Books
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Affair by Lee Child
The Litigators by John Grisham
Shock Wave by John Sandford
The Drop by Michael Connelly
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Exposive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
Lethal by Sandra Brown
DVDs
Bridesmaids
Amish Grace
Horrible Bosses
Crazy, Stupid Love
Water for Elephants
The King's Speech
Transformers
Bad Teacher
Thor
Cars 2
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
2012 Canada Reads Titles
The 2012 Canada Reads books were announced Wednesday November 23 on CBC Radio One’s program Q by host and Canada Reads moderator Jian Ghomeshi, along with the celebrity panellists who have chosen titles to defend in a series of four hour-long debates to be staged live in Toronto and airing on CBC Feb. 6-9.
The books and defending panellists are:
• Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat, to be defended Arlene Dickinson, from CBC-TV’s Dragons’ Den.
• Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre, to be defended by Anne-France Goldwater, star of Quebec’s reality-TV courtroom show l’Arbitre.
• On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini, to be defended by supermodel Stacey McKenzie.
• The Tiger by John Vaillant, to be defended by award-winning rapper Shad.
• The Game by Ken Dryden, to be defended by actor and TV star Alan Thicke.
Now in its 11th year, Canada Reads is highlighting non-fiction for the first time.
The books and defending panellists are:
• Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat, to be defended Arlene Dickinson, from CBC-TV’s Dragons’ Den.
• Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre, to be defended by Anne-France Goldwater, star of Quebec’s reality-TV courtroom show l’Arbitre.
• On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini, to be defended by supermodel Stacey McKenzie.
• The Tiger by John Vaillant, to be defended by award-winning rapper Shad.
• The Game by Ken Dryden, to be defended by actor and TV star Alan Thicke.
Now in its 11th year, Canada Reads is highlighting non-fiction for the first time.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Governor General Literary Award Winners 2011
Fiction
Patrick deWitt, Portland (Oregon) [originally from Vancouver Island], The Sisters Brothers
(House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada)
Brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters are at the centre of this “great greedy heart” of a book. A rollicking tale of hired guns, faithful horses and alchemy. The ingenious prose of Patrick DeWitt conveys a dark and gentle touch.
Poetry
Phil Hall, Perth (Ontario), Killdeer
(BookThug; distributed by Literary Press Group)
Killdeer by Phil Hall realizes a masterly modulation of the elegiac through poetic time. It releases the personal from the often binding axis of the egoistic into that kind of humility that only a profound love of language – and of living – can achieve.
Drama
Erin Shields, Toronto, If We Were Birds
(Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
If We Were Birds is a bold and brilliant retelling of a classical myth. The language is poetic and contemporary. Erin Shields creates a haunting and viscerally impactful play about the sexual politics of war. She invites us into a world of complicated family relationships, dangerous sexuality, revenge and fierce loyalty.
Non-fiction
Charles Foran, Peterborough (Ontario), Mordecai: The Life & Times
(Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada)
Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran is biography as high art, illuminating not only the character of Canada’s most provocative writer, but also, in the most vivid and compelling fashion, the times and places in which he lived. This is a grand, sweeping work that sets the standard for future literary biography.
Children’s Literature — Text
Christopher Moore, Toronto, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
(Tundra Books; distributed by Random House of Canada)
From Then to Now: A Short History of the World, by Christopher Moore, is a fascinating examination of the evolution of human civilization that is global in its span and inclusive in its outlook. The energetic narrative tells a story that rivals the very best fiction.
Children’s Literature — Illustration
Cybèle Young, Toronto, Ten Birds, text by Cybèle Young
(Kids Can Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
Ten Birds is a whimsical, surreal visual riddle. A disarmingly simple story becomes a complex discussion of the adjectives used to “pigeon-hole” individuals in society. Cybèle Young’s beautifully crafted pen and ink images describe a journey to simply cross a river. Ironically none of the birds can fly, but ultimately the simplest answer may be the best.
Patrick deWitt, Portland (Oregon) [originally from Vancouver Island], The Sisters Brothers
(House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada)
Brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters are at the centre of this “great greedy heart” of a book. A rollicking tale of hired guns, faithful horses and alchemy. The ingenious prose of Patrick DeWitt conveys a dark and gentle touch.
Poetry
Phil Hall, Perth (Ontario), Killdeer
(BookThug; distributed by Literary Press Group)
Killdeer by Phil Hall realizes a masterly modulation of the elegiac through poetic time. It releases the personal from the often binding axis of the egoistic into that kind of humility that only a profound love of language – and of living – can achieve.
Drama
Erin Shields, Toronto, If We Were Birds
(Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
If We Were Birds is a bold and brilliant retelling of a classical myth. The language is poetic and contemporary. Erin Shields creates a haunting and viscerally impactful play about the sexual politics of war. She invites us into a world of complicated family relationships, dangerous sexuality, revenge and fierce loyalty.
Non-fiction
Charles Foran, Peterborough (Ontario), Mordecai: The Life & Times
(Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada)
Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran is biography as high art, illuminating not only the character of Canada’s most provocative writer, but also, in the most vivid and compelling fashion, the times and places in which he lived. This is a grand, sweeping work that sets the standard for future literary biography.
Children’s Literature — Text
Christopher Moore, Toronto, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
(Tundra Books; distributed by Random House of Canada)
From Then to Now: A Short History of the World, by Christopher Moore, is a fascinating examination of the evolution of human civilization that is global in its span and inclusive in its outlook. The energetic narrative tells a story that rivals the very best fiction.
Children’s Literature — Illustration
Cybèle Young, Toronto, Ten Birds, text by Cybèle Young
(Kids Can Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
Ten Birds is a whimsical, surreal visual riddle. A disarmingly simple story becomes a complex discussion of the adjectives used to “pigeon-hole” individuals in society. Cybèle Young’s beautifully crafted pen and ink images describe a journey to simply cross a river. Ironically none of the birds can fly, but ultimately the simplest answer may be the best.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
New Fiction Titles for Winter 2012
The library has just ordered the following fiction titles which will arrive after the new year. If they are not listed as on order, please send a message on the suggestion to purchase form. If you would like a response, please include your email address.
