#matt baldacci

[eretzyisrael]

By Francesca Block

On Wednesday, I reported that a trade magazine that promotes books refused to run an ad for Israel Alone because “customers might complain.”

Matt Baldacci, publisher of Shelf Awareness, said an ad for Bernard-Henri Lévy’s book about Israel post–October 7 could give booksellers “trouble they haven’t asked for and don’t wish to have.” The ad was originally scheduled to run on November 1 in the outlet’s weekly newsletter, which goes out to 645,000 general readers.

Since then, I’ve learned a June 14 newsletter from Shelf Awareness, which went out to more than 37,000 publishing professionals, contained an ad for P Is for Palestine, a children’s book that has stirred controversy for promoting an “antisemitic” ideology. P Is for Palestine was written by Iranian Swedish activist Golbarg Bashi and was first published in November 2017 by PM Press, a self-proclaimed “independent, radical publisher.” 

P Is for Palestine runs through the alphabet, presenting colorful illustrations and words that represent each letter. In the book, the letter I stands for intifada, which it defines as “Arabic for rising up for what is right, whether you are a kid or a grownup!” 

Intifada, in fact, translates to uprising or shaking off. The word is mainly used to describe two eras of violent Palestinian protest against Israel: The First Intifada, from 1987 to 1990, led to the deaths of dozens of Israelis and more than a thousand Palestinians, and the Second Intifada, from 2000 to 2005, culminated in the deaths of over a thousand Israelis and 4,000 Palestinians.

Jany Finkielsztein, a senior education analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, said that “P Is for Palestine serves as a tool of indoctrination rather than simple storytelling. For instance, ‘I is for intifada’ portrays violent uprisings in a favorable manner, conveying a harmful narrative to impressionable young children.

“Books that prioritize indoctrination aren’t literature.”

On Friday, Shelf Awareness released an apology for rejecting the ad for Israel Alone, addressing its statement “to everyone who is angry and disappointed about our recent decision.” 

The statement went on to “clarify” that the ad was canceled from its weekly newsletter “that we publish on behalf of more than 250 independent bookstores, reaching 600,000 readers, with the goal of helping booksellers promote reading and sell more books. Our bookstore partners cannot block titles that are advertised. As a result, we are careful to keep in mind that every advertised title we include appears to the bookstores’ customers as something the store itself is endorsing.”

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

By Francesca Block

A prominent trade publication refused to advertise a new book because it feared the word Israel in its title might upset its audience, The Free Press has learned. 

This month Melanie Notkin, an author and communications consultant, tried to place an advertisement for Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new book, Israel Alone, in Shelf Awareness, a trade publication for publishing professionals including booksellers and librarians. The book, published in the U.S. last month by Post Hill Press imprint Wicked Son, is about Lévy’s experiences in Israel post–October 7, 2023. 

On October 9, a representative from Shelf Awareness told Notkin her ad was approved for the price of $2,300, and would run on November 1 in its weekly newsletter, which is sent to more than 600,000 readers. 

But two days later, Matt Baldacci, the publisher for Shelf Awareness, emailed Notkin to tell her the magazine was “canceling” it. When Notkin asked why, Baldacci agreed to speak to her over the phone that same day.

Listen to Baldacci and Notkin’s conversation on the call here:

In audio of that phone call exclusively obtained by The Free Press, Baldacci told Notkin the ad was rejected because the book would cause too much controversy. “Why did we cancel the ad?” Baldacci said to Notkin. “We have a responsibility to our 250 independent bookstore partners, and it’s our feeling that running that ad in their publications, for some of those partners, is going to cause them trouble that they haven’t asked for and don’t wish to have.”

“For certain stores, an ad for Israel Alone will cause the employees to go to the management and say, ‘We don’t support this. Why are you doing this?’ Now we can debate, you know, whether they’re right or they’re wrong, but the point is, it will happen.”

He went on to note that “customers will complain,” too. “We can debate about the rightness or the wrongness of those customers complaining, but the fact is that they will, and our partners trust us to protect them from those kinds of situations. So we had to make the difficult decision not to accept the ad.” Baldacci did not reply to several requests via phone and email for comment from The Free Press. 

