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A young hustler, working undercover for the FBI, becomes...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:58 -0400

A young hustler, working undercover for the FBI, becomes immersed in a high-stakes world of drugs, money, and sex, where, he falls in love with the daughter of a well-known hit man, forcing him to make a difficult decision that puts many people’s lives at risk. Dopeman: Memoirs of a Snitch - Jaquavis Coleman (Link to Catalog)

Holler If Ya Read Me: African-American Writers-and Readers-Fret Over the Future of Thug Lit

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:42:16 -0400

Holler If Ya Read Me: African-American Writers-and Readers-Fret Over the Future of Thug Lit:

But Ms. Clark actually went one step better. Or worse. She switched places with her husband. She was released from prison in 2007 after serving nine and a half years for mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. She’d been the ringleader of an illegal scheme that solicited thousands of dollars from consumers to put into a pot and then paid out to different “winners” at different times. She wrote her fiction longhand on yellow legal pads, the pages of which circulated through the jail compound at Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, W.Va., with prisoners reading one page at a time then passing it on. It was there that Ms. Clark served time with a wealthy mogul named Martha Stewart, who served as an inspiration and an occasional business adviser. “She did her little five months like a trouper and was always willing to help you out if she could,” Ms. Clark told the Urban Book Source in 2007.

YES YES YES. Don’t know a lot about Street Lit? Love Street Lit? @Brentwood, we try to keep abreast of all the hottest books. Anything you want ordered? In time for the start of Summer, Just Let us know!

"Once upon a time there was a king who was in possession of the Romany alphabet. And because in those..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:45:14 -0400

““Once upon a time there was a king who was in possession of the Romany alphabet. And because in those days there were no bookshelves to hold alphabets, the king wrapped it up in lettuce leaves and fell asleep beside a gently flowing stream. After a while, a donkey came along, drank a bit of water from the brook, and ate the lettuce leaves. And that’s why we Gypsies have no alphabet.””

- The Polish Boxer - Eduardo Halfon. Check it out @ Brentwood Library right now!

"Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:53:00 -0400

“Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment. “I spent two or three hours a night on it for eight years,” he said. “I gave up once and started watching television with my wife. Television drove me back to Catch-22. I couldn’t imagine what Americans did at night when they weren’t writing novels.””

- Mason Currey, “Daily Rituals of Famous Authors” (via ashleyriordan)

5 Reasons Libraries Will Fail – Published in 1864

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:33:01 -0400

5 Reasons Libraries Will Fail – Published in 1864

alpha-lima-lima-papa: From an NPR article about Spanish...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:52:09 -0400

alpha-lima-lima-papa:

From an NPR article about Spanish tortillas! (with recipe!)

Not to be confused with Mexican Tortillas, Spanish Tortillas are an egg and potato mixture that are consumed widely in Spanish homes. Treat yourself to this Iberian treat! Get Creative in the house with The Book of Tapas, Spanish Food and Cooking, and the Cuisines of Spain: Exploring Regional Home Cooking. With a Cookbook selection of over thousands of books like ours, anyone could walk right in and experience the delicacies of the World! All you need is a library card (Cooking Utensils, Pots, Pans and Ingredients not included…sorry).

"I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope...."

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:37:32 -0400

““I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.””

- On the Road, Jack Kerouac (via ralphjames)

Libraries Changed My Life

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:24:23 -0400

Libraries Changed My Life:

thelifeguardlibrarian:

Real life accounts from library patrons whose lives have been changed for the better by libraries.

Everyone, share the impact libraries and librarians have had on your lives—ALL submissions are welcome and encouraged. Take a moment and tell your story!

So did you hear that they are making the Great Gatsby into a...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:39:00 -0400

So did you hear that they are making the Great Gatsby into a movie?

…You may have, but maybe you haven’t heard about Z, a Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Pick it up @ the library!

Wait, you already know about Z too? And you liked the interpersonal relationships between two jazz-age celebrities, set in the roaring 20s? But could use a little more France?

Well, maybe you didn’t say it like that. But, I can help you out with that too. Maybe you would like The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain? It’s about Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson. Begining in Chicago and culminating in the cafes and dance halls of 1920’s Paris, Hemingway’s first wife describes, in rich and moving detail, her courtship and romance to a magnetic and demanding writer. It’s also available as an Ebook, if you prefer.

