by ta | Nov 15, 2007 | Book Awards
And the winners are: Fiction: Denis Johnson ~ Tree of Smoke Non-fiction: Tim Weiner ~ Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Young Adult Fiction: Sherman Alexie ~ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Poetry: Robert Hass ~ Time and Materials The Medal for...
by ta | Nov 8, 2007 | Non-fiction
My kids find it hard to believe, but when I was a child I’d never heard of zucchini….our lives changed forever the day [my father] brought home zucchinis. ‘It’s Italian food,’ he explained. We weren’t sure how to pronounce it. And...
by ta | Nov 5, 2007 | Fiction, Romance
One of our patrons really loved this book. After falling in love with Nigel Bevelstoke, Viscount Turner, as a child because of his kindness to her, Miranda Cheever is reunited with him years later, finding a lonely and harsh man, devastated by loss, but she sees...
by ta | Nov 4, 2007 | Fiction
One of our patrons highly recommended this book. Making her way to a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland in the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding learns the identity of a man who has shadowed her for twenty years, a finding that coincides with...
by ta | Oct 18, 2007 | Book Awards
Anne Enright’s was announced as the winner of Man Booker Prize for her book The Gathering. Click here for more.