Notkin told The Free Press she “was in shock” after the phone call. “And I thought to myself, you know, they don’t fire employees for antisemitism. Instead, they cancel the ad with Israel in the title. If the book were titled Black Alone, Gay Alone, Palestinian Alone, I’m hedging this wouldn’t have been a problem.” 

“If the word Israel is too hot a potato to have on the pages of your newsletter as a paid ad, when does it become the word Jew?” she continued. “When does it become a Jewish author? When does it become anything to do with anybody Jewish in America? When students say ‘We don’t want Zionists on our campus,’ when a publication says ‘We don’t want an ad that says Israel on its title in our publication,’ what does this say about the direction we’re headed in America?”(via Post Hill Press)

Martin Peretz, the former publisher and editor of The New Republic, who had intended to pay for the ad and hired Notkin to place it, said it was “a scandal and a travesty that anyone in the book trade should reject” it. Peretz said he had wanted to support the work of his friend Lévy, who is “one of the most distinguished and accomplished intellectuals in the West.” Lévy, 75, is the author of more than 45 books, including the 2006 New York Times bestseller American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. 

Founded in June 2005, Shelf Awareness provides “essential information” to “a range of people in the industry—booksellers, librarians, book buyers at nontraditional stores, members of the media, marketers, salespeople, publishers, and others,” according to its website. The outlet produces two free newsletters: a daily news blast for 37,000 publishing professionals, and a weekly list of new and recommended titles aimed at 645,000 general readers. The publication influences which books get the most attention and marketing at the country’s most important bookstores. Shelf Awareness boasts on its website that “the buyers at B&N”—meaning Barnes & Noble—“and Amazon read us daily.” 

The rejection of an ad for a pro-Israel book is the latest instance in a worrying trend of erasing Jewish writers and thinkers from intellectual spaces. Last month, the New York State Writers Institute canceled a literary panel at the University of Albany because other authors refused to share the stage with a “Zionist” moderator. In August, a Brooklyn bookstore canceled a Jewish author’s book event because the rabbi he was scheduled to speak with was a “Zionist.”

Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and an Israeli American author of several books on Israel, including the New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, told me the cancellation of Lévy’s ad is yet another example of a “totalitarian form of censorship.” 

“There is an atmosphere of intimidation which is self-perpetuating because someone fears that intimidation will be applied. Then that opens the way to self-intimidation, and we know from totalitarian societies that the most powerful form of censorship is self-censorship,” Halevi said.

Of Jews in Western society today, he added: “We’re being pushed back in the ghetto.” 

[cathygeha]

REVIEW

No Prayers for the Dying Dale M. Nelson

The Gage Files # 1

Fast-paced action-packed introduction to a new series with an intriguing main character ~ First book I’ve read by this author but not the last

What I liked: * Matt Gage: Ex-CIA operative, works part-time for the Orpheus Foundation, freelance investigator, for journalists, capable, skilled, bright, sees connections, interesting backstory, would like to know more about him

* The reason Matt left the CIA and how it impacted his life afterward

* The moral compass Matt seems to have regarding his work

* The plot, pacing, setting, and writing

* That the story drew me in, made me think, and think about spies and espionage and what it would take to be one or to be the handler of one

* Thinking about Matt and his past (hoping to hear more about that) and what he might get up to in future books in the series

* That all of the threads of the story were tied up in the end and the future was brighter for Matt at the conclusion than at the beginning of the book

* Being able to start in on a new series with the first book

* Knowing that there is another book in the series to look forward to

What I didn’t like: * Who and what I was meant not to like

* Thinking about corruption in law enforcement

* The evil done for and by governments to further their own agendas

Did I like this book? Yes

Would I read more in this series? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Severn River Publishing for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars

BLURB

In the high-stakes game of international spycraft, the most dangerous weapon is the truth. And Matt Gage is about to unleash it. Ex-CIA operative Matt Gage believed the covert world was firmly in his rear view. But the untimely demise of a Silicon Valley powerhouse drags him back to the subterranean chessboard of spycraft. At the behest of the tenacious Elizabeth Zhou, the magnate’s daughter, he starts an inquiry that promises more shadows than truths. From the vibrant alleys of Chinatown to the imposing skyscrapers of the tech giants, a sinister web unfolds, where the line between friend and foe isn't just blurred—it's non-existent. Each revelation is a grenade with its pin pulled. Every move is made on a knife’s edge. And with every step, Gage walks closer into the subtle battle being waged far from the public eye. In this electrifying dance of loyalty, betrayal, and the harrowing price of the truth, one misstep could be the last. Perfect for readers who crave the heart-pounding thrill of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, the cerebral espionage of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, and the intricate plotting of David Baldacci.

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quotes by author

these are quotes sorted by author! pretty self-explanatory. not all authors are on here, as i'm in a continuous process of reading and acquiring quotes! will be updated regularly. sorted a-z by last name.

Daniel Alarcón

Sarah Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Elena Armas

Lauren Asher

Atticus

Mitch Albom

Benjamin Alire-Sáenz

Tessa Bailey

David Baldacci

Leigh Bardugo

Holly Black

Olivie Blake

Sabrina Benaim

Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Alexandra Bracken

Jericho Brown

Sól Casique

Yvonne Cassidy

Stephen Chbosky

Zen Cho

Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Susanna Clarke

Paulo Coelho

Tillie Cole

Sonali Dev

Charles Dickens

Anthony Doerr

Tony Fadell

Hafsah Faizal

Thomas C. Foster

Shana Galen

Stephanie Garber

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bill Glose

Chloe Gong

Sophie Gonzalez

Amanda Gorman

Hafez

Matt Haig

Jenny Han

Tim Harford

Ali Hazelwood

Emily Henry

Frank Herbert

Féi Hernandez

Talia Hibbert

Helen Hoang

Charlie M. Holmberg

Homer

Cathy Park Hong

Colleen Hoover

Robert Jordan

Julie Kagawa

Brigid Kemmerer

Jahan Khatun

T. J. Klune

R. F. Kuang

Kevin Kwan

Jhumpa Lahiri

Lois-Soto Lane

Christina Lauren

Ursula K. Le Guin

Lang Leav

Erika Lee

Christy Lefteri

Trisha Levenseller

Marc Levy

Grace D. Li

Ann Liang

lostcap

Carmen Machado

Shelby Mahurin

Yamen Manai

Kerri Maniscalco

Raquel Marie

Daphne du Maurier

Casey McQuiston

Chanel Miller

Madeline Miller

Rebecca Mix

Erin Morgenstern

Vera Nazarian

Micah Nemerever

Courttia Newland

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Trevor Noah

Naomi Novik

Chibundu Onuzo

Helen Oyeyemi

Mary E. Pearson

Sylvia Plath

Plato

Clare Pooley

Claudia Rankine

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Jason Reynolds

Natalie D. Richards

M. L. Rio

Sally Rooney

Jennifer Rosner

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Brandon Sanderson

Jack Schaefer

V.E. Schwab

Linda See

Rebecca Serle

William Shakespeare

Samantha Shannon

Adam Silvera

Anthony Veasna So

Barbara Andrea Sostaita

John Steinbeck

Erin Sterling

Maggie Stiefvater

Amy Tan

Jennif(f)er Tamayo

Karin Tanabe

Donna Tartt

Stuart Turton

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Jésus I. Valles

Kurt Vonnegut

Ocean Vuong

Jeff Wheeler

Elie Wiesel

Will Wight

Isabel Wilkerson

Hanya Yanagihara

E. Lily Yu

Obayd-e Zakani

Michelle Zauner

C. Pam Zhang

Xiran Jay Zhao

Markus Zusak

hope this helps! <3

[ogdensburgpubliclibrary]

5/22/18

WRITER OF THE WEEK During his life, Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a respected politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.  Today he is mostly known for inspiring the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, where entrants attempt to compose the most inventively bad opening sentence for a novel.