Archer, Jeffrey: Sins of the Father
Blackstock, Terri: Downfall
Bowen, Gail: Kaleidoscope
Boyne, John: Absolutist
Brockmann, Suzanne: Born to Darkness
Chiaverini, Jennifer: Sonoma Rose
Clancy, Tom: Locked On
Clark, Carol Higgins: Gypped
Clark, Mary Higgins: Lost Years
Clark, Mary Jane: Look of Love
Coben, Harlan: Stay Close
Cox, Josephine: Three Letters
Crais, Robert: Taken
Crombie, Deborah: No Mark Upon Her
Cussler, Clive: Thief
De Rosnay, Tatiana: House I Loved
Evanovich, Janet: Love in a Nutshell
Evans, Richard Paul: Road to Grace
Ferguson, Will: 419
Gardner, Lisa: Catch Me
George, Elizabeth: Believing the Lie
Grippando, James: Need You Now
Hannah, Kristin: Home Front
Herbert, Brian: Sisterhood of the Dune
Higgins, Jack: Devil is Waiting
James, Peter: Perfect People
Jance, J. A.: Left for Dead
Kellerman, Faye: Gun Games
Kellerman, Jonathan: Victims
King, Stephen: Wind through the Keyhole
Kingsbury, Karen: Loving
Knsella, Sophoe: I've got your number
Koontz, Dean: 77 Shadow Street
Lescroart, John: Hunter
MacIntyre, Linden: Why Men Lie
Margolin, Phillip: Capital Murder
McCall Smith, Alexander: Limpopop Academy of Private Detection
Nattel, Lilian: Web of Angels
Oates, Joyce C.: Mudwoman
Palmer, Michael: Oath of Office
Paretsky, Sarah: Breakdown
Parker, T. Jefferson: Jaguar
Patterson, James: Private Games
Patterson, Richard North: Fall from Grace
Perry, Anne: Dorchester Terrace
Perry, Thomas: Poison Flower
Picoult, Jodi: Lone Wolf
Robb, J. D.: Celebrity in Death
Rotenberg, Robert: Stray Bullets
Sawyer, Robert J.: Triggers
Scottoline, Lisa: Come Home
Sheldon, Sidney: Angel of the Dark
Steel, Danielle: Betrayal
Ward, J. R.: Lover Reborn
Woods, Stuart: D. C. Dead
Woodsmall, Cindy: Scent of Cherry Blossoms
Archer, Jeffrey: Sins of the Father
Blackstock, Terri: Downfall
Bowen, Gail: Kaleidoscope
Boyne, John: Absolutist
Brockmann, Suzanne: Born to Darkness
Chiaverini, Jennifer: Sonoma Rose
Clancy, Tom: Locked On
Clark, Carol Higgins: Gypped
Clark, Mary Higgins: Lost Years
Clark, Mary Jane: Look of Love
Coben, Harlan: Stay Close
Cox, Josephine: Three Letters
Crais, Robert: Taken
Crombie, Deborah: No Mark Upon Her
Cussler, Clive: Thief
De Rosnay, Tatiana: House I Loved
Evanovich, Janet: Love in a Nutshell
Evans, Richard Paul: Road to Grace
Ferguson, Will: 419
Gardner, Lisa: Catch Me
George, Elizabeth: Believing the Lie
Grippando, James: Need You Now
Hannah, Kristin: Home Front
Herbert, Brian: Sisterhood of the Dune
Higgins, Jack: Devil is Waiting
James, Peter: Perfect People
Jance, J. A.: Left for Dead
Kellerman, Faye: Gun Games
Kellerman, Jonathan: Victims
King, Stephen: Wind through the Keyhole
Kingsbury, Karen: Loving
Knsella, Sophoe: I've got your number
Koontz, Dean: 77 Shadow Street
Lescroart, John: Hunter
MacIntyre, Linden: Why Men Lie
Margolin, Phillip: Capital Murder
McCall Smith, Alexander: Limpopop Academy of Private Detection
Nattel, Lilian: Web of Angels
Oates, Joyce C.: Mudwoman
Palmer, Michael: Oath of Office
Paretsky, Sarah: Breakdown
Parker, T. Jefferson: Jaguar
Patterson, James: Private Games
Patterson, Richard North: Fall from Grace
Perry, Anne: Dorchester Terrace
Perry, Thomas: Poison Flower
Picoult, Jodi: Lone Wolf
Robb, J. D.: Celebrity in Death
Rotenberg, Robert: Stray Bullets
Sawyer, Robert J.: Triggers
Scottoline, Lisa: Come Home
Sheldon, Sidney: Angel of the Dark
Steel, Danielle: Betrayal
Ward, J. R.: Lover Reborn
Woods, Stuart: D. C. Dead
Woodsmall, Cindy: Scent of Cherry Blossoms
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Author Esi Edugyan takes home the Giller Prize
Put a hold on Half-Blood Blues today!
John Barber
Globe and Mail Update
Published Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2011 10:06PM EST
Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2011 11:21AM EST
Calgary-born novelist Esi Edugyan has prevailed against almost 150 other Canadian novelists to win the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth $50,000.
Clearly taken aback by her triumph, Ms. Edugyan acknowledged her fellow competitors and Patrick Crean of Thomas Allen Publishers, “who saved this book when it most needed saving” following the bankruptcy of Key Porter Books, her original publisher.
Esi Edugyan on her Giller prize win A new mother resplendent in a black gown and sparkling silver necklace, Ms. Edugyan offered special thanks to her father, Kweku, an immigrant from Ghana who brought his family to Canada in the 1970s.
“It's a great blessing to be nominated for four awards but there's also a lot of stress,” she said, adding that she hoped to relax before attending next week's ceremony to award the Governor-General's Literary Award, for which Half-Blood Blues was also nominated.
It's been just a miraculous year in all spheres of my life – an embarrassment of riches,” she said. “I could die tomorrow and everything is wonderful.”
Ms. Edugyan’s award-winning novel is narrated by a long-retired jazz sideman in 20th-century Baltimore who joins an old friend as they revisit Europe to attend the debut of a documentary film about a legendary German trumpet soloist with whom the pair toured the continent in the 1930s. Sid Griffiths deals with mixed emotions and harsh memories as he recalls the trauma of being a black musician in Hitler’s Germany, struggling to make what will become a legendary recording as war descends and fragile trumpeter Hieronymous Falk, the son of a German mother and French colonial soldier, disappears into the maw of the Nazi death machine.
Described by the Giller Prize jury as “a joyful lament,” Half-Blood Blues celebrates the persistence of genius even as it catalogues the sacrifices demanded by art, which in Sid’s case included a lifetime of guilt and regret.
Born in Calgary to Ghanian immigrants, Ms. Edugyan, 33, has enjoyed an eventful career. Currently teaching creative writing at the University of Victoria, she has also taught at Johns Hopkins University and held fellowships in Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain and Belgium.
Ms. Edugyan’s first novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published internationally to widespread praise in 2004. Its appearance set in doubt by the bankruptcy of publisher Key Porter Books earlier this year, the Canadian edition of Half-Blood Blues was revived from near-death by Thomas Allen Publishers, one of three independent Canadian publishers represented on the six-book Giller shortlist.
Ms. Edugyan won the Giller against an unusually strong list of finalists that included Patrick deWitt’s much-nominated and award-winning The Sisters Brothers, along with two other novels that have drawn glowing reviews internationally: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table and David Bezmozgis’s The Free World. Also nominated for the 2011 Giller were Lynn Coady’s novel The Antagonist and Zsuzsi Gartner’s Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, a short-story collection.
Regarded as Canada’s pre-eminent literary prize, the well-promoted and televised Scotiabank Giller Prize routinely transforms winners into bestsellers. Originally published in an edition of a few hundred copies, last year’s winner – The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud – went on to become one of the best-selling novels of the year.
This year’s prize was awarded by a three-person jury comprised of Howard Norman of the United States, Britain’s Andrew O’Hagan and Canadian novelist Annabel Lyon.
Named for literary journalist Doris Giller, the prize was founded and endowed in 1994 by her husband, Jack Rabinovitch, with the intention of drawing greater attention to Canadian literature and stimulating sales. Co-sponsored by Scotiabank since 2005, the prize has so far generated more than $60-million in book sales, according to organizers.
John Barber
Globe and Mail Update
Published Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2011 10:06PM EST
Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2011 11:21AM EST
Calgary-born novelist Esi Edugyan has prevailed against almost 150 other Canadian novelists to win the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth $50,000.
Clearly taken aback by her triumph, Ms. Edugyan acknowledged her fellow competitors and Patrick Crean of Thomas Allen Publishers, “who saved this book when it most needed saving” following the bankruptcy of Key Porter Books, her original publisher.
Esi Edugyan on her Giller prize win A new mother resplendent in a black gown and sparkling silver necklace, Ms. Edugyan offered special thanks to her father, Kweku, an immigrant from Ghana who brought his family to Canada in the 1970s.
“It's a great blessing to be nominated for four awards but there's also a lot of stress,” she said, adding that she hoped to relax before attending next week's ceremony to award the Governor-General's Literary Award, for which Half-Blood Blues was also nominated.
It's been just a miraculous year in all spheres of my life – an embarrassment of riches,” she said. “I could die tomorrow and everything is wonderful.”
Ms. Edugyan’s award-winning novel is narrated by a long-retired jazz sideman in 20th-century Baltimore who joins an old friend as they revisit Europe to attend the debut of a documentary film about a legendary German trumpet soloist with whom the pair toured the continent in the 1930s. Sid Griffiths deals with mixed emotions and harsh memories as he recalls the trauma of being a black musician in Hitler’s Germany, struggling to make what will become a legendary recording as war descends and fragile trumpeter Hieronymous Falk, the son of a German mother and French colonial soldier, disappears into the maw of the Nazi death machine.
Described by the Giller Prize jury as “a joyful lament,” Half-Blood Blues celebrates the persistence of genius even as it catalogues the sacrifices demanded by art, which in Sid’s case included a lifetime of guilt and regret.
Born in Calgary to Ghanian immigrants, Ms. Edugyan, 33, has enjoyed an eventful career. Currently teaching creative writing at the University of Victoria, she has also taught at Johns Hopkins University and held fellowships in Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain and Belgium.
Ms. Edugyan’s first novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published internationally to widespread praise in 2004. Its appearance set in doubt by the bankruptcy of publisher Key Porter Books earlier this year, the Canadian edition of Half-Blood Blues was revived from near-death by Thomas Allen Publishers, one of three independent Canadian publishers represented on the six-book Giller shortlist.
