By Katharine G. Bloodworth on 8 October 2009
Martha Hamlett will read from her book on 22 October.
Posted in Arts, Book Reviews, Library News | Tagged J. Robert Jamerson Memorial Library
By Staff Reports on 5 October 2009
Barry Phelps will be at Baines Books on Sunday, 11 October.
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Barry Phelps, John Buckland
By Staff Reports on 27 August 2009
Marion Moore Hill is the author of the Deadly Past Mystery and the Scrappy Librarian Mystery series and the inaugural winner of Whispering Willow mystery magazine’s Dagger award. She will sign copies of her latest book, Deadly Design, and greet visitors in the Museum Shop at Jefferson’s Poplar Forest in Bedford County on 12 September from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Posted in Arts, Book Reviews | Tagged fiction, Poplar Forest
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
Building and maintaining good credit is a puzzling task for many individuals. “Evil Money Evil Credit,” a book by motivational speaker, author and disabled veteran Alton Jones, provides an explanation and guidelines for enhancing individual credit performance.
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Financial, nonfiction
By Staff Reports on 24 August 2009
The recent Honduras coup and subsequent cold shoulder from surrounding countries – including the U.S. – calls for a re-examination of foreign policy in Latin America. In C.L. Levy’s new novel, “El Volcan” (published by AuthorHouse), Levy uses the setting of a 1990s Communist insurgency in a fictional Central American country to address foreign policy mistakes, chiefly a lack of focus on the complex nature of a country’s culture.
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged fiction, military
By Staff Reports on 21 August 2009
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 16 percent of children (over 9 million) ages 6 to 19 years are overweight or obese – a number that has tripled since 1980. Another 15 percent of children are considered at risk of becoming overweight indicates the “Prevalance of Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents” (2004).
Posted in Arts, Book Reviews, Health | Tagged cookbook
By Staff Reports on 20 August 2009
When E-Mails From Shilo was published last year, little did Shilo’s humans understand the implications of revealing the closely held secrets of the canine kingdom contained in for-dog-eyes-only e-mails that Shilo wrote to his net-pal, Max.
Posted in Arts, Book Reviews | Tagged fiction
By Staff Reports on 19 August 2009
“All but a Small Painting” (published by iUniverse) by author J. Olin Fischer is his first compilation of 46 word paintings stemming from his experiences of living in the Andes many years in addition to traveling to 40 countries.
Posted in Arts, Book Reviews | Tagged poetry
By Katharine G. Bloodworth on 18 August 2009
What did the goat say after he ate the film? The book was better.
Posted in Arts, Book Reviews | Tagged Catch Me If You Can, Fank W. Abagnale, nonfiction