 HOLIDAY  The library will be closed next Monday the 28th for Memorial Day.  Hours on Saturday the 26th and Tuesday the 29th will be as usual.

 FAMILY BOOK CLUB  We’ll be watching silent films featuring comedian Buster Keaton as part of our discussion of Bluffton by Matt Phelan.  New families are always welcome, so please join us this Thursday the 24th at 5 PM.

REGULAR PROGRAMS  Music and Movement for toddlers is Tuesday at 10 AM.  Stories and Songs, for ages 2 – 4, is Saturday at 10:30 AM.  Computer drop-in help will be tonight the 22nd from 6 – 7 PM.  Call the library or check online for all of the details on all of our upcoming events.  

 JUST ARRIVED  Looking for something new from one of your favorite authors?  We have the latest from David Baldacci (The Fallen,) John Sandford (Twisted Prey,) Iris Johansen (Shattered Mirror,) Jeffrey Deaver (The Cutting Edge,) Anne Perry (Twenty-One Days,) Conn Iggulden (The Abbot’s Tale,) and John Connolly (He – not a thriller this time but an examination of classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.)  Over in nonfiction, we have a wide variety of subjects.  First up are our new crafting titles.  Learn to make three-dimensional sewn art with Raised Embroidery from the Royal School of Needlework.  Jewelry Making with Resin can take you from “absolute beginner” to “creator of uniquely beautiful pieces,” while Mastering Wirework Jewelry will give you inspiration to refine your metalworking techniques.  Gradient Knits features projects for the popular ombre-styles yarns, but in A Tapestry Garden the threads are metaphorical; the book is about garden design. Finish up with some fun fare: Margaritaville: The Cookbook gives you the chance to make many tropic tastes in your own kitchen.  A Naturalist at Large collects some of the essays of Bernd Heinrich, while travel writer Paul Theroux offers more of his shorter works in Figures in a Landscape.  Learn about ballet in Celestial Bodies, look up the history of ice skating (in all its forms) in Canada with Lace Up, listen in on a series of conversations with the Dalai Lama in The Monastery and the Microscope, or find out what’s so exciting about dairy products in Mark Kurlansky’s latest food-based investigation, Milk.  Finally, don’t forget to check out Hey Everybody, a memoir by Ogdensburg’s own Preston Carlisle.

 We welcome your QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS, PURCHASE REQUESTS, AND PROGRAMMING IDEAS.  Contact us at 312 Washington Street, ogdlib@ncls.org, 315-393-4325, or through any of our social media sites (you can do a search for Ogdensburg Public Library or find the links on our website, ogdlib.org.)

REGULAR HOURS are 9 AM to 8 PM Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 9 AM to 5 PM on Wednesday and Friday, and 9 AM – 3 PM on Saturday.  We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at your library!

[corkcitylibraries]

Lockdown Reading: the most popular e-book and e-audiobook titles during the covid-19 emergency.

by Ann Riordan

On 12 March 2020 we closed our doors. We did so with heavy hearts, with full knowledge that our patrons would miss our services. Many of you have been in touch to express the opinion that libraries are essential to communities, and are missed. Many librarians have been redeployed to the HSE, to Community Response, to Friendly Call. Other librarians have kept the show on the road with housebound deliveries and shifting focus to our online services.

Our digital services have moved front and centre. We offer e-books, e-magazines, daily newspapers online, music streaming, short films, online courses including language courses. We also have online exhibitions, our sister website www.corkpastandpresent.ie is a treasure trove on local history and knowledge, and we have an Interactive Timeline of historical events between 1918 and 1923. We have introduced a new Talking Newsletter service, our patrons can listen to library news and projects. We have recorded videos of your favourite library storytellers, for those who are missing library storytime.

Our e-book and e-audiobook service is supplied by BorrowBox, and use of this app has doubled since we shut our doors in March. So, what have you been borrowing from BorrowBox since then?

