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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 - 08/08/11

Request a copy of Scarlet Nights

Scarlet Nights
by Jude Deveraux

The third book in the multigenerational Edilean series from New York Times bestselling author Deveraux, Scarlet Nights is about a woman who learns that her fiancé is not who he appears to be. Read More... | Request a copy

 
Book of the Week - 08/01/11

Request a copy of At Home

At Home
by Bill Bryson

From beloved author Bryson comes a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place people call home. Read More... | Request a copy

 
Book of the Week - 07/25/11

Request a copy of Summer Moon

Summer Moon
by Jill Marie Landis

For Kate Whittington, the modest words of a newspaper ad are the answer to her desperate prayers. Daughter of a dockside harlot and raised in a bleak orphanage in Maine, she treks west to the magnificent Lone Star Ranch where she risks everything for one last chance at happiness. Read More... | Request a copy

 
Book of the Week - 07/18/11

Request a copy of Wench

Wench
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses. Read More... | Request a copy

 
Book of the Week - 07/11/11

Request a copy of The Passage

The Passage
by Justin Cronin

The vampire craze sweeping literature is not unlike the virus that decimates the world in Justin Cronin’s The Passage. Sure, there are isolated enclaves of holdouts, defending literature as they know it from the onslaught of supernatural beings, but most of the reading public seems to have developed an insatiable thirst for stories featuring the undead, from writers like Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer. Read More... | Request a copy

 
Book of the Week - 07/04/11

Request a copy of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin

In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy, in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Hell at the Breech. Read More... | Request a copy

 
Book of the Week - 06/27/11

Request a copy of Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time
by Jennifer Crusie

A woman is approached by her ex-husband to become caregiver to two orphaned children in a creepy old haunted house. What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and a jealous fiancee. Read More... | Request a copy

 
Book of the Week - 06/20/11

Request a copy of Matterhorn

Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes

Thirty years in the making, Marlantes's epic debut is a dense, vivid narrative spanning many months in the lives of American troops in Vietnam as they trudge across enemy lines, encountering danger from opposing forces as well as on their home turf. Read More... | Request a copy

 
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