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Teen Yellow Pages

by Mazie

Calling all teens! For a list of resources just for teens in the local area, check out the Teen Yellow Pages online.

The Youth Empowerment Project just released the 2007-08 edition. This year for the first time it lists resources for the Lincoln, Saline, Willow Run and Ypsilanti School Districts, as well as those for the Ann Arbor.

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New Fiction on the New York Times Best Sellers List (8/5/07)

by Mazie

Certain mystery writers are famous for their main character but if you think about it, many are also known for where the action takes place. Dashiell Hammett and Sam Spade in LA. John D. MacDonald and Travis McGee in Florida. P.D. James and Elizabeth George create such a strong sense of place that it is almost another character.

In American fiction, there is no one more closely identified with a specific character and landscape than James Lee Burke. His novels featuring the battered Dave Robicheaux almost ache for a paradisiacal Louisiana that is passing if not already past. His word pictures evoke a lush, surreal and fragile beauty. His last novel mentioned Hurricane Katrina but it is only now in The Tin Roof Blowdown that Burke unleashes his lyrical power and his anger over what happened to his beloved home.

The other new titles are Up Close and Dangerous by Howard, The First Commandment by Brad Thor, and Someone to Love by Deveraux.

You can look at the rest of the titles on the List here.

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The Professor's Daughter

by anned

Logistical complications aside, what if the mummy of Imhotep IV came to life and resided in 19th-century London? He would have a charming romance with the daughter of a renowned Egyptologist professor, of course.
Joann Sfar (Little Vampire Goes to School, Little Vampire Does Kung Fu!, and The Rabbis Cat) has taken a break from illustrating to write this exciting adventure. As always, he does a wonderful job. Emmanuel Guibert's watercolor sketches brilliantly bring this lighthearted tale to life.

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Fabulous Fiction Firsts #78

by muffy

Looking for a fast-paced, adrenalin-fueled mystery/thriller? I recommend Lee Vance’s debut Restitution.

A graduate of the Harvard Business School and a retired partner of Goldman Sachs, Lee is no stranger to the rarified world of Wall Street’s rich and powerful, where we meet up with our protagonist Peter Tyler.

A high-power career, a beautiful wife and a dream home would not stop Peter from engaging in a one-night stand with a mystery colleague, and lands him squarely as the prime suspect in his wife’s murder. A cross between Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent and The Fugitive, this compelling read with a twisty plot pits Peter against an embittered ex-cop, the Russian mob, nasties in unexpected corners as he races across the globe to find his wife’s killer and to clear his name. A hell-of-a-ride. Nicely done.

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Foreign language books at the Downtown library

by Tara LS

Many people don't realize this, but on the 3rd floor at the downtown library, there is a larger collection of foreign language books than at the branch libraries. The languages are the same but the selection is much larger. So go on up to the 3rd floor and check out our wide selection of foreign language books.

Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Hindi, Gujarathi, Marathi, Kannada, Panjabi, Malayam, Bengali, Telegu, Tamil, Urdu, German, Arabic, French, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Portuguese and Italian are all represented in the Ann Arbor District Library's foreign language collection.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions or if there is a language that is not listed that you would like the library to have materials in, please contact stantont@aadl.org

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2007 Biblioteca Breve Winner

by Tara LS

Read the latest Bibloteca Breve winner, a Spanish language book award. Put a hold on it through the library catalog or by calling the Holds/Renewals line at 327-4219. You can also find it at the Mallets Creek branch

El Septimo Velo

Juan Manuel de Prada, author of "La tempestad" and "La vida invisible", was the winner of Spanish publishing company Seix Barral's prestigious Biblioteca Breve prize for his new book, El Septimo Velo, a love story and adventure novel selected from over 390 submissions. Set during the Second World War, the story follows the main character Julio to Nazi-occupied France, post-civil war Spain, and Argentina as he searches to uncover a family secret hidden for half a century.

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The Bourne Books and Movies

by anonymous

The story that started in The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy continues this Friday in theaters. The Bourne Ultimatum, the third movie in the series starring Matt Damon in the role of the title character Jason Bourne, follows the amnesiac assassin as he tries to discover more about his true identity. Robert Ludlum originally created the series as a trilogy, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum, but Eric Van Lustbader picked it up with The Bourne Legacy and The Bourne Betrayal. How different are the movies from the books? You be the judge.

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1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die

by detra

Just when I thought I was making headway with Patricia Schultz's first bestseller, “1,000 Places to See Before You Die” (I have 982 places left to see), she releases a new book, “1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A & Canada Before You Die.”

This is a wonderfully written and well-organized book. Schultz does an excellent job balancing the well known with the unknown; the extravagant with the unextravgant; and the places that are easily accessible with those that are off the beaten path.

Even those who proclaim they know the U.S and Canada inside and out will have to add some “new” must-sees to their lists of “places to see”.

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DVD Bits - BBC Roaring Twenties

by ryanikoglu

House Of Elliott is a BBC series set in the "Roaring Twenties" among fashion design houses in London. If you enjoyed Upstairs Downstairs give this series a try.

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DVD Bits - Hamish Macbeth

by ryanikoglu

From BBC Scotland, Police constable Hamish Macbeth keeps the peace in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh in his own unique way. Robert Carlyle (also in Trainspotting, Full Monty, Angela's Ashes) plays Hamish Macbeth. If you like BBC Ireland's Ballykissangel, you'll like this ... or vice versa.