Books and Readings Shaping Minds at the Library
The library highlights Buck O’Neil’s I Was Right on Time and Wendell Berry’s A World Lost. New sidewalk drops for books and audiovisuals improve returns. Readers explore Coming of Age titles like About a Boy and Run With the Horsemen, with reviews of Ellen Foster and Winter Wheat, plus a March focus on Quotable Women.
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Buck O'Neil
Wendell Berry
Andy
Port William
Nick Hornby
Will
Marcus
Run With the Horsemen
Ferrol Sams
Catcher In the
Mildred Walker
Ellen Webb
Gil
Montana
Anne Frank
Sophia Loren
Annie Dillard
Kathleen Norris
Agatha Christie
Capitol as Muse for Writers in Washington Novels
The piece surveys how authors from Henry Adams to Tom Clancy, Margaret Truman Daniel, Ralph Ellison, Barbara Mikulski, William Cohen, and Alan Drury have used the Capitol as a backdrop for political thrillers. It notes long-running fiction of corruption, intrigue, and power in Washington, with examples across eras. It highlights synthesizing themes of virtue, vice, and institutional critique in American political writing.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
Washington
Silas P. Ratcliffe
Henry Adams
U.S
Adams
Ratcliffe
Mark Twain
Charles Dudley Warner
Sen
Abner Dilworthy
Senate
Tom Clancy
Dot Press
Margaret Truman Daniel
President Truman
The
White House
Capitol Hill
Clifton Truman Daniel
Ralph Ellison
Adam Sunraider
Congress
Barbara Mikulski
D-Md
Marylouise Oates
William S. Cohen
Secretary of Defense
Gary Hart
Alan Drury
Mark Coffin
USS
Drury
Plath diaries to be published reveal turbulent life
AP reports Sylvia Plath’s diaries to be released in full next month, detailing her “apple pie happy” moments and deep despair before her 1963 suicide. The Guardian serialization highlights her marriage to Ted Hughes and the impact of his affair on her life and work.
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Rye
Porter Osborne Jr
Georgia
Ferro
Sams
Porter
London
Sylvia Plath
The
Guardian
Plath
Ted Hughes
Hughes
Ariel
Best Sellers in Hardcover Fiction and More
Best Sellers list from Publishers Weekly spans fiction, nonfi ction, mass market, and trade paperbacks. Notable titles include Grisham The Brethren, Roberts Carolina Moon, Allende Daughter of Fortune, Fielding Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason, DeMille The Lion’s Game, Higgins Day of Reckoning, and nonfi ction works by Albom, Johnson, and Eggers among others.
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Publishers Weekly
John Grisham
Carolina Moon
Nora Roberts
Isabel Allende
HarperCollins
Bridget Jones
Helen Fielding
Viking
Gap Creek
Robert Morgan
Nelson DeMille
Jack Higgins
Diane Mott David
Bantam
Lise Scottaline
Carl Hiaasen
Spencer Johnson
Putnam
Andrew Wail Knopf
Marria
Mitch Albom
Doubleday
Bill Phillips
Michael D’orsa
HarperCallins
The
Rock
the Rock
Jon Layden
Regan Books
Phillip C. McGraw
Hyperion
Thomas J. Stanley
Andrews McMeel
Dave Eggers
H. Leighton Steward
Morrison C. Betheo
Sam S. Andrews
Luis A. Balart
Ballntine
Frank McCourt
Scribnar
Danielle Steal
Dall
John Sandford
Dr. Atkins
Robert C. Atkins
Avon
Catherine Coulte
John Irving
Angela
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Aven
Gary Zukay
Michael Cunningham
Phillis C. McGraw
Susanna Kaysen
Jane Hamilton
Anchor
Mark Bowdan
Barbara Kingsolver
HarperPerennial
David Pelzer
Sua Miller
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