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If you liked Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Born of Ice"...

Reading Room Blog, Book Match, Mary Buck

03/18/2010 - 2:37pm

If you liked Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Born of Ice" for the romantic SF, see what you think of these selections, which range from the more serious to the lighthearted:

Minion
by L A Banks
"All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a top act ... But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons - predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. Damali and her team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires has been striking down other musicians. When strange attacks erupt ... Damali realizes these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. Instead of neat puncture marks in the neck showing where the blood has been drained from the body, these corpses are mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. Soon she discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire Damali has ever met - a seductive beast who is coming for her next...."-catalog summary

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If You Like Books by Kurt Vonnegut or Jonathan Safran Foer...

Reading Room Blog, Book Match, Michele Brown

03/18/2010 - 9:05am

If you like books such as those written by Kurt Vonnegut or Jonathan Safran Foer, satirical, with "beautiful and intriguing use of language," here are some suggestions:

TC Boyle - The Road to Wellville

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Great Lives Series: Rachel Carson

LibraryPoint Blog, Reading Room Blog, Autobiography and Biography, Environmentalism, Great Lives series, Natural World, Virginia Johnson

03/17/2010 - 8:42am

On Thursday, March 18, 2010, Mark Hamilton Lytle of Bard College and author of The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement, will give a talk on the scientist. The lecture, part of the University's Great Lives series, is free and open to the public.

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Great Lives Series: Queen Victoria

LibraryPoint Blog, Reading Room Blog, Autobiography and Biography, Great Lives series, History, Politics, Queen Victoria, Victorian England, Virginia Johnson, History Blog

03/15/2010 - 9:42am

She took the throne as a young and somewhat malleable girl, married for love, and spent the greater part of her reign as the formidable Widow of Windsor. Her children and grandchildren held thrones throughout Europe, and the Age of Victoria was known for both domestic reform and colonial conquest. Her long and fascinating life has been the subject of numerous books, films, and television series.

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American Life in Poetry: Column 260

Reading Room Blog, American Life in Poetry, Ann Haley, Poetry

03/15/2010 - 11:18am

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

These days are brim full of bad news about our economy—businesses closing, people losing their houses, their jobs. If there’s any comfort in a situation like this, it’s in the fact that there’s a big community of sufferers. Here’s a poem by Dana Bisignani, who lives in Indiana, that describes what it feels like to sit through a bankruptcy hearing.

Bankruptcy Hearing

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