Ms. Edugyan won the Giller against an unusually strong list of finalists that included Patrick deWitt’s much-nominated and award-winning The Sisters Brothers, along with two other novels that have drawn glowing reviews internationally: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table and David Bezmozgis’s The Free World. Also nominated for the 2011 Giller were Lynn Coady’s novel The Antagonist and Zsuzsi Gartner’s Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, a short-story collection.
Regarded as Canada’s pre-eminent literary prize, the well-promoted and televised Scotiabank Giller Prize routinely transforms winners into bestsellers. Originally published in an edition of a few hundred copies, last year’s winner – The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud – went on to become one of the best-selling novels of the year.
This year’s prize was awarded by a three-person jury comprised of Howard Norman of the United States, Britain’s Andrew O’Hagan and Canadian novelist Annabel Lyon.
Named for literary journalist Doris Giller, the prize was founded and endowed in 1994 by her husband, Jack Rabinovitch, with the intention of drawing greater attention to Canadian literature and stimulating sales. Co-sponsored by Scotiabank since 2005, the prize has so far generated more than $60-million in book sales, according to organizers.
Friday, November 4, 2011
November Top Ten
Adult Books
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Affair by Lee Child
Kill Me if You can by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Lethal by Sandra Brown
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Shock Wave by John Sandford
Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
From This Moment On by Shania Twain (autobiography)
The Cats Table by Michael Ondaatje
Adult DVDs
Bridesmaids
The Kings Speech
Amish Grace
The Green Hornet
Thor
Limitless
Beastly
Jane Eyre
The Grace Card
The Tourist
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Affair by Lee Child
Kill Me if You can by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Lethal by Sandra Brown
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Shock Wave by John Sandford
Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
From This Moment On by Shania Twain (autobiography)
The Cats Table by Michael Ondaatje
Adult DVDs
Bridesmaids
The Kings Speech
Amish Grace
The Green Hornet
Thor
Limitless
Beastly
Jane Eyre
The Grace Card
The Tourist
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Put a hold on this title today!
Put a hold on this title today!
Monday, October 17, 2011
October Adult Book Group
The October Adult Book Group has been cancelled. We will meet again on November 17 to discuss Three Cups of Tea.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award
Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award
Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press
Oct 11, 2011
The celebration continues for Canadian authors Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt.
The authors are now in the running for an astonishing four literary awards apiece this fall. The latest nomination came this morning when both made the short list for the Governor General's Literary Awards.
Victoria-based Edugyan made the cut for Half-Blood Blues, about black jazz musicians trying to survive in Europe during the Second World War
DeWitt is a nominee for The Sisters Brothers, a comical western set amid the 1850s California gold rush.
Both books are already finalists for Britain's Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Toronto author and filmmaker David Bezmozgis is also on the Governor General's list with The Free World, which is also a finalist for the Giller. Other fiction authors up for this year's G-G literary awards include Edmonton's Marina Endicott for The Little Shadows and Alexi Zentner for Touch.
This is the 75th anniversary of the awards, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts and honour literature in seven categories, in both official languages.
Winners will be announced on Nov. 15.
A selection of English-language nominees for this year's Governor General's Literary Awards:
Fiction
David Bezmozgis, The Free World (HarperCollins Publishers)
Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brother (House of Anansi Press)
Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers)
Marina Endicott, The Little Shadow (Doubleday Canada)
Alexi Zentner, Touch (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Non-fiction
Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Nathan M. Greenfield, The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45 (HarperCollins Publishers)
Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891 (Random House Canada)
J.J. Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit (McClelland & Stewart)
Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (Greystone Books)
Poetry
Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic (BookThug)
Kate Eichhorn, Fieldnotes, A Forensic (BookThug)
Phil Hall, Killdeer (BookThug)
Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages (Talonbooks)
Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove (McClelland & Stewart)
Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press
Oct 11, 2011
The celebration continues for Canadian authors Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt.
The authors are now in the running for an astonishing four literary awards apiece this fall. The latest nomination came this morning when both made the short list for the Governor General's Literary Awards.
Victoria-based Edugyan made the cut for Half-Blood Blues, about black jazz musicians trying to survive in Europe during the Second World War
DeWitt is a nominee for The Sisters Brothers, a comical western set amid the 1850s California gold rush.
Both books are already finalists for Britain's Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Toronto author and filmmaker David Bezmozgis is also on the Governor General's list with The Free World, which is also a finalist for the Giller. Other fiction authors up for this year's G-G literary awards include Edmonton's Marina Endicott for The Little Shadows and Alexi Zentner for Touch.
This is the 75th anniversary of the awards, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts and honour literature in seven categories, in both official languages.
Winners will be announced on Nov. 15.
A selection of English-language nominees for this year's Governor General's Literary Awards:
Fiction
David Bezmozgis, The Free World (HarperCollins Publishers)
Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brother (House of Anansi Press)
Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers)
Marina Endicott, The Little Shadow (Doubleday Canada)
Alexi Zentner, Touch (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Non-fiction
Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Nathan M. Greenfield, The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45 (HarperCollins Publishers)
Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891 (Random House Canada)
J.J. Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit (McClelland & Stewart)
Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (Greystone Books)
Poetry
Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic (BookThug)
Kate Eichhorn, Fieldnotes, A Forensic (BookThug)
Phil Hall, Killdeer (BookThug)
Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages (Talonbooks)
Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove (McClelland & Stewart)
Thursday, October 6, 2011
October Top Ten
Books
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Affair by Lee Child
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Now You See Her by James Patterson
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
Happy Birthday by Danielle Steel
DVDs
The Kings Speech
I am Number Four
The Green Hornet
Limitless
Bridesmaids
The Lincoln Lawyer
Just go with It
No Strings Attached
Source Code
The Adjustment
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist
ABOUT THE 2011 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALISTS
Bezmozgis, David | The Free World
published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE FREE WORLD by David Bezmozgis. Copyright © 2011 by Nada Films Inc. Excerpted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"This chronicle of the Krasnansky family, Soviet-Jewish refugees are stranded in Rome, has the strange immediacy of a family album where the photographs light up and start talking. The narrative is so often pulled backward in time, it evokes Sholom Aleichem’s proverb that "In Jewish thought eternity resides in the past." But The Free World is also a very modern, very hip, intellectually intimate, electrically comic novel, all the while a passionate re-telling of the most ancient sort of immigrant story, full of vicissitudes, nerv-wracking doubt and unforeseen joys. David Bezmozgis has done the near impossible - given us a story with pointillist detail as well as historically operatic dimensions. A truly magical writer."
Biography:
David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. In 1980 he immigrated with his parents to Toronto. He received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from McGill University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Harper’s, The New Yorker and The Walrus, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, 2005. Natasha became a national bestseller and was published to widespread critical acclaim. David Bezmozgis lives in Toronto.
Coady, Lynn | The Antagonist
published by House of Anansi Press
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE ANTAGONIST by Lynn Coady. Copyright © 2011 Lynn Coady. Excerpted by permission of House of Anansi Press Inc. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. www.anansi.ca
Jury Citation:
"Lynn Coady’s novel The Antagonist is perfectly titled. Its main character, Rank, is hassled, cajoled and bullied by his hockey coach, classmates and most relentlessly by his own outlandish lout of a father into becoming a nearly twisted psychopath. Yet deep down he’s nothing of the sort. In middle age, Rank discovers a secret novel written by his university friend Adam, in which he is harshly depicted. Rank becomes a cyber-stalker, trying to correct in emails all wrongful indictments set forth in the novel. This zany epistolary life comprises one of the most eccentric and memorable autobiographies you’re likely to read. In this antagonistic tour-de-force, Ms. Coady shows us betrayal up close and personal. This author is a virtuoso of sympathetic edginess."
Biography:
Lynn Coady is an award-winning author, editor, and journalist. Her previous novels include Saints of Big Harbour, which was a national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book, and Mean Boy, a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Her popular advice column, Group Therapy, runs weekly in the Globe and Mail. Coady is originally from Cape Breton Island, NS, and is now living in Edmonton, Alberta.
deWitt, Patrick | The Sisters Brothers
published by House of Anansi Press
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick deWitt. Copyright © 2011 Patrick deWitt. Excerpted by permission of House of Anansi Press Inc. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. www.anansi.ca
Jury Citation:
"If you fear that Canadian literary fiction is becoming mortally po-faced, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers might be the perfect antidote. Combine equal parts slapstick brutality, howling humour, and prose grace; slug it back neat, brush your teeth for the first time ever with the bemused wonder of a hired assassin on a half-blind horse; and repeat. deWitt has thrown the Western up in the air and brought it down new and strange and ferociously alive."
