Kansas Notable Books 2011
Our friends at the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) keep a close eye on the Kansas Notable Books award nominations and have added this year’s winners to the NExpress catalog. Below is the list of 2011 winners and you can now place holds on any of these titles by following these links:
- Amy Barickman’s Vintage Notions: An Inspirational Guide to Needlework, Cooking, Sewing, Fashion, and Fun
- And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
- Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
- Baking with Friends: Recipes, Tips and Fun Facts for Teaching Kids to Bake
- Bound: A Novel
- Crossing the Tracks
- A Distant Home
- Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State
- Ghost Stories of the New West: From Einstein’s Brain to Geronomo’s Boots (not in the catalog)
- Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
- Moon Over Manifest
- A Prairie Peter Pan: The Story of Mary White
- Prairie Rhythms: The Life and Poetry of May Williams Ward (not in the catalog)
- The Scent of Rain and Lightning: A Novel
- StarCrossed
Friends of Atchison Library Annual Meeting
Join us at the Library on Sunday, September 25th from 2 – 4 p.m. for our Annual Meeting. After a brief business meeting and election of officers, a panel will discuss one-room schoolhouses. Following the panel discussion, the film “One-Room Schoolhouse” will be shown. The documentary features several Atchison County teachers including Vera Hurst, the Atchison County expert on the subject.
Friends of the Atchison Library (FoAL) is a volunteer organization whose purpose is to:
- Build support in the community for the Atchison Library.
- Enhance the image, materials, services and facilities of the Atchison
Library by undertaking specific projects on its behalf. - Maintain an association of individual, civic organizations, businesses, and
other groups interested in the Atchison library. - Create public awareness of the activities of the Friends of the Atchison
Library and encourage participation in the organization.
Essay Contest
The Jagged Corner Writers are sponsoring an essay contest this fall. All entries are welcome and must adhere to the guidelines below (click on Read More.) Contact Don Carlson at dcarlson25@kc.rr.com for more information. Read more
New Book in the News
National Public Radio hosted a great interview earlier this week with the authors of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back. Click the following links to place holds on the print and audio CD versions of the book.
Log into your NExpress account to let us know what else you’d like to read, hear, or watch. We’ll get it for you!
Upcoming Book Releases
Our friends at the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) have pre-ordered several new book titles which are scheduled to be released later this fall (see list below).
We’ll soon order many of these titles for the Atchison Public Library’s own collection, but in the meantime, you can place holds on these items in the NExpress catalog using your NExpress library card. Just click on the links and place your holds! For a complete book listing click Read more
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New Fiction- New DVDs
- Bedlam. , [videorecording] /, Season 1, a Red Production Company ; written and created by Neil Jones, David Allison and Chris Parker ; directed by John Strickland and Alrick Riley ; produced by Matthew Bird.
- 1Q84 , [sound recording] /, Haruki Murakami ; translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.
- The Civil War , [videorecording] /, a production of Florentine Films and WETA-TV ; producers, Ken Burns and Ric Burns ; writers, Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, Ken Burns.
- Tales of terror, the pit and the pendulum, the raven , [videorecording] .
- Ghost hunter collection , [DVD videorecording] /, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
- New Nonfiction
- Westmoreland : , the general who lost Vietnam /, Lewis Sorley.
- Folks, this ain't normal : , a farmer's advice for happier hens, healthier people, and a better world /, Joel Salatin.
- What's a homeowner to do? / , Stephen Fanuka and Edward Lewine.
- A universe from nothing : , why there is something rather than nothing /, Lawrence M. Krauss ; with an afterword by Richard Dawkins.
- Tales from the sustainable underground : , a wild journey with people who care more about the planet than the law /, Stephen Hren ; [foreword by Lyle Estill].
- New Large Print
- New Young Adult
- New Audiobooks
- Private , [sound recording] :, #1 suspect /, James Patterson [and Maxine Paetro].
- Seriously-- I'm kidding , [sound recording] /, Ellen DeGeneres.
- 77 Shadow Street , [sound recording] :, (a novel) /, Dean Koontz.
- 1861 , [sound recording] :, the Civil War awakening /, Adam Goodheart.
- Mr. Fox , [sound recording] /, Helen Oyeyemi.
- New Children’s