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Mystery Readers Miscellaneous
Mystery Readers June 11 - July 9 - Miscellaneous August 6 - February 20, 2002 So that’s what we have done and where we are going. The missing titles will be filled in soon. Well, we had a date with no snow this month. Thanks to all who attended and welcome Toby began this month’s meeting by to the new members. giving all a warning regarding the movie Hart’s As promised, ‘ere is a list of past and War. It has been changed substantially from the future meetings. novel. One character we all remarked upon has 2001 - st been entirely eliminated! So beware. April 17 - 1 Meeting Toby mentioned that Margery Allingham May 15 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles - was one of the Big Four, which included Agatha by Agatha Christie Christie, Ngaio March and Dorothy L. Sayers. June 12 - continued with the May 15 title Toby mentioned that Allingham’s book July 17 - The Whole Truth - Nancy Pickard The Daring of Red Rose might be of interest. August 14 - The Burglar Who Traded Ted It is about a female Robin Hood and was written Williams - Lawrence Block early in her career. September 11 - When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes - Lawrence Block Nevertheless, the book was a difficult one October 16 - In a Dry Season - for the majority of the group to enjoy. It was full Peter Robinson of sayings and words that were unfamiliar enough November 13 - The Christie Caper - to make the book hard to follow. Carolyn Hart Shirley Arsenault made a very good December 18 - Self selected short stories suggestion, saying that the story would have 2002- been a good one to present on stage. -
Suggested Non-Fiction Reading
SUGGESTED NON-FICTION READING ANIMALS 001.94 KEL Kelleher, Colm A. Hunt for the skinwalker: science confronts the unexplained at a remote ranch in Utah — For more than fifty years, the bizarre events at a remote Utah ranch have ranged from the perplexing to the wholly terrifying. Vanishing and mutilated cattle. Unidentified Flying Objects. The appearance of huge, otherworldly creatures. 156 FOU Fouts, Roger. Next of kin: what chimpanzees have taught me about who we are — The author tells of his thirty-year friendship with Washoe, a chimpanzee he began working with in 1967 as part of a program to teach American Sign Language to primates, and discusses his efforts to save laboratory chimpanzees that are being subjected to biomedical experimentation. 179 BAU Baur, Gene. Farm sanctuary: changing hearts and minds about animals and food — Examines the ethical questions surrounding the production of beef, poultry, pork, milk, and eggs, describing the often horrifying conditions the animals are kept in before being slaughtered, and encourages people to begin promoting compassion for farm animals and refusing to buy animal products from farms that treat their animals badly. 333.95 GRE Green, Alan. Animal underworld: inside America's black market for rare and exotic species — An investigation of the largely undocumented underground economy involving the trafficking in rare and exotic species of animals in the United States, looking at what happens to surplus animals from the nation's zoos, theme parks, and laboratories. 333.95 McN McNamee, Thomas. The return of the wolf to Yellowstone — Discusses the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in January of 1995 after their sixty-nine year absence from the park and chronicles the drama of the reintroduction, the political forces behind it, and the lives of wolves in their new home. -
Many Readers Have “Go-To” Authors, Writers They Turn to When No One Else Grabs Their Attention
SUMMER READING GUIDE 2018 Many readers have “go-to” authors, writers they turn to when no one else grabs their attention. This summer we’d like to help you find a “go-to” writer of your own. Below is a list of authors who have many titles to their credit. Some have written a series with recurring characters; some have written books with similar themes; some have written exclusively within one genre (mystery, fantasy, and so on); and some have just produced lots of good, lively writing over the years. In addition, we have included some individual titles, recommended by students, by faculty, and by the library staff. THE HEADMASTER’S CHOICE THIS YEAR IS BEARTOWN BY FREDRIK BACKMAN, WHICH BEGINS LIKE THIS: “It’s a Friday in early March in Beartown and nothing has happened