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Today’s question: What’s the most popular book in your library? Have you read it? What did you think? How many users have it? What’s the most popular book you don’t have? How does a book’s popularity figure into your decisions about what to read? Popular! You’re gonna be popular! A new “books in the mail” book club started up today – Progressive Book Club operates similarly to a typical Book-Of-The-Month-Club, and is targeted to those readers with a liberal bent. The club will highlight a number of progressive books each month, reviewed and vetted by a panel of experts in their fields. PBC claims to [...] The Spirit of the Place by Samuel Shem The Spirit of the Place takes place in the early 1980s over the course of a little more than a year, mainly in the fictional Hudson River Valley town [...] Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund
Sena Jeter Naslund’s novel Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette offers a first-person account of Marie Antoinette’s life from the time she was 14 until her execution. This well-researched historical fiction draws on [...] Twelve book giveaways are listed below; numbers 2-6 are new this week! 1. I’m offering my ARC of Michael Connelly’s The Brass Verdict. Enter here by June 30. 2. Sarah at Puss Reboots is hosting a giveaway of Flight of the Goose by [...] It’s always fun to open a favorite book and find something unusual that I used as a bookmark the last time I read it (granted, not always fun if it’s a borrowed book and the bookmark is more “bizarre” than simply “unusual”!). I’m talking about benign items that bring back a memory – a phone [...] Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Here, we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family [...] The sun finally came out today, after two full days of cold rainy weather; with temps expected to reach 90 this afternoon, crowds came out early to beat the heat at the Friends of the Library Book Sale. There were over 20,000 books, with a silent auction of collectible books beginning at 8:30, followed by a [...] I’m offering my ARC of Michael Connelly’s The Brass Verdict. Enter here by June 30. |
 
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