Book reviews: Find the best new books {*style:<ul>*} {*style:<li>*} {*style:<br>*}{*style:<b>*}Harry's Trees{*style:</b>*}{*style:<br>*} by Jon Cohen{*style:<br>*}What a dazzlingly yet wonderful cast of characters we meet in Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen. The one thing united them is grief and loss. A widow loses her husband to a ... The Book Case Blog | Book Reviews, Author Interviews, Book Blogs Donald Harstad worked for 26 years as deputy sheriff and chief investigator for the police department of Clayton County, Iowa. Harstad transforms those experiences into thrilling mysteries with his popular Carl Houseman series. The sixth in the series, November Rain, finds Houseman far from his usual heartland setting, as he travels to the UK to consult on a kidnapping case—and to protect his own daughter. In a guest post, Harstad shares a bit of the real-life inspiration behind November Rain. Guest post by Donald Harstad I’ve written six novels about a fictional deputy sheriff named Carl Houseman, set in a fictional county in northeast Iowa. I certainly never thought I would write a book until I actually wrote my first. Scenarios. The first officer arrived 19 minutes after I called. That’s where Eleven Days, my first novel, had originated. For my latest, November Rain (Crooked Lane Books), I send Carl to London for an assist in a homicide investigation. Thanks, Donald!
College - 2011-2012 Contemporary Writers Series Founded with a grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation and continued through the Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professorship Program, the writer series is generously supported today by the Office of Academic Affairs and the Hassett and Scoma Endowments, and with the cooperation of The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Western New York Writing Project, and Talking Leaves Books. Stephen Kuusisto Thursday, October 17, 7:00 p.m.Montante Cultural Center Stephen Kuusisto is the author of two memoirs, Planet of the Blind and Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening, and two collections of poetry, Only Bread, Only Light and Letters to Borges. Web Resources Tracy K. Thursday, March 13, 7:00 p.m.Grupp Fireside Lounge Born in Massachusetts, Tracy K. Tracy K. Paula Meehan Thursday, April 3, 7:00 p.m.Montante Cultural Center11th Annual Hassett Reading Paula Meehan was raised in two working-class districts in Dublin.
School Library Research (SLR) School Library Research (ISSN: 2165-1019) is the scholarly refereed research journal of the American Association of School Librarians. It is the successor to School Library Media Research (ISSN: 1523-4320) and School Library Media Quarterly Online. The purpose of School Library Research is to promote and publish high quality original research concerning the management, implementation, and evaluation of school library programs. The journal will also emphasize research on instructional theory, teaching methods, and critical issues relevant to school libraries and school librarians. SLR seeks to distribute major research findings worldwide through both electronic publication and linkages to substantive documents on the Internet. The primary audience for SLR includes academic scholars, school librarians, instructional specialists and other educators who strive to provide a constructive learning environment for all students and teachers. Two New Research Papers PublishedFebruary 2017
VOYA Auckland Libraries Staff Picks books Why I Chose it Library Journal Reviews — Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development Bookgasm GreatReads Find more Great Reads Poets have drawn the attention of biographers ever since Samuel Johnson published Lives of the Poets in the late eighteenth century, but novelists also find the stories of poets irresistible. What drama is found in lives driven by literary genius, eccentricity, adversity, and suffering. Poets are seers, artists, philosophers, and social critics, gloriously and dangerously open to life’s beauty and terror. In the novels discussed below, authors romanticize and sensationalize, but also precisely re-create the historic contexts within which these poets wrote, rejected convention, endured hostility and persecution, struggled to survive, pursued altered states and doomed love, and radically transformed the art of poetry. Black Venus, by James MacManus Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was headline-news scandalous and astronomically influential. Disaster Was My God, by Bruce Duffy Frances and Bernard, by Carlene Bauer The More I Owe You, by Michael Sledge