yet. Everyone is waiting. Tomorrow, the Beartown Ice Hockey Club’s junior team is playing in the semi-final of the biggest youth tournament in the country. How important can something like that be? In most places, not so important, of course. But Beartown isn’t most places.” Backman’s novel explores the hopes that a small community pins on a group of teenaged athletes, and it explores the secrets that can tear a small town apart. Backman’s characters—coaches, athletes, parents, and local fans—are often flawed, often heroic, and always fully human. In addition to Beartown, you are to read two other books from the list below. You may choose two books by the same author, or two books by different authors. -
1 Carol Shields's Swann
Ladies of the Ivory Tower Academic Feminism and Feminist Academics in Carol Shields’s Swann, David Lodge’s Nice Work, and A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance Liv Christina Varen A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages University of Oslo in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the MA Degree Autumn 2012 II Ladies of the Ivory Tower Academic Feminism and Feminist Academics in Carol Shields’s Swann, David Lodge’s Nice Work, and A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance Liv Christina Varen III © Liv Christina Varen 2012 Ladies of the Ivory Tower: Academic Feminism and Feminist Academics in Carol Shields’s Swann, David Lodge’s Nice Work, and A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance Liv Christina Varen http://www.duo.uio.no/ Trykk: Kopianstalten AS, Kristiansand IV Abstract This thesis explores the representation and negotiation of academic feminism and feminist academics in three best-selling campus novels: Carol Shields’ Swann (1987), David Lodge’s Nice Work (1988), and A.S Byatt’s Possession: A Romance (1990). It is based on the assumption that academic fiction may function as a significant contribution to academic and social debate, allowing for other modes of staging and exploring feminist issues than those offered by academic non-fiction. The close-readings of these three novels are supplemented by discussions concerning interpretive possibilities and reception in relation to the authors’ public profiles, as these possibilities arguably entail a particular emphasis on representational responsibility in terms of reception. The latter is here assumed to depend, in part, on the cognitive interaction of the author’s public profile and the reader’s interpretive horizon. -
Works by David Baldacci Novels
Works by David Baldacci Novels: Absolute Power (1996) One Summer (2011) Total Control (1997) Zero Day (2011) The Winner (1997) The Innocent (2012) The Simple Truth (1998) The Forgotten (2012) Saving Faith (1999) The Hit (2013) Wish You Well (2000) King and Maxwell (2013) Last Man Standing (2001) The Target (2014) The Christmas Train (2002) The Escape (2014) Split Second (2003) Memory Man (2015) Hour Game (2004) The Guilty (2015) The Camel Club (2005) The Last Mile (2016) The Collectors (2006) No Man’s Land (2016) Simple Genius (2007) The Fix (2017) Stone Cold (2007) End Game (2017) The Whole Truth (2008) The Fallen (2018) Divine Justice (2008) Long Road to Mercy (2018) First Family (2009) Redemption (2019) True Blue (2009) One Good Deed (2019) Deliver Us From Evil (2010) A Minute to Midnight (2019) Hell's Corner (2010) Walk the Wire (2020) The Sixth Man (2011) For young readers: Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive (2005) Freddy and the French Fries: The Adventures of Silas Finklebean (2006) Day of Doom (The 39 Clues: Cahills v. Vespers, Book 6) (2013) The Finisher (2014) The Keeper (2015) The Width of the World (2017) The Stars Below (2019) By series: The Camel Club: The Camel Club (2005) | The Collectors (2006) | Stone Cold (2007) | Divine Justice (2008) | Hell’s Corner (2010) Atlee Pine: Long Road to Mercy (2018) | A Minute to Midnight (2019) Amos Decker: Memory Man (2015) | The Last Mile (2016) | The Fix (2017) | The Fallen (2018) | Redemption (2019), Walk the Wire (2020) Shaw: The Whole Truth (2008) | Deliver Us From Evil (2010) -
Spotlight on Learning Adelia M
