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30 Absolutely Indispensable Items for Foodies: an Amazingly Idiosyncratic List
Canton Public Library is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. To celebrate, we're making 30-item lists of interesting facts and links. For food lovers, here's a list of great gastronomical texts:
Patricia Wells' trattoria: simple and robust fare inspired by the small family restaurants of Italy by Patricia Wells
The art of simple foods: notes, lessons, and recipes from a delicious revolution by Alice Waters, with Patricia Curtan...et al; illustrations by Patricia Curtan
Mad Men at CPL
The New York Public Library posted a list last month with many of the books that appear or are mentioned in the acclaimed TV series Mad Men. If you love the show, or are looking for what people may have read in the 1960s, these are the titles from the NYPL list that CPL has:
The best of everything: a novel by Rona Jaffe
The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture by Ruth Benedict; with a foreword by Ezra F. Vogel
Exodus by Leon Uris
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Sweeping Sagas
Did you love the romance of Twilight series? Or the history in the Outlander series? Here is a list of books for you. Since they're all the first books of their own series, you won't run out of books too quickly.- Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Dark lover: a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward
- Fantasy lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
- Marked: a house of night novel by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
- The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- In the garden of Iden: a novel of the company by Kage Baker
- A vision of light: a Margaret of Ashbury novel by Judith Merkle Riley
May we suggest...
for a reader who likes fast-paced suspense or something engrossing, fun, and stress-relieving:
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Agnes and the hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
Size 12 is not fat by Meg Cabot
The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The last Templar by Raymond Khoury
I was told there'd be cake: essays by Sloane Crosley
2010 Printz Award
Winner
Going bovine by Libba Bray
Honor Books
Charles and Emma: the Darwins' leap of faith by Deborah Heiligman
The monstrumologist by William James Henry; edited by Rick Yancey
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
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2010 Alex Award
Winners
The boy who harnessed the wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The bride's farewell by Meg Rosoff
The good soldiers by David Finkel
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2010 Thumbs Up Award
Winner
Hate list by Jennifer Brown
Honor Books
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fat Cat by Robin Brande
Swim the fly by Don Calame
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2010 ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Fiction
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Tales of the Madman Underground: an historical romance 1973 by John Barnes
The unnameables by Ellen Booraem
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie by Alan Bradley
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12th Grade Book Suggestions
Flight: a novel by Sherman Alexie
Last night I sang to the monster: a novel by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Tales of the Madman Underground: an historical romance 1973 by John Barnes
Going bovine by Libba Bray
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11th Grade Book Suggestions
The perfect shot by Elaine Marie Alphin
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
A great and terrible beauty by Libba Bray
The demon's lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
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