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PRESS RELEASES
Washington
County
Public Library
205
Oak Hill Street
Abingdon
,
VA
24210
For more information contact:
Ida Patton, Public Services Coordinator
(276) 676-6390 or by E-mail ipatton@wcpl.net
For
Release: Immediately
WHAT’S NEW AT THE LIBRARY?
by
Joan Taylor and Will Stein
Washington County
Public Library serves a diverse group of people who love to read and who
are varied in their reading taste as they are in their make-up. Browsing
the new book shelf, our readers w
ill
find plenty to pique their curiosity, including Stories of Richard
Bausch, 1921: A Book of the Irish Century, by Morgan LLywelyn, The
Reckoning, by Sharon Kay Penman, The Russian Debutante’s
Handbook, by Gary Shteyngart, and The Liberated Bride, by A.B.
Yehoshua, one of
Israel
’s foremost contemporary authors.
On the non-fiction shelf we have A Big Life in Advertising, by Mary
Wells Lawrence, who created the memorable “I Love N.Y.” promotion, was
responsible for the bold Braniff airline designs, came up with the
“Quality is Job One” campaign for Ford, and was the creator of the
jingle “plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is” for Alka
Selzer.
The most popular titles in Adult Fiction are: The Last Juror, by
John Grisham, Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, The Five People You
Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom, Ransom, by Danielle Steel, and Angels
and Demons, by Dan Brown.
Nonfiction favorites are: South Beach Diet, by Arthur
Agatstan, Madame H
ill
ary-The Dark Road to the White House,
by R. Emmett Tyrell, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, by Al
Franken, Flyboys, by James Bradley, and Dude-Where’s My
Country?, by Michael Moore.
New on the YA Shelf: The Amulet of Samarkand: Book 1 of the
Bartimaeus Trilogy, A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly, Me
and Orson Welles, by Robert Kaplow, and Books 4,5,6 of the “Akira’
series by Katuhioro Otomo. Highly recommended in Non-Fiction is The
Road to There: Maps, Mapmakers and Their Stories, by Val Ross.
We also have several new books of monologues for aspiring actors.
Readers
of all ages w
ill
enjoy Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, one of the most popular
writers of books for young people in
Germany
. Funke’s first novel translated into
English was The Thief Lord, which garnered all sorts of critical
praise.
WHAT ELSE IS NEW AT THE LIBRARY?
Lots of new media has been arriving,
and there’s much more on the way. To
start with, there is an exciting new series of Books on CD called “The
American Scholar.” In this series, distinguished professors like Jay
Winik and H.W. Brands offer lectures on a variety of subjects including
religion, philosophy, politics, sociology and economics. H.W. Brands, for
example, has a course titled “The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin.” Included are 14 lectures on 7 CD’s with a full-color course
guide including images like an early drawing of the Franklin stove. Other
titles in the series are:
- “Discovering the
Philosopher in You, by Colin McGinn (
Rutgers
Univ.
);
- “A House Reunited:
How
America
Survived the Civil War,” by Jay
Winik (
U.
of
Maryland
), author of April 1865: the month
that saved
America
;
- “He Said, She Said:
Women, men and language,” by Deborah Tanner (
Georgetown
);
- “The American
Presidency, From Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan,” by Robert
Dallek (
Boston
Univ.
);
- “The Bible as the
Root of Western Literature,” by Adam Potsky (College of Wm. &
Mary).
Also
now available on CD: Harry Potter and Lemony Snickett!!!
We have some new language instruction CDs, “Mastering German” and
“Just Listen and Learn Spanish Plus.” We have other books on CD and we
w
ill
be adding more. Call or stop by for more
details.
We recently added some YA titles to our Books on Tape Collection,
including unabridged books by Anne McCaffrey and Ursula LeGuin, Kenneth
Oppel’s Firewing, The Hobbit, and the complete, unabridged
“Fellowship of the Ring.” For adults, new titles include The Lady
and the Unicorn, by Tracy Chevalier, Zero Game, by Brad Meltzer,
Key of Valor, by Nora Roberts, and The Amateur Wedding, by
Anne Taylor.
In the Video department some new arrivals are “Down with Love,”
“Whale Rider,” “Bend It Like Beckham,” “Seabiscuit,” and
“Finding Nemo.”
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