Beginning collectors find guidance at High Point Public Library
The High Point Public Library Children's Division offers guides and display opportunities to help children start and showcase collections. Books such as Sea Shells Of The World and The Rock Hounds Book aid beginners, with monthly student displays in the Children's Room at 411 South Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen Perry
Children’s Services
America
High Point Public Library
R.T. Abbott
Seymour Simon
Burton Hobson
Paul Villiard
Arthur Liebers
Children’s Room
South Main Street
Fall Books Cheer Young Readers With Rich Fall Lineup
Denise Marcoe Wilms highlights fall publishing as a prime season for Allen children to extend summer reading. Key titles include Verna Aardema and Leo and Diane Dillon's Who's in Rabbit's House and Trina Schart Hyman's Sleeping Beauty, plus Lloyd Alexander The Town Cats Eleanor Cameron Julia and the Hand of God and Helen Cresswell Ordinary Jack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denise Marceo Wilms
American Library
Allen
Grimm Brothers
Trina Schart Hyman
Verna Aardema
Leo
Diane Dillon
Little Brown
Lloyd Alexander
Dutton
Julia and the Hand OF God
Eleanor Cameron
Helen Cresswell
Macmillan
Jackal
Rabbit
Frog
Alexander
Julia and the
Hand of God
Cameron
Jack Bagthorpe
Jack
Reading picks compiled from 150 city libraries
The American Library Association reports the most requested books across 150 U S libraries. The list reflects popular titles shaping reading trends nationwide.
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American Library Assn
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Book list of notable non fiction titles from 1980s publishers
A catalog of ten nonfiction books with author names publishers and prices. Items include Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks Vivien Leigh biography by Anne Edwards and Carl Sagan The Dragons of Eden among others.
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Dan Rather
Mickey Herskowitz
Morrow
Vivien Leigh
Anne Edwards
Simon & Schuster
James Herriot
St. Martin's
Wayne W. Dyer
Funk & Wagnalls
Victor Lasky
Dial
William
Fishbait
Miller
Frances S. Leighton
Prentice- Hall
Eden Hy
Carl Sagan
Random House
Brooke Hayward
Knopf
Robert Ringer
Passages
Gail Sheehy
Dutton
Booklist items and prices from newspaper readership page
A reader’s list features fiction titles by Colleen McCullough John D MacDonald Susan Howatch Robin Cook Dorothy Uhnak Robert S Elegant Paul E Erdman William Safire Phyllis Whitney and Victoria Holt with publisher names and prices. The entries are presented by NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN dated 10-12-77 with tape reference.
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Colleen McCullough
Harper & Row
John D. MacDonald
Lippincott
Susan Howatch
Simon & Schuster
Coma
Robin Cook
Little, Brown
Dorothy Uhnak
Dynasty
Robert S. Elegant
McGraw-Hill
Paul E. Erdman
William Safire
Doubleday
Phyllis A. Whitney
Victoria Holt
Place Over Time Argues Southern Distinctiveness Persists
Carl Degler argues in Place Over Time that Southern distinctiveness remains robust despite modernization. He notes Southerners are more conservative nationalistic self identified defensive religious violent and romantic than other Americans while being less urban diverse and rich. Climate and history shaped staple agriculture slavery and a rural culture reinforcing continuity and limits of change.
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Carl Degler
Louisiana State University
Degler
South
Eugene Genovese
New South
C. Vann Woodward
America
Vietnam
Champions of Mystery edited by Ellery Queen reviewed
Mystery fans have a hefty collection titled Champions of Mystery edited by Ellery Queen. The volume includes two short novels, two novelettes and 13 short stories by major names like Rex Stout John Dickson Carr Ross MacDonald and Ellery Queen. Stout’s Counterfeit For Murder stars Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin in a tale about murder and counterfeit money.
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Ellery Queen
Rex Stout
John Dickson Carr
Ross Macdonald
Stout
Nero Wolfe
Archie Goodwin
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Parker
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Bagthorpe
Margaret Farrar
Lon Angelo
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Actor
Miss Millay
Andrea
Newcastle
Thailand
Khan
Julia Child
City On the Somme
Riviera Resort
Pain
E Burgos
Hari
Aspires Dunne
Angelo
E.M. Lander JR
Clemson University History Department
W.O. Key
Harry Ashmore
Dixie
John Egerton
Triad Arena
Norwalk ST
Greensboro
Sun
College J.D
Main ST
Butler’s Mill
Ward
Wagner
Art
Church Ave
Wagner Tire Sales
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!