Ru
In vignettes that shift back and forth between past and present, Ru tells the story of a young woman forced to leave her Saigon home during the Vietnam War. In spare, luminous prose, Kim Thúy traces the woman's journey from childhood in an affluent Saigon neighbourhood to youth in a crowded Malaysian refugee camp and then to Quebec, where she struggles to fit in -- all aspects of the author's own life story.
In 2012, Ru was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Man Asian Literary Prize. It won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2010, and the Prix du Grand Public Salon du livre de Montréal.
Cameron Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. Previously, he was a Festival programmer for eleven years. Toronto Life has named him one of Toronto's 50 Most Influential People three years in a row. For many years, Bailey was a writer and broadcaster on film.
Kim Thúy left Vietnam as a boat person when she was ten years old. She has worked as a seamstress, an interpreter, a lawyer, a restaurant owner and chef. Her first novel, Ru, has been published in twenty countries. Her most recent novel is Mãn. Thúy lives in Montreal, where she devotes herself to writing.
Sheila Fischman is one of Canada's most celebrated translators. She has translated more than 150 Quebec novels into English, including both of Kim Thúy's novels, Ru and Mãn, as well as books by such noted authors as Gaétan Soucy, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert, Michel Tremblay and Pascale Quiviger.
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Amish Books are very popular at the Lincoln Public Library
Have you ever read any of Beverley Lewis' novels and wondered if they were any more books out there similar to her style? At the Lincoln Public Library we have a few authors that you may be interested in reading.
· Wanda E. Brunstetter
· Linda Byler
· Linda Castillo
· Vannetta Chapman
· Mindy Starns Clark
· Amy Clipston
· Lori Copeland
· Dale W Cramer
· Jerry S. Eicher
· Suzanne Woods Fisher
· Amanda Flower
· Tricia Goyer
· Shelley Gray
· B.J Hoff
· Cynthia Keller
· Irvin Kelly
· Naomi King
· Rosalind Lauer
· Beverly Lewis
· Kate Lloyd
· Beth Wiseman
· Cindy Woodsmall
Great Read Aloud Books to enjoy with your Children,
Grandchildren, Nieces & Nephews
Funny Read Alouds complied by Children's Librarians
999 Frogs Wake up by Ken Kimura
Bark George by Jules Feiffer
Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak
Hallowiener by Dav Pilkey
I'm a Shark by Bob Shea
Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
Is Everyone Ready for Fun by Jan Thomas
The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster by Alice Flaherty
Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear by Audrey Wood
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munch
Swamp Water by Robert Munch
Teacher is a Monster by Peter Brown
The Book that Eats People by John Perry
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
Those Darn Squirrels by Adam Rubin
These books are available at the Lincoln Public Library.
If you have any more suggestions, please comment!
