Call Number of the Week

Noticed today: in the Dewey Decimal system, the art of making snuffboxes has its own call number: 745.5934 (tucked between candles and hunting decoys). We don't currently have any books on this topic at the Gleason, but we'd be happy to request some through interlibrary loan if there's an interest!

New materials

Check out our latest additions online here; a few of the latest are:

Fiction books
The Soul Thief, by Charles Baxter
Johnny One-Eye: a tale of the American Revolution, by Jerome Charyn
The Palace of Illusions, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Remember Me?, by Sophie Kinsella
Betrayal, by John Lescroart
Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult
Lady Killer, by Lisa Scottoline
Dead Time, by Stephen White

DVDs
American Gangster
Becoming Jane
The Bourne Ultimatum
Gone Baby Gone
Michael Clayton

Read anything you particularly enjoyed lately, new or old? Leave your recommendations in the comments here.

Primary season

Ready for primary season? Check out books by and about the candidates, or browse our latest display of political reading under the window by the magazines.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
John Edwards
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson

Rudy Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
Alan Keyes
John McCain
Ron Paul
Mitt Romney
Fred Thompson

Notable Books of 2007

The New York Times Sunday Book Review has posted their list of 100 Notable Books of 2007, fiction and non-fiction, from Harry Potter and Ian McEwan, to Princess Diana and the Supreme Court. Any favorites to recommend (or dis-recommend) from their list?

Thanksgiving tips

Looking for something to read or watch over Thanksgiving? Check out our lists of new books and dvds at the Gleason here, or search for themes or read-alike authors with Novelist (requires library card number). Any suggestions for holiday reading(/viewing/listening)? Leave a comment here.

Also, we're launching a monthly e-newsletter - click here to sign up, or let us know if you have any suggestions!

Congratulations, Doris Lessing!

Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize in literature - check out some of her books at the library (on display across from the circulation desk, or in the stacks), or, online, read her biography from the BBC, a Q&A with the Boston Globe from this past summer, or an opinion piece she wrote for the New York Times in 1992: Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer.

In other award news, the finalists for the National Book Award have been announced:

FICTION
Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway

NONFICTION
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Click through to see finalists for poetry and young adult literature.

Read Chinese-Language Magazines Online

Qikan Library (also called Dragon Source) is a Chinese Language Magazine database that is purchased by Boston Public Library and made available for all users statewide.

Read articles from over 100 popular magazines from mainland China, from 2005 to the present. Subjects include the arts, current events, business, health, children's literature and much more. Most titles are viewable in both simplified and classical viewing styles.

You can access Qikan remotely with your Carlisle library card at:

http://mblc.state.ma.us/books/magazine/index.php

Ask at the reference desk or email us at mca@mvlc.org if you have any questions.