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‘Growing up Whittaker’

Leif Whittaker to talk about new book at library

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Books for Women’s History Month

Far too often, the contributions women have made to society go unnoticed. Women’s History Month was established in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, who said “the achievements, leadership, cou...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Bridges of Madison County author Robert James Waller dies

NEW YORK – Robert James Waller, whose best-selling, bittersweet 1992 romance novel The Bridges of Madison County was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood and later in...

DATE: Mar 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Protest books help us examine our values

Edward Abbey once said,“sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.” Protesting is an action that anyone can take. It is a way to make this will of the people heard when those in power...

DATE: Mar 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Books for Black History Month

Black History Month was established in 1976 to encourage people to learn about a part of American history that is often neglected by the general public. Gerald Ford urged Americans “to seize...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Indelible is a remarkable first novel

The debut novel As a young child, Magdalena saw people with black marks on their skin. When she grew up and learned to read, she realized that the marks were words and that no one else saw...

DATE: Feb 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Stephen King and son Owen King to team up at book convention

NEW YORK – This year’s BookExpo will feature a popular father-and-son combination: Stephen and Owen King. Convention organizers ReedPop told The Associated Press on Tuesday that t...

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Rushdie novel takes on age of Obama, and Trump

NEW YORK – Salman Rushdie’s next novel will be a take on the age of Obama, with an added dash of Trump. The author best known for Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses is wor...

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale latest dystopian novel to top best-seller lists

Move over, 1984. There’s a new dystopian novel topping the charts. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has just become the best-selling book on Amazon.com. “New,” of ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

The Unsettlers explores simpler living

Author will discuss new book at Maria’s

DATE: Feb 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Launch your reading out of this galaxy

Some sci-fi recommendations ahead of Intergalactic Snowdown

DATE: Jan 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now

Donald Trump may not be a big reader, but he’s been a boon for sales of dystopian literature. Amid our thirst for adult coloring books and stories about missing girls and reincarnated puppie...

DATE: Jan 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books