

House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
61 hours by Lee Child
9th judgment by James Patterson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark
This body of death by Elizabeth George
Big girl by Danielle Steel
Storm Prey by John Sandford
Worst case by James Patterson

Top Ten DVDs

The Blind side
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Avatar
It's Complicated
The Princess and the Frog
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Tme Traveler's Wife
Whip it
Up in the air

Adult Book Group

The Library is reviewing its adult book group program.

We are going out to the community for feedback.

What location would you prefer?
What type would you like - book based or themed based?
What time of day - daytime or evening?
Would you be willing to lead or co-lead a group?

Please respond through this blog posting.

We need to hear from you!

May Top Ten DVDs and Books

TOP TEN DVDs

The Blind Side
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up in the air
The Time Traveler's Wife
Avatar
Men who Stare at Goats
The Princess and the Frog
Its Complicated
The Informant

TOP TEN BOOKS

House Rules, Jodi Picoult
Caught, Harlan Coben
Worst case, James Patterson
9th judgment, James Patterson
Take three, Karen Kingsbury
Think twice, Lisa Scottoline
Big girl, Danielle Steel
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Shadow of your Smile, Mary Higgins Clark
This Body of Death, Elizabeth George

April Top Ten

Here is the April Top Ten list.

DVDs

Hurt Locker
The Time Traveler's Wife
Inglourious basterds
The Proposal
Up in the air
Four Christmases
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
The Blind Side
Up
Julie Julia

Books

House rules a novel, Jodi Picoult
Worst case a novel, James Patterson
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Take three, Karen Kingsbury
Big girl a novel, Danielle Steel
Caught, Harlan Coben
Think Twice, Lisa Scottoline
Never Look Away, Linwood Barclay
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels.

Canada Reads Winner

The annual Canada Reads contest was held this week on CBC Radio One. The winner is Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. The library has a copy available.

The other books considered were Falls on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Jade Peony by Wayson Choy, Generation X by Douglas Coupland and Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott.

What do you think of final choice?

Author Reading

The Lincoln Public Library is pleased to announce its next author reading event.

Local authors Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of the Day the Falls Stood Still, and
Kara Bartley, author of Call of Adhara, will reading from their works on Monday, April 12th, 7:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Centre, 4361 Central Ave. in Beamsville.

Tickets will be available soon at both the Fleming (Beamsville) and Moses F. Rittenhouse Libraries.

For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.

Top Ten Lists - March 2010

Every month, the Top Ten Lists for Books and DVDs will be posted on this blog.

Top Ten Books

Worst Case
James Patterson

Take three
Karen Kingsbury

The Bishop's Man
Linden MacIntyre

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Big Girl
Danielle Steel

Altar of Eden
James Rollins

Sizzle a novel
Julie Garwood

Rainwater
Sandra Brown

The Last song
Nicholas Sparks

The Disappeared
Kim Echlin


Top Ten Movies

Inglourious Basterds

The Proposal

Up

Four Christmases

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

500 days of Summer

Julie, Julia

Transformers: Revenge of the fallen

The Time Travelers Wife

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past