Spotlight on Learning Adelia M. Russell Library & Mamie’s Place Newsletter 318 Church Street, Alexander City, AL 35010 Hours: 8:30-5:00 Monday-Friday; 9:00-1:00 Saturday Telephone: 256-329-6796 (Adelia M. Russell) 256-234-4644 (Mamie’s Place) — Website: www.alexandercityal.gov/library Director: Amy Huff MARCH 2020 Edited by John M. Taylor From the Director: The Alexander City Chamber of Commerce presented the annual State of the City event at Central Alabama Com- munity College’s Betty Carol Graham Technology Center on February 26, 2020. John Taylor, Assistant Library Director, and Robert Bradford, Library Assistant, represented both Adelia Russell and Mamie’s Place at the event along with library board member Sheralyn Belyeu. Mayor Tommy Spraggins and other city officials enlightened the audience on the positive aspects of the city. The renovation of the old Russell Main Office building and the progress of the new City Complex was one of the popu- lar topics shared. It is great to see historical places restored and progress being made for our City so that our City Government can run smoother and more effectively. Alexander City is a wonderful community with aspirations of progress. Its small town demeanor and welcoming charm make it a great place to live and work. We appreciate all the effort, research and elbow grease that helps produce good outcomes for this community. Robert’s Take: From the pen of Robert Bradford The American Standard version of the Bible in Ecclesiastes 3: 1-2 reads in part, “For Everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born; And a time to die…,” Authors seemingly live on for- ever through their works, but they too eventually pass from this life. -
Addition to Summer Letter
May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays. -
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Honors a Distinguished Work of Fiction by an American Author, Preferably Dealing with American Life
Pulitzer Prize Winners Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction honors a distinguished work of fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Chosen from a selection of 800 titles by five letter juries since 1918, the award has become one of the most prestigious awards in America for fiction. Holdings found in the library are featured in red. 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 2012: No prize (no majority vote reached) 2011: A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 2010:Tinkers by Paul Harding 2009:Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2008:The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007:The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006:March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson 2004 The Known World by Edward Jones 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Stephan Milhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley -
David Baldacci? David Baldacci? David Baldacci? Then Try These Then Try These Then Try These
Read Everything by Read Everything by Read Everything by David Baldacci? David Baldacci? David Baldacci? Then Try These Then Try These Then Try These Masters of Suspense: Masters of Suspense: Masters of Suspense: William Bernhardt William Bernhardt William Bernhardt Stephen J. Cannell Stephen J. Cannell Stephen J. Cannell Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Michael Connelly Michael Connelly Michael Connelly Nelson DeMille Nelson DeMille Nelson DeMille Joseph Finder Joseph Finder Joseph Finder Vince Flynn Vince Flynn Vince Flynn James Grippando James Grippando James Grippando John Grisham John Grisham John Grisham Robert Lundlum Last Updated:2/2016 Robert Lundlum Last Updated:2/2016 Robert Lundlum Last Updated:2/2016 Brad Meltzer Brad Meltzer Brad Meltzer Kyle Mills Kyle Mills Kyle Mills Steve Martini Steve Martini Steve Martini Richard North Patterson Richard North Patterson Richard North Patterson Matt Rees Matt Rees Matt Rees Robert K. Tanenbaum Robert K. Tanenbaum Robert K. Tanenbaum Brad Thor Brad Thor Brad Thor David Baldacci Checklist: David Baldacci Checklist: David Baldacci Checklist: Sean King & Michelle Maxwell Series: Sean King & Michelle Maxwell Series: Sean King & Michelle Maxwell Series: 1. Split Second 1. Split Second 1. Split Second 2. Hour Game 2. Hour Game 2. Hour Game 3. Simple Genius 3. Simple Genius 3. Simple Genius 4. First Family 4. First Family 4. First Family 5. The Sixth Man 5. The Sixth Man 5. The Sixth Man 6. King and Maxwell (2013) 6. King and Maxwell (2013) 6. King and Maxwell (2013) Shaw and Katie James Series: Shaw and Katie James Series: Shaw and Katie James Series: 1. The Whole Truth 1. -
Protest and Resistance in the Crime Writing of Anne Perry Abstract
