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 - 03/08/10 |
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
Look Me in the Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Aspergers at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy who teachers and other adults regarded as defective. Its a strange, sly, indelible account; sometimes alien yet always deeply human. Read More... | Request a copy » |
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Book of the Week - 02/22/10 |
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Life as We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Susan Beth Pfeffer opens this gripping novel with a teenager's everyday concerns: homework, tests and who's going out with whom, and darn if a lunar disaster doesn't ruin everything. Life gets gray and dingy, and even the snow isn't quite white. As time goes on, families must decide which family member must eat more and stay strong so someone will be able take care of the others as they weaken. Read More... | Request a copy » |
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Book of the Week - 02/15/10 |
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip M. Hoose
In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks triggered the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger, a 15-year-old Montgomery girl, Claudette Colvin, let herself be arrested and dragged off the bus for the same reason. Read More... | Request a copy » |
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Book of the Week - 02/08/10 |
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Howards End
by E. M. Forster
The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist -- all intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era. Read More... | Request a copy » |
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Book of the Week - 02/01/10 |
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. Read More... | Request a copy » |
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Book of the Week - 01/25/10 |
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Locked in Time
by Lois Duncan
It doesn't occur to Nore to take the dream-warning seriously. Her new stepmother and stepbrother seem nice. But why does Nore feel so uneasy around them? Read More... | Request a copy » |
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Book of the Week - 01/18/10 |
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The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery
The story of two women whose lives intersect in late 19th-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history--Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Read More... | Request a copy » |
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