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Charlotte Bronte, VILLETTE

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
 

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Charlotte Bronte, VILLETTE

June 2011

Summer has just begun, and already the comic-book superheroes are in flight (well, some of them). Enter the X-Men and Green Lantern, who will do their best to try to make you forget about Thor!

Of all the characters in the Harry Potter series, which one do you think you are most like, and why?

June 1, 2011

June 2011

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for June's contest period.

June 2011

One of my favorite things is reading feedback from our readers in emails, polls, Facebook comments and other places where you weigh in. May's poll was really interesting to me as I was curious about how being in a book club expands your horizons, so we asked "What percentage of the books that your group has discussed would you have read even if you weren't in a book club?" 38% said 50%; 32% said 75%. You can read the full results of the poll here. Thus 70% of you are saying that being in a book club expanded your reading horizons at least 25%. Interesting to see!

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Has the price of gas impacted your book purchases?

June 1, 2011, 311 voters

Mary Klucznik is a library media specialist at Chittenango High School in New York State. Over the past year, circulation for graphic novels there has increased three-fold, and a lot of it is due to the fact that she has enlisted students (now called The Gurus) to help with collection development. She shares her success story with us here.
May 31, 2011

Hot Book Club Picks for Fall!

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Curious about what titles are going to be big book club news for fall 2011? At BookExpo America in New York in late May 10 publishers each shared their "book club perfect" selections. To see the titles that they selected, click here.

Lisa Jackson, author of Wicked Lies

For two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission --- one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago.

Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts"

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
 

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Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts"