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Calling All Dan Brown Fans: Inferno Released Today!

Today marks the much-anticipated return of everyone’s favorite mystery-solving symbologist, Robert Langden.  This time, the professor finds himself in Florence, where he must unravel a conspiracy rich in the lore of Dante’s Inferno and various other masterworks of the Italian Renaissance.

New Staff Picks on Display

Not sure what to read next?  The Fiction Department staff has plenty of great recommendations featured on this month’s new displays.   The second round of individual staff picks has begun, and their selections are on display next to the main fiction desk.   In the spotlight this time are Hannah and Justin.   Their suggestions range from literary classics to horror and science fiction, with just about everything in between.  A sample of their discerning reading taste is listed below:

Among Hannah’s favorites are:
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy  F  MCC

Get Ready for Gatsby

Next week, the wait is finally over:  After teasing us with delays over the past three years, Baz Luhrmann’s sure-to-be-epic film version of The Great Gatsby arrives in theaters next Friday.  Based on F.

World Book Night

April 23 is a big day for books:  Shakespeare’s birthday, Cervantes’ death day, and UNESCO’s International Day of the Book.  It is also World Book Night, a world-wide celebration of adult literacy.  Volunteers of enthusiastic readers go out into their communities and pass out special editions of books, hoping to share their love of reading with non-readers, particulary those who don’t have regular, easy access to books of their own.  Thirty titles are selected each year and publishers donate copies to participants for the event. This is only the second year World Book Night has been celebrated in the United States, having originated in the United Kingdom the year before, but it is growing in popularity.  In the Birmingham a

Read a Pulitzer Prize Winner

Last week, the bookish of the world let out a collective squeal of joy when the Pulitzer Prize committee awarded a winner for fiction:  The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson.  After last year’s board infamously failed to choose a winner amongst the finalists, some nail biting was warranted. 

Explore Argentina & Canada with the Fiction Department

Join us this Saturday for a special library-wide event celebrating countries and continents around the globe:  Passport to the World.  In the Fiction Department, we’ll be featuring the literature and cultures of Argentina and Canada between 1:00 and 3:00 pm.  You can test your “football” knowledge in our soccer challenge (the #1 sport in Argentina), try your skills in a basketball shoot (invented by a Canadian), play a friendly game of Trivial Pursuit (also a product of Canada), or watch a talented pair of entrancing dancers perform the Argentine tango to traditional music.  We’ll also have prize drawings throughout the day.  The afternoon-long program culminates in the Library Theatre, where John Scