Episode 19 - A Year in Review: Best Books of 2007

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Reserve Books from Twinsburg Public Library
SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, December 28, 2007
Featured Genre: Best Books of 2007

Notes:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyers
19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
New Book for 2008: Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich
Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (audio)
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by Dr. John Gray (audio)

Episode 18 - Best Gift Books for 2007

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Date Recorded: Monday17, December , 2007
Featured Genre: Best Gift Books for 2007

Notes:
The Kindle from Amazon.com
The Creative Zen Mp3 Player
Check out an Mp3 Player from the Twinsburg Public Library!!!
Just in Time - Rachael Ray
Taste of Tradition Cookbook from Twinsburg Public Library
Wookie Cookie: Star Wars Cookbook
Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew Reinheart

Series:
Stephanie Meyers - Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse
Cornelia Funke - Inkheart, Inkspell
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter SeriesTony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black - The Spiderwick Chronicles
Neil Gaimen - Stardust, Anasi Boys, American Gods

More Gift Books:
The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
Mental Floss presents In the Beginning
Golf My Own Damn Way by John Daly
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
Things I Heard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda
Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote
Marley and Me Picture Book
Stephen Colbert - I am America (And So Can You!)
Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy
Why Do Men Have Nipples: Hundreds of Questions You Would Only Ask Your Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

Episode 17 - Christmas Books

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, December 7, 2007
Featured Genre: Christmas Books

Notes:
Idiot Girls' Christmas by Laurie Notaro
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Santa and Pete by Christopher Moore
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
I'm Your Santa by Lori Foster
The Christmas Shoes by Donna VanLiere
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Don Borchert, author of Free for All, Speaks at TPL

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VIDEO - Part One

Episode 16 - Suspense/Mystery

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Date Recorded: Friday, November 30, 2007
Featured Genre: Suspense/Mystery

Notes:

Episode 15 - Recent Reads

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Date Recorded: Friday, November 23, 2007
Featured Genre: Recent Reads

Notes:
Ladies Night Book Discussion Group
3rd Monday Book Discussion

Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
Milk, Eggs, and Vodka - Bill Keaggy
Letters from a Nut - Ted L. Nancy
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Episode 14 - Books for Librarians

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Date Recorded: Friday, November 16, 2007
Featured Genre: Books for Librarians

Notes:
Holiday Gift Ideas for the Librarian in Your Life!

Book Lust - Nancy Pearl
Free for All - Don Borchert (Will be at the library November 28th @ 6pm)
Girls' Guide to Witchcraft Series; Sorcery and the Single Girl - Mindy Klasky
Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenager
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Ms. Zukas Mystery Series - Jo Dereske
Ophelia and Abby Series - Shirley Damsgaard

Episode 13 - Books for Writers

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Date Recorded: Friday, November 9, 2007
Featured Genre: Books for Writers

Notes:
Don Borchert, author of Free for All,
Presentation 6pm November 28th
Writer's Circle - Wednesday November 28th at 7pmWriting Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
Bird by Bird - Anne LamottWhat If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers - Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter
Elements of Style - William Strunk and E.B. White
Writers Market 2008
Poets Market 2008
No Plot? No Problem! A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days - Chris Baty
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King

Episode 12 - Children's Books

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, November 2, 2007
Featured Genre: Children's Books

Notes:
Marjorie Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit
Jon Stone - Monster at the End of this Book
Dr. Suess - Go Dog Go, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Bruce Covil - My Teacher is an Alien
Louis Sachar- Holes, Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
C.S. Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia: Horse and His Boy
Edward Packard - Choose Your Own Adventure: The Cave of Time
E.L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Boxcar Children, Book 1
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia

Episode 11 - Self Help: Relationships

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Date Recorded: Friday, October 26, 2007
Featured Genre: Self Help: Relationships

Notes:
Jennifer Niesslein - Practically Perfect in Every Way
Greg Behrendt - He's Just Not That Into You
Dr. Phil McGraw - Relationship Rescue
Dr. John Gray - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Bill and Pam Farrel - Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti
Gary Chapman - Five Love Languages TAKE THE QUIZ
Alexandra Stoddard - Happiness for Two: 75 Secrets for Finding More Joy Together
Marg Stark - What No One Tells the Bride

Episode 10 - Scary Halloween Stories

Cari as Bellatrix Lestrange and Beth as Hermione Granger!

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, October 19, 2007
Featured Genre: Scary Stories

Notes:
Edgar Allan Poe - Annabelle Lee, The Raven, and Tell-Tale Heart
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Elizabeth Kostava - The Historian
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Stephanie Meyer - Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse
Laurell Hamilton - Vampire Series, ie. Guilty Pleasure, Laughing Corpse
Stephen King - Salem's Lot, Green Mile, The Shining, Bag of Bones, Everything's Eventual, Lissy's Story, Carrie, (On Writing)
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes

Poem Written by Beth Hatch (formerly Zwaduk) for her 8th grade crush
A Stranger

A stranger walks from the dark
From where the light has died
His eyes burn the singing lark
And see my soul inside

His hair is dark, oh so black
His curls are deep and fine
They lie along his slender back
And cover his lips of wine

Is his heart as dark as shade
Or is it pure as white?
Does evil come from the eyes of jade
Or do they purify in light?

