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Second floor favorites for 2009

If you could pick one book that you really enjoyed this year, what would it be? Here’s a list of some of our favorites published in 2009. It’s a bit of a random assortment, but it’s all good, just like...

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New Staff Picks for March

Ok, so I am a little late with posting our staff picks this month.  I blame February.  It is too short and always throws me off.   And don’t get me started about Leap Year…  Anyway, in case you did not...

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Check out our new staff picks shelf!

If you’ve been to the library in the last week, you may have noticed that we have something different in the new books area. We’ve added a staff picks and recent bestsellers section. You’ll find it on...

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Staff picks from the OSU Librarians!

Thanks to the OSU librarians for sharing some of their favorite books with us: Hannah’s picks: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich.  Also available as a downloadable audiobook from...

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Book pairings

Do you find it hard to wait for book that has a holds list? Here’s a suggestion: book pairings. I’ll tell you what I mean. I recently finished The Paris wife:  a novel by Paula McClain, a fictionalized...

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Summer Reads

School is out this week and it seems like lots of  folks are getting ready to leave town.  If you’re anything like me, you might find preparing for a vacation pretty exhausting.  Wouldn’t it be great...

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Staff picks for July

Between a rock and a hard place by Aron Ralston Our recent list of staff picks have been posted!  Click here to get to the link on our website.  You can always find the list by clicking on our Books...

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Staff picks: 2011 books

I asked some of the Adult Services Librarians to share their favorite books from 2011.  The list that follows is an interesting and eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction and includes some titles that...

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1984

I’m reading the slow-to-start, but deeply engrossing new magnum opus by the famed Haruki Murakami titled 1Q84.  This dark and bizarre novel is supposedly loosely related to George Orwell’s 1984....

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Chauvet Cave

I watched a Werner Herzog documentary the other night titled Cave of Forgotten Dreams.  This amazing documentary gives unprecedented access to Chauvet Cave, a cave in France discovered in late 1994,...

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