On Display in the Library

The displays in the lobby and New Book room change constantly. This blog will keep you up to date on what is being featured and where you can find it.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Lobby Display

Culinary Choices

100 Ways to Be Pasta
Wanda Tornabene

The Antipasto Table
Michelle Scicolone

Main Course Salads
Donna Rodnitzky

Big Kitchen Instruction Book
Rosemary Brown

Vegetarian Grill
Andrea Chesman

BowlFood Cookbook
Lynn Aronson

A Taste for Adventure
Anik See

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

20th Century War novels

  • Patricia Anthony - Flanders
  • Ninh Bao - The Sorrow of War
  • James Brady - Marine of Autumn
  • Harold Coyle - More Than Courage
  • Patrick Duncan - Courage Under Fire
  • W.E.B. Griffin - Brotherhood of War series, Corps series
  • Christopher Hyde - Gathering of Saints
  • John Katzenbach - Hart's War
  • Norman Mailer - Naked and the Dead
  • James Michner - Bridges at Toko-ri
  • Robin Moore - Green Berets
  • Walter Dean Myers - Fallen Soldiers
  • Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Malcolm Ross-MacDonald - To the End of Her Days
  • Daniel Silva - Unlikely Spy
  • Evelyn Waugh - End of the Battle, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen
  • Jean Wentz - Men in Green Faces
  • David Westheimer - Von Ryan's Return
  • Herman Wouk - War and Rememberance, Winds of War

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Classics

Harper Lee....To Kill a Mockingbird
Richard Llewellyn....How Green Was My Valley
Betty Smith....A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Chaim Potok....My Name is Asher Levi
Richard Bradford....Red Sky at Morning
Cormac McCarthy....All the Pretty Horses
Charles Dickens....Great Expectations/David Copperfield
Henry Fielding....Tom Jones
James Joyce....Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Herman Hesse....Siddhartha/Steppenwolf
Laurence Sterne....Tristram Shandy
Daniel Defoe....Moll Flanders
Mark Twain....Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ernest Hemingway....The Old Man and the Sea
J.D. Salinger....Catcher in the Rye

Bildungsroman
A novel which traces the spiritual, moral, psychological or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to maturity.

Seth Kanter....Ordinary Wolves
Catherine Cookson....Kate Hannigan
Joe Landsdale....A Fine Dark Line
Larry McMurty....The Wandering Hill
Darnella Ford....Rising
Lee Nelson....The Boy in the Box
Joseph Freda....The Patience of Rivers
Ira Sher....Gentleman of Space
Vincent Carter....Such Sweet Thunder
Rona Jaffe....The Room-mating Season
Annabel Davis-Goff....The Fox's Walk
Joyce Maynard....The Usual Rules
Marjorie Leet Ford....The Diary of an American Au-pair
Keith Maillard....The Clarinet Polka
Elinor Lipman....The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
Brendan O'Carroll....The Young Wan
Thi Diem Thuy Le....The Gangster We Were All Looking For
Ann Packer....The Dive from Clausen's Pier



Friday, July 01, 2005

Take Me to the Beach

Adler, Elizabeth....Summer in Tuscany
Balough, Mary....A Summer to Remember
Benchley, Peter....Jaws
Blake, Sarah....Grange House
Blume, Judy....Summer Sisters
Brett, Simon....Body on the Beach
Coben, Harlan....No Second Chance
Conant, Susan....Black Ribbon: A Dog Lover's Mystery
Conroy, Pat....Beach Music
Craig, Phillilp R....Death on a Vineyard Beach
Crusie, Jennifer...Bet Me; Faking It; Tell me Lies
Delinksy, Barbara....The Summer I Dared; The Vineyard
Devereaux, Jude....Summerhouse
Dorsey, Tim....Cadillac Beach
Goodman, Allegra....Kaaterskill Falls
Grimes, Martha....The End of the Pier; Hotel Paradise
Halberstam, David....Summer of '49
Hannah, Kristin....Distant Shores; On Mystic Lake; Summer Island
Hart, Carolyn....Murder Walks the Plank; Resort to Murder
Heller, Jane....Name Dropping; Princess Charming
Hiaasen, Carl....Stormy Weather; Tourist Season
Hilderbrand, Elin....Beach Club; Summer People
Hough, John....The Last Summer
Johnson, Guy....Echoes of a Distant Summer
Kelman, Judith....Summer of Storms
Lardo, Vincent....McNally's Dare
Lipman, Elinor....The Inn at Lake Divine
Lockhart, Barbara....Requiem for a Summer Cottage
Lowell, Elizabeth....Amber Beach
McCorkle, Jill....Ferris Beach
Maron, Margaret....Last Lessons of Summer
Merullo, Roland....In Revere, In Those Days
Michener, James A....Caribbean
Minichino, Camille....The Carbon Murder
Monroe, Mary Alice....The Beach House; The Four Seasons
Mossman, Dow....The Stones of Summer
O'Nan, Stuart....Wish You Were Here
Patterson, James....Beach House
Pilcher, Rosamunde...End of Summer; Shell Seekers
Ray, Jeanne....Eat Cake
Rice, Luanne....Firefly Beach; Perfect Summer
Robards, Karen....Beachcomber
Roberts, Nora....The Reef; Summer Pleasures
Rowe, Jennifer....The Makeover Murders
Shames, Laurence....Welcome to Paradise
Sherman, Beth....Death's a Beach
Siddons, Anne River....Colony; Outer Banks
Spencer, LaVryle....That Camden Summer
Thayer, Nancy....Belonging
White, Kate....A Body to Die For

