Four New Picture Books for February Readers
A wordless tale Unspoken by Henry Cole follows a Virginia farm girl who aids a runaway slave. Oliver Jeffers This Moose Belongs to Me and Kelly Bingham Z is for Moose add whimsy, while Neville by Norton Juster shows a boy making friends. Jacqueline Briggs Martin notes author.
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Scholastic
Virginia
Oliver Jeffers
Philomel
Wilfred
Marcel
Greenwillow
Zebra
Apple
Ball
Cat
Duck
Elephant
Moose
Neville
Norton Juster
G. Brian Karas
Schwartz& Wade
South Pole
Deep Down review grounds fantasy thriller in Midwestern resilience
Deborah Coates’s Deep Down follows Hallie Michaels after Afghanistan as she returns to rural South Dakota where ghosts and reapers haunt a close knit town. With deputy Boyd Davies under threat, Hallie seeks truth amid ominous clouds as the sheriff and neighbors rally to protect one another.
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Hallie Michaels
Deborah Coates
Afghanistan
Hallie
South Dakota
Boyd Davies
Midwest
Coates
Willa Cather
Cedar Rapids Teens Contest Books You Love and More Library News
Cedar Rapids Public Library invites sixth through twelfth graders to enter Books You Love with a $25 Carmike Wynnsong gift certificate prize by February 16. Entries available at Westdale Mall and online at Crplteen wordpress site. Ladd Library opens February 23 with ribbon cutting. Westdale closes February 18 to 22 for move. story times begin with Mother Goose and Clifford. Willowwind in Iowa City hosts Literature Festival and Scholastic book fair with author cocoa and partner book exchanges. events run Monday through Friday for K-6 and families. Call (319) 398-5123 or visit crlibrary.org for details.
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Metro Area
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Carmike Wynnsong Theatres
Iowa City
Willowwind
Willowwind.org
Westdale Mall
Williams Blvd
Ladd Library
Mother Goose
Friends
Clifford
National Best Sellers Fiction List and Publishers
A compiled list of current best selling fiction and notable nonfiction titles with authors and publishers. Includes Anita Patterson and Sullivar with Private Berlin, Jordan's A Memory of Light, Flynn’s Gone Girl, Clancy Threat Vector, and Meachum Thomas Jefferson power profile, among others.
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Patterson and Sullivar
Jordan
Flynn
Harrison
Meltzer
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Red Sox
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Kennedy
O'Reilly
Wright
Osteen
Owen
Ferriss
Thomas Jefferson
Art of
Power
Meachum
Publisher's Weekly
Loewenberg
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van Wormer, Jackson and Sudduth
Fay
Hattie” Matthis
Canada
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