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In addition to our Downloadable Audio and eBooks, check out these sites:

Book Lending for Kindle devices: Borrow and lend eBooks

Digital Book: Everything from reference to children’s eBooks

Free eBooks.net: Numerous categories to browse!

Google Books: Offers free eBooks as well as books for sale

Internet Archive Text : Try the OpenLibrary at this site to access free eBooks on many different topics

Project Gutenberg: Free eBooks that can be viewed on a number of different devices

World Public Library: Offers both a free eBook section and a membership enhanced section. eBooks are compatible with many different types of devices.

What We Are Reading Now

Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
Pen, Will, and Cat are three college friends that are seemingly inseparable. Until a few years after college when Cat leaves the group, making them all promise that they will never again contact one another. Pen and Will try to remain friends but without Cat they are lost. Years later, both Pen and Will receive an email from Cat that asks them both to meet her at their college reunion because she needs their help. Will this cry for help reunite the friends?

By the author of Belong to Me, Marisa de los Santos once again explores the relationship bonds that connect us all.

January Book Club Books

The GPL book clubs are reading the following books for January:

Afternoon Book Club
Thursday, January 19 at 2:00 pm
South of Broad by Pat Conroy

Evening Book Club
Wednesday, January 18 at 6:45 pm
All Other Nights by Dara Horn

New members always welcome!

Book Award Winners from 2011

Some of the outstanding books from 2011. More to be announced in the coming months!

National Book Award
Fiction: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Poetry: Head Off and Split by Nikky Finnery
Young People’s Literature: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Pulitzer Prize
Fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
General Nonfiction: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Biography: Washington: A Life by Rob Chernow
History: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

Man Booker Prize
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Newbery
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Caldecott
A Sick Day for Amos Mcgee by  Phillip Christian Stead, illustrated by Erin Stead  

Printz Award for Young Adult Literature
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Eugenides’ most recent work focuses on three Brown University college graduates-Madeleine, Leonard, and Marshall. Madeleine and Leonard have a passionate relationship until three weeks before graduation when Madeleine’s profession of love is met with a sneer from Leonard. But Leonard, who suffers from manic depression, soon spirals out of control and is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Madeleine takes it upon herself to care for Leonard over the summer into the following year but her expectations of the relationship are soon met by cold, hard reality.

Marshall has been in love with Madeleine since freshman year and they have remained casual friends since. When he meets Madeleine once again in New York just days before he leaves for his European back-packing trip, the fire is once again rekindled (for him). But Madeleine is dedicated to Leonard and Marshall is once again rebuffed.

The story follows Madeleine and Leonard’s troubled relationship and Marshall’s trip across Europe and India. Eugenides’ novel is a character-centered novel about changing direction and finding yourself.

NYT Notables

The New York Times had released their 100 Notable Books of 2011 list. Have you read any of these books?

New Resource: Gray Public Library Teen Space

Check out the Gray Public Library’s new Teen Space page on the website! You will find resources and information on applying to college, homework, and book blogs, reviews, and lists.

Holiday Time

Per patron request, here are some books for the holidays! Print the list by Jane here (Christmas Stories)!

December Book Club Books

The GPL book clubs are reading the following books for December:

Afternoon Book Club
Thursday, December 15 at 2:00 pm
March by Geraldine Brooks

Evening Book Club
Wednesday, December 14 at 6:45 pm
Quickening by Michelle Hoover

New members always welcome!

More Best Books of 2011 Lists!

Another “best of” list! This one from Amazon.com…

 And Kirkus Reviews has also released their Best Fiction of 2011.

Check them out!