April Is National Poetry Month

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

The 100 Best African American Poems: (*But I Cheated) edited by Nikki Giovanni

100 Essential American Poems edited by Leslie M. Pockell

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry edited by Cole Swensen & David St. John

The Best American Poetry 2011 edited by Kevin Young

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost  selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud edited by Robert Pinsky

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry

Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath edited by Elise Paschen & Rebekah Presson Mosby

The Poets Laureate Anthology edited by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt

She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy

Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a movie set in Ireland.

Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a movie set in Ireland.

December Bride
A proud Irish servant girl rebels against her strict upbringing by having love affairs with two brothers at the same time.

Kisses
Two Irish children, both seeking to escape their home lives, run away and wander the streets of Dublin.

Leap Year
Hurt by her boyfriend’s lack of a marriage proposal on their anniversary, Anna flies to Ireland to propose to him on Leap Day and meets a man who helps her get across the country.

Michael Collins
The life and struggles of Irish statesman Michael Collins who negotiated Ireland’s break with England.

Ondine
A fisherman pulls up his nets one day to find a woman inside, which his daughter believes to be a selkie, but as they fall in love, a figure from her past threatens to disrupt their happiness.

Ryan’s Daughter
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

The Eclipse
In a seaside Irish town, romance sparks between a widower, who believes he is seeing the ghost of his not-yet-dead father-in-law, and a horror writer who is in town for a literary festival.

The Guard
A small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality joins forces with an uptight FBI agent in an effort to take down a gang of drug traffickers.

The Quiet Man
When an American prize-fighter kills a man in the ring, he returns to the Irish village where he was born to find peace and there he meets and falls in love with the sister of the village bully.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley
In 1920s Ireland, two brothers join guerrilla squads fighting British soldiers for Ireland’s independence.

Veronica Guerin
An Irish journalist is assassinated by drug dealers she wrote about in a series of stories.

Visions of Ireland
Explores Ireland’s most scenic views through ground and aerial footage.

Waking Ned Devine
When Ned Devine dies from shock of winning the lottery, two old friends enlist the help of the whole village in defrauding the lottery to claim the prize.

Oscar Best Picture Winners

The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday, February 26. Celebrate by watching one of the previous Best Picture winners!

The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday, February 26. Celebrate by watching one of the previous Best Picture winners!

2010 – The King’s Speech

2009 – The Hurt Locker

2008 – Slumdog Millionaire

2007 – No Country for Old Men

2006 – The Departed

2005 – Crash

2004 – Million Dollar Baby

2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2002 – Chicago

2001 – A Beautiful Mind

2000 – Gladiator

1999 – American Beauty

1998 – Shakespeare in Love

1997 – Titanic

1996 – The English Patient

1995 – Braveheart

1994 – Forrest Gump

1993 – Schindler’s List

1992 – Unforgiven

1991 – The Silence of the Lambs

1990 – Dances With Wolves

1989 – Driving Miss Daisy

1988 – Rain Man

1987 – The Last Emperor

1986 – Platoon

1985 – Out of Africa

1984 – Amadeus

1983 – Terms of Endearment

1982 – Gandhi

1981 – Chariots of Fire

1980 – Ordinary People

1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer

1978 – The Deer Hunter

1977 – Annie Hall

1976 – Rocky

1975 – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1974 – The Godfather Part II

1973 – The Sting

1972 – The Godfather

1971 – The French Connection

1970 – Patton

1969 – Midnight Cowboy

1968 – Oliver!

1967 – In the Heat of the Night

1966 – A Man for All Seasons

1965 – The Sound of Music

1964 – My Fair Lady

1963 – Tom Jones

1962 – Lawrence of Arabia

1961 – West Side Story

1960 – The Apartment

1959 – Ben-Hur

1958 – Gigi

1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai

1956 – Around the World in 80 Days

1955 – Marty

1954 – On the Waterfront

1953 – From Here to Eternity

1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth

1951 – An American in Paris

1950 – All About Eve

1949 – All the Kings Men

1948 – Hamlet

1947 – Gentleman’s Agreement

1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives

1945 – The Lost Weekend

1944 – Going My Way

1943 – Casablanca

1942 – Mrs. Miniver

1941 – How Green Was My Valley

1940 – Rebecca

1939 – Gone with the Wind

1938 – You Can’t Take It with You

1937 – The Life of Emile Zola

1936 – The Great Ziegfeld

1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty

1934 – It Happened One Night

1932/1933 – Cavalcade

1931/1932 – Grand Hotel

1930/1931 – Cimarron

1929/1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front

1928/1929 – The Broadway Melody

1927/1928 – Wings

February is Black History Month

February is Black History Month. Come into the library for books and DVDs exploring African-American heritage.

February is Black History Month. Come into the library for books and DVDs exploring African-American heritage.

Books

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin with Hettie Jones
Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America by Jonathan Gill
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Cary D. Wintz


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

DVDs

The Color Purple
For Colored Girls
The Help

Killer of Sheep
Only the Ball Was White
Passing Strange: The Movie

National Book Critics Circle Finalists

The National Book Critics Circle Finalists are:

The National Book Critics Circle Finalists are:

FICTION

Open City by Teju Cole

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst

Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman

Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta

 

NONFICTION

A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild

Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok

Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis J. Rodriguez

Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth

 

BIOGRAPHY

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution by Mary Gabriel

George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel

Edgar Award Nominees

Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television published or produced in 2011.

Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television published or produced in 2011.

BEST NOVEL

The Ranger by Ace Atkins

Gone by Mo Hayder

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

1222 by Anne Holt

Field Gray by Philip Kerr

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Red on Red by Edward Conlon

Last to Fold by David Duffy

All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen

Bent Road by Lori Roy

Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle

The Dog Sox by Russell Hill

Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley

Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis

BEST FACT CRIME

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins

The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal

MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton

Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron

Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick

Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry

Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely

NPR 10 Best Novels of 2011

Another year-end “best” list! NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011:

Another year-end “best” list! NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011:

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Open City by Teju Cole

The Submission by Amy Waldman

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace

New York Times Notable Crime Books of 2011

Enjoy reading mysteries? Try one of the New York Times Notable Crime Books of 2011.

Enjoy reading mysteries? Try one of the New York Times Notable Crime Books of 2011.

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

Stagestruck by Peter Lovesey

The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell

The Cut by George Pelecanos

Triple Crossing by Sebastian Rotella

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Shock Wave by John Sandford

So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman

Bent Road by Lori Roy

The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina

The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis

The Killer is Dying by James Sallis

The Adjustment by Scott Phillps

The Cypress House by Michael Koryta

The Ridge by Michael Koryta

Field Gray by Philip Kerr

Potsdam Station by David Downing

Heartstone by C.J. Sansom

The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly

Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke

The Informant by Thomas Perry

V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton

A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2011

The 10 Best Books of 2011, chosen by the New York Times from their annual list of 100 Notable Books.

The 10 Best Books of 2011, chosen by the New York Times from their annual list of 100 Notable Books.

FICTION

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson

The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht

NONFICTION

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman

New Cookbooks

Browse our cookbook collection and find new recipes to try this holiday season!

Browse our cookbook collection and find new recipes to try this holiday season! Recently added titles include:

Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain Cookbook: Celebrate America’s Great Flavors by Bobby Flay

Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes by Andrea Reusing

Green Market Baking Book: 100 Delicious Recipes for Naturally Sweet and Savory Treats by Laura C. Martin

Michael’s Genuine Food: Down-to-Earth Cooking for People Who Love to Eat by Michael Schwartz

You Can Trust a Skinny Cook by Allison Fishman

 

 

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