Did you miss any of these Best Sellers?

Did you miss any of these best sellers?

 

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
 

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (nonfiction)

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Waiting by Ha Jin

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Defending Jacob by William Landay

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

 

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

The Help by Kathryn Strockett

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

The Shack by Wm. Paul Young

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey

Trailer for Fifty Shades Released

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4nJX8snP4s#t=19 At the Lincoln Public Library, we have the Fifty Shades of Grey series. Read it before you watch the movie and make your comparison! Which is better, the book or the movie?   If you are looking for other books similar to Fifty Shades of Grey try:  Emma Holly, Sylvia Day,  Maya Banks, and Beatrice Small

Celebrate the Last Day of National Culinary Arts Month

Celebrate the Last  Day of National Culinary Arts Month with a Foodie Film Festival.

Here are some food related movies that you can check out at the Lincoln Public Library:

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

• Food Inc.

• Julie & Julia

• My Dinner with Andre

• Ratatouille

• Supersize  Me

• Waitress

 

 

 

 

 

ThrillerFest IX • July 8 - 12, 2014 • Grand Hyatt • New York City Thriller Award Winners

ThrillerFest IX • July 8 - 12, 2014 • Grand Hyatt • New York City

Thriller Award Winners

 

            Please click on the link and find out about this       

Great Conference in New York City, USA.

 http://thrillerfest.com/about/thriller-awards/

 

All the information about this award is from the above website!

 

Thriller Awards

We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2014 ITW Thriller Awards:

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
Linda Castillo – HER LAST BREATH (Minotaur Books)
Lee Child – NEVER GO BACK (Delacorte Press)
Lisa Gardner – TOUCH AND GO (Dutton Adult)
Stephen King – DOCTOR SLEEP (Scribner)
Owen Laukkanen – CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE (Putnam Adult)
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – WHITE FIRE (Grand Central Publishing)
Andrew Pyper – THE DEMONOLOGIST (Simon & Schuster)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Gwen Florio – MONTANA (Permanent Press)
J.J. Hensley – RESOLVE (Permanent Press)
Becky Masterman – RAGE AGAINST THE DYING (Minotaur Books)
Jason Matthews – RED SPARROW (Scribner)
Carla Norton – THE EDGE OF NORMAL (Minotaur Books)
Hank Steinberg – OUT OF RANGE (William Morrow)
Dick Wolf – THE INTERCEPT (Harper)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Allison Brennan – COLD SNAP (Minotaur Books)
Kendra Elliot – BURIED (Montlake Romance)
Susan Elia MacNeal – HIS MAJESTY’S HOPE (Bantam)
Jennifer McMahon – THE ONE I LEFT BEHIND (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Nele Neuhaus – SNOW WHITE MUST DIE (Pan Macmillan/Minotaur)
Michael Stanley – DEADLY HARVEST (Harper Paperbacks)

BEST SHORT STORY
Eric J. Guignard – “Baggage of Eternal Night” (JournalStone)
Laura Lippman – “Waco 1982” (Grand Central)
Kevin Mims – “The Gallows Bird” (Ellery Queen)
Twist Phelan – “Footprints in the Water” (Ellery Queen)
Stephen Vessels – “Doloroso” (Ellery Queen)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Ashley Elston – THE RULES FOR DISAPPEARING (Disney-Hyperion)
Mari Mancusi – SCORCHED (Sourcebooks Fire)
Elisa Nader – ESCAPE FROM EDEN (Merit Press)
Cristin Terrill – ALL OUR YESTERDAYS (Disney-Hyperion)
Allen Zadoff – I AM THE WEAPON – THE UNKNOWN ASSASSIN, BOOK 1 (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Rebecca Cantrell – THE WORLD BENEATH (Rebecca Cantrell)
J.G. Faherty – THE BURNING TIME (JournalStone)
Joshua Graham – TERMINUS (Redhaven Books)
James Lepore and Carlos Davis – NO DAWN FOR MEN (The Story Plant)
Luke Preston – OUT OF EXILE (Momentum)

Congratulations to all the finalists!

The 2014 ITW Thriller Award Winners will be announced at ThrillerFest IX, July 12, 2014, at the Grand Hyatt (New York City.)

