Dear Reader Online Book Club

The following books will be featured at next week’s Dear Reader: Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming, audio How to Castrate a Bull by Dave Hitz with Pat Walsh, business The Night Villa by Carol Goodman, fiction Until We Reach Home by Lynn Austin, good news The Stolen by Jason Pinter, mystery Gangleader for … Read more

Best Selling Books of the Twentieth Century

The fourth installment of best selling books of the Twentieth Century as detailed in Publisher’s Weekly: * 1930 Cimarron, Edna Ferber *1931 The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck * 1932 The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck * 1933 Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen *1934 Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen * 1935 Green Light, Lloyd C. Douglas * … Read more

New downloadable audiobooks

The following new titles are available on the Salon website, our link to OverDrive audio books. Just click on the icon to the left of the blog that says “Download audiobooks OverDrive” for these and many more. If you’re reading by listening, let us know which title(s) you have enjoyed recently. Children’s eaudiobooks: Because of … Read more

2009 New York Statewide Summer Reading Program

To commemorate the New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, the New York State Library, in partnership with the New York Library Association’s Youth Services Section and School Library Media Section, has created four selected reading lists that celebrate the history, culture, and diversity of New York State. Each of the four lists covers one reader age … Read more

Book Club

The book club will be discussing “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. “Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel–a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.”

Fifty Books for Our Times

Newsweek has an interesting feature on What to Read Now. And Why. They say “The fact is, no one needs another best-of list telling you how great The Great Gatsby is.” These books “open a window on the times we live in, … help us see ourselves in new and surprising ways.” The list of … Read more