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Big Library Read: The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone eBook
Chidren's Book Week: May 13-19
Susanna Kearsley coming June 5!
Summer Reading Clubs Coming June 1!
OverDrive Next Generation site now live!
New eBook Collection from Freading

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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Artists -- fiction, Courtney McAllister, Historical Fiction, Japan -- fiction, LibraryPoint Blog, World War II -- fiction, Shelf Life Blog, Historical Fiction
06/08/2011 - 2:23pm
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro gracefully explores the experiences and memories of a disgraced artist living in post-war Japan. The novel is seductive and haunting, but I was also impressed by its substance and depth.

Mansuji Ono, the novel’s protagonist, was once a great artist whose paintings commanded respect throughout Japan. Following the end of World War II, however, Ono experiences a surreal displacement. From Ono’s perspective, the former order he was a part of has not only been abandoned, it has been rejected and renounced as the epitome of disaster. Instead of enjoying the power and prestige that accompanied his former reputation, Ono finds himself adrift, an aging man who wanders through a crumbling house, where all traces of his past life have been “tidied away.”

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CRRL Presents: D. P. Newton, Founder of the White Oak Civil War Museum
Civil War - U.S., LibraryPoint Blog, Stafford County (Va.), CRRL Presents, History Blog
06/07/2011 - 10:20am
D. P. Newton, Founder of the White Oak Civil War Museum

This interview airs beginning June 8.
D. P. Newton has preserved and arranged a most remarkable record of life during an era of turmoil in our nation. The White Oak Civil War Museum reflects his passion and dedication to accuracy in compiling this unique and extensive collection. Debby Klein meets Mr. Newton at the museum on CRRL Presents, a Central Rappahannock Regional Library production.

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Swing by Rupert Holmes
1940s -- fiction, jazz musicians -- fiction, LibraryPoint Blog, musicians -- fiction, Noir fiction, Spies -- fiction, Virginia Johnson, World War II -- fiction, Shelf Life Blog, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Suspense/Thriller
06/07/2011 - 3:31am
Swing, by Rupert Holmes

Rupert Holmes’ Swing has more than a touch of noir—and its own soundtrack. Set in San Francisco in 1940, vagabond jazz musician Ray Sherwood has been made a very interesting proposition. A beautiful, young Berkley music student wants him in a most peculiar way. She’s won an international contest for composers, and her piece needs to premiere at the Golden Gate Exposition in just a few weeks. What she needs from Ray are his talents to orchestrate her music for many instruments. Ray is enchanted by Gail’s breezy joie de vivre and her snappy patter even as his own troubled past makes him hesitate. But the tenor veers from sweet romance to dangerous liaison when a lovely woman plunges to her death mere feet from the happy couple, changing this composition’s theme from serenade to police siren.

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