Very special thanks to:
Joshua Corin, Awards Committee Chair
Anthony Franze, Awards Coordinator
Jeff Ayers, Awards Coordinator
And all the 2014 ITW Thriller Awards Judges

Carla Buckley, Vice President, Awards

 

 

CBC 100 Novels List

Looking for a Great Canadian Read? The CBC has created a list of 100 novels that will make you proud to be a Canadian.

Here is the information from the CBC website.

Canada has a wealth of writers telling today’s tales, revisiting our past and imagining our future. Literary or mystery, comic or graphic, historical or out of this world, the 100 novels on our list are must-read books.

CBC Books considered everything from cultural impact and critical reception to reader response to choose these titles. The authors all call or once called Canada home, and the novels are all in print. Enjoy! (You can also check out our Bonus 10 list, based on your suggestions

 

To get this fabulous list please click on the following link

http://www.cbc.ca/books/books100.html

 

You can even take a quiz on how many of the books you have read!

 

There is so much to the site, please check it out and start reading.

Remember the Lincoln Public Library is offering an Adult Reading Club!

 

 

 

 

 

Top Ten DVDs and Books June 2014

Top Ten Books

1.     Natchez Burning	Greg Illes
2.     Field Of Prey	John Sandford
3.     Mirage	Clive Cussler
4.     The Fault In Our Stars	John Green
5.     Top Secret Twenty One	Janet Evanovich
6.     Shadow Spell	Nora Roberts
7.     Divergent	Veronica Roth
8.     The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
9.     The Target	David Baldacci
10.  Personal	Lee Child

 

 

 

 

 

Top Ten DVDS

1.     12 Years A Slave

2.     Saving Mr Banks

3.     Captain Phillips

4.     The Book Thief

5.     Philomena

6.     The Hunger Games

7. The Monuments Men

8.     Thor

9.     Escape Plan

10. Frozen

You have read Fault in our Stars and watched the movie, now what?

Read a likes are you answer!

Here is a list of books that are similar to Fault in Our Stars by John Green

•  Looking for Alaska by John Green

• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

• If I Stay by Gayle Forman

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

• 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

• Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

• The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

• Ask the Passengers by A.S King

• Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

• The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes

• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

• First Love by James Patterson

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

 

 

Here is some information on John Green's novels which all have been best sellers and award winners!

 

 

Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska (based on his own boarding school experience), won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association, and made the ALA 2005 Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults. The film rights to Looking for Alaska were purchased by Paramount in 2005 and the movie scheduled to be released.

His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines (2006), was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and may also be made into a movie in the future.

Green collaborated on a book with fellow young adult authors Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle called Let It Snow (2008), which contains three interconnected short stories that take place in the same small town on Christmas Eve during a massive snowstorm. The story that he penned is called "A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle". On November 27, 2009, the book reached number 10 on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback children's books.

Green's third novel, Paper Towns (2008 ), debuted at number 5 on the New York Times bestseller list for children's books, and the movie rights to Paper Towns have been optioned, with Green hired to write the screenplay. Paper Towns was awarded the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel and the 2010 Corine Literature Prize.

Green collaborated with fellow young adult writer and friend David Levithan on the 2010 book entitled Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Green appeared on the Smart Mouths Podcast to discuss the book and collaboration.

Before Green's fifth book, The Fault in Our Stars, was released in 2012, he agreed to signed all 150,000 copies of the first printing, as well as his wife and his brother leaving their own symbols, a Yeti and an Anglerfish respectively. The New York Times Best Seller List for Children's Books listed the book at #1 within weeks.

(Adapted from Wikipedia.)

 

Here is a short bio  about John Green from the Scholastic website.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/john-green

John Green attended a boarding school not unlike Alaska's Culver Creek. After graduating from college in 2000, he worked as a chaplain at a children's hospital. John's experiences with patients and their families during intense crises solidified his desire to write for teens about the challenge of confronting loss.

John worked for Booklist, a journal of book reviews and was also a commentator for National Public Radios national afternoon newsmagazine, All Things Considered, and Chicago's NPR affiliate, WBEZ.