Biography:
Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Ablutions, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son.
Edugyan, Esi | Half-Blood Blues
published by Thomas Allen Publishers
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan. Copyright © 2011 Esi Edugyan. Excerpted by permission of Thomas Allen Publishers. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"Imagine Mozart were a black German trumpet player and Salieri a bassist, and 18th century Vienna were WWII Paris; that’s Esi Edugyan’s joyful lament, Half-Blood Blues. It’s conventional to liken the prose in novels about jazz to the music itself, as though there could be no higher praise. In this case, say rather that any jazz musician would be happy to play the way Edugyan writes. Her style is deceptively conversational and easy, but with the simultaneous exuberance and discipline of a true prodigy. Put this book next to Louis Armstrong’s "West End Blues" - these two works of art belong together."
Biography:
Esi Edugyan has degrees from the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New American Voices 2003. Her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne was published internationally to critical acclaim. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Gartner, Zsuzsi | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
published by Hamish Hamilton Canada
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES by Zsuzsi Gartner. Copyright © Zsuzsi Gartner, 2011. Excerpted by permission of Hamish Hamilton Canada/ Penguin Group (Canada). All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"Readers who doubt the modern world is grotesque and hilarious, heart‐stopping and wild, may discover they are delighted with Zsuzsi Gartner’s wonderful collection of stories, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives. From the specifications of covetable stereo equipment to the worries of the former terrorist, from the language of IKEA to gardening as warfare, this book shows the short story form at its savage best, each story capturing, with brilliant economy and grace, not only entire worlds but whole mindsets as they explode into eloquence. Gartner is one of the supreme noticers in contemporary fiction, and with this book she has produced a rare work of wisdom and laughter"
Biography:
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth and the editor of Darwin’s Bastard’s: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. She is the winner of a 2007 National Magazine Award for Fiction and the recipient of numerous awards for her magazine journalism. She lives in Vancouver.
Ondaatje, Michael | The Cat's Table
published by McClelland & Stewart
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje. Copyright © 2011 by Michael Ondaatje. Excerpted by permission of McClelland & Stewart. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"A beautiful mingling of memory and imagination takes place in Michael Ondaatje’s novel The Cat’s Table. It is the early 1950s, and a passenger ship, the Oronsay, makes its way to England over the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean. On board is our 11-year-old narrator Michael, who eats his meals at the unglamorous cat’s table, where he joins a group of boys and adult eccentrics, all of whom have stories to tell and lives to live, or live down. The journey will change them all in ways that only time will tell. A mature, shimmering work of fiction, Ondaatje’s novel is rich in images, precise in its language, and wise about the way people can be haunted by their own experience."
Biography:
Michael Ondaatje is the author of novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film, and 11 books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize; another of his novels, Anil’s Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Medicis
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Bezmozgis, David | The Free World
published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE FREE WORLD by David Bezmozgis. Copyright © 2011 by Nada Films Inc. Excerpted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"This chronicle of the Krasnansky family, Soviet-Jewish refugees are stranded in Rome, has the strange immediacy of a family album where the photographs light up and start talking. The narrative is so often pulled backward in time, it evokes Sholom Aleichem’s proverb that "In Jewish thought eternity resides in the past." But The Free World is also a very modern, very hip, intellectually intimate, electrically comic novel, all the while a passionate re-telling of the most ancient sort of immigrant story, full of vicissitudes, nerv-wracking doubt and unforeseen joys. David Bezmozgis has done the near impossible - given us a story with pointillist detail as well as historically operatic dimensions. A truly magical writer."
Biography:
David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. In 1980 he immigrated with his parents to Toronto. He received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from McGill University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Harper’s, The New Yorker and The Walrus, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, 2005. Natasha became a national bestseller and was published to widespread critical acclaim. David Bezmozgis lives in Toronto.
Coady, Lynn | The Antagonist
published by House of Anansi Press
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE ANTAGONIST by Lynn Coady. Copyright © 2011 Lynn Coady. Excerpted by permission of House of Anansi Press Inc. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. www.anansi.ca
Jury Citation:
"Lynn Coady’s novel The Antagonist is perfectly titled. Its main character, Rank, is hassled, cajoled and bullied by his hockey coach, classmates and most relentlessly by his own outlandish lout of a father into becoming a nearly twisted psychopath. Yet deep down he’s nothing of the sort. In middle age, Rank discovers a secret novel written by his university friend Adam, in which he is harshly depicted. Rank becomes a cyber-stalker, trying to correct in emails all wrongful indictments set forth in the novel. This zany epistolary life comprises one of the most eccentric and memorable autobiographies you’re likely to read. In this antagonistic tour-de-force, Ms. Coady shows us betrayal up close and personal. This author is a virtuoso of sympathetic edginess."
Biography:
Lynn Coady is an award-winning author, editor, and journalist. Her previous novels include Saints of Big Harbour, which was a national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book, and Mean Boy, a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Her popular advice column, Group Therapy, runs weekly in the Globe and Mail. Coady is originally from Cape Breton Island, NS, and is now living in Edmonton, Alberta.
deWitt, Patrick | The Sisters Brothers
published by House of Anansi Press
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick deWitt. Copyright © 2011 Patrick deWitt. Excerpted by permission of House of Anansi Press Inc. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. www.anansi.ca
Jury Citation:
"If you fear that Canadian literary fiction is becoming mortally po-faced, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers might be the perfect antidote. Combine equal parts slapstick brutality, howling humour, and prose grace; slug it back neat, brush your teeth for the first time ever with the bemused wonder of a hired assassin on a half-blind horse; and repeat. deWitt has thrown the Western up in the air and brought it down new and strange and ferociously alive."
Biography:
Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Ablutions, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son.
Edugyan, Esi | Half-Blood Blues
published by Thomas Allen Publishers
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan. Copyright © 2011 Esi Edugyan. Excerpted by permission of Thomas Allen Publishers. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"Imagine Mozart were a black German trumpet player and Salieri a bassist, and 18th century Vienna were WWII Paris; that’s Esi Edugyan’s joyful lament, Half-Blood Blues. It’s conventional to liken the prose in novels about jazz to the music itself, as though there could be no higher praise. In this case, say rather that any jazz musician would be happy to play the way Edugyan writes. Her style is deceptively conversational and easy, but with the simultaneous exuberance and discipline of a true prodigy. Put this book next to Louis Armstrong’s "West End Blues" - these two works of art belong together."
Biography:
Esi Edugyan has degrees from the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New American Voices 2003. Her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne was published internationally to critical acclaim. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Gartner, Zsuzsi | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
published by Hamish Hamilton Canada
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES by Zsuzsi Gartner. Copyright © Zsuzsi Gartner, 2011. Excerpted by permission of Hamish Hamilton Canada/ Penguin Group (Canada). All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"Readers who doubt the modern world is grotesque and hilarious, heart‐stopping and wild, may discover they are delighted with Zsuzsi Gartner’s wonderful collection of stories, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives. From the specifications of covetable stereo equipment to the worries of the former terrorist, from the language of IKEA to gardening as warfare, this book shows the short story form at its savage best, each story capturing, with brilliant economy and grace, not only entire worlds but whole mindsets as they explode into eloquence. Gartner is one of the supreme noticers in contemporary fiction, and with this book she has produced a rare work of wisdom and laughter"
Biography:
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth and the editor of Darwin’s Bastard’s: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. She is the winner of a 2007 National Magazine Award for Fiction and the recipient of numerous awards for her magazine journalism. She lives in Vancouver.
Ondaatje, Michael | The Cat's Table
published by McClelland & Stewart
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje. Copyright © 2011 by Michael Ondaatje. Excerpted by permission of McClelland & Stewart. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Jury Citation:
"A beautiful mingling of memory and imagination takes place in Michael Ondaatje’s novel The Cat’s Table. It is the early 1950s, and a passenger ship, the Oronsay, makes its way to England over the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean. On board is our 11-year-old narrator Michael, who eats his meals at the unglamorous cat’s table, where he joins a group of boys and adult eccentrics, all of whom have stories to tell and lives to live, or live down. The journey will change them all in ways that only time will tell. A mature, shimmering work of fiction, Ondaatje’s novel is rich in images, precise in its language, and wise about the way people can be haunted by their own experience."
