Big Library Read eBook Event

Denton Public Library invites the public to take part in the Big Library Read, a  program in which libraries worldwide offer a single eBook to their cardholders. This program is designed to unite library patrons from all around the world.

From May 15 to June 1, 2013, anyone with a full service Denton Public Library card can borrow the eBook The Four Corners of the Sky by New York Times bestselling author Michael Malone for free from the library’s website at www.dentonlibrary.com and read it on all major devices, including the Nook, Kindleand iPad. There is no limit to the number of customers that can borrow it at the same time.

Over 7,500 libraries in 10 countries from five continents are participating. Readers are invited to join the book discussion on Twitter using #BigLibraryRead or on the Denton Public Library Facebook page.

For more information about the Big Library Read, please visit http://www.overdrive.com/big-library-read/.

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For more information, contact Kimberly Wells at 940-349-8796, or kimberly.wells@cityofdenton.com, or visit .  

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2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence –Nonfiction

On June 30 the 2nd Annual ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced. Below are the books that are being considered for the Nonfiction prize. Check them out and see if you agree with the final choice.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers : Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

James Joyce: A New Biography by Gordon Bowker

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A Caro

Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner Colby 

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt

Engines of Change : A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars by Paul Ingrassia

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen

Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King

Fire in the Ashes : Twenty-Five Years among the Poorest Children in America by Jonathan Kozol

The Mansion of Happiness : A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore

Barack Obama : The Story by David Maraniss

Thomas Jefferson :  The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

Shooting Victoria : Madness, Mayhem and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy

The Patriarch : The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

Oceans of Life : The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts

Joseph Anton : A Memoir by Salman Rushdie

The Oath : The Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson

Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

~Kimberly

2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence – Fiction

 

On June 30 the 2nd Annual ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced. Below are the books that are being considered for the Fiction prize. Check them out and see if you agree with the final choice.

These books are under consideration for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal in Fiction:

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

The Bartender’s Tale by Ivan Doig

Astray by Emma Donoghue

Half-Blood Blues by Sei Edugyan

A Hologram for the King by David Eggers

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Canada by Richard Ford

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

In One Person by John Irving

The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

The Headmaster’s Wager by Vincent Lam

Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Home by Toni Morrison

Dear Life by Alice Munro 

The Cove by Ron Rash

The Lower River by Paul Theroux 

The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin

One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper

The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins

Coming soon: The books under consideration for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal – Nonfiction

~Kimberly

Muslim Journeys Bookshelf

The Denton Public Library is proud to host a collection of materials awarded by the American Library Association’s Bridging Cultures Initiative and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Muslim Journeys bookshelf, a collection of books, movies, and the Oxford Islamic Studies database, is now available at the Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland St. This unique collection is a tool for the  promotion of understanding  and mutual respect for people with diverse histories, cultures, and perspectives within the United States and abroad.

 

The collection is categorized into several sections; each focusing on a different aspect of Muslim cultural heritage such as: Connected Histories, Literary Reflections, Points of View, American Stories, Pathways of Faith, and Art, Architecture, and Film. Supporting programs inspired by the collection will be held in October during Islamic History Month. The Muslim Journeys Bookshelf is a permanent part of the circulation collection and available for check out now.

 

For more information about this project, contact Kayci Barnett: Call (940) 349-8714 or email Kayci.Barnett@cityofdenton.com

 

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Romance in the Stacks Book Club – Best of 2012

The Romance in the Stacks book club has selected it’s favorite romance titles of 2012:

Scandal Wears Satin (Dressmakers Series) by Loretta Chase

The Proposal by Mary Balogh

My Wicked Little Lies by Victoria Alexander

Taming an Impossible Rogue by Suzanne Enoch**

Whispers in the Dark (KGI Series) by Maya Banks**

Boonsboro Inn Series by Nora Roberts

Check them out and see if you agree.

**Books not in the catalog yet will be there shortly, in the meantime try another title from that author!

The Romance in the Stacks Book Group meets at the North Branch Library on the 3rd Monday of every month at 7PM

(The next meeting has been moved to January 14 because of the MLK holiday, the author of the month is Nora Roberts)

~Kimberly

Professor’s Corner Presents Mister Pip: a Novel by New Zealand Writer Lloyd Jones

Professor’s Corner, a discussion group devoted to literary texts, will meet at the South Branch Library on Wednesday, October 10.  Dr. Russell Greer will lead a discussion about the novel Mister Pip by New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones.

 

Mister Pip is deeply influenced and shaped by Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.  Mister Pip is set against the backdrop of a civil war in a small Pacific island in the 1990s, and the central character is a young girl named Matilda who is caught up in that war.  Her engagement to the Dickens novel and her teacher, the only white man left on the island, sustains her in the chaos of war.

 

Mister Pip was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2007 and won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for best book in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.  The novel has been made into a film starring Hugh Laurie and will be released within the next several months.

