Author Archive
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 - Amy Watts
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
PR6062.I89 H69 2012
When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2012 - Amy Watts
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life by Ann Beattie
PS3552.E177 M77 2011
Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon’s wife: “interchangeable ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Love and Shame and Love: A novel by Peter Orner
PS3615.R58 L68 2011
Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
PS3554.E92945 L54 2011
“All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game, Michael Lewis (Non-fiction)
GV880 .L49 2003, Main and MLC
Nominations for Moneyball: Picture, Actor (Brad Pitt), Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill), Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Sound Mixing.
Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, is leading a revolution. Reinventing his team on a ...
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 - Amy Watts
The 2011 tax forms are now available in Main (in the student lounge), Science & the Curriculum Materials Library.
We receive a limited number of US & Georgia tax forms each year to be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. All US & Georgia tax forms are also available ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012 - Amy Watts
7 p.m. Wednesday, February 1: Todd Boss presented by the Georgia Poetry Circuit
Ciné BarCaféCinéma
234 W. Hancock Avenue
Athens, GA
Todd Boss's debut poetry collection, Yellowrocket (W. W. Norton, 2008) will be followed by Pitch (Norton) in February 2012. Todd's poems have appeared in Poetry, The London Times, The New ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
Main Library 6th floor, BP170.5.M3 B35 2011
What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 - Amy Watts
The LSA booksale will be held tomorrow (Oct. 20) from 9:30am - 3:30pm in the Main Library Atrium/Lobby. There's also going to be a bake sale, with delicious goodies homemade by library staff, to help feed your body as well as your mind.
The prices for the book sale ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Finalists have recently been announced for two of literature's most esteemed prizes, the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards.
National Book Awards
"Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book ...
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