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If you like Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Book Match, John Gaines, LibraryPoint Blog

12/02/2011 - 10:06am

This readalike is in response to a patron's book-match request. If you would like personalized reading recommendations, fill out the book-match form and a librarian will email suggested titles to you. Available for adults, teens, and kids. You can browse the book matches here.

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown: World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist.

If you like Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, you me be interested in some of the recommended books from book searches from another entry in this series, The Da Vinci Code, available here: http://www.librarypoint.org/bm_da_vinci_code

In addition to those books listed, here are some other titles you may enjoy:

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! (amazon.com)

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage--not by guns or bombs -- but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. (amazon.com)

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eReader Petting Zoos

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12/09/2011 - 4:39pm

Are you looking to purchase an eReader for yourself or a loved one, so you can download ebooks from the library?

Drop in to get some hands on experience withdifferent eReaders to decide which one is right for you.

Walk-up 1-on-1 demonstrations of eReader devices.

eReader Petting Zoos

England Run

Thursday, December 1, 2:00 – 4:00
Saturday, December 3, 2:00 – 4:00

Headquarters

Monday, December 5, 2:00 – 4:00
Tuesday, December 6, 6:00 – 8:00
Saturday, December 10, 2:00 – 4:00

Snow

Tuesdays, December 6 & 13, 1:00 – 3:00

Salem Chuch

Friday, December 9, 9:30 – 11:30

Porter

Wednesday, December 14, 6:00 – 8:00

And at Montross: Training on Demand/Introduction to new eReaders
Tuesdays & Thursdays in December (except 29th), 6:00 – 8:00
Learn to navigate the Web or decide what e-reader is best for you. Lora Lemons instructs.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Automatons, LibraryPoint Blog, Scott Phillips, Shelf Life Blog, Picture Books

12/01/2011 - 4:30am

My booktalking buddy and I were walking past one of the big screens at the England Run branch, and it was playing a crystal-clear print of an old, old movie, made way back when moviemaking was young. It had excellent effects, too, for such an early film. "We have a picture book by the man who made this movie," said my colleague, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick."

What a big book, made of half pictures, half words! The reader is drawn into the world of Hugo Cabret, a boy who lives in the walls of a train station in Paris. He is not always alone, but he is trying to keep himself a secret. His uncle used to wind and fix the many clocks in the train station, but he disappeared. Now Hugo winds them, and works on a project of his own. He has a mechanical man, a legacy of his father, and a notebook of drawings of the works of the mechanical man. Hugo needs parts for his project, so he steals them from the grumpy old man's toy booth at the station. Hugo does not realize the grumpy old man has secrets too....

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