 

Background on the novel can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Pip and http://www.randomhouse.com/book/88486/mister-pip-by-lloyd-jones#excerpt .  An excerpt is available at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mister-pip-lloyd-jones/1100297359?ean=9780385341073 .

 

Dr. Greer is a professor of English at Texas Woman’s University.

 

When:             Wednesday, October 10 at 7:00 pm

Where:           Denton Public Library – South Branch

                        3228 Teasley Lane in Denton

 

For more information, please call (940) 349-8752 or email Fred.Kamman@cityofdenton.com.

In The Weeds, 9/18/12: 1862 Gainesville Hangings Commemorated

    A local group comprised of professors from North Central Texas College, The Clark Family and the Texas State Hist0rical Association will present a program dedicated to the commemoration of the mass hangings of suspected Union sympathizers in Cooke and surrounding counties during the Civil War.

You can read more about the hangings here and we have a couple books available in the Special Collections Dept. here at the Fowler Library for your perusal:

Tainted Breeze by Richard B. McCaslin, professor of History at UNT and speaker at the event, and…

George Washington Diamond’s Account of The Great Hanging At Gainesville, 1862 edited by Sam Acheson and Julia Ann Hudson O’ Connell.
The event is open to the public and here is the text of the email we received:

“The Clark family would like to extend a warm invitation for you to join them on October 13, as they will now host commemorative events to honor the 150th anniversary. Several days ago, the Texas State Historical Association and North Central Texas College, deemed they would like to participate and co-partner with the Clark family in remembering Cooke County’s Civil War experience. 

 

 

Remembering Our Past, Embracing Our Future

October 1862 – 2012

October marks the 150^th year since the Great Hanging at Gainesville. The Clark Family in collaboration with the Texas State Historical Association and the Honors Program at North Central Texas College, invite you to join them for commemorative events, special guests and catered luncheon on

 

Saturday, October 13, 2012 at the Civic Center

311 S. Weaver St, Gainesville, Texas

 

8:30am – 12:30pm	Speakers – Richard McCaslin, Leon Russell, Ron Melugin and L.D. Clark
12:30pm	Catered Luncheon by Rohmer’s Restaurant $7.00 adult, $3.00 children under 10
3:30pm – 4:30pm	Clark Cemetery Intersection Clark Rd and CR220 Sons of the Union Veterans-Color Guard/Rifle Ceremony
5pm	Clark-Carri Farm  (1/2 mile from the cemetery) 629 Clark Rd  Gainesville Hor d’ oeuvres & Bonfire   Special Guests Richard McCaslin, PhD is the University of North Texas Department of History Chairman.  He earned his BA from Delta State University, MA from Louisiana State University and PhD from The University of Texas at Austin and has authored Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862. Leon Russell, born in 1928, three miles East of Gainesville considered it home until enlisting in the Army Air Corp at the age seventeen 17. Fueled by his motivation and complete disapproval of the cloak of secrecy surrounding the hangings, and the lack of the proper recognition of the injustice to the slain and their families, he successfully influenced the city of Gainesville to allow the first commemoration in Georgia Bass Park in 2007. His mission was to honor those citizens who tragically lost their lives in 1862.   Ron Melugin,  Professor of Government, NCTC; chairman of Cooke County Historical Commission; research responsible for 15 Texas Official Historical Markers in Gainesville; author of Heroes, Scoundrels and Angels: Fairview Cemetery of Gainesville, Texas. L.D. Clark earned his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University. He had a long career of teaching English at the University of Arizona, The University of Nice and Korea University.  He is the author of A Bright Tragic Thing and Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark. Mr. Clark is the grandson of James Lemuel Clark and great-grandson of Nathaniel Miles Clark, victim of the Great Hanging. ** New Book** – The Texas State Historical Association will unveil its newest publication, The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862: The Accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond, with an Introduction by Richard McCaslin and Afterword by L.D. Clark. (Combined accounts of Barrett and Diamond )

 

 

RSVP – before October 5, 2012 to:  NathanielClarkfamilyreunion@gmail.com or colleen.carri@gmail.com

 - posted by Chuck.

The Friends of the Denton Public Library Big Book Sale

The Friends of the Denton Public Libraries will host the quarterly BIG book sale at the North Branch Library, 3020 North Locust, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, August 11, 2012.

 

Admission is $1 per person, or free for Friends members. Most items cost 50 cents or $1. Patrons can also buy a book bag for $12, and then fill it up with books at no additional charge. The sale raises money for the Denton Public Library for programs, materials and equipment.

 

For more information, contact Laura Douglas, Public Services Librarian, at 940-349-8749 or at Laura.Douglas@cityofdenton.com.

 

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The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee

Tom Angelberger’s new book, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee comes out on August 7 and can now be put on hold in our catalog.  Hurry up and get your name on the list!   Fortune Wookiee is the third installment in Angleberger’s Origami Yoda series, and we will celebrate the new title release with an Origami Yoda Party at 3pm on  August 7 at the North Branch Library.

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