Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 - nadine
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret
PJ5054.K375 A23 2004
Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013 - Amy Watts
"Anna Karenina"
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
PG3366 .A6 2000
"Argo"
The Master of Disguise: My secret life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez
JK468 .I6 M46 1999
"Hitchcock"
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello
PN1997 .P793 R43 1990
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
PR6039 .O32 H6 2002
"Life of Pi"
Life ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 - Elizabeth White
The Bulldog Book Club is open to everyone and we just talk about the book du jour and other good reading. Here’s our spring 2013 list. For more information, contact Fran Teague, fteague@uga.edu. This is also a Blue Card event.
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jan. 24, ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2012 - nadine
Scenes From Early Life : a novel by Philip Hensher
PR6058.E554 S34 2012
Philip Hensher’s husband, Zaved Mahmood, was born in late 1970 in Dacca, then a regional capital of Pakistan. In the months following his birth, the eastern part of the country split from the western side in a war of independence ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 - maryp
Today is the last day for requesting books online through GIL Express. The GIL Express service will be unavailable during the USG Winter Break from December 12, 2012 to January 2, 2013.
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012 - nadine
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
PR6052.A6488 T63 2012
One day in 1917, Elinor has a sudden premonition that Toby will not return from France. Three weeks later the family receives a telegram informing them that Toby is “Missing, Believed Killed” in Ypres. However, there is no body, and Elinor refuses to accept ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012 - Amy Watts
The Sandcastle Girls : A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Main Library: PS3552.O495 S26 2012
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a homebirth ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Triburbia: a novel by Karl Taro Greenfeld
PS3607.R4536 T75 2012
Thrown together by circumstance, a group of fathers—a sound engineer, a sculptor, a film producer, a chef, a memoirist, a gangster—meets each morning at a local Tribeca coffee shop after walking their children to their exclusive school.
The sound engineer looks uncomfortably like ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2012 - Amy Watts
Things We Left Unsaid by Zoya Pirzad
translated by Franklin Lewis
PK6561.P47 C5413 2012
Clarisse Ayvazian is the model 1960s wife and mother. She leads an unremarkable life with her well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighbourhood of Abadan.
But her tranquillity ends forever with the arrival of ...
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012 - cbuss
The CML in 207 Aderhold Hall will be closed Sunday & Monday for the Memorial Day Holiday. For more information on the CML's hours, please visit the CML's site.
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