What We Are Reading at Avon Grove Library

Friday, May 17, 2013

What We're Reading

What We're Reading is a selection of titles AG Library staff are currently reading. To find out about the title, click on the link and you will be taken to our catalog. Scroll down to the bottom of the record to read reviews of the book or click the More Information button.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Gulp by Mary Roach

Flashback by Nevada Barr

Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok

Odessa by Charles King

Works Cited

System, C. C. (2013, May 17). Chester County Library System. Retrieved May 17, 2013, from Chester County Loves Books: http://cclslovesbooks.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-were-reading.html

New to the New York Times Best Seller List -

Here are the new titles on the New York Times Best Seller List for May 5, 2013:

Fiction

Whiskey Beach / Nora Roberts

Taking Eve / Iris Johansen

A man without breath : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr

New to the New York Times Best Seller List - Available Now at Avon Grove Library

Click on the link to be taken to the catalog, where you can place a hold on the title of your choice.

Fiction:

Starting now / Debbie Macomber. 

Manuscript found in Accra / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portugese by Margaret Jull Costa

All that is : a novel / James Salter


Non-Fiction:

Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal / Mary Roach

The great deformation : the corruption of capitalism in America / David A. Stockman

Mom & me & Mom / Maya Angelou

New Music Available for Checkout At The Avon Grove Library

Did you know that the Avon Grove Library makes new music available to patrons?

Yes, it is true! Avon Grove Library has an extensive collection of music, with new selections being added each day. Assorted genres are available, spanning from the latest album by Taylor Swift, to classic hits by The Rolling Stones. The collection also spans much of music's history to include artists like Mozart, Frank Sinatra, and The Commodores.

Here are some of the newest additions to Avon Grove Library's music collection; click on the link to put your copy on hold. 

Rock Music

The Beast in Its Tracks / Josh Ritter

The Best of The Moody Blues / Moody Blues 

Black Sun / Gold Fields

Chicago : The Very Best of : Only the Beginning / Chicago

Comedown Machine / The Strokes

The Complete Hit Singles / Three Dog Night

Delta Machine / Depeche Mode

Django Django 

Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac

Greatest Hits / Guess Who

Halestorm / Halestorm

Helen Burns / Flea

Holy Fire / Foals

Hummingbird / Local Natives

Loma vista / Family of the Year

Lonerism / Tame Impala

Native / OneRepublic


The Next Day / David Bowie 

Old sock / Eric Clapton

Pedestrian Verse / Frightened Rabbit

People, Hell and angels / Jimi Hendrix

Push the Sky Away / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds


Rumours / Fleetwood Mac 

Silver Linings Playbook : original motion picture soundtrack

The strange case of / Halestorm

II / Unknown Immortal Orchestra

The Very Best of Deep Purple

We are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic / Foxygen

What About Now / Bon Jovi

When It Was Now / Atlas Genius

Wondrous Bughouse / Youth Lagoon

Country Music

Based on A True Story / Blake Shelton

Old Yellow Moon / Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell

Same Trailer, Different Park / Kacey Musgraves

Spring Break : Here to Party / Luke Bryan

Jazz Music

Memphis / Boz Scaggs

Pop Music

Amok / Atoms for Peace

Girl Who Got Away / Dido

Now That's What I Call Love Songs

The 20/20 Experience / Justin Timberlake

Musical Soundtracks

A Place at The Table : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 

Bombshell : The New Marilyn Musical From Smash

Sound City : Real to Reel

World Music

Son of Rogues Gallery : Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys

What's New This Week

New Fiction: Click on the links below to place a hold on your copy:


Breaking Point by C. J. Box 

Traps by MacKenzie Bezos

What's New This Week at Avon Grove Library

Click on the links below to be taken to the CCLS catalog where you can reserve your copy. 

Fiction:

Alex Cross, run [large type] / James Patterson. 

Alex Cross, run / James Patterson. 

The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie

New Books January 2013

What's New This Week

Below is a sampling of new books being released and added to our collection today, Tuesday, January 29, 2013:

Fiction

The Alpine Xanadu by Mary Daheim 

Insane City by Dave Barry
Kalimpura by Jay Lake
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel