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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
"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
—Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist, statesman
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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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The Morning After
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:10:29 GMT
Mary Karr’s third memoir layers the pangs of recovery with those of motherhood, divorce and making art.
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Performance Anxiety
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:46:08 GMT
Philip Roth’s novel stars an aging actor who can no longer act.
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The Cheating Game
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:39:54 GMT
James McManus explores the characteristically American history of poker.
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Road Trip
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:51:05 GMT
Chaucer’s lusty pilgrims return in a Modern English incarnation.
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When Type Was Poured Hot
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:16:45 GMT
In his new memoir, Harold Evans recalls an exuberant run in 20th-century journalism.
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The Lies They Told
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:36:16 GMT
Reconstructing officials’ false and ineffectual responses to 9/11.
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Rational Irrationality
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:36:09 GMT
The story of 2008’s crash, and an effort to size up the problem.
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Love Crimes
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:46:05 GMT
In Paul Auster’s latest novel, the protagonist indulges passions new and forbidden.
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Angels and Insects
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:36:38 GMT
A fictional metamorphosis conveys what it means to be alien.
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November Song
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:44:15 GMT
In the autumnal novel of Maureen Howard’s cycle of seasons, an 80-something narrator shares her inner Manhattan.
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Illness and Intimacy
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:40:40 GMT
The professor of psychiatry who discussed her own manic depression in “An Unquiet Mind” revisits her husband’s death from cancer.
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Hardcover Fiction
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:59:44 GMT
Top 5 at a Glance
1. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham
2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown
3. KINDRED IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb
4. THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
5. THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver
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Hardcover Nonfiction
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:44:38 GMT
Top 5 at a Glance
1. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom
2. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
3. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others
5. THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL, by Bill Simmons
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