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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
Bestselling author, Sidney Sheldon, has died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital near Palm Springs, California, his publicist said.
For more information on his passing:
BBC News
New York Times (May need login)
Reuters
Some of his most famous books include, Master of the Game, If Tomorrow Comes and The Other Side of […]

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MUSINGS IN THE KEY OF E . Selections from library@esplanade

Lulu In Hollywood
Louise Brooks, with introduction by Kenneth Tynan
Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Call No.: English 791.43028092 BRO -ART
Available at library@esplanade
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Think ‘Roaring Twenties’ and the first things that come to your mind would probably be shiny bobbed hair and flapper outfits. […]

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MUSINGS . library@esplanade

Big Night
Directed by Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott
Call No.: 791.4372 BIG
Two Italian brothers, Primo and Secondo, have opened a restaurant in America, thinking that their selection of authentic Italian food will attract hordes of big American eaters to their restaurant.
They soon come to realise that making money in America, the Land […]

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MUSINGS . library@esplanade

Tampopo (Dandelion)
Directed and written by Juzo Itami
Call No.: AV 791.4372 TAM -[ART]
With his cowboy hat and Clint Eastwood-like swagger, Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) makes a fitting lead character for Juzo Itami’s critically-acclaimed ‘noodle western’, Tampopo. The film follows the trucker as he attempts to transform Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto), a widowed ramen cafe owner into […]

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WORD UP . book issues + commentaries
It used to be so simple. A cookbook serves a simple function – to teach people how to cook. Harried housewives read cookbooks for new recipes to feed husband and children while homesick students, yearning for the warmth of home, try to recreate a few of mum’s specials. It […]

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DEAR READER . editorial
by Joycelyn Tay, Librarian, Adult and Young People’s Services
Food is an important issue. After all, the fall of mankind began when Eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. I imagine the fruit looks a little like deliciously milky chocolate soufflé that left her feeling dazzled and […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

London : Vintage, 1996.
Call No.: REM
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[HBeditor: The version reviewed by Alvan is translated by Brian Murdoch, there are other translations done by erm, other translators that are also available at the libraries. They can all be found under the call no. REM]
One of the rare novels […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

London : Hodder & Stoughton, c2006.
Call No.: PIC
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I spotted this book on the new arrivals shelf on 15th January 2007 - which makes this the first Adult Fiction book that I’ve read in 2007. Now, I’m not usually a reader of Adult Fiction except the occasional […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

Hoboken, New Jersey; John Wiley & Sons Inc, c 2006
Call No.: 658.4052 ROS -[BIZ]
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We all know the Donald - the pout, the hair, the wealth. The real estate mogul who famously declared himself worth “many billions”. Mr “You’re Fired” of the hit reality series The Apprentice.
He’s […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets

At her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath left a number of poems unpublished: most of these were written after the completion of Colossus (1962) but before the welter of poems that constituted the posthumously published Ariel (1965). From this group, the TLS published the riddling ‘An Appearance’ on January […]

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