Emily Dickinson writes “life is such strong a vision that not one of it will fail.” One vision of life is poetry, so what does life look like in your library?
March Madness Basketball Reading | Wyatt’s World
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Basketball reads for fans of the underdog, legendary leaders and game-changer coaches, plus accounts of personal triumph after loss, play-by-play.
Mission to Mars: The Reader’s Shelf | March 15, 2013
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Fiction and nonfiction on the topic of Mars.
Celebrity Chefs | Wyatt’s World
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Selected cookbooks to be shelved in time for spring!
Frances and Bernard | RA Crossroads
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In novelist Carlene Bauer’s Frances and Bernard, one word leads to another. Try read-alikes Starting out in the Evening and The Hours, read-arounds The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor and the Letters of Robert Lowell, and epistolary work 84 Charing Cross Road [the film] for more than one view.
The Reader’s Shelf | March 1, 2013
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Members of the Reference & User Service Association’s Listen List suggest well-narrated audiobooks
Women Writing | Wyatt’s World
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March is Women’s History Month! Celebrate with five new titles by women authors Denise Kiernan, Joyce Carol Oates, Ruth Ozeki, Sheryl Sandberg, and Marisa Silver.
Conclave Reading | Wyatt’s World
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This week’s Wyatt’s World taps into the history of the papacy and the Catholic Church, highlighting titles that connect power to politics to prayer with accounts of the real and narratives of the imagined.
Five Fantagraphics Faves | Wyatt’s World
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New graphic novels for patrons whose reading taste doesn’t fit between the lines.
Frozen in Time | RA Crossroads
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Steer your patrons to Mitchell Zuckoff’s retelling of the November 1942 crash of a U.S. cargo plane into the Greenland Ice Cap, the loss of the B-17 sent to find it, and the loss of a Grumman Duck amphibious plane that had managed to rescue one B-17 crew member. LJ’s readers’ advisory suggests World War II narratives read-alikes, read-arounds, and watch-alikes.
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