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Owl Book Group
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT
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Word Processing Skills for Beginners
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT
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ESL Conversation Group
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT
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Bethany Totally Toddler
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT
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Bethany Totally Toddler
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT
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Bethany Preschool Storytime
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT
"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people."
—Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German writer, romantic poet, social essays
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Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:23:21 GMT
Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.
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Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:41:23 GMT
In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.
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Colum McCann Wins National Book Award
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:43:39 GMT
Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.
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Library Leader in Era of Change to Step Down
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:48:47 GMT
Paul LeClerc announced that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in 2011.
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Books of The Times: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:29:35 GMT
This incendiary new book angrily and persuasively connects Theodore Roosevelt’s noxious racial views to his foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.
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Newly Released Books
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:34:47 GMT
Fiction by Penelope Lively, Ha Jin, Lauren Grodstein, Charles Cumming, Paul Auster and Jim Kokoris.
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F.B.I. Kept File on Studs Terkel
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:28:31 GMT
While Studs Terkel was following around musicians, baseball players and other hardworking Americans in the course of his journalistic duties, it turns out that Mr. Terkel was being followed himself.
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National Book Awards: Conflict of Interest Question Arises in Young Readers' Category
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:30:06 GMT
A blogger and former book review editor has questioned whether one of the judges on the panel that will select the award for Young People's Literature has a conflict of interest with one of the candidates for the award.
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Books of The Times: Gratitude’s Grace Can Be Itself a Gift
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:59 GMT
A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives.
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Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:47:32 GMT
Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.
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The Pour: An Invitation to Read, Sniff and Taste
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:26:20 GMT
Six new books about wine can help the reader to better understand what’s in the glass.
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Books of The Times: Desperately Seeking Dad: A Murder Mystery
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:15:59 GMT
Though Ed Lazar’s younger son, Zachary, did not know his father well, he has written a pungent-sounding but maddeningly vague book about Ed’s murder.
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In Fleury’s Memoir, Rangers Years Are a ‘Nightmare’
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:59:42 GMT
With its revelations of sexual abuse and details of substance abuse, Theo Fleury’s memoir has rocked the hockey world as surely as Andre Agassi’s recent memoir rocked tennis.
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Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:51:32 GMT
The themes of this collection are a good way to characterize the author himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning.
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Nabokov’s Last Puzzle
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:49 GMT
The unfinished “Original of Laura” comes ready for devotees to read and remix.
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