The number one borrowed e-book has been The Man Who Didn’t Call by Rosie Walsh, which has been borrowed a whopping 111 times. The second most borrowed e-book is The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks, borrowed 69 times. The third is Last Mile by David Baldacci borrowed 66 times.

The rest of the e-book top 10 are:

4. Lake House by Kate Morton 5. Memory Man by David Baldacci 6. Man From St Petersburg by Ken Follett 7. Good Friday by Lynda La Plante 8. Love You Dead by Peter James 9. Girl in the Woods by Patricia MacDonald 10. Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

As for e-audiobooks, the most listened to title has been Last Mile by David Baldacci, borrowed 43 times. Second comes House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse borrowed 37 times, and third is The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks, borrowed 36 times.

The rest of the e-audiobook top 10 are:

4. Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben 5. Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult 6. Date With Death by Julia Chapman 7. So, Anyway... by John Cleese 8. Becoming by Michelle Obama 9. Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo 10. Letter To My Younger Self by Jane Graham

I know for many of you, that e-books are no substitute for a physical book, and to you I say, hold on another little bit longer. We will be open soon. We miss you too, for what is a library without its loyal readers. Take care and stay safe, Ann.

[dzelonis]

Ja par grāmatu apjomu nevarētu sūdzēties, tad laikam par brīvā laika apjomu ne tikai priekš to izlasīšanas, bet galvenokārt individuāliem rakstiem gan drusku pietrūkst, tāpēc vismaz ar pašreizējo nosaukumu Iepalicēji. Ja jau jūtu, ka tas varētu notikt regulāri, tad kādēļ gan nedot tam individuālu apzīmējumu, vēl jo vairāk, kad šoreiz nebija tikai klausāmās vai lasāmās grāmatas.

Neliels pārsteigums pirms divām nedēļām lasīšu un šobrīd lasu sarakstā ir Demons of Time, kura autoram šķiet patika manis veltītā uzmanība viņa īso stāstu krājumam Time Crawlers. Kā viens, tā otrs jau pēc nosaukuma noprotot ir ap un par ceļošanu laikā, laika plūdumu u.c., kā arī patīkama pārmaiņa no ierastā ar Indijas reģiona kultūras iezīmēm.

Izlasīju:

Hjū Hovijs – Vilna (Silo #1)

Stuart Woods – New York Dead (Stone Barrington #1)

Noklausījos:

David Baldacci – The Last Mile (Amos Decker #2)

Peter Clines – 14 (Threshold #1)

Peter Clines – The Fold (Threshold #2)

Lasu:

Tim Waggoner – Nekropolis Archives: Omnibus (Matt Richter #1-3)

Varun Sayal – Demons of Time

Klausos:

Peter Clines – Dead Moon (Threshold #3)

Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Deliverance (Hell Divers #3)

Lasīšu:

Wilbur Smith – Those in Peril (Hector Cross #1)

Philip Kerr – Berlin Noir (Bernie Gunther #1-3)

Klausīšos:

Sylvain Neuvel – Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1)

Michael Chatfield – The Trapped Mind Project (Emerilia #1)

Izlasīju, lasu, lasīšu #138 (18.03-31.03) Ja par grāmatu apjomu nevarētu sūdzēties, tad laikam par brīvā laika apjomu ne tikai priekš to izlasīšanas, bet galvenokārt individuāliem rakstiem gan drusku pietrūkst, tāpēc vismaz ar pašreizējo nosaukumu 

[scentedstarfishtheorist]