Or maybe, the Aviator’s Wife, about the relationship between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh? Anne, with a critical eye, tells the story of her marriage to America’s National Hero, Charles Lindbergh. Living with a Domineering and rigid man, we see Anne’s transformation to the person that wrote the classic, Gift from the Sea.

Come back and let me know what you thought, internet patron.

tayarijones: Opportunity Alert: Seeking women writers under 30...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:03:17 -0400

tayarijones:

Opportunity Alert: Seeking women writers under 30 in the NYC region. Poets & Writers presents the Amy Award each year to recognize promising women poets, age 30 and under, living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive a modest honorarium and give a reading in New York City. The award was established in 1995 by Paula Trachtman and Edward Butscher of East Hampton, New York, in memory of Ms. Trachtman’s daughter, Amy Rothholz, an actor and poet.

details here

"Social media is not going away. As new platforms emerge, libraries will need to choose the channels..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:09:32 -0400

“Social media is not going away. As new platforms emerge, libraries will need to choose the channels that work for their communities. But whatever platforms they choose, they must have some kind of plan that outlines their goals and embrace philosophies that support interactivity with their communities. I think Bizzle summed it up best, “Successful libraries will determine what platforms most effectively reach their target audience and aggressively build sustainable presences there.””

- Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening?

This is about Facebook but its still very good.

(via libraryjournal)

"If you’re trying to raise a reader, you need your library. It’s too expensive and somewhat wasteful..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:40:21 -0400

““If you’re trying to raise a reader, you need your library. It’s too expensive and somewhat wasteful to buy the hundreds of books a young reader goes through in those first years of learning to read.””

- Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading: Select quotes from parents and library staff (via pewinternet)

For two years, Diamond and Black have been living comfortably on...

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:31:41 -0400

For two years, Diamond and Black have been living comfortably on their high-class cul-de-sac with their daughter, ready to leave the drug business behind them. However, Johnny can feel nothing but rage for the woman he once loved, and on his death bed he sets a plan in motion to tear Diamond’s world apart.

Black Diamond 3 : lucky chance / Brittani Williams. (Link to Catalog)

Now in Brentwood!

“To the untrained eye most boxing matches appear not...

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:54:00 -0400

“To the untrained eye most boxing matches appear not merely savage but mad. As the eye becomes trained, however, the spectator begins to see the complex patterns that underlie the “madness”; what seems to be merely confusing action is understood to be coherent and intelligent, frequently inspired. Even the spectator who dislikes violence in principle can come to admire highly skillful boxing—to admire it beyond all “sane” proportions. A brilliant boxing match, quicksilver in its motions, transpiring far more rapidly than the mind can absorb, can have the power that Emily Dickinson attributed to great poetry: you know it’s great when it takes the top of your head off. (The physical imagery Dickinson employs is peculiarly apt in this context.)”

-Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing (Link to Catalog)

Read Maria Popova’s Blog Post “Margaret Atwood on Literature’s Women Problem”, and the problem with categorizing writers who are women as women’s writers. Joyce Carol Oates tweet explains the situation nicely:

Wikipedia bias an accurate reflection of universal bias. All (male) writers are writers; a (woman) writer is a woman writer.

The University of San Francisco hosts the Joyce Carol Oates Home Page. Visit the site by clicking here.

To the public, he’s a hero : a brutal killer who...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:21:07 -0400

To the public, he’s a hero : a brutal killer who targets sex offenders. To most of London’s police force, he’s the suspect in a gruesome, time-consuming case to be avoided. But to Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan, he’s a murderer — no matter the sins of his victims — and catching him is her job. Assigned to the case with the division’s unreadable new DI, Josh Derwent, young and inexperienced Maeve is determined to prove she has what it takes to make it as a female in the tough world of the London police.The Reckoning - Jane Casey (Book 2 of the Maeve Kerrigan Series)

The Sense of Place of London, a brutal murderer with a vigilante bent, a cop trying to prove herself in London’s Police Squad. Pick up the Reckoning @ Brentwood. Is it out? Here are some other thrillers you may want to read:

No Trace: A Brock and Kolla Mystery - Barry Maitland
When little Tracey Rudd, the young daughter of notorious artist Gabriel Rudd, is abducted from her home, the third such child to vanish under similar circumstances, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla races against time to find the girl’s kidnapper, who may connected to the eccectric art community in the neighborhood.