No, it is the heart of a beast
That my affection is seeking
Hoping my desires will fade
When he kills me while I'm sleeping

Wait! I hear the creaking of the floor
My heart is beating fast
He is opening my door
One more breath might be my last

His face is pale, ghostly white
His eyes are flowers cut fresh
He leans over me in the night
And sinks his teeth into my flesh

Sorrow, sweet sweet sorrow
Death's doors are open wide
I will wake again tomorrow
As the stranger's vampire bride

ABC Special: David Giffels at OLC

Episode 9: The New Book Buzz

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New Book Buzz

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, October 12, 2007
Featured Genre: New Book Buzz: Cari and Beth's Trip to Ohio Library Council - Day of Dialogue

Featured Authors:
Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer - Agnes and the Hitman
David Giffels - All the Way Home


Featured Titles:
Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum #14 and Plum Lucky, January 2008
Donald McCaig - Rhett Butler's People, November 6, 2007
Don Borchert - Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library, November 2007
Augustine Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors - You Better Not Cry, Holidays 2007?
Scott Heim - Mysterious Skin and We Disappear, March 1, 2008
Deborah Johnson - The Air Between Us, January 2008
Andrew Morton - Cruise: Mission Biography
Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational, February 2008
Johnathon Barnes - The Somnambulist, February 2008 (Read-Alike Johnathon Strange and Dr. Norrell)
Rachel Sontag - House Rules, April 1, 2008 (Read-Alike Glass Castle)

Episode 8: Asian Fiction

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, October 5, 2007
Featured Genre: Asian Fiction

Notes:
Ladies' Night Book Discussion Group:
October 18, 2007 at 7pm at Twinsburg Public Library. Meets every other 3rd Thursday.
Eastern Voices: Asian Book Discussion Group
7pm, November 19, 2007
The Inheritance of Loss
January 14, 2007
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Featured Titles:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book 1) by Lian Hearn

Episode 7 - Classic Women's Literature

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, September 28, 2007
Featured Genre: Classic Women's Literature

Featured Titles:
Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mill on the Floss - George Elliot
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Stayed tuned for animal stories....

Episode 6 - Classic Science Fiction

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Date Recorded: Friday, September 21, 2007
Featured Genre: Classic Science Fiction
HAPPY BIRTHDAY H.G. Wells!
Featured Titles:
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenager (Beth's Favorite!)
1984 (Dystopia Novels) - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
So Long and Thanks for the All the Fish - Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Epsiode 5 - Childhood Memoirs

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Date Recorded: Friday, September 14, 2007
Featured Genre: Childhood Memoirs

Featured Titles:
Million Little Pieces by James Fry
For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice by Sharon Rocha
Blood Brother by Ann Bird
Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood by Dhillon Khosla
Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (fiction)
Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans and Karen Hunter
Mommy Dearest by Christina Crawford
A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
Running with Scissors by Augustine Burroughs
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Episode 4: Cookbooks, Diet and Other

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Taste of Twinsburg Blog - features recipes

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, September 7, 2007
Featured Genre:Cookbooks, Diet and Other

Featured Titles:
South Beach Diet Cookbook
Better Homes and Gardens 15 Minutes or Less Cookbook
Rachel Ray - 30 Minute Meals, 365 No Repeats, Guy Food, Kid Food, Dinners for Get-Togethers, 15 Minutes Meal Cookbook (coming soon)
The Cat Who... Cookbook
Desperate Housewives Cookbook (Season 3 of Desperate Housewives coming soon to TPL)

Submit Recipe for the Taste of Tradition Cookbook, which will support the Smithsonian Key Ingredients Exhibit coming in January 2008

Episode 3: Light Mystery

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Date Recorded: Friday, August 31, 2007
Featured Genre: Light Mystery

Show Notes:
Announcement - Casey Daniels, author of the Pepper Martin mysteries, will be attending Twinsburg Public Library on October 2cnd at 7pm. The setting of her works are based on Cleveland, Ohio. Call the library to register at 330-425-4268 ext. 2.

Featured Titles:
Janet Evanovich - The Stephanie Plum Series: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, Four to Score, High Five, Hot Six, Seven Up, Hard Eight, To the Nines, Ten Big Ones, Eleven On Top, Twelve Sharp, and Lean Mean Thirteen! Plum Lovin'.
Diane Mott Davidson - Recipe Mysteries.
Joann Fluke - Cherry Cheesecake Murder, Peach Cobbler Murder.
Lilian Jackson Braun - "The Cat Who" Mysteries.
Kyra Davis - Sex, Murder, and a Double Latte
Sarah Strohmeyer - Bubbles Unbounded.
Tip: Pick up a Reader's Advisory Bookmark at the library or visit Novelist

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Beth

Episode 2: Young Adult Fiction

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SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: Friday, August 24, 2007
Featured Genre: Young Adult Literature
Featured Titles:
Harry Potter Series (Don't Worry: No Book 7 Spoilers) by J.K. Rowling
Megan McCafferty - Jessica Darling Series; Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings.
Stephanie Meyer - Vampire Series: Twilight, Eclipse (Come to the Eclipse Party)
Choose Your Own Adventure Series
Gabriel Zevin - Elsewhere
Lois Lowry - The Giver
C.S. Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia: Magician's Nephew, Horse and his Boy

Book Review - Episode 1; Chic Lit

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Show Notes
Date Recorded: Friday, August 17, 2007
Featured Genre: CHIC LIT
Featured Titles:
Sophie Kinsella – Can You Keep a Secret?
(Author of the Shopaholic Series)
Meg Cabot – Queen Babble in the Big City
Caprice Crane – Stupid and Contagious
Jennifer Weiner – In Her Shoes (movie tie-in), Good in Bed, and Goodnight Nobody
Marian Keyes – Watermelon, Angels, and Anybody Out There
Jane Green – The Other Woman