Biography:
Michael Ondaatje is the author of novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film, and 11 books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize; another of his novels, Anil’s Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Medicis
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Author Evening - October 17
The Lincoln Public Library will be hosting an Author Evening on October 17 as part of its 2011 Ontario Public Library Week celebrations.
Sandra Orchard, author of Deep Cover, part of the Harlequin Love Inspired series, will be reading from her works and Elizabeth Mittler, freelance writer will talk about the writing process.
The Author Evening will be held at the Lincoln Centre, 4361 Central Ave. in Beamsville. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. with light refreshments and live jazz music. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 in advance at both Library locations and $10 at the door.
For more details, go to the Library's website - www.lincoln.library.on.ca or contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Sandra Orchard, author of Deep Cover, part of the Harlequin Love Inspired series, will be reading from her works and Elizabeth Mittler, freelance writer will talk about the writing process.
The Author Evening will be held at the Lincoln Centre, 4361 Central Ave. in Beamsville. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. with light refreshments and live jazz music. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 in advance at both Library locations and $10 at the door.
For more details, go to the Library's website - www.lincoln.library.on.ca or contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Friday, September 16, 2011
October Book Group Title
The Adult Book Group will be reading the Three Cups of Tea for the October adult book club meeting on Thursday October 20 at 1:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Beamsville library.
For more information, call Jill at 905-563-7014.
For more information, call Jill at 905-563-7014.
Monday, September 12, 2011
September Top Ten
Adult Books
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Steig Larsson
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Legacy by Danielle Steel
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Room by Emma Donoghue
Adult DVDs
The Kings Speech
The Green Hornet
I am Number Four
Gnomeo & Juliet
Just Go With It
The Adjustment Bureau
The Tourist
L:imitless
No Strings Attached
True Grit
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Steig Larsson
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Legacy by Danielle Steel
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Room by Emma Donoghue
Adult DVDs
The Kings Speech
The Green Hornet
I am Number Four
Gnomeo & Juliet
Just Go With It
The Adjustment Bureau
The Tourist
L:imitless
No Strings Attached
True Grit
Thursday, September 8, 2011
2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Long list
SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2011 ANNOUNCES ITS LONGLIST
September 6, 2011 (Toronto, ON) – The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury today announced its longlist of books in the running for this year’s award. The jury selected 16 titles out of 143 books – a record-setting number of submissions – put forward by 55 publishers from every region of Canada.
This year’s jury is made up of: award-winning Canadian writer and 2009 Giller finalist Annabel Lyon; American author, memoirist and Guggenheim fellow Howard Norman; and acclaimed UK playwright and prize-winning novelist Andrew O’Hagan.
Two thousand and eleven marks the 18th year of the prize.
The 143 books of fiction received this year represent a nearly 50% increase in submissions received in any other year since the prize was incepted in 1994.
From a large and highly competitive field, the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury selected the following titles for this year’s longlist:
David Bezmozgis for his novel THE FREE WORLD, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Clarke Blaise for his short story collection THE MEAGRE TARMAC, Biblioasis
Lynn Coady for her novel THE ANTAGONIST, House of Anansi Press
Michael Christie for his short story collection THE BEGGAR’S GARDEN, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Patrick DeWitt for his novel THE SISTERS BROTHERS, House of Anansi Press
*Myrna Dey for her novel EXTENSIONS, NeWest Press
Esi Edugyan for her novel HALF-BLOOD BLUES, Thomas Allen Publishers
Marina Endicott for her novel THE LITTLE SHADOWS, Doubleday Canada
Zsuzsi Gartner for her short story collection BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES, Hamish Hamilton Canada
Genni Gunn for her novel SOLITARIA, Signature Editions
Pauline Holdstock for her novel INTO THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Wayne Johnston for his novel A WORLD ELSEWHERE, Knopf Canada
Dany Laferrière for his novel THE RETURN (translation, David Homel), Douglas & McIntyre
Suzette Mayr for her novel MONOCEROS, Coach House Books
Michael Ondaatje for his novel THE CAT’S TABLE, McClelland & Stewart
Guy Vanderhaeghe for his novel A GOOD MAN, McClelland & Stewart
Alexi Zentner for his novel TOUCH, Knopf Canada
September 6, 2011 (Toronto, ON) – The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury today announced its longlist of books in the running for this year’s award. The jury selected 16 titles out of 143 books – a record-setting number of submissions – put forward by 55 publishers from every region of Canada.
This year’s jury is made up of: award-winning Canadian writer and 2009 Giller finalist Annabel Lyon; American author, memoirist and Guggenheim fellow Howard Norman; and acclaimed UK playwright and prize-winning novelist Andrew O’Hagan.
Two thousand and eleven marks the 18th year of the prize.
The 143 books of fiction received this year represent a nearly 50% increase in submissions received in any other year since the prize was incepted in 1994.
From a large and highly competitive field, the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury selected the following titles for this year’s longlist:
David Bezmozgis for his novel THE FREE WORLD, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Clarke Blaise for his short story collection THE MEAGRE TARMAC, Biblioasis
Lynn Coady for her novel THE ANTAGONIST, House of Anansi Press
Michael Christie for his short story collection THE BEGGAR’S GARDEN, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Patrick DeWitt for his novel THE SISTERS BROTHERS, House of Anansi Press
*Myrna Dey for her novel EXTENSIONS, NeWest Press
Esi Edugyan for her novel HALF-BLOOD BLUES, Thomas Allen Publishers
Marina Endicott for her novel THE LITTLE SHADOWS, Doubleday Canada
Zsuzsi Gartner for her short story collection BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES, Hamish Hamilton Canada
Genni Gunn for her novel SOLITARIA, Signature Editions
Pauline Holdstock for her novel INTO THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Wayne Johnston for his novel A WORLD ELSEWHERE, Knopf Canada
Dany Laferrière for his novel THE RETURN (translation, David Homel), Douglas & McIntyre
Suzette Mayr for her novel MONOCEROS, Coach House Books
Michael Ondaatje for his novel THE CAT’S TABLE, McClelland & Stewart
Guy Vanderhaeghe for his novel A GOOD MAN, McClelland & Stewart
Alexi Zentner for his novel TOUCH, Knopf Canada
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
September Adult Book Discussion Group
The next Adult Book Discussion Group meeting will take place Thursday September 15 at 1:30 p.m.
This month's topic is 'Summer Reading'.
For more information or to join contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
This month's topic is 'Summer Reading'.
For more information or to join contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Pottermore Website
Pottermore is an exciting new website from J.K. Rowling that can be enjoyed alongside the Harry Potter books. You can explore the stories like never before and discover exclusive new writing from the author. It is FREE to join and use, and is designed to be safe for people of all ages.
http://www.pottermore.com/
http://www.pottermore.com/
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Author Reading Series
The next Lincoln Public Library author reading series will take place on October 17 at the Lincoln Centre.
Please mark this date on your calendar. We will have more information very soon on the authors coming to Lincoln!
Please mark this date on your calendar. We will have more information very soon on the authors coming to Lincoln!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
August Top Ten
BOOKS
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Room by Emma Donoghue
Now You See Her by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson
Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
DVDs
The King's Speech
The Green Hornet
The Tourist
I am Number Four
Just Go with It
True Grit
No Strings Attached
Gnomeo & Juliet
Country Strong
Black Swan
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Room by Emma Donoghue
Now You See Her by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson
Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
DVDs
The King's Speech
The Green Hornet
The Tourist
I am Number Four
Just Go with It
True Grit
No Strings Attached
Gnomeo & Juliet
Country Strong
Black Swan
Jane Austen Book Group
A member of the community would like to start a Jane Austen Book Group in Lincoln which will be hosted at the library.
If you are interested, please contact Jill at the Fleming Library - 905-563-7014 or nicholson@lincoln.library.on.ca
If you are interested, please contact Jill at the Fleming Library - 905-563-7014 or nicholson@lincoln.library.on.ca
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Best books for the beach
Nathalie Atkinson The Afterword National Post Jul 21, 2011 – 8:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Jul 20, 2011 6:21 PM ET
This is your brain. This is your brain on summer.
This week, Tuesday’s #gno (the “girls night out” hashtag used by moms to denote their weekly Twitter klatsch) turned to the topic of summer reading. Kyran Pittman, a Canadian writer I profiled a few months ago, weighed in that she was bunking up with Austen and offered a pithy summary of why you should leave the likes of Faulkner on the shelf. “I sometimes feel like I’m the last believer in fallow time. Brains need to drain, in my opinion.”