Cold Kill : A Detective Stella Mooney Novel - David Lawrence
Despite the common belief that it is an open-and-shut case, Detective Stella Mooney has her doubts when a man walks into a Notting Hill police station and confesses to the murder of a woman whose body has been found in a London park.

A Detective Under Fire - H.R.F. Keating (Request from Out of Brentwood)
Struggling to work with a crew that refuses to take her seriously, detective superintendent Harriet Martens is surprised when her superiors place her in charge of a major investigation, which proves difficult in the wake of peer scorn.

The Red Room - Nicci French
Three months after Kit Quin is traumatized by Michael Doll, a young man she helps to question, the police ask for her help in investigating the brutal murder of a girl found near a local canal, believing Doll is responsible for her death.

"When I received news of this award, my first thoughts were of my mother and father, who came to this..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:46:03 -0400

““When I received news of this award, my first thoughts were of my mother and father, who came to this country the hard way, as young people confronting a new language and culture. In a significant sense, the Library of Congress prize is the culmination of their efforts and a tribute to their memory.””

- Don Delillo, on being awarded the Fiction Prize from the Library of Congress. This is the first Fiction Prize Awarded by the Library of Congress.

poetrysociety: Day Job of Poets. As we approach the final days...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:30:45 -0400

poetrysociety:

Day Job of Poets.

As we approach the final days of National Poetry Month, remain optimistic (or SMH at the fact that these wonderful, timeless poets had day jobs to begin with) with the Day Jobs of the Poets.

Today’s Call number of the day is: 811

gitmobooks: Wideshot of religious books, contributed by Ryan J....

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:01:29 -0400

gitmobooks:

Wideshot of religious books, contributed by Ryan J. Reilly

The Prison Library of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Forest Park Reads: Poem of the Day

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:11:46 -0400

Forest Park Reads: Poem of the Day:

forestparklibrary:

Song in a Minor Key by Dorothy Parker

There’s a place I know where the birds swing low,

And wayward vines go roaming,

Where the lilacs nod, and a marble god

Is pale, in scented gloaming.

And at sunset there comes a lady fair

Whose eyes are deep with yearning.

By an old, old gate…

Pick up the Portable Dorothy Parker @ Brentwood Library. Click here to view the link.

picadorbookroom: Susan Sontag doing what she did best: creating...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:09:58 -0400

picadorbookroom:

Susan Sontag doing what she did best: creating greatness.

For more inspiring work-spaces of the famously creative, click here.

“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”

Brentwood Book Stacks

A young hustler, working undercover for the FBI, becomes...

Holler If Ya Read Me: African-American Writers-and Readers-Fret Over the Future of Thug Lit

"Once upon a time there was a king who was in possession of the Romany alphabet. And because in those..."

"Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan..."

5 Reasons Libraries Will Fail – Published in 1864

alpha-lima-lima-papa: From an NPR article about Spanish...

"I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope...."

Libraries Changed My Life

Real life accounts from library patrons whose lives have been changed for the better by libraries.

So did you hear that they are making the Great Gatsby into a...

tayarijones: Opportunity Alert: Seeking women writers under 30...

"Social media is not going away. As new platforms emerge, libraries will need to choose the channels..."

"If you’re trying to raise a reader, you need your library. It’s too expensive and somewhat wasteful..."

For two years, Diamond and Black have been living comfortably on...

“To the untrained eye most boxing matches appear not...

To the public, he’s a hero : a brutal killer who...

"When I received news of this award, my first thoughts were of my mother and father, who came to this..."

poetrysociety: Day Job of Poets. As we approach the final days...

gitmobooks: Wideshot of religious books, contributed by Ryan J....

Forest Park Reads: Poem of the Day

picadorbookroom: Susan Sontag doing what she did best: creating...

Holler If Ya Read Me: African-American Writers-and Readers-Fret Over the Future of Thug Lit