New Book Friday: April 2012

You know the perfect way to goof off on your spring break? Read a book. Oh yeah.

April Is National Poetry Month

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

The 100 Best African American Poems: (*But I Cheated) edited by Nikki Giovanni

100 Essential American Poems edited by Leslie M. Pockell

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry edited by Cole Swensen & David St. John

The Best American Poetry 2011 edited by Kevin Young

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud edited by Robert Pinsky

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry

Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath edited by Elise Paschen & Rebekah Presson Mosby

The Poets Laureate Anthology edited by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt

She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy

Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay

Loved Chime by Franny Billingsley? Or A Great and Terrible Beauty? Then Born Wicked is just perfect for you! I could not put this novel down, and eschewed household chores just to spend more time in Cate’s world.

Chopsticks – what’s real and what’s not real in this haunting tale of Glory & Frank’s relationship?

Loved Beastly? Wanted to know more about Kendra’s story? Get her history in Bewitching.

February is Black History Month

February is Black History Month. Come into the library for books and DVDs exploring African-American heritage.

Books

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin with Hettie Jones
Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America by Jonathan Gill
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Cary D. Wintz

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

DVDs

The Color Purple
For Colored Girls
The Help
Killer of Sheep
Only the Ball Was White
Passing Strange: The Movie

National Book Critics Circle Finalists

The National Book Critics Circle Finalists are:

FICTION

Open City by Teju Cole

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst

Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman

Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta

NONFICTION

A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild

Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok

Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis J. Rodriguez

Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth

BIOGRAPHY

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution by Mary Gabriel

George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel

Quick Picks for Reluctant Teen Readers

The Quick Picks list for 2012 was announced by the Young Adult Library Services Association (a division of the American Library Association) on Monday, January 23, 2012. Below is a selection of fiction and nonfiction from the Quick Picks list that the Cold Spring Harbor Library has available for patrons to borrow.

Nonfiction

Barton, Chris; Hoppe, Paul (Illustrator). Can I See Your I.D.? True stories of false identities. 2011. Spies, robbers, runaways … could you get away with it?

Dugard, Jaycee. A Stolen Life: A Memoir. 2011. Eighteen years in captivity – in her own words.

Conrad, Lauren. Lauren Conrad Style. 2010. Exceptional style for every day.

Snider, Brandon T. DC Comics: The Ultimate Character Guide. 2011. Aquaman to Wonder Woman.

Tebow, Tim. Through My Eyes: A Quarterback’s Journey. 2011. Up-close and personal with a Heisman Trophy winner.

Fiction

Beam, Cris. I am J. 2011. J was born a girl but feels like a boy.

Blake, Kendare. Anna Dressed in Blood. 2011. Cas kills the dead, it’s his job.

Brooks, Kevin. iBoy. 2011. After Tom’s head-on collision with an iPhone, he’s out for revenge.

Brosgol, Vera. Anya’s Ghost. 2011. Anya’s new best friend is a ghost with a secret!

Gidwitz, Adam. A Tale Dark & Grimm. 2010. Hansel goes to hell and Gretel slays a demon.

Harris, Carrie. Bad Taste in Boys. 2011. Can Kate save her town from a zombie virus AND land the hot boy?

Hopkins, Ellen. Perfect. 2011. What is the price of perfection?

Lore, Pittacus. I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies #1). 2010. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 are dead. Now they are coming for number 4.

Mlynowski, Sarah. Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have). 2011. April’s crazy junior year starts with one big lie.

Patterson, James and Chris Tebbetts. Middle School: the worst years of my life. 2011. It all started going wrong in middle school…

Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate on a Roll. 2011. Antics of a funny kid.

Reed, Amy. Clean. 2011. Five teenagers in rehab.

Roth, Veronica. Divergent. 2011. In a perfect world, being different can be deadly.

Schreiber, Joe. Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick. 2011. 1 exchange student + 1 borrowed Jaguar + 5 assassinations = 1 epic prom night.

Shepard, Sara. The Lying Game. 2010. Your best friends just may be your enemies.

Wells, Robison E. Variant. 2011. Playing by the rules can be deadly.

Wilkerson, Lili. Pink. 2011. New school, new friends, new look.

Edgar Award Nominees

Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television published or produced in 2011.

BEST NOVEL

The Ranger by Ace Atkins

Gone by Mo Hayder

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

1222 by Anne Holt

Field Gray by Philip Kerr

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Red on Red by Edward Conlon

Last to Fold by David Duffy

All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen

Bent Road by Lori Roy

Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder