Our book fair!

Will you be shopping at Barnes & Noble soon?

Support us at our book fair on May 9th from 1-4 PM, or shop online anytime between the 9th and 13th and put in our code (11568805). There will be a fun celebration with demonstrations, stories, crafts, cheesecake, and Curious George!

Thank you for your support!

Please find additional details here.

2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners

This year's Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced! This is an award for journalism, literature, and music named after the late Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher.

Congratulations to all of the winning authors. Below are this year's winners with links to the items in our catalog for you to check out.

Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

General Nonfiction: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Biography or Autobiography: The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pope Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer

History: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth Fenn

Have you read any of these titles yet? Which ones are you planning on reading?

Library Program: The Art Forger (Book Discussion)

 
Join us at either 2 PM or 7 PM on Tuesday, April 28th, 2015.

Librarian Ann Patterson will lead a discussion on the novel The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro. This story combines history, art, and a mystery.

Please register here if you'd like to join us at one of the two sessions, or give us a call to register at (585) 225-8951.

Hope to see you there!

After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson

Title: After the War is Over

Author: Jennifer Robson

Jennifer Robson's second novel, After the War is Over, tells of the time in England immediately following the Great War.  After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave devastation and death behind. The daughter of a vicar, she has always wanted to dedicate her life to helping others.  She moves to busy Liverpool where her hard work assisting destitute families leaves no time for social life other than occasional dinners with the women at her boardinghouse. 

Eventually, Charlotte takes time off to return to the estate where she was once a governess for the wedding of her former charge, Lilly Neville-Ashford.  During that weekend, Charlotte takes one look at Lilly's brother, Edward, Lord Cumberland, and realizes that she has never stopped loving him.  When Edward's war injuries threaten to destroy his future, Charlotte agrees to help nurse him back to health.  She must do this knowing that class differences will forever keep them apart.

An interesting look at changes resulting from the First World War.
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Call us to check on an item's availability at 720-4106, or try our Barnard Crossing Branch at 663-3357. You can also check our online catalog 24/7 at http://greecepubliclibrary.org/. Click on the title above to link directly to the item in our catalog!   

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott

Title: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War 

Author: Karen Abbott

Seventeen-year old Belle Boyd, a tempestuous Virginian, shot a Union soldier in her home and became a courier and spy for the Confederate  army. Though the flirtatious Boyd seduced men on both sides of the conflict, she actually had a serious crush on Stonewall Jackson, and on one occasion managed to thwart a Union plan to trap him in the Shenandoah Valley.

Abbott claims that “as many as four hundred women" in both North and  South posed and fought as men.  Canadian Emma Edmonds was one such woman. Edmonds came from an unhappy home, and finally fled when threatened with an arranged marriage to an elderly neighbor. Disguised as Frank Thompson, medic and mail carrier with Company F, Second Michigan Infantry, she infiltrated enemy lines and eventually witnessed the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest engagement in the Civil War.

Of the four women Abbott highlights, widow Rose O'Neal Greenhow is the best known.  Greenhow lived in Washington where she lobbied politicians on behalf of the confederacy.  She learned how to write messages in code and used her young daughter, Little Rose, to send information to Southern generals.  For a time, mother and daughter were imprisoned together. 

Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, was known to have Yankee roots, yet her wealth and Southern manners served as cover for a far-ranging espionage network.  She even managed to place Mary Jane Bowser, a former slave, inside the Confederate  White House.          

This is an exciting read which focuses on women who risked everything for a cause in which they believed. It also offers a fuller picture of people involved in the Civil War.
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Call us to check on an item's availability at 720-4106, or try our Barnard Crossing Branch at 663-3357. You can also check our online catalog 24/7 at http://greecepubliclibrary.org/. Click on the title above to link directly to the item in our catalog!   

 

Library Program: Book Discussion - The Age of Miracles

 Tuesday, February 24 at 2 pm and 7 pm                

Join Librarian Ann Patterson for a discussion of The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker in preparation for the author's visit to the library in March.

The Age of Miracles is Writers & Books' 2015 "If all of Rochester Reads the Same Book. . . " selection.

These book discussions require registration. You can register at the information desk or through our website.

Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett

Title: Edge of Eternity

Author: Ken Follett

Edge of Eternity, the third novel in Ken Follett's Century Trilogy, continues the saga of five interrelated families first seen in Fall of Giants and Winter of the World.  This third book introduces a new generation of men and women located in the U.S., the U.K., Germany and Russia.  These younger family members are linked by blood and also by tumultuous global events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Civil Rights Movement, and Watergate.

As fascinating as Follett makes history, he is essentially a storyteller who lets his characters drive the action.  George Jakes is in Robert F Kennedy's Justice Department.  Dimka Dworkin is an aid to Nikita Khrushchev.  Jasper Murray is a journalist, and finally, Walli Franck is a rock 'n roll musician.  All are impacted in important ways by twentieth century milestones.  However, its the account of their ambition, insight, and passion which keeps the reader hooked for hours.

Ken Follett's books often require a big investment of time.  The Century Trilogy is worth it.
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Call us to check on an item's availability at 720-4106, or try our Barnard Crossing Branch at 663-3357. You can also check our online catalog 24/7 at http://greecepubliclibrary.org/. Click on the title above to link directly to the item in our catalog!