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2009 National Book Award Winners
LibraryPoint Blog, Reading Room Blog, Adriana Puckett, Books and Reading, National Book Award
11/20/2009 - 3:14pm

The 2009 National Book Awards have been announced. The winners are:

Fiction

Winner: Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

Finalists: Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage
Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite
Marcel Theroux, Far North

What We're Reading: Part 1 (Fall 2009)
LibraryPoint Blog, Reading Room Blog, Adriana Puckett, Books and Reading
11/20/2009 - 2:43pm

Library staff recently shared what they are reading. Pick up one of these today and you may find a new favorite read!

Fiction:

Water Lily Cross: An English Garden Mystery by Anthony Eglin

The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

A History of Detective Stories: Asian Detectives
LibraryPoint Blog, Reading Room Blog, John Gaines
11/20/2009 - 1:46pm

In the many literary magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, detective fiction was extremely popular, and numerous subgenres emerged. One of the most prolific was the Asian detective story, which was first popularized by Earl Derr Biggers through the Charlie Chan character. The portrayals of Asian characters in the various Asian detective stories have become a major source of controversy today, preventing the works from enduring the decades as readily as the earlier Holmes and Dupin stories.

CRRL Named Star Library
LibraryPoint Blog, Ann Haley
11/18/2009 - 5:10pm

CRRL's most recent honor is a Star Rating. We've been ranked tops among Virginia libraries of our size, among the stellar libraries in the nation, in a recent ranking. Read all about it in Library Journal. STAR STATUS: “It is about what libraries deliver to their users with the money they have, based not only on circulation and visits, two typically standard measurements, but on program attendance and public Internet computer use, two statistics that more clearly define libraries' increasingly crucial role in their communities, especially in these tough economic times.” ~Library Journal 

Three for Thanksgiving
LibraryPoint Blog, 19th century, Bullies, Families, History, Holidays, Indians of the Eastern Woodlands, New England, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, Virginia Johnson, History Blog
11/18/2009 - 2:48pm

Our libraries will be closed on Thanksgiving and the day after, so now's the time to pick up some reading to take you through the holiday. We have many cookbooks to help plan the feast, but of our other collections these three books tell stories especially true to life and true to the heart to help make your holiday a warm one.

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