Lets Read Cobb!

Two new Book Club Kit titles are available:

The Guernsey Potato Peel and Literary Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 

This popular title tells the story of Juliet Ashton, who “finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey and his eccentric friends, who tell her about their island, the books they love, German occupation, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.” (Baker & Taylor)

Cost by Roxanna Robinson. “Settling into her parents’ home in Maine in the hopes of helping them with their respective health challenges, art professor Julie Lambert is shattered by the discovery of her son’s heroin addiction, a situation for which mother and son receive help from multiple family members.” (Baker & Taylor)

 The kits consist of twelve paperback copies of the book, a reading group guide, and information about the author.

The Book Club Kits cannot be reserved online, so call the Cobb County Library Reserves Department at 770-528-2349 to hold one of them for your group.

 

Cobb County Public Library System Most Requested Titles June 2009

The 8th Confession by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man : What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey

Always Looking Up : the Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox.

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.

Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

Driftwood Summer by Patti Callahan Henry.

Dune Road : [a novel] by Jane Green.

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.

Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson.

Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich.

First Family by David Baldacci.

The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews.

Fugitive : a Novel by Phillip Margolin.

Gone Tomorrow : a Reacher novel by Lee Child.

Handle With Care : a novel by Jodi Picoult.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

Home Safe : a novel by Elizabeth Berg.

The Host : a Novel by Stephenie Meyer.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor : a Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster.

Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson.

Knockout by Catherine Coulter.

The Last Child by John Hart.

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan.

Liberty and Tyranny : a Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin.

Loitering With Intent by Stuart Woods.

Long Lost by Harlan Coben.

Look Again by Lisa Scottoline.

Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel.

Mr. and Miss Anonymous by Fern Michaels.

My Sister’s Keeper : a novel by Jodi Picoult.

The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner.

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer.

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.

Outliers : the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.

Relentless : a Novel by Dean Koontz.

Resilience : Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities

by Elizabeth Edwards.

Return to Sullivan’s Island by Dorothea Benton Frank.

Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver.

Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Deception : a New Jason Bourne Novel By Eric Van Lustbader. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.

The Scarecrow : a novel by Michael Connelly.

Shanghai Girls : a novel by Lisa See.

Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber.

Swimsuit : a Novel by James Patterson

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith.

Three Cups of Tea : One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace – One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.

Vision in White by Nora Roberts.

Wicked Prey by John Sandford.

If you’re a fan of the great Swedish detective novelist Henning Mankell, I hope you’ve been watching the series on Masterpiece Mystery.  The final episode aired Sunday, May 31 but you can usually watch online for a time.  

 David Suchet returns as Poirot in late June.

A new Miss Marple takes over in July - Julia McKenzie who was so wonderful in Cranford.  She replaces my beloved Geraldine McEwan, so brilliant in the PBS adaptation of E. F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia (early 1980’s, available on DVD), and Muriel Sparks’ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978).

Finally August and September bring new episodes of Inspector Lewis, formerly of Inspector Morse fame.

Did you miss The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North based on novels by Philip Pullman? They were excellent, and are available on DVD.