New Oprah’s Book Club Selection

The 64th Oprah’s Book Club selection is Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.


Read one of Oprah’s past book club selections.


Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California at the height of the Gold Rush and finds adventure and adversity on her road to independence and love.

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
A young Haitian girl comes of age torn between two cultures–the Haiti of her Tante Atie and Grandmother Ife, and the New York of her mother Martine.

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Follows Trudi Montag, a dwarf who serves as her town’s librarian, unofficial historian, and recorder of the secret stories of her people, in a novel that charts the course of German history in the first half of the twentieth century.

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
In India during the mid-1970s, after a “state of internal emergency” is declared, four very different people–a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village’s caste violence–find their lives becoming inextricably intertwined.

The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Ninah Huff, the teenage granddaughter of the founder of an isolated religious community, causes controversy when she is discovered to be pregnant with what she claims is a holy child.

Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early 20th century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.

Classic Science Fiction Movies

Escape to another world or time with a classic science fiction movie!

Escape to another world or time with a classic science fiction movie!

Metropolis

Planet of the Apes

2001: A Space Odyssey

Alien

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

 

 

 

 

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

Blade Runner

E.T.

Back to the Future

The Matrix

 

 

 

 

The Incredibles

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Children of Men

Moon

District 9

Adult Summer Reading Club Wrap-Up

Thanks to all our Adult Summer Reading Club participants and all who attended our wrap-up party!

Books that readers especially enjoyed include:

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

World Without End by Ken Follett

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Traveling Women

Enjoy Eat, Pray, Love? Find other accounts of women’s travels abroad, courtesy of NoveList Plus.


The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
by Rachel Cusk

That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story by Marlena de Blasi

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman

Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere by Susan Orlean

Expat: Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad by Christina Henry de Tessan

A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe edited by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick, and Christina Henry De Tessan

Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

The longlist of finalists for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award covers modern business issues, including management, finance, and economics. Selected titles include:

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy

Union Atlantic: A Novel by Adam Haslett

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington fought to Save the Financial System From Crisis–and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Man Booker Prize 2010 Longlist Announced

The 13 books on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 have been announced.

Titles that the library owns include:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

February by Lisa Moore

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

The winner will be announced on October 12th.

Discover Long Island at the Long Island Museum

Have you heard about our museum pass program?

We have just added another museum to our collection: The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages in scenic Stony Brook, one of a small select group of nationwide Smithsonian affiliates

Enjoy art exhibitions that “bring to life the history and art of Long Island and their relation to American culture,” and visit the nation’s finest collection of horse-drawn carriages.

Call the Information Services Desk to reserve this new pass and head east for a trip back in time!

*Available to Cold Spring Harbor Library cardholders only.

LOL Summer Reads

Looking for a genuinely funny book to take to the beach? As NPR correspondent Heller McAlpin asks in this piece, “Who would think it would be so hard to find good books that are funny without being stupid?”

Her suggestions:

Dead End Gene Pool, by Wendy Burden

How Did You Get This Number, by Sloane Crosley

The Three Weissmanns of Westport, by Cathleen Schine

The Frozen Rabbi, by Steve Stern

Have fun!

Catch a Wave!

Starting August 1, you will be able to use your CSH library card to access thousands of e-books and e-audiobooks, as well as music and videos. Download to your own computer and a wide variety of compatible devices for listening/reading/watching in all settings.

For an overview and introduction to this service, watch this short, informative video.