Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Sunday, April 17th, 2011 - phoebe
Finish out your spring reading with Nancy Goldstone's "complusively readable" Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. Then come to Bulldog Book Club and discuss it with English Professor Fran Teague and a UGA Librarian.
Historian Goldstone tracks the historically and politically significant lives of four thirteenth-century sisters born ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011 - Amy Watts
In the Time of Love by Naguib Mahfouz
translated by Kay Heikkinen
PJ7846.A46 A8713 2010
Love—who can count its varieties, measure its force, uncover the masks it wears, or predict how it binds and divides? In this spare novel, master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz gives us some of his most memorable ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011 - phoebe
The Miller Learning Center is happy to announce that we now have a small pool of Kindle e-book readers available to loan to the student population of UGA (student ID required). The Kindles can be borrowed for a period of 28 days and come with nothing installed. MLC staff can ...
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 - phoebe
Read the hottest book of the last few years, Stig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Then come to Bulldog Book Club and discuss it with English Professor Fran Teague and a UGA Librarian. Bulldog Book Club is open to all.
Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011 - Amy Watts
A Call from Jersey by P.F. Kluge
PS3561.L77 C35 2010
With A Call From New Jersey Kluge has outdone himself with a long view of the American experience and the steady mutation of the American dream. Set in the1980's it follows the life of Hans Greifinger, a German-American who immigrated ...
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011 - phoebe
Dip into a modern update on the cozy British mystery novel in Scarlett Thomas' Dead Clever. Then come to Bulldog Book Club and Discuss it with English Professor Fran Teague and a UGA Librarian. Bulldog Book Club is open to all.
Bored and unsuccessful at teaching, bartending and acting, Lily ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Waiting for Joe: A novel by Sandra Birdsell
PR9199.3.B4385 W358 2010
After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers. On a chilly early morning in late spring, ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 - Amy Watts
Train to Budapest by Dacia Maraini
Translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella
PQ4873.A69 T7414 2010
1956: Amara, a young Italian journalist, is sent to report on the growing political divide between East and West in post-war central Europe. She also has a more personal mission: to ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2011 - phoebe
With a forthcoming movie by Peter Jackson in the works, it's a great time to re-read J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy adventure, The Hobbit. Then come to Bulldog Book Club and discuss it with English Professor Fran Teague and a UGA Librarian. Bulldog Book Club is open to all.
The ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Holy Water: A novel by James P. Othmer
PS3615.T48 H65 2010
A mordant, ruefully funny novel about downsizing, outsourcing, globalization, third-world dictatorships, and vasectomies, by the acclaimed author of The Futurist and Adland.
Henry Tuhoe is the quintessential twenty-first-century man. He has a vague, well-compensated job working for a ...
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