Fallow, not shallow. I’m not wading into the commercial vs. literature debate, genre vs. Important Books By Important Authors. I draw no lines in the hot sand. The formula is more along the lines of whether, in combination with plentiful sunshine, leisure and a view of the lake, the book still sucks you in with its particular magic. It needs to be more immersive than an RPG or as buoyant as a Weezer song. Juicy, rather than meaty. Put another way: Even Booker Prize winners sometimes need to take a break.
Novelist John Banville (who won the Booker in 2005 for The Sea) also writes 1950s Dublin noirs under a pen name. Banville’s fourth and latest Benjamin Black novel is A Death in Summer and concerns a Dublin heat wave and his alcoholic gumshoe Dr. Garret Quirke, a consulting pathologist with the Dublin city morgue. Banville is known for his dense, complex use of language; as Black, he gets to loosen up and play, although the poetry is still unmistakable.
“Everything was shimmering in the heat out there and he could almost taste the cindery dust in the air, and the river had a bilious stink that no thickness of grimed glass could shut out.”
Summer reading is about pleasure, none of it guilty, and never more than in July am I solicited for book recommendations. Before you ask, though, I generally start by suggesting the Meg Wolitzer back list — especially The Position, then The Wife. Then I get specific. Cottage weekend with the girls? Beneath a Starlet Sky, the latest beach read co-written by longtime besties Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper (daughter of the late actor Dennis Hopper).
Day at the beach near a friend’s summer share? A bit of enjoyable fluff, actually called Summer Rental, by Mary Kay Andrews. Have a whole week? Pack the black comedy Laura Rider’s Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton, a couple of Gyles Brandreth’s clever period series or Felix Palma’s The Map of Time, an inventive mind-bending adventure of Victorian time travel — it’s what would happen if Jasper Fforde and H.G. Wells teamed up on Sherlockian steampunk screenplay of The Time Traveler’s Wife.
I’m not alone in my list-making. No other reading season gets this particular sort of red carpet treatment — the genre lists of surefire police procedurals, estrogen- and recipe-fuelled cozies, and the many microsites touting titles both high-minded and lowbrow. O, The Oprah Magazine’s summer reading list includes an intriguing one — The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin, a lush historical novel that seems perfect for the devotees of PBS’s Downton Abbey series now suffering from withdrawal. It’s also got a crowd-pleaser in David Nicholls’ sleeper hit One Day.
Heather’s Picks, the guaranteed good reads personally anointed by Chapters & Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, also lightens up for the summer, cherry-picking recent selections from Shania Twain’s hefty autobio and Esquire’s cookbook for men to Robert Rotenberg’s latest legal thriller and a sassy helping of Janet Evanovich.
For arts writers, summer is about reading ahead and playing catch-up on missed titles — though you can bet it won’t include that RRSP guide I’ve been meaning to get to. Mea maxima culpa: I still haven’t cracked any Harry Potter, let alone The Hunger Games.
I’ll also be skipping the supposedly chilling crime novel The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (the pseudonym of a Swedish literary couple) and going to J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine instead. People have rhapsodized about it for several weeks, bragging about playing hooky from work to finish it. Next, it will be The God of Greenwich by Norb Vonnegut, a novel about the hedge fund kinds of Connecticut. Vonnegut is a former Wall Street stockbroker and his gift for portraying certain social sets positions him as a satirical heir apparent to Louis Auchincloss. I might even have a peek at The Girl With the Sturgeon Tattoo parody. I’m leaving the books that feel like homework to October. Or Labour Day, at least.
I’m not Ms. Reisman so I can’t offer you a money-back guarantee, but here are five guaranteed good summer reads, of recent vintage:
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
Someday This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman
The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
This is your brain. This is your brain on summer.
This week, Tuesday’s #gno (the “girls night out” hashtag used by moms to denote their weekly Twitter klatsch) turned to the topic of summer reading. Kyran Pittman, a Canadian writer I profiled a few months ago, weighed in that she was bunking up with Austen and offered a pithy summary of why you should leave the likes of Faulkner on the shelf. “I sometimes feel like I’m the last believer in fallow time. Brains need to drain, in my opinion.”
Fallow, not shallow. I’m not wading into the commercial vs. literature debate, genre vs. Important Books By Important Authors. I draw no lines in the hot sand. The formula is more along the lines of whether, in combination with plentiful sunshine, leisure and a view of the lake, the book still sucks you in with its particular magic. It needs to be more immersive than an RPG or as buoyant as a Weezer song. Juicy, rather than meaty. Put another way: Even Booker Prize winners sometimes need to take a break.
Novelist John Banville (who won the Booker in 2005 for The Sea) also writes 1950s Dublin noirs under a pen name. Banville’s fourth and latest Benjamin Black novel is A Death in Summer and concerns a Dublin heat wave and his alcoholic gumshoe Dr. Garret Quirke, a consulting pathologist with the Dublin city morgue. Banville is known for his dense, complex use of language; as Black, he gets to loosen up and play, although the poetry is still unmistakable.
“Everything was shimmering in the heat out there and he could almost taste the cindery dust in the air, and the river had a bilious stink that no thickness of grimed glass could shut out.”
Summer reading is about pleasure, none of it guilty, and never more than in July am I solicited for book recommendations. Before you ask, though, I generally start by suggesting the Meg Wolitzer back list — especially The Position, then The Wife. Then I get specific. Cottage weekend with the girls? Beneath a Starlet Sky, the latest beach read co-written by longtime besties Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper (daughter of the late actor Dennis Hopper).
Day at the beach near a friend’s summer share? A bit of enjoyable fluff, actually called Summer Rental, by Mary Kay Andrews. Have a whole week? Pack the black comedy Laura Rider’s Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton, a couple of Gyles Brandreth’s clever period series or Felix Palma’s The Map of Time, an inventive mind-bending adventure of Victorian time travel — it’s what would happen if Jasper Fforde and H.G. Wells teamed up on Sherlockian steampunk screenplay of The Time Traveler’s Wife.
I’m not alone in my list-making. No other reading season gets this particular sort of red carpet treatment — the genre lists of surefire police procedurals, estrogen- and recipe-fuelled cozies, and the many microsites touting titles both high-minded and lowbrow. O, The Oprah Magazine’s summer reading list includes an intriguing one — The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin, a lush historical novel that seems perfect for the devotees of PBS’s Downton Abbey series now suffering from withdrawal. It’s also got a crowd-pleaser in David Nicholls’ sleeper hit One Day.
Heather’s Picks, the guaranteed good reads personally anointed by Chapters & Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, also lightens up for the summer, cherry-picking recent selections from Shania Twain’s hefty autobio and Esquire’s cookbook for men to Robert Rotenberg’s latest legal thriller and a sassy helping of Janet Evanovich.
For arts writers, summer is about reading ahead and playing catch-up on missed titles — though you can bet it won’t include that RRSP guide I’ve been meaning to get to. Mea maxima culpa: I still haven’t cracked any Harry Potter, let alone The Hunger Games.
I’ll also be skipping the supposedly chilling crime novel The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (the pseudonym of a Swedish literary couple) and going to J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine instead. People have rhapsodized about it for several weeks, bragging about playing hooky from work to finish it. Next, it will be The God of Greenwich by Norb Vonnegut, a novel about the hedge fund kinds of Connecticut. Vonnegut is a former Wall Street stockbroker and his gift for portraying certain social sets positions him as a satirical heir apparent to Louis Auchincloss. I might even have a peek at The Girl With the Sturgeon Tattoo parody. I’m leaving the books that feel like homework to October. Or Labour Day, at least.
I’m not Ms. Reisman so I can’t offer you a money-back guarantee, but here are five guaranteed good summer reads, of recent vintage:
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
Someday This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman
The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
Friday, July 8, 2011
New British DVDs
Check out our new selection of British DVDs.
Come of the new titles include:
Demob starring Martin Clunes (Doc Martin)
Dirty Tricks starring Martin Clunes
Flame Trees of Thila starring Hayley Mills
The Royal Wedding - William and Catherine
The Ricky Gervais Show
MI-5 - Season 8
Minder - Season 4 and 5
Come of the new titles include:
Demob starring Martin Clunes (Doc Martin)
Dirty Tricks starring Martin Clunes
Flame Trees of Thila starring Hayley Mills
The Royal Wedding - William and Catherine
The Ricky Gervais Show
MI-5 - Season 8
Minder - Season 4 and 5
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Mango introduces Canadian French
Are you travelling to Quebec, Ottawa or New Brunswick this summer? Brush up on your French by practicing with Mango's new Canadian French option.
