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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets There’s been quite a lot of news on translated crime fiction recently – read this from Times Online (UK): Hot on the trail of global sleuths and the New Yorker: Blood on the Borders (not very complimentary). Well, I’m a bit of a recent convert to crime fiction [...]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets Well, for those folks who like to read Science books. The following are nominees for the Royal Society’s annual science book prize. In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2006 Call No.: 616.80092 KAN -[HEA] Click here for item availability. [...]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations New York : Berkley Books, 1991. Call No.: English CHR -[MY] Click here for item availability. [HBeditor: This book was previously published as Ten Little Indians.] Supposedly the best selling novel by Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None appeals to me in its conciseness. The personality of the [...]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations London: HarperElement, 2006 Call No.: 306.73092 HEA Click here for item availability. As a singleton, dating in this modern world is treacherous enough as it is, especially when dealing with complex emotions and delicate issues or baggage that make up the human psyche. Now, imagine agreeing to every single [...]

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Youth violence, something that’s in the spotlight once again. As it’s splashed across the headlines of various international news sources, probably everyone who lives in a country with access to the Internet or newspapers knows about what happened at Virginia Tech. Recently, I compiled some suggestions of “impactful” fiction titles for someone and one of [...]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets As the Guardian puts it: ‘A Booker winner, a Whitbread winner, a Pulitzer winner and a Commonwealth prize winner have been shortlisted for this year’s Orange prize.’ The shortlist goes: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Call No.: ADI Click here for item availability. Arlington [...]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2007 have been announced! LINK FICTION The Road by Cormac McCarthy Call No.: MAC Click here for item availability. GENERAL NONFICTION The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright Call No.: 973.931 WRI Click here and here for item availability. BIOGRAPHY The Most Famous Man [...]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets As unlikely as it may sound, the title of this post is an actual book title. And it’s won an award! The Diagram Prize is an annual award given out by The Bookseller and the Diagram Group for the book with the oddest title. Well, maybe less trolleys [...]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations San Francisco: City Lights, c2005 Call No.: English FOS-[SF] Click here for item availability. zeroTWOhero writes: Atomik Aztex is a peyotl-fueled stream-of-consciousness about alternate realities, where Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness is simultaneously a fearsome Aztex warrior in a world where the Aztecs slaughtered their would-be Spanish [...]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here. From Requiem, by Kurt Vonnegut, from [...]

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