Betrayal

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Betrayal

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F0XDNW4/      IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT. It ended with an invention. He never intended to use it. But then they betrayed him.BETRAYAL: Imagine Chris Kyle’s AMERICAN SNIPER meets David Baldacci’s ABSOLUTE POWER.“Best book I’ve read in years.” ���Matt Mattocks“A pulse-pounding thrill ride!” –Frances Edge“An edge of your seat thriller.” –Leslie Obrien_______________________________________Presumed dead after a staged terrorist attack, FBI Agent Odysseus Carr is running for his life with the doctor who rescued him. Meanwhile, the same power players who sent Odi to his death are now manipulating an FBI profiler into blindly tracking him down. She’s not just their best, she’s also his sister.As Odi unravels a devious plot of profound political manipulation and global consequence, the hunted becomes the hunter, and the real terror begins._______________________________________Dear Reader,If you enjoy David Baldacci, Lee Child, Tom Clancy, Nelson DeMille, Ken Follett, Vince Flynn, Andrew Peterson, Daniel Silva, Brad Taylor, or Brad Thor, odds are you’ll be smiling a few pages into my books as well.Care to try before you buy? No problem. You can download one my thrillers for free at timtigner.com.Need help putting the kids through college? I can appreciate that. I have a couple of my own. I’m not in a position to help you with tuition yet, but I can provide days of delightful distraction for the price of a cup of coffee, and kind reviews will get good karma sent your way.Thanks for your kind consideration,Tim

#amreading, #newbook, #books, #book, #follow

[52novels]

IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT.It ended with an invention.He never intended to use it.But then they betrayed him.BETRAYAL: Imagine Chris Kyle's AMERICAN SNIPER meets David Baldacci's ABSOLUTE POWER."Best book I've read in years." --Matt Mattocks"A pulse-pounding thrill ride!" --F... http://ift.tt/1ChtKt7

[tuxedoparklibrary]

Looks like it's time to cozy up to a warm digital book! New eBooks and eAudiobooks recently added to the library's digital collection in Libby. Check them out! https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/   Adult eBooks: Daylight: Atlee Pine Series, Book 3  by David Baldacci The Law of Innocence: Mickey Haller Series, Book 6 by Michael Connelly Memorial by Bryan Washington The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten A Promised Land by Barack Obama The Return by Nicholas Sparks The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi White Ivy by Susie Yang Adult eAudiobooks: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult A Promised Land by Barack Obama Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs A Time for Mercy by John Grisham YA eAudio: Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston YA eBooks: Rage and Ruin, The Harbinger #2  by Jennifer L. Armentrout A Great and Terrible Beauty, Gemma Doyle #1 by Libba Bray Wicked Saints, Something Dark and Holy #1 by Emily A. Duncan The Upside of Falling by Alex Light The Thief, The Queen's Thief #1  by Megan Whalen Turner Crush, Crave #2 by Tracy Wolff J eBooks: The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road, Last Kids #6 by Max Brallier The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo Schooled by Gordon Korman Keeper of the Lost Cities, Keep of the Lost Cities #1 by Shannon Messenger Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey Dog Man and Cat Kid, Dog Man #4 by Dav Pilkey The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Sharks, Sam Wu #2 by Katie and Kevin Tsang Sam Wu is Not Afraid of the Dark, Sam Wu #3 by Katie and Kevin Tsang   https://www.instagram.com/p/CIyXj8MFMFr/?igshid=xn3xddu39a6v

[tuxedoparklibrary]

Looks like it's time to cozy up to a warm digital book! New eBooks and eAudiobooks recently added to the library's digital collection in Libby. Check them out! https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/   Adult eBooks: Daylight: Atlee Pine Series, Book 3  by David Baldacci The Law of Innocence: Mickey Haller Series,  Book 6 by Michael Connelly Memorial by Bryan Washington The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa  Cookbook by Ina Garten A Promised Land by Barack Obama The Return by Nicholas Sparks The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi White Ivy by Susie Yang   Adult eAudiobooks: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult A Promised Land by Barack Obama Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs A Time for Mercy by John Grisham YA eAudio: Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston   YA eBooks: Rage and Ruin, The Harbinger #2  by Jennifer L. Armentrout A Great and Terrible Beauty, Gemma Doyle #1   by Libba Bray Wicked Saints, Something Dark and Holy #1  by Emily A. Duncan The Upside of Falling by Alex Light The Thief, The Queen's Thief #1  by Megan Whalen Turner Crush, Crave #2 by Tracy Wolff   J eBooks: The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road, Last Kids #6 by Max Brallier The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo Schooled by Gordon Korman Keeper of the Lost Cities, Keep of the Lost Cities #1 by Shannon Messenger Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey Dog Man and Cat Kid, Dog Man #4 by Dav Pilkey The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Sharks, Sam Wu #2 by Katie and Kevin Tsang Sam Wu is Not Afraid of the Dark, Sam Wu #3 by Katie and Kevin Tsang   https://www.instagram.com/p/CIyXMOaFnbK/?igshid=2otogkk6koce