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Foreign Intrigue in Fiction
Bailey, Paul
Uncle Rudolph
Benson, Raymond
The man with the red tattoo
Blackwood, Grant
The end of enemies
Bond, Larry
Dangerous Ground
Boyd, William
Any Human Heart
Broadbent, Tony
The Smoke
Bromell, Henry
Little America
Buckley, William F.
Last Call for Blackford Oakes
Ciment, Jill
Teeth of the Dog
Coetzee, J.M.
Elizabeth Costello
Coonts, Stephen
Honk Kong
Liberty
Coyle, Harold
Dead Hand
Cussler, Clive
Golden Buddha
Davis, Patrick A
The Commander
Egleton, Clive
Cry Havoc
Dead Reckoning
The Honey Trap
Fielding, Helen
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Flynn, Vince
Executive Power
Separation of Power
Forsyth, Frederick
Icon
Fremantle, Brian
Dead Men Living
Kings of Many Castles
Gilman, Dorothy
Mrs. Polifax series
Howard, Linda
All the Queen's Men
King, Laurie R.
The Game
Ludlum, Robert
The Paris Option
The Sigma Protocol
The Tristan Betrayal
Marcinko, Robert
Echo Platoon
Pearson, Ridley
Never Look Back
Redfern, Elizabeth
The Music of the Spheres
Reilly, Matthew
Ice Station
Scarecrow
Temple
Roberts, Gregory
Shantaram
Rucka, Greg
A Gentleman's Game
Seymour, Gerald
A Line in the Sand
The Unknown Soldier
Silva, Daniel
The Confessor
The English Assassin
The Kill Artist
The Marching Season
Prince of Fire

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Gardening in Fiction...
  • Susan Witting Albert books
  • Nancy Atherton books
  • Agatha Raisin & the potted gardener by M.C. Beaton
  • Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown
  • Consider the Lily by Elizabeth Buchan
  • Down the Garden Path by Dorothy Cannell
  • Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes by K.C. Constantine
  • Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas
  • The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn
  • Something Wicked by E.X. Ferrars
  • In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz
  • Serpent in the Garden by Janet Gleeson
  • Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
  • Night Blooming Cereus by Joan Hadley
  • Reap a Wicked Harvest by Janis Harrison

Thursday, March 10, 2005

New England Writers
Allen, Irene
Baker, Nikki
Banks, Russell
Barnes, Linda
Beattie, Ann
Bernays, Anne
Berenson, Laurien
Binstock, R.C.
Bohjalian, Chris
Bok, Sissela
Borthwick, J.S.
Boyer, Rick
Boyle, Gerry
Caputo, Philip
Carroll, James
Cather, Willa
Charyn, Jerome
Chute, Carolyn
Clark, Mary Higgins
Comfort, Barbara
Conant, Susan
Craig, Philip
Dobson, Joanne
Doolittle, Jerome
Dubois, Brendan
Eidson, Bill
Emerson, Kathy Lynn
Franzen, Jonathan
Freda, Joseph
Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Gerritsen, Tess
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Gutcheon, Beth
Haddam, Jane
Healy, Jeremiah
Heck, Peter
Higgins, George V.
Hoffman, Alice
Hood, Ann
Irving, John
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
Kelman, Judith
Kemelman, Harry
Kemprecos, Paul
Kerouac, Jack
Kimball, Michael
King, Stephen
King, Tabitha
Kidder, Tracy
Korelitz, Jean Hanff
Kotzwinkle, William
Kumin, Maxine
Langton, Jane
Law, Janice
Lawrence, Margaret
Lee, Marie
Lott,Bret
McDonald, Gregory
MacLeod, Charlotte
Malone, Michael
Mamet, David
Maness, Larry
Marsh, Carole
Mathews, Francine
Matthews, Anne
Mayor, Archer
Meier, Leslie
Miller, Sue
Mosher, Howard Frank
Page, Katherine Hall
Parker, Robert
Paterson, Katherine
Pelletier, Cathie
Picoult, Jodi
Pickard, Nancy
Press, Margaret
Reid, Van
Shapiro, Barbara
Shreve, Anita
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Stockenberg, Antoinette
Tapply, William
Wilson, Susan
Wolzien, Valerie