Mango is a great way to learn Spanish, Italian, German and many more languages.
Check the database section of the Library's website to log into Mango.
Mango is a great way to learn Spanish, Italian, German and many more languages.
Check the database section of the Library's website to log into Mango.
Monday, July 4, 2011
July Top Ten
Adult Fiction
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson,
Room by Emma Donoghue
Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
From this Moment On by Shania Twain
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
DVDs
The Kings Speech
The Tourist
The Green Hornet
Black Swan
Country Strong
I am Number Four
Just go with It
Secretariat
Gnomeo & Juliet
No Strings Attached
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson,
Room by Emma Donoghue
Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
From this Moment On by Shania Twain
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
DVDs
The Kings Speech
The Tourist
The Green Hornet
Black Swan
Country Strong
I am Number Four
Just go with It
Secretariat
Gnomeo & Juliet
No Strings Attached
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
June Top Ten
Top Ten Books
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Room by Emma Donoghue
Buried Prey by John Sandford
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
Top Ten DVDs
The King's Speech
The Tourist
Black Swan
Secretariat
Love & Other Drugs
Country Strong
Tangled
The Switch
Life As We Know It
The Fighter
Knight and Day
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Room by Emma Donoghue
Buried Prey by John Sandford
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
Top Ten DVDs
The King's Speech
The Tourist
Black Swan
Secretariat
Love & Other Drugs
Country Strong
Tangled
The Switch
Life As We Know It
The Fighter
Knight and Day
Lilian Jackson Braun
Lilian Jackson Braun, author of the award-winning Cat Who ... mystery series, passed away June 4 at the age of 97. Braun wrote 29 novels starring Jim Qwilleran and his mystery-solving Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
June Adult Book Group
The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will take place Thursday June 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Fleming Library in Beamsville. We will continue with the 'Influential Women' topic.
New members are always welcome. For more information, contact Jill at the Fleming Library, 905-563-7014.
New members are always welcome. For more information, contact Jill at the Fleming Library, 905-563-7014.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Philip Roth wins Man Booker Prize
Philip Roth, the American author whose career spans 50 years and includes a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and the controversial novel Portnoy's Complaint, was awarded the $100,000 Man Booker Prize on Wednesday in Sydney.
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years to a living writer for overall contribution to fiction. It is connected to but separate from the better-known Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which is awarded each year for a specific book.
Roth beat 12 other short-listed authors, including Britain's John le Carre, Australia's David Malouf and Canadian Rohinton Mistry.
Mistry, who emigrated to Canada from India in 1975, is the author of three novels, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Such a Long Journey (1991) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governer General's Award. A Fine Balance (1996) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Giller Prize. Family Matters (2002) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002.
The prize will be officially presented at a dinner in London in June.
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years to a living writer for overall contribution to fiction. It is connected to but separate from the better-known Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which is awarded each year for a specific book.
Roth beat 12 other short-listed authors, including Britain's John le Carre, Australia's David Malouf and Canadian Rohinton Mistry.
Mistry, who emigrated to Canada from India in 1975, is the author of three novels, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Such a Long Journey (1991) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governer General's Award. A Fine Balance (1996) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Giller Prize. Family Matters (2002) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002.
The prize will be officially presented at a dinner in London in June.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Adult Book Group
The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will take place Thursday May 19 at 1:30 p.m. at the Fleming Library, Beamsville. This month's topic is "Women Who Made a Difference".
New members are also welcome. For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
New members are also welcome. For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
May Top Ten
Top Ten DVDs
Secretariat
the King's Speech
The Switch
Black Swan
Life As We Know It
You Again
Knight and Day
Tangled
The Tourist
Tron
Top Ten Books
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Toys by James Patterson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Room by Emma Donoghue
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel
Secretariat
the King's Speech
The Switch
Black Swan
Life As We Know It
You Again
Knight and Day
Tangled
The Tourist
Tron
Top Ten Books
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Toys by James Patterson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Room by Emma Donoghue
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
May Adult Book Group
The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will be held May 19 at 1:30 in the meeting room of the Fleming Library in Beamsville. The topic is 'Influential Women'. New members are welcome.
For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
New Overbooks ebooks purchased
A number of Lincoln only Overdrive books have recently been purchased. The titles include: The Help, Deadlock, Devious, the Land of Painted Caves and the Wild Zone.
Check them out today!
Check them out today!
Monday, April 18, 2011
60 Minutes Expose on Greg Mortenson
A 60 Minutes investigation alleges that the inspirational multimillion seller Three Cups of Tea is filled with inaccuracies and that co-author Greg Mortenson's charitable organization has taken credit for building schools that don't exist.
The report, which airs Sunday night on CBS television, cites Into the Wild author Jon Krakauer as among the doubters of Mortenson's story of being lost in 1993 while mountain climbing in rural Pakistan and stumbling upon the village of Korphe, where the kindness of local residents inspired him to build a school.
The 60 Minutes story draws upon observations from the porters who joined Mortenson on his mountain trip in Pakistan and dispute his being lost. They say he only visited Korphe a year later.
The 60 Minutes report alleges that numerous schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan that Mortenson's Central Asia Institute is said to have established either don't exist or were built by others. According to the CAI's website, the institute has "successfully established over 170 schools" and helped educate over 68,000 students, with an emphasis on girls' education."
Author defends book
In a statement issued Friday through the institute, Mortenson defended the book he co-authored with David Oliver Relinhis, and his humanitarian work.
"Afghanistan and Pakistan are fascinating, inspiring countries, full of wonderful people. They are also complex places, torn by conflicting loyalties, and some who do not want our mission of educating girls to succeed," Mortenson said.
"I stand by the information conveyed in my book and by the value of CAI's work in empowering local communities to build and operate schools that have educated more than 60,000 students. I continue to be heartened by the many messages of support I receive from our local partners in cities and villages across Afghanistan and Pakistan, who are determined not to let unjustified attacks stop the important work being done to create a better future for their children."
Three Cups of Tea was released by Penguin in 2006. Spokeswoman Carolyn Coleburn declined comment, saying the publisher had not seen the 60 Minutes story. The book sold moderately in hardcover, but was a word-of-mouth hit as a paperback and became an international sensation, selling more than 3 million copies.
Mortenson has received numerous honors, including the Sitara-e-Pakistan (Star of Pakistan), a civilian award rarely given to foreigners.
(From a report on cbc.ca)
The report, which airs Sunday night on CBS television, cites Into the Wild author Jon Krakauer as among the doubters of Mortenson's story of being lost in 1993 while mountain climbing in rural Pakistan and stumbling upon the village of Korphe, where the kindness of local residents inspired him to build a school.
The 60 Minutes story draws upon observations from the porters who joined Mortenson on his mountain trip in Pakistan and dispute his being lost. They say he only visited Korphe a year later.
The 60 Minutes report alleges that numerous schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan that Mortenson's Central Asia Institute is said to have established either don't exist or were built by others. According to the CAI's website, the institute has "successfully established over 170 schools" and helped educate over 68,000 students, with an emphasis on girls' education."
Author defends book
In a statement issued Friday through the institute, Mortenson defended the book he co-authored with David Oliver Relinhis, and his humanitarian work.
"Afghanistan and Pakistan are fascinating, inspiring countries, full of wonderful people. They are also complex places, torn by conflicting loyalties, and some who do not want our mission of educating girls to succeed," Mortenson said.
"I stand by the information conveyed in my book and by the value of CAI's work in empowering local communities to build and operate schools that have educated more than 60,000 students. I continue to be heartened by the many messages of support I receive from our local partners in cities and villages across Afghanistan and Pakistan, who are determined not to let unjustified attacks stop the important work being done to create a better future for their children."
Three Cups of Tea was released by Penguin in 2006. Spokeswoman Carolyn Coleburn declined comment, saying the publisher had not seen the 60 Minutes story. The book sold moderately in hardcover, but was a word-of-mouth hit as a paperback and became an international sensation, selling more than 3 million copies.
Mortenson has received numerous honors, including the Sitara-e-Pakistan (Star of Pakistan), a civilian award rarely given to foreigners.
