Planning to buy someone a book for the Holidays or just looking for a good read for yourself? Check out these links to popular Best lists for the year to get some ideas.
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder
Thanks to the generosity of the Friends, the Library now has two new MP3 players that can be checked out. Monroe cardholders can download books for free from our OverDrive database and listen to them on the move. Players come with car charger, wall charger, and USB sync cable. The library will be selling earbuds at a minimal fee in the near future, but for now, patrons must supply their own.
"One frigid Midwestern winter night in 1988, a ginger kitten was shoved into the after-hours book-return slot at the public library in Spencer, Iowa. And in this tender story, Myron, the library director, tells of the impact the cat, named DeweyReadmore Books, had on the library and its patrons, and on Myron herself..."
In this prequel to Beloved , a Catholic plantation owner satisfies a debt by offering Anglo-Dutch trader Jacob Vaark a young slave girl—whose mother hopes she will find a better life. What follows is a tale of love, disease, and the brutality of slavery. (LJ 10/15/08) Library Journal, A Reed Business Information Publication
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