New and Featured Books for 09/03/2013:

Come and check out these and some of the other new books and materials (or at least new to us) added to our library collection…

FICTION:

Holy Orders by Benjamin Black

Evil Eye: Four Novellas Of Love Gone Wrong by Joyce Carol Oates

Richard Castle’s A Calm Before The Storm: A Derrick Storm Mystery by Peter David and illustrated by Robert Atkins with Al Barrionuevo and Carlos Rodriguez

The Childhood Of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee

Shadows Of The New Sun: Stories In Honor Of Gene Wolfe, edited by J. E. Mooney and Bill Fawcett

MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

The Mayan Secrets: A Fargo Adventure by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry

The Given Sacrifice: A Novel Of The Change by S. M. Stirling

Declan’s Cross by Carla Neggers

The Whole Enchilada by Diane Mott Davidson

Bones Of The Lost by Kathy Reichs

Runaway Man by David Handler

Good As Gone by Douglas Corleone

Tell No Lies by Gregg Hurwitz

Never Go Back by Lee Child

NON-FICTION:

The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood And Family Relationships In The Digital Age by Catherine Steiner-Adair with Teresa H. Barker

Serve To Win: The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan For Physical And Mental Excellence by Novak Djokovic

Battle For Ground Zero: Inside The Political Struggle To Rebuild The World Trade Center by Elizabeth Greenspan

Headhunters On My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story by J. Maarten Troost

Under Fire: The Untold Story Of The Attack In Benghazi by Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz

Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, And Tragedy Inside The Johnson & Johnson Dynasty by Jerry Oppenheimer

Enemies Within: Inside The NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit And Bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America by Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman

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Please note that books mentioned here could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk, OR call us, OR send us an email at robinsbaselibrary@gmail.com and  we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured books for Adults:

08/14/13.

08/06/13.

07/16/13.

07/10/13.

07/02/13.

Author quotes: Writing fiction.

Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Here’s two more quotes from one of the greats of literature:

“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.”

-from a letter to Bernard Berenson on Sept. 24, 1954, published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 edited by Carlos Baker

and

 “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

-from The New York Journal-American, July 11, 1961

from here.

Elsewhere on the internet:

Do Hemingway’s works still pack a literary punch?

The Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.

Hemingway the war correspondent reported from Omaha Beach on D-Day.

The five words Hemingway said that gave Marlene Dietrich a whole philosophy for her life: “Never confuse movement with action.”

The full text of Hemingway’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954.

The annual Hemingway look alike contest.

Rejection letters received by bestselling authors, including Ernest Hemingway.

Has the author’s death eclipsed his work?

And coming soon…

Clive Owen as Hemingway and Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn, the journalist and novelist who went on to become Hemingway’s third wife, in Hemingway & Gellhorn, a movie directed by Philip Kaufman and will be appearing on HBO in May.

At the library we have quite a few books both by Hemingway and about his life and work. Come and check them out.