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New and Featured Books for 09/25/2013:

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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:

The new novel by the popular author.

Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem

Thankless In Death by J. D. Robb

The House Of Journalists by Tim Finch

The answer to your weird little prayers.

Stumptown, vol. 2: The Case Of The Baby In The Velvet Case by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Matthew Southworth

I can see you!

The Animal Man Omnibus by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Chaz Truog, Doug Hazlewood, Tom Grummett, Paris Cullins, Steve Montano, Mark McKenna, and Mark Farmer

Star Trek, vol. 5 by Mike Johnson, F. Leonard Johnson, and Ryan Parrott and illustrated by Claudia Balboni

A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods

Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois

A Question Of Honor by Charles Todd

The long awaited sequel to The Shining.

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

The Bones Of Paris by Laurie R. King

Moonrise by Cassandra King

Gone With The Woof by Laurien Berenson

Scandalous.

The First Affair by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

The Dead And The Beautiful by Cheryl Crane

NON-FICTION:

Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson

Our last, best hope...

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope For A Future On Earth? by Alan Weisman

The Message: The Reselling Of President Obama by Richard Wolffe

O, What A Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound by Garison Keillor

Europe goes to WAR.

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War by Max Hastings

Killing Jesus: A History by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

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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:

09/18/13.

09/03/13.

08/14/13.

08/06/13.

07/16/13.

Reading material for 04/30/12.

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Some reading material from around the internet:

Grant Snider’s The Book Of The Future.

Get ready for the future of Firefox.

Portland tries to ban Groupon.

The dark side of Facebook memes.

The picture above is by Beverly Ealdama, from here.

104 year old woman sets world record as the oldest person to go paragliding (for the second time in five years).

Wal-Mart would like you to pay with cash.

All about CISPA, the bill that wants to erode your online privacy.

How are women’s eyes different from men’s?

from here.

The Choose Your Own Adventure books are now out in digital form.

Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet, talks about his novel.

The 10 grumpiest living writers.

The New Yorker has figured out what went wrong with the Pulitzers this year.

The Land Of Nod,” an illustrated poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.

John Irving’s advice to aspiring novelists.

The most cryptic titles in literature and what they mean.

Would you read a novel written by the internet?

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book will become a Disney movie.

The director of Chronicle is going to reboot The Fantastic Four.

Fringe has been renewed for a fifth and final mini season.

Fake Tupac is selling a lot of real records.

The Avengers comes out this Friday in America, but has already made almost $200 million overseas.

Tony Danza and Vince Vaughn are going to make a sitcom together.

The SyFy channel is planning to adapt Stephen King’s The Eyes Of The Dragon.

Movie theater owners still do not want you texting during movies, please.

They’ve already hired writers for the sequel to the new Spider-Man movie.

from here.

The lost civilizations that pioneered skull surgery.

4 people with super memory.

The question of why Rome failed.

How much of the moon’s surface did the Apollo 11 astronauts actually explore?

A brief history of international signage.

The more you struggle with new information the more likely you are to learn it.

Ponder existential depths as you answer the call of nature in this vertigo-inducing floor-less bathroom.

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Previous online reading material:

04/23/12.

04/16/12.

04/09/12.

04/02/12.

03/26/12.

03/12/12.