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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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