by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 11, 2011 | Book Trailer
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMHXqRYf9_g&feature=player_embedded”] Publisher’s Summary: “Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you—and...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 5, 2011 | Book Trailer
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/CIxfc9vCoic”] Publisher’s Summary: “Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that “picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio.” Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 30, 2011 | Best of
In the mood to travel back in time this summer? Andrew Miller has compiled a list of his top ten historical novels for The Guardian: “The books listed here share the essential virtues of all good fiction: the renewal of our sense of the world, of ourselves, of...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 27, 2011 | Booklists
“Sure, today’s planes have free wifi and personal televisions to distract you, but some of us still kill the hours with a good book. So when you’re heading to the airport, just make sure you don’t pick up any of the hilarious books below. These...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 27, 2011 | Book Trailer
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/ot_wxFuf-74″] “Because “grieving for an animal can be a pretty lonely place,” Barbara Abercrombie created this joyful, poignant, funny, and smart collection of commiseration. Readers meet the cat who entered a neighbor’s...
