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The Book of the Week newsletter highlights a different title from the Greene County Public Library each week which is featured on LITE 99.9 and MIX 107.7.



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Book of the Week - 08/30/10

Request a copy of Booked to Die

Booked to Die
by John Dunning

Tough, book-loving homicide detective Cliff Janeway believes Jackie Newton is to blame for the recent murder of a down-and-out rare book hunter. And when Janeway treats Newton to a brutal helping of off-duty justice, it costs him his badge. But that doesn't mean his investigation is over. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/23/10

Request a copy of Her Royal Spyness

Her Royal Spyness
by Rhys. Bowen

The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless 20-something member of the extended royal family. When an arrogant Frenchman, who wants her family's estate for himself, winds up dead, Victorias most important job is to clear her family name. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/16/10

Request a copy of An Hour Before Daylight

An Hour Before Daylight
by Jimmy Carter

A presidential memoir of lasting importance, Carter's account of his rural Depression boyhood is a portrait of pre-Civil Rights Georgia that dramatizes unforgettably how the country has changed. It is, in many ways, a stunning and honest biography of the American South, written by one of its most talented sons. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/09/10

Request a copy of Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box

Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box
by Madeleine Albright

Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Here, she tells the stories behind her many pins and jewelry collected on her diplomatic trips around the world.
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Book of the Week - 08/02/10

Request a copy of True Believers

True Believers
by Jane Haddams

A woman whose body is found in a Philadelphia church is believed to have died of natural causes. When the coroner discovers arsenic, the police think her husband, who has committed suicide, was responsible. A nun doesn't think so and asks Gregor Demarkian, retired head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, to investigate. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 07/26/10

Request a copy of Moon Called

Moon Called
by Patricia Briggs

Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 07/19/10

Request a copy of In the Bleak Midwinter

In the Bleak Midwinter
by Julia Spencer-Fleming

It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill. When a newborn baby is abandoned and a young mother is brutally murdered, newly-ordained Clare Fergusson has to pick her way through the secrets and silence that shadow the town like the ever-present Adirondack mountains. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 07/12/10

Request a copy of The Kids Are All Right

The Kids Are All Right
by Diana Welch

An exceptional and eloquent story of courage, survival, and unconditional love, The Kids Are All Right celebrates with openness, candor, and humor the fierce power of sibling love. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
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