Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
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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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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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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Thursday, October 13th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Leeches by David Albahari
translated from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
PG1419.1.L335 P5813 2011
The place is Serbia, the time is the late nineteen-nineties. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular column for Minut, a Belgrade newspaper, and spends the rest of his time with his best friend smoking pot and ...
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 - Amy Watts
The UGA Libraries will be hosting several workshops this fall - all interested persons are welcome to attend. These events are also eligible for "Blue cards" from the Franklin College Cultural & Academic Events Program. Workshops last no longer than an hour.
Maximizing Google
Tuesday October 18, 7 p.m.
Science ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Ladies and Gentlemen by Adam Ross
PS3618.O84515 L33 2011
Following his celebrated debut novel, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross presents a stunning collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and young people navigating lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot young lawyer, ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Please Look After Mom: A novel by Kyung-sook Shin
translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim
PL992.73.K94 O4613 2011
A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation—Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, and of the ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 - Amy Watts
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius
translated by Jamie Bulloch
PT2664.E4 B5513 2010
Rome, one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naive, the war is for her little more ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011 - Amy Watts
The Coffeehouse by Naguib Mahfouz
translated by Raymond Stock
PJ7846.A46 Q8713 2010
A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate. On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
PR6113.U78 S55 2010
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody ...
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