Library Corner Carl Sagan wrote that the “ library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire plane

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• Public library advocacy
• Library science
• Library
• Librarian

Library Corner[removed]In my younger days, I had a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle which my father would constantly lecture and tease me about. His solution to my car woes would be for me to simply take it out in the field and s

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• Engine
• Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy
• Cengage Learning
• Chilton Company
• Fuel pump

Library Corner This week’s column could make some James Patterson devotees irritated or even angry. So if that is you, I urge you to quickly turn the page. I think that James Patterson needs a vacation. I think that w

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Library Corner We just received Christmas Hope in the box of books I opened this morning. It is a continuation of an Anne Perry tradition of publishing a Christmas Mystery during the Christmas holiday. Christmas Hope is

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• Anne Perry
• Pauline Parker
• Heavenly Creatures
• Mark Twain
• Perry
• Kate Winslet
• Film
• Cinema of New Zealand
• British people

Library Corner[removed]This week is the beginning of Black History Month at the library. The library is busy setting up our displays of various African American biographies and other history books relating to the accompl

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• American literature
• American studies
• Frederick Douglass
• Douglass
• United States

Library Corner[removed]I have been told more than once that literature—those works comprised of artistic work that fall within a dominant theme as compared to those of general fiction or best sellers--will simply not

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• Nobel Prize
• Man Booker Prize
• Academia
• Literature
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• Alice Munro

Library Corner[removed]The library will be showing Polar Express this year on December 23rd as we all get ready for the holiday that is quickly approaching. The Polar Express was of course a very successful children’s

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• Christian folklore
• Santa Claus
• Rail transport in fiction
• The Polar Express
• Robert Zemeckis
• A Visit from St. Nicholas
• Chris Van Allsburg
• Clement Clarke Moore
• Saint Nicholas
• Film
• Christmas by medium
• Christmas

Library Corner[removed]I was going to write one of those columns this week---“What Were the Best Books of 2013?” However, if I was going to write about nostalgia and books, I was going to write about nostalgia and boo

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• Nostalgia
• Fiction
• Children\'s literature
• Literature
• The Hardy Boys
• Nancy Drew

Library Corner[removed]Tom Clancy died last October. Everyone knows that I am a huge Clancy fan. His last book was Command Authority which was published in December two months after his death. Patrons and other fans have

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• Fiction
• Eric Van Lustbader
• Ghostwriter
• American literature
• The Clancy Brothers
• Tom Clancy
• Literature
• Robert Ludlum

Library Corner[removed]The library has a suggestion box in the periodical or magazine area. We read everyone and the staff tries to remedy or fix the aforementioned suggestion. Sometimes, we get really good suggestions,

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• Aquaman
• Batman
• San Diego Comic-Con International
• Comics
• Visual arts
• Smallville characters