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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 - 05/10/10

Request a copy of Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures

Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
by Louise Rafkin

In this fresh, funny, strikingly original memoir, Rafkin talks about her invisible status as a domestic worker in a world of secret lives, closet alcoholics and binge eaters, unlikely spiritualists, and revealing celebrities.
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Book of the Week - 05/03/10

Request a copy of Wishful Drinking

Wishful Drinking
by Carrie Fisher

An uproariously sober look at Fisher's Hollywood hangover reveals what it was "really" like to grow up as a celebrity daughter, come of age on the set of "Star Wars," and become a cultural icon at the age of 19--with no holds barred.
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Book of the Week - 04/26/10

Request a copy of Huge

Huge
by James W. Fuerst

Life hasn't been easy for Eugene "Huge" Smalls. Sure, his IQ is off the charts, but that doesn't help much when you're growing up in the 1980s in a dreary New Jersey town where your bad reputation precedes you, the public school system's written you off as a lost cause, and even your own family seems out to get you. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 04/19/10

Request a copy of Mazel Tov: Celebrities' Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories

Mazel Tov: Celebrities' Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories
by Jill Rappaport

In Mazel Tov, celebrity journalist Jill Rappaport and photographer Linda Solomon offer an intimate glimpse of the bar or bat mitzvahs of some of the most talented people in entertainment, politics and business. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 04/12/10

Request a copy of Sworn to Silence

Sworn to Silence
by Linda Castillo

Kate Burkholder, who grew up in the Amish community before leaving for the outside world, has recently been appointed Chief of Police in her former hometown. What she returns to find is a world where good and evil collide. Read More...| Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 04/05/10

Request a copy of The Girl With the Silver Eyes

The Girl With the Silver Eyes
by Willo Davis Roberts

Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would much rather read a book than deal with other people. Other people don't have silver eyes and other people can't make things happen just by thinking about them! Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 03/29/10

Request a copy of Love Mercy

Love Mercy
by Earlene Fowler

After being widowed, Love Mercy Johnson has come to terms with her life in Morro Bay, California. She spends her time writing columns for a regional magazine, helping her in-laws work their ranch, and trying to move on. But she wonders if her dream of reconciliation with her long-estranged grandchildren will ever come to pass. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 03/22/10

Request a copy of Summer of My German Soldier

Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene

This 1973 National Book Award finalist tells of a 12-year-old girl who befriends a Nazi soldier, who is imprisoned in a World War II camp in her small hometown in Arkansas. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
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