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Eat, Pray, Love & Ford County

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:58:07 -0400

We have several new best-selling titles on the shelves this week including, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and John Grisham's Ford County.

Eat, Pray, Love - This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different…

Berry Library will be closed Tuesday, August 24th

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:25:39 -0400

The library will be back open for regular hours on Thursday.

The Kids Are Alright!

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:18:32 -0400

We received many, many new children's books over the past few weeks. Two of our favorites are Enemy Pie and Don't Laugh At Me. Swing by the library and for a terrific summer read!

It was the perfect summer. That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became neighborhood enemy number one. Luckily Dad had a surefire way to get rid of enemies: Enemy Pie. But part of the secret recipe is spending an entire day playing with the enemy!
In this funny yet endearing story, one little boy learns an…

As Requested...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:38:23 -0400

The exhilarating conclusion to bestseller Larsson's Millennium trilogy (after The Girl Who Played with Fire) finds Lisbeth Salander, the brilliant computer hacker who was shot in the head in the final pages of Fire, alive, though still the prime suspect in three murders in Stockholm. While she convalesces under armed guard, journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to unravel the decades-old coverup surrounding the man who shot Salander: her father, Alexander Zalachenko, a Soviet intelligence defector and longtime secret asset…

Berry Library selected by the NEH.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:57:42 -0400

Recently, the Berry Memorial Library was selected by The National Endowment of the Humanities as a recipient of the We The People "A More Perfect Union" bookshelf. Berry Library was one of 4000 of the national's school and public libraries to receive this bookshelf.

Included in the bookshelf are seventeen hardcover books as well as a number of bonus selections, including The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns. Visit the NEH's We The People website for more information about the program.

www.wethepeople.gov

Two Award Winners

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:09:22 -0400

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson is best known for her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an integrated crowd of over 75,000 people in pre-Civil Rights America. While this momentous event showcased the uniqueness of her character, and the struggles of the times in which she lived, it is only part of her story. Like the opera arias Marian would come to sing, Ryan's text is as moving as a libretto, and Selznick's pictures are as exquisitely detailed and…

From Cuba to Hollywood

Wed, 19 May 2010 19:12:00 -0400

The penetration of American organized crime into the gambling and entertainment industries in Cuba has been well documented. The actual process of this takeover is quite interesting, involving political corruption, mob culture, and the interaction of Cuban ruling elites and revolutionary figures. English, who teaches a course on organized crime at the New College of California, places Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano at the center of his narrative. As portrayed by English, these boyhood friends combine brutality,…