Christmas Reads at Ottawa Library Offer Warm Holiday Cheer
Ottawa Library shelves burst with festive titles across adults and children. Highlights include The Twelve Teas of Christmas by Emilie Barnes, Noche Buena with Mexican festive tales, Christmas Poems featuring Dickinson Hecht and Hughes, A Hampton's Christmas by James Brady, Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, and A Christmas Wedding by Andrew M. Greeley. Children's selections include Santa and the Christ Child by Nicholas Bakewell, Moosehoe by Margie Palatini, and Christmas Trees by Kathryn Stevens alongside seasonal videos and stage-friendly stories.
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Emilie Barnes
Barnes
Nicholas Kanellos
Mexico
Colombia
Cuba
Puerto Rico
St. Nicholas
Emily Dickinson
Anthony Hecht
Langston Hughes
Phyllis McGinley
Dorothy Parker
Hamptons
James Brady
F Bra
Parade
Brady
Martha Stewart
George Plimpton
Ron Perelman
Spielman Kids
Nicole Driver
Beecher Stowe
Alix Dunraven
Susannah
East Hampton
Mary Higgins Clark
Carol Higgins Clark
Regan Reilly
Alvirah Meehan
New Jersey
Andrew M. Greeley
U.S
Chuckie
the O’malleys
Johanna Lindsey
F Lin
Larissa Ascot
Larissa
Vincent Everett
Windsmoor
Lindsey
Francine Rivers
Fic Rio
Timmy O’neil
Mary
David Holmes
Santa
Christ Child
Nicholas Bakewell
J*bak
Margie Palatini
Moose
Kathryn Stevens
Silver Lake
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J Hub
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Minnesota
Germany
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Nellie
Will
North Pole
New program helps criminals through literature in Kansas
Overland Park AP report on Changing Lives Through Literature a Johnson County corrections pilot guiding non violent offenders toward education and employment. Participants read seven novels over 14 weeks at a community college with probation officers and a circuit judge guiding discussions. About 150 have taken part with roughly 60 percent completing the courses and data on long term outcomes being gathered.
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Brad Terkleson
Gardner
Johnson County
Department of Corrections
Community College
Randall Nester
John Steinbeck
Jack London
Terkleson
DeSoto
Nester
J.D. Salinger
Massachusetts
Kansas
Melanie Fenske
Fenske
Best Sellers in Hardcover and Trade Paperbacks
Publishers Weekly lists top fiction and nonfiction hardcover titles led by Roses are Red by James Patterson and The Mark by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Nonfiction includes The Beatles Anthology and Nothing Like It in the World with mass market and trade paperback guides following, highlighting titles from O'Reilly to Galileo's Daughter.
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Publishers Weekly
James Patterson
Little, Brown
Mark
Tim LaHaye
Jerry Jenkins
Tyndale
Mary Higgins Clark
Carol Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
Barbara Kingsolver
HarperCollins
Tom Clancy
Putnam
Ken Follett
Dutton
Patricia Cornwell
Robert Jordan
Tor
Jonathan Kellerman
Random House
Robert Ludlum
St. Martin's Press
Spencer Johnson
The
Beatles
Chronicle Books
Bill O'Reilly
Broadway
Anna Quindlen
Stephen E. Ambrose
S&s
Morrie
Mitch Albom
Doubleday
Maestro
Alan Greenspan
Fed
Bob Woodward
Guinness Publishing
Bill Phillips
Michael D’orso
Joe DiMaggio
Richard Ben Cramer
Nora Robertsove
Dean Koontz
Bantam
Michael Crichton
Balantine
Jerry B. Jenkins
Tim LeHaye
Nelson DeMille
Warner
Scott Turow
Warner Vision
Danielle Stee Dell
Robin Cook
Berkley
Martin Greenberg
Jerome Preisler
Stanislaski
Andre Dubus III
Vintage
Don Pigual Ruiz
Amber- Allen
Joshua Piven
David Borgenicht
Chronicle
Robert Famighetti
World Almanac Books
Debbie Ford
Riverhead
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Sharon L. Lechter
J. Canfield
M.V. Hansen
J. Dunlap
P. Hansen
HCI
HarperPerennial
Galileo’s Daughter
Dava Sobel
Penguin
Hillary Clinton leads bidding for memoirs in Washington
Hillary Rodham Clinton tops current publishing bids with offers exceeding seven million dollars for her memoirs. The auction is run by Robert Barnett with anonymity around the bidders, while Clinton aides declined comment. A watchdog urged avoiding large advances under Senate ethics standards.
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Howard Wolfson
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Monica Lewinsky
General Electric
Jack Welch
Reagan
New York Times
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