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Events @ Cedar Mill: Owl Book Group Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT; Word Processing Skills for Beginners Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT; ESL Conversation Group Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT; [see more]

Events @ Cedar Mill: Owl Book Group
November 20, 2009; Word Processing Skills for Beginners
November 20, 2009; ESL Conversation Group
November 21, 2009; [calendar view]; [text listing]

Events @ Bethany: Bethany Totally Toddler Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT; Bethany Totally Toddler Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT; Bethany Preschool Storytime Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT; [see more]

Events @ Bethany: Bethany Totally Toddler
November 23, 2009; Bethany Totally Toddler
November 23, 2009; Bethany Preschool Storytime
November 24, 2009; [calendar view]; [text listing]

"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use?"

—Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American pioneer in self-improvement

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Good Reads

From WCCLS

Check out the WCCLS Good Reads site for subject-specific newsletters, featured Book of the Day, Chapter a Day via email and more!
Use Novelist to find new authors, series lists and book reviews (requires Washington County library card)

Listen to a book from Library2Go, audiobooks available online anytime. More about Library2Go (requires Washington County library card)

Web Resources from CMCL and Other Libraries

Book Lists from CMCL: Lists of books available from Cedar Mill grouped by theme or genre
What's Next Database: Wonderful resource for series information -- a good alternative to Novelist if it's not available
Read-Alike Lists: A compilation of many different "If you liked ___..." lists
Based On the Book: A list of movies based on books
Celebrity Reading List: What the stars are reading
The Reading Room: Compilation of topical lists from hundreds of different libraries
Reading Group Choices: Book reviews, synopses and discussion questions

From the New York Times and Powell's City of Books

The latest news about books from the New York Times as well as weekly book reviews.
Check out daily book reviews from Powell's City of Books.
Read up on what NPR has to say about the latest books and interesting authors.

Bestsellers and Award-Winners

Check out our "Titles of Note", covering best-selling lists from Book Sense.

Helpful Teen Readers Advisory links

Teen Reads: An excellent website devoted to what's new in YA books. There are lots of comments by teens as well.

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Powell's Daily Book Reviews: Review-a-Day for Fri, Nov 20: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST; Review-a-Day for Thu, Nov 19: Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST; Review-a-Day for Wed, Nov 18: The Ninth (Writings from an Unbound Europe) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST; [see more]

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