(From a report on cbc.ca)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Tickets still available for Monday's Author Reading
A reminder that there are still tickets available for the reading on Monday April 11. You will still get the discounted price of $7 if you come to the library before 7:00 p.m. tomorrow.
Dr. Ross Pennie will be previewing his new novel - Tampered which is coming out in May. The on order record is in the online catalogue, so put your hold on now for this great read!
There will also be great prizes to be won from many local businesses.
This is will be a great evening. Come support our local authors!
Dr. Ross Pennie will be previewing his new novel - Tampered which is coming out in May. The on order record is in the online catalogue, so put your hold on now for this great read!
There will also be great prizes to be won from many local businesses.
This is will be a great evening. Come support our local authors!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
April Top Ten
DVDs
Secretariat
Salt
The American
Dinner for Schmucks
Life as We Know It
Knight and Day
The Switch
Unstoppable
The Social Network
Despicable Me
Adult Fiction
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Secret D aughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Tick Tock by James Patterson
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Legacy by Danielle Steel
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Secretariat
Salt
The American
Dinner for Schmucks
Life as We Know It
Knight and Day
The Switch
Unstoppable
The Social Network
Despicable Me
Adult Fiction
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Secret D aughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Tick Tock by James Patterson
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Legacy by Danielle Steel
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Monday, April 4, 2011
Reminder - Tickets Still Available - April 11 Author Reading
A reminder that tickets are still available for the Lincoln Public Library's "An Evening with Authors" on Monday April 11 at the Lincoln Centre, Central Ave. in Beamsville.
Join Ross Pennie, author of "Tainted" and Eleanor Johnston, author of the "Blessing Game" as they read from locally themed mysteries.
Door open at 7:00 p.m. and the reading begins at 7:30.
Tickets are $7 in advance from both library locations and $10 at the door.
Proceeds will benefit the Lincoln Public Library.
For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Join Ross Pennie, author of "Tainted" and Eleanor Johnston, author of the "Blessing Game" as they read from locally themed mysteries.
Door open at 7:00 p.m. and the reading begins at 7:30.
Tickets are $7 in advance from both library locations and $10 at the door.
Proceeds will benefit the Lincoln Public Library.
For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Friday, April 1, 2011
New Overdrive ebooks
The Lincoln Public Library has purchased some Overdrive ebooks that are available only to Lincoln patrons. Check out the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or the Secret Daughter from these newly acquired ebooks. More will be coming in the near future.
Just go to the database section of the website, and then into Overdrive.
Why not try some of the library's free ebooks on your Kobo or Sony Reader!
Just go to the database section of the website, and then into Overdrive.
Why not try some of the library's free ebooks on your Kobo or Sony Reader!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
April Adult Book Group
The Adult Book Group will be meeting Thursday April 21, 1:30 p.m. at the Beamsville Library. We will be looking at Medical Biographies again due to the CEO's absence at the last meeting.
New members are always welcome!
For more information, call Jill at 905-563-7014.
New members are always welcome!
For more information, call Jill at 905-563-7014.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Author Evening - April 11
There are still tickets available for the Lincoln Public Library's special Author Evening.
Dr Ross Pennie, the author of Tainted, and Eleanor Johnson, author of Blessing Game, will be reading from their works on Monday April 11. Doors open and refreshments are available at 7:00 p.m. and the reading starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $7 in advance and are available at both the Rittenhouse and Fleming Libraries. They will also be available at the door for $10.
For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Dr Ross Pennie, the author of Tainted, and Eleanor Johnson, author of Blessing Game, will be reading from their works on Monday April 11. Doors open and refreshments are available at 7:00 p.m. and the reading starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $7 in advance and are available at both the Rittenhouse and Fleming Libraries. They will also be available at the door for $10.
For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
March Adult Book Group
The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will take place Thursday March 17, 1:30 p.m. at the Fleming (Beamsville) Library. This month's topic is Medical Biographies.
For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
March 2011 Top Ten DVDs and Books
Top Ten DVDs
Salt
The Social Network
Dinner for Schmucks
The American
Knight and Day
Toy Story 3
Despicable Me
Inception
Eat Pray Love
When in Rome
Top Ten Books
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsso
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda,
The Confession by John Grisham
Bad Blood by John Sandford
Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
Legacy by Danielle Steel
Salt
The Social Network
Dinner for Schmucks
The American
Knight and Day
Toy Story 3
Despicable Me
Inception
Eat Pray Love
When in Rome
Top Ten Books
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsso
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda,
The Confession by John Grisham
Bad Blood by John Sandford
Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
Legacy by Danielle Steel
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Canada Reads Winner - Best Laid Plans
After much vigourous discussion, the winner of the 2011 Canada Reads is Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
February Top Ten
Top Ten Books
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Grisham, John - The Confession
Rivers, Francine - Her Daughter's Dream
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Child, Lee - Worth Dying For
Binchy, Maeve - Minding Frankie
Patterson, James - Tick Tock
Top Ten DVDs
Salt
Knight and Day
Eat Pray Love
Toy Story 3
The American
Dinner for Schmucks
The Other Guys
Despicable Me
The Social Network
When in Rome
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Grisham, John - The Confession
Rivers, Francine - Her Daughter's Dream
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Child, Lee - Worth Dying For
Binchy, Maeve - Minding Frankie
Patterson, James - Tick Tock
Top Ten DVDs
Salt
Knight and Day
Eat Pray Love
Toy Story 3
The American
Dinner for Schmucks
The Other Guys
Despicable Me
The Social Network
When in Rome
Monday, February 7, 2011
Canada Reads Day 1
The first book eliminated from the Canada Reads CBC Radio program was 'Essex County' by Jeff Lemire. Four out of the five defenders voted against the book.
Check out tomorrow's debate on CBC Radio 1 at 11:00 a.m. It is being streamed live on CBC.ca and broadcast live on Bold.
Check out tomorrow's debate on CBC Radio 1 at 11:00 a.m. It is being streamed live on CBC.ca and broadcast live on Bold.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Mark Your Calendar!
The Lincoln Public Library is presenting another "An Evening with Authors" on Monday April 11 at the Lincoln Centre, Central Ave. in Beamsville.
Join Ross Pennie, author of "Tainted" and Eleanor Johnston, author of the "Blessing Game" as they read from locally themed mysteries.
Door open at 7:00 p.m. and the reading begins at 7:30.
More on the evening will follow soon.
For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Join Ross Pennie, author of "Tainted" and Eleanor Johnston, author of the "Blessing Game" as they read from locally themed mysteries.
Door open at 7:00 p.m. and the reading begins at 7:30.
More on the evening will follow soon.
For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Calling All Reading Fanatics
Do you like to read? Do you like to read a wide range of books? Do you like to share your 'great reads' with others?
Then the Lincoln Public Library Book Club is for you!
If you are interested, please leave a comment on the blog. Let me know if you would prefer meeting in Beamsville or Vineland and if day or evening works best for you.
Then the Lincoln Public Library Book Club is for you!
If you are interested, please leave a comment on the blog. Let me know if you would prefer meeting in Beamsville or Vineland and if day or evening works best for you.
TumbleReadables
The Lincoln Public Library has just received a new online resource for young readers. TumbleReadables is an online collection of read-along titles for elementary and high school students which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlighted as they are being read and the pages turn automatically. There is also a selection of downable ebooks which be downloaded to laptops, netbooks and desktops and, in a few months, to Android phones and tablets.
Check the library's website in the Databases section to find these great online books for children and teens.
Check the library's website in the Databases section to find these great online books for children and teens.
Monday, January 3, 2011
January 2011 Top Ten Lists
FICTION
Gowda, Shilpi - Somaya Secret Daughter
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Grisham, John - The Confession
Rivers, Francine - Her Daughter's Dream
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Binchy, Maeve - Minding Frankie
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Sandford, John - Bad Blood
DVDS
Toy Story 3
How to Train Your Dragon
Letters to Juliet
Eat Pray Love
When in Rome
Date Night
Charlie St. Cloud
The Back-up Plan
The Karate Kid
Grown Ups
Gowda, Shilpi - Somaya Secret Daughter
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Grisham, John - The Confession
Rivers, Francine - Her Daughter's Dream
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Binchy, Maeve - Minding Frankie
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Sandford, John - Bad Blood
DVDS
Toy Story 3
How to Train Your Dragon
Letters to Juliet
Eat Pray Love
When in Rome
Date Night
Charlie St. Cloud
The Back-up Plan
The Karate Kid
Grown Ups
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