4 Protest and resistance in the crime writing of Anne Perry JOANNE DRAYTON Abstract Anne Perry writes to re-write herself, to protest women’s condition, and to explore and re-imagine her own. This paper will examine how the essentialising label of evil became the established reading of Anne Perry (Juliet Hulme) and Pauline Parker and their crime, and how as a result of this vilification, protest and resistance became key provocations for Perry’s adult writing. It will show how Perry uses her fiction to protest women’s position generally, and as a means of resisting the label of evil and re-writing self. It will examine her crime detective fic- tion writing following the development of both her Pitt and Monk series, and will explore themes in her work of forgiveness and redemption through compassion and positive endeavour. It will show how Perry’s books have helped create a different ending. They are a form of redemption in themselves: a re-configuring for Perry of the construction of evil to that of writer and published author. Key words: crime fiction, biography, murder, lesbianism, adolescence, evil, redemption Introduction On 22 June 1954, Honorah Parker was bludgeoned to death in Victoria Park, Christchurch, by her teenage daughter, Pauline Parker, and Pauline’s school friend, Juliet Hulme. In the days after the Parker-Hulme murder, newspapers across New Zealand were ablaze with the story. Overnight Pauline Parker was arrested and 14 exercise books, including her diaries, were con- fiscated. The next day Juliet Hulme would also be charged with murder. -
Cemetery Dance: an Agent Pendergast Novel Free
FREE CEMETERY DANCE: AN AGENT PENDERGAST NOVEL PDF Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child | 512 pages | 25 Mar 2010 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780752884189 | English | London, United Kingdom Cemetery Dance (novel) - Wikipedia Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Preston and Child's Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as Cemetery Dance: An Agent Pendergast Novel among the one hundred greatest Cemetery Dance: An Agent Pendergast Novel ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie. Preston's acclaimed nonfiction book, The Monster of Florenceis being made into a movie starring George Clooney. Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published five novels of his own, including the huge bestseller Deep Storm. Readers Cemetery Dance: An Agent Pendergast Novel sign up for The Pendergast File, a monthly "strangely entertaining note" from the authors, at their website, www. The authors welcome visitors to their alarmingly active Facebook page, where they post regularly. Place of Birth:. Home 1 Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived. -
The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
THE KNOPF DOUBLEDAY PUBLISHING GROUP Autumn Rights Guide 2020 FICTION Jim Carrey & Dana Vachon, Memoirs and Misinformation 3 Tiffany McDaniel, Betty 5 Susan Conley, Landslide 7 Orville Schell, My Old Home 9 Jim Shepard, Phase Six 11 Bill Clinton & James Patterson, The President’s Daughter 13 Brittany Ackerman, The Brittanys 15 P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus 17 Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise 19 Ha Jin, A Song Everlasting 21 Timothy Schaffert, The Perfume Thief 23 FEATURED FICTION FROM THE BACKLIST Dorothy West, The Wedding 25 NON-FICTION Edward D. Melillo, The Butterfly Effect 27 Scott Anderson, The Quiet Americans 29 Peter Cozzens, Tecumseh and the Prophet 31 Tom Shone, The Nolan Variations 33 Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster 35 Joby Warrick, Red Line 36 Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice 38 Roya Hakakian, A Beginner’s Guide to America 39 Jenny Minton Quigley, Lolita in the Afterlife 41 Sharman Apt Russell, Within Our Grasp 43 Ian Manuel, My Time Will Come 45 Brian Castner, Stampede 47 Michael Dobbs, King Richard 49 M. Leona Godin, There Plant Eyes 51 Michael Sayman, App Kid 53 David Andrew Price, The Geniuses’ War 55 Helen Ellis, Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light 57 Tim Higgins, Power Play 59 Peter Robison, Flying Blind 61 Highlights from the Backlist 63 A New York Times Bestseller Memoirs and Misinformation A Novel Jim Carrey & Dana Vachon “A mad fever dream. Carrey and his collaborator Vachon pull out all the stops as their protagonist Jim Carrey careens from midlife blues through love and career complications toward the apocalypse .