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If You Liked Into the Wild...Written by JanetD on 07/13/2011Fifteen years ago, Jon Krakauer captivated readers with the true story of Christopher McCandless, a young American whose wanderlust led him to Alaska and a mysterious, tragic end. Part of the book relates McCandless to another young man, Everett Ruess, an explorer, artist, and writer in the early part of the 20th century. Ruess...
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Deep-Sixing a Campus MysteryWritten by JanetD on 06/23/2011A pretty young woman disappears on a quiet college campus. Strange and secretive behavior among the students leads new teacher Phoebe Hall to suspect that there's a pattern to some similar recent events. When she starts to investigate, she finds herself the target of increasingly malicious pranks. Is there really a secret society on campus, with bizarre initiation rites? Or is a serial...
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Water, Water EverywhereWritten by JanetD on 05/31/2011
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Get Carded!Written by JanetD on 04/29/2011Baseball season has been underway for a month now, and for fans of the game, peeling open a wax pack of brand-new baseball cards never gets old. Remember the sugary sweet smell of that pink slab of bubble gum? Nothing tasted better during long childhood summers. Author Josh Wilker uses the baseball cards of his youth (mid 1970s to early 80s) to frame his new memoir,...
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Take A Stand, Make A DifferenceWritten by Erica B on 04/23/2011
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Down Memory LaneWritten by JanetD on 04/14/2011Remember Word Freak, the book about overly-focused Scrabble players (well, OK, fanatical Scrabble players)? Or King of Kong, the recent documentary about competitive Donkey Kong players with rather interesting off-screen lives? Now, we have...
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If You Liked Unbroken...Written by JanetD on 03/01/2011One of our most popular (and favorite) new non-fiction books is Unbroken, the nearly-unbelievable story of Louis Zamperini. His survival against all odds is truly inspiring and we'll be talking about it in depth on Tuesday, May 3...
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Small WondersWritten by Sally on 01/23/2011"Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
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Me and My ChateauWritten by JanetD on 01/13/2011
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Half a Life, OnwardWritten by JanetD on 01/03/2011One month before his high school graduation, Darin Strauss unintentionally killed a classmate in a car accident. In a flash, one young life was gone and another irrevocably altered. How do you live with that? This brutally honest memoir chronicles Darin's painful journey, through the eyes of a teenager just moving into adulthood and beyond. An awkward meeting with the girl's family adds...
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Exactly 122 years ago this week, storm clouds that had gathered over the Plains States moved east and ripped open over southwestern Pennsylvania. Flooding and rising rivers caused destruction, but that turned out to be just the beginning of...
If one of your New Year's resolutions was to address those piles of paper, junk drawers, and closets-full of stuff in your house, you have three choices: You can hire a personal organizer. You can ignore the growing problem. Or you can stop by the Darien Library and find...
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