Talking about books . . .
FINDING A GREAT BOOK TO READ JUST GOT
EASIER!
“A Chapter A Day Keeps the Boredom Away”.
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So many books, so little time. For all those busy people, we have
improved our service: Online Book Club that delivers books
electronically. Each day, Monday through Friday, the library emails
subscribers a portion of a book that takes about five minutes to
read. You’re able to read two or three chapters from a book during
the week. If you like a book, you can check it out of the library or
place a reserve. Each week the library features new books.
Now with more book clubs to choose from, there’s something for
everyone. Patrons can read fiction, nonfiction, romance, business,
good news or teen books among others. You can also listen to audio
books in your email. Now you can discover great books, even if
you’re too busy to visit the library.
You can sign up for this service at either library or right now by
following this link:
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A fun way to find new books while reading your email or RSS feed.
Join our monthly book newsletter for wonderful reads. We have many
newsletters for you to choose. You will discover:
- Links to our monthly newsletters featuring a wide variety of
books for all ages.
- Descriptions of books with reviews and links to our catalog so
you can reserve a copy.
- Links to award winning and bestselling books.
- A newsletter sign up page where you can subscribe to our email
newsletters.
New Book Alerts
New Book Alerts
is a free online service that showcases the newest titles purchased by The Lawrenceburg Public Library District. You can select to receive alerts via email and/or RSS feeds. If you see a new title that you are interested in, just click "borrow" to place a hold on the item right away.
New Book Alerts is offered in conjunction with www.DearReader.com.
 The Fly Pod monthly book talk. This link will open a QuickTime
Audio for you to listen to our monthly book talk. Come back often.
Book on the Fly by Sally Stegner.
Discussing a book with fellow readers can be a very satisfying
pleasure. Nearly always, the discussion takes a reader to a new
level of understanding. That is especially true when diverging
opinions find some readers enjoying a book and others emphatically
disliking it. Often reading group members will remark that they find
value in reading and discussing titles very different from those
they normally choose for leisure reading. Consider joining one or
both of the reading discussion groups offered through the Library
District.
Lawrenceburg's book discussion will take place Monday, October 29, at 10:30 AM.
Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook.
Summary: Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing.
Suddenly Eric is one of the stricken parents he has seen on television, professing faith in his child's innocence. As the police investigation increasingly focuses on Keith, Eric must counsel his son, find him a lawyer, protect him from the community's steadily growing suspicion. Except that Eric is not so sure his son is innocent. And if Keith is not . . . and might do the same thing again . . . what then should a father do?
Red Leaves is a story of broken trust and one man's heroic effort to hold fast the ties that bind him to everything he loves. - (Harcourt Publishing).
Books for Dessert
North Dearborn Branch: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
Thursday, October 18 @ 6:30 PM.
Summary: A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave - "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" - wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come. - (Blackwell North Amer).
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