Great Lakes Book Award Finalists

Books & Authors
Great Lakes Book Award Finalists
http://www.books-glba.org/glbookawards.php

The finalists for the 2006 Great Lakes Book Awards, sponsored by the Great Lakes Booksellers Association and honoring books with "a Great Lakes theme or setting," are:

Fiction
A Dark & Deadly Deception by Eleanor Taylor Bland (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston (Houghton Mifflin) (bold type by Ellen)
The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle (Morrow)
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow (FSG)
Taking Care of Cleo by Bill Broder (Handsel Books)
Torch by Cheryl Strayed (Houghton Mifflin) General
If I Am Found Dead edited by David Lee Poremba (Ann Arbor Media Group)
Islands by Gerry Volgenau (Ann Arbor Media Group)
Legends of Light by Ed Wargin (Ann Arbor Media Group)
Made in Detroit by Paul Clemens (Doubleday)
Mighty Fitz by Michael Schumacher (Bloomsbury)
A Private History of Awe by Scott Russell Sanders (North Point Press)

Children's Books

Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer (Putnam)
Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall (Knopf)
The Game of Silence of Louis Erdrich (HarperCollins)
A Good Night Walk by Elisha Cooper (Orchard Books)
Kelly of Hazel Ridge by Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen (Sleeping Bear Press)
The Legend of Michigan by Trinka Hakes Noble (Sleeping Bear Press)
Nailed by Patrick Jones (Walker)
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima (Hyperion)
The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)

Winners will be announced in late August, and the awards will be presented Friday, October 6, at a luncheon during the Great Lakes Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show in Dearborn, Mich.

Book Club Members Love Our Office

A member of the Kaleidescopes book club came in today to request a book. Her request was late and the title she'd wanted would have been tough to get in a short time, so I asked her if she'd seen our office collection of book club books. She was excited to see what we had on our shelves and mentioned that everyone else in her club had gotten to see it before and that she had been a little envious.

Mary Ann and I showed her several books and she selected Interpreter of Maladies since they could pick and choose just the stories they wanted to read in the short time they had to read them. (And Mary Ann pleased the patron's little daughter with a lei.)

This might be a good way to help our book clubs remember to think of our titles first!

ej

What's Next?

Since our version of What's Next is 2004, perhaps you have also found that the newer books in a series aren't in our blue copy of this book.

So, here is the link to the online (and up-to-date) version of this valuable resource. I use it all the time.

Using this source, will also allow us to print out lists from our printer, rather than making copies of pages on the copy machine. Now all I have to do is to remember to use the website!

Enjoy!

ej

http://www.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp

Free Money!!

As I was plowing through my Fiction_L email yesterday, I stumbled across this little site and it looks like a great new project for finding alternative funds (it's what public schools and libraries constantly hunt for to help pay for extras.) I suspect we'll have some stiff competition, but I also think with our F451 pictures, news articles, etc. we have a good chance at it!

Check out the site and let us know your thoughts!

http://www.pattersonpageturner.org/index.html#overview

ej

Cool Readers' Advisory Tool

When you have a slow moment sometime (it COULD happen), check out this creative way to help readers find read-alikes. Very good for visually oriented, left-brain types!


http://www.literature-map.com/

Found anything online worth sharing? Click on the little pencil at the bottom of the page and you can add your own note to OUR blog!

ej

Welcome to the Cook Fiction Blog!!

I have created this blog to facilitate communication between the members of the Fiction Department at Cook Library. We have so many book groups and sometimes mistakes have occurred because we don't have a way to communicate easily. Hopefully this will allow us to share information, news and other things of interest.

Read a good book? Let us know!

Added a new book for a book group? Let us know!

Time to pull some books? Do some weeding? Need to switch your schedule? Write about it.

Have a problem with something? Ask--maybe we can help.

This can be as helpful as we make it and I hope this will prevent things from slipping through the cracks.