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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 - 09/21/09

Request a copy of It Ain't All About the Cookin'

It Ain't All About the Cookin'
by Paula Deen

From the bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star comes an inspiring memoir with recipes. Paula Deen shares where she came from, how she transformed herself into a household name, and her exciting plans for the future. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 09/14/09

Request a copy of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford

In the opening scene of Jamie Ford's debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, 50-something Henry Lee watches as a crowd gathers around the Panama Hotel. The new owner of the long-abandoned building has discovered something in the basement: the belongings of 37 Japanese families, items left behind decades ago when their owners were rounded up for internment camps during World War II. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 09/07/09

Request a copy of Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Austen's comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18-century drawing-room intrigues. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/31/09

Request a copy of The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth

In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family--and for a million such families all over the country--during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst. Read More...| Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/24/09

Request a copy of Good Poems for Hard Times

Good Poems for Hard Times
by Garrison Keillor

Often considered the most impracticable of art forms, poetry has been infused with a new purpose thanks to popular author and radio personality Garrison Keillor. He has long championed the genre on his NPR show "The Writer's Almanac," and Keillor now offers a new book, Good Poems for Hard Times, the follow-up to his 2002 anthology Good Poems—in support of his belief that poetry is the ideal antidote for the everyday pressures and concerns that plague us all. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/17/09

Request a copy of The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow
by Michael Connelly

Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/10/09

Request a copy of The Middle Place

The Middle Place
by Kelly Corrigan

Corrigan's beautifully written memoir intertwines her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American, born-salesman fathers, and illustrates both an unbelievably powerful and healing father/daughter relationship and the unbreakable bonds of family. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 08/03/09

Request a copy of 1001 Natural Wonders: You Must See Before You Die

1001 Natural Wonders: You Must See Before You Die
by Michael Bright

Let us take you on an incredible journey to the most spectacular natural wonders in the world. Spanning every continent and ocean on the planet, here is a conglomerate of once-in-a-lifetime experiences that you can revisit time and time again. Natural history writer Michael Bright has selected 1001 of mother nature's most spectacular, heart-stirring creations--sights and locations so breathtaking that once seen, are never forgotten. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
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