[dzelonis]

Ne tik ļoti produktīvas divas nedēļas un arī progress taustāmi lasāmajā Vilnas grāmatā nesanāca, kā būtu gribējies, bet labāk trīs noklausītas grāmatas nekā vēl mazāk. Lielas cerības, ka #138 lasīšanas apkopojums nebūs ar tukšu Izlasīju ailīti. Varbūtējs pluss Vilnas gadījumā, ka mans lasīšanas temps nesagādā problēmas ar būtiskā paturēšanu prātā, atsākot lasīšanu.

Kaut arī arī neviena no trim audio grāmatām nebija slikti ierunāta, tad tomēr ar Amos Decker sēriju un tās otro grāmatu The Last Mile var just to nākošo kvalitātes pakāpienu, kā arī pats pats sākums Threshold sērijai arīdzan nav slikts.

Nedaudz izaicinoši ir lasīt un klausīties vairākus kriminālromānus/trillerus reizē un paturēt prātā, kurš kurā nogalināts un tiek turēts aizdomās; galvenais, lai pēc būtības nav pārāk līdzīgi. 😀

Izlasīju:

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Noklausījos:

Margaret Weis. Tracy Hickman – Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicle #1)

Peter F. Hamilton – The Dreaming Void (Void #1)

Jeffery Deaver – The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme #1)

Lasu:

Hjū Hovijs – Vilna (Silo #1)

Stuart Woods – New York Dead (Stone Barrington #1)

Klausos:

David Baldacci – The Last Mile (Amos Decker #2)

Peter Clines – 14 (Threshold #1)

Lasīšu:

Tim Waggoner – Nekropolis Archives: Omnibus (Matt Richter #1-3)

Wilbur Smith – Those in Peril (Hector Cross #1)

Varun Sayal – Demons of Time

Klausīšos:

Peter Clines – The Fold (Threshold #2)

Peter Clines – Dead Moon (Threshold #3)

Izlasīju, lasu, lasīšu #137 (04.03-17.03) Ne tik ļoti produktīvas divas nedēļas un arī progress taustāmi lasāmajā Vilnas grāmatā nesanāca, kā būtu gribējies, bet labāk trīs noklausītas grāmatas nekā vēl mazāk.

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Atvaļinājuma divas nedēļas centos pavadīt cik nu produktīvi tas bija iespējams, un ar 11 pabeigtām grāmatām (vienīgās pirms tam iesāktā ”Karš un Miers” un viena no audio grāmatām) šķiet tas arī būs izdevies.

Par cik starp daudzajiem lasītāju maratoniem, pasākumiem un cita veida iesaistošām aktivitātēm (domātas internetā atrodamās) pārsvarā tagad jau izvairos, jo grūtības sāgādā vien plašais iespēju klāsts nevis nespēja izdomāt, kuru grāmatu vispār lasīt un klausīties nākošo. Citādāk ir tematisko pasākumu March Mystery Madness, kurā ļaujos iegrimt vienā no maniem mīļākajiem žanriem, kuru gan drusku esmu atstājis novārtā par labu SFF, kam tad lielā mērā arī pakārtošu savu izvēli marta mēnesi. Protams, kā jau visos lielajos žanros ir savas apakškategorijas, kuras sanācis mazāk lasīt, kā Cozy Mystery, bet tad jau manīs, vai sanāks to palabot.

Par to, kas jauns plauktos nonācis gan no Ķīpsalas izstādes maiņas galda, gan izdevniecību stendiem, plašāk citā rakstā. Centīšos ievietot vēl šovakar.

Izlasīju:

Ļevs Tolstojs – Karš un Miers

Īans Tregilliss – Rūgtās Sēklas (Milkweed Triptych #1)

Salla Simuka – Sārta kā Asinis (Lummiki Anderson /The Snow White Trilogy #1)

Salla Simukka – Balta kā Sniegs (Lummiki Anderson/The Snow-White Trilogy #2)

Salla Simukka – Melna kā Ogle (Lummiki Anderson/The Snow-White Trilogy #3)

Noklausījos:

Aleron Kong – The Land: Founding (Chaos Seeds #1)

Aleron Kong – The Land: Forging (Chaos Seeds #2)

Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Hell Divers (Hell Divers #1)

Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Ghosts (Hell Divers #2)

Suzanne Collins – Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles #1)

Brandon Sanderson – Shadows of Self (Mistborn: The Alloy Era #2)

Lasu:

Hjū Hovijs – Vilna (Silo #1)

Stuart Woods – New York Dead (Stone Barrington #1)

Klausos:

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman – Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicle #1)

Peter F. Hamilton – The Dreaming Void (Void #1)

Lasīšu:

Tim Waggoner – Nekropolis Archives: Omnibus (Matt Richter #1-3)

Wilbur Smith – Those in Peril (Hector Cross #1)

Klausīšos:

Jeffery Deaver – The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme #1)

David Baldacci – The Last Mile (Amos Decker #2)

Izlasīju, lasu, lasīšu #136 (18.02-03.03) Atvaļinājuma divas nedēļas centos pavadīt cik nu produktīvi tas bija iespējams, un ar 11 pabeigtām grāmatām (vienīgās pirms tam iesāktā ''Karš un Miers'' un viena no audio grāmatām) šķiet tas arī būs izdevies.

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11/20/18

WRITER OF THE WEEK Johnny Mercer was a lyricist and composer.  His songs formed the soundtracks of many Hollywood movies in the 1930s through the 1950s, and he ultimately won four Academy Awards for his work.

 HOLIDAY  The library will be closed on Thursday the 22nd and Friday the 23rd this week, but open on Saturday as usual.  Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

 REGULAR PROGRAMS  Music and Movement for toddlers is Tuesday at 10 AM.  There will be no Stories and Songs this Saturday.  Drop-in computer help will be available next Tuesday the 27th from 6 – 7 PM.  Call the library or check online for all of the details on all of our upcoming events.  

JUST ARRIVED  New novels this week include the latest in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, Past Tense, Jeffrey Archer’s Heads You Win, a tale of Russian refugees, Janet Evanovich’s latest Stephanie Plum novel, Look Alive Twenty-Five, David Baldacci’s Long Road to Mercy, and Elizabeth Berg’s Night of Miracles, a sequel of sorts to her last novel, The Story of Arthur Truluv. If you’re looking for something else, try Hiro Arikawa’s The Travelling Cat Chronicles, where a man’s story is told from the point of view of the stray cat he rescued, or Laurie Loewenstein’s Death of a Rainmaker, a mystery set during the Dustbowl.  You can explore the natural world in Sara Evans’s When the Last Lion Roars, which looks at the past and current situation of the “King of Beasts,” and projects the future of the species.  The Way of Coyote by Gavin Van Horn discusses the vast variety of “wild” creatures who now comfortably make their home in human-occupied territory, including major cities.  For the creepier side of nature, pick up Matt Simon’s Plight of the Living Dead to learn all about organisms that turn other organisms into zombies – and find out if they’re a threat to humans.  Finally, take a look at evolution’s weird and winding paths with End of the Megafauna by Ross D. E. MacPhee, about the disappearance of the giant creatures who lived alongside early humanity.

 We welcome your QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS, PURCHASE REQUESTS, AND PROGRAMMING IDEAS.  Contact us at 312 Washington Street, ogdlib@ncls.org, 315-393-4325, or through any of our social media sites (you can do a search for Ogdensburg Public Library or find the links on our website, ogdlib.org.)

REGULAR HOURS are 9 AM to 8 PM on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 9 AM to 5 PM on Wednesday and Friday, and 9 AM – 3 PM on Saturday. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at your library!