We’ve ordered some new titles that are coming out in the fall – take a look and place your holds now! Fifteen Minutes Kingsbury, Karen 10/29/2013 Accused Scottoline, Lisa 10/29/2013 The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion Flagg, Fannie 11/5/2013 Catch and Release Block, Lawrence 9/30/2013 Christmas Bliss Andrews, Mary Kay 10/15/2013 Doing Hard Time Woods,
Finalists Named for Carnegie Medal Honors
The American Library Association (ALA) recently announced the finalists for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The award is presented to the previous year’s best fiction and nonfiction books published in the United States for adults, with each winner receiving $5,000 and the finalists receiving $1,500. The medal presentation is
Automatically Yours Titles
Some authors are just so popular that we buy their books months before they’re released because we know that you’re just going to love them. (We refer to these as “Automatically Yours” titles.) So, go ahead and take a look at the titles below – and get your holds in now, before there’s a long
Get Into Character ! #3 : The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Bonjour mes amies! Do you know what language I’m speaking? If you were Hugo Cabret, the hero of this week’s book, you would recognize that bonjour means hello in French! When I get into character, I like to learn something new from each protagonist (a fancy word for the main character!), so after picking up
Hit Parade: Music Icons’ Life Stories
Books by and about veteran music stars are a significant part of the global publishing industry. Autobiographies and biographies released in 2012 joined earlier works about musicians’ life stories of playing and writing songs, crowded arenas, complicated personal lives, and creative processes. Cobb County Public Library System’s catalog includes a range of popular music biographies.
