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Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
January 13th, 2011
In The Lonely Polygamist (W.W. Norton & Co, 2010), author Brady Udall pulls off an unlikely feat: he makes a family of one man, four wives, and 28 children seem normal and engaging, because they are beset by the trivial and epic successes and tragedies of most of our lives. Read more »
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Author and Abolitionist
Aaron Cohen comes to help fight human trafficking and sign some books
January 6th, 2011
It’s the second week of January and already an unusual—nay, outré—literary event is scheduled to take place. On Jan. 12, human rights activist and author Aaron Cohen, 45, will be giving a talk and signing copies of his best-selling book Slave Hunter: One Man’s Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking (Simon Spotlight, 2009). Read more »
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Sites to See
January 6th, 2011
• GEDDY DONE! (YouTube.com/watch?v=gwpGXfHmY-A)• USEFULNESS ILLUSTRATED (HowToHistory.com/video-tutorials)• WHAT NINE EYES YOU HAVE (9eyes.tumblr.com) Read more »
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Sites to See
December 23rd, 2010
• FALALA LAND (FaLaLaLaLa.com)• GONE KRAMPIN’• (KrampusKards.blogspot.com) Read more »
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Mob Memories
December 16th, 2010
Although his life story mirrors the plot of an entire film genre, mobster-turned-government witness Andrew DiDonato doesn’t want you to think he’s a hero (or even a glamorous anti-hero). Instead, with his new biography, Surviving the Mob: A Street Soldier’s Life Inside the Gambino Crime Family (Huntington Press, $16) by Dennis Griffin, he simply wants to “lay it all out there and let you see what life as a mob associate is like from the inside.” Read more »
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Sites to See
December 9th, 2010
• NOTHING BUT BLUE SKIES (blog.flight001.com)• 9 1/2 TWEETS (twitter.com/Mickey__Rourke)• THE ADVENTURES OF SIMPLE DOG (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com) Read more »
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Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
December 2nd, 2010
The subtitle of Jonathan Raban’s Bad Land: An American Romance (Pantheon Books, 1996) says it all. This Englishman’s paean to the homesteading of eastern Montana during the early 20th century is exhilarating as well heartbreaking. Read more »
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Sites to See
November 25th, 2010
• EXCELSIOR! (ourvaluedcustomers.net)• MISTAKES WERE MADE (archive.mistakereports.com)• SUITABLY RECORDED (sleeveface.com) Read more »
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From Goth to Glitter
Vampire author Rachel Caine on writing for tweens, her sci-fi background and the next lit trend
November 18th, 2010
The best thing about the Morganville Vampires book series is that the female protagonist isn’t a shaky, stuttering, emo-girl hung up on a vampire who treats her like shit, a la some popular vampire books. Residing in a literary middle ground of sorts, Morganville doesn’t have the following of Twilight but it has been on The New York Times best-seller list, optioned for television/film by a British production company, and Caine recently quit her day job in corporate communications. Read more »
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Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
November 18th, 2010
In Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (Penguin, 2009), Michael Pollan provides 64 pithy rules for healthful eating, a distillation of the many fascinating observations and findings he’s already provided in The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Penguin, 2006) and In Defense of Food (Penguin, 2008). Based on scientific data (but without the big words) and folk knowledge from around the world, Pollan describes what it means to eat healthfully and well, in short, easy-to-remember adages. It all boils down to seven words: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” A skinny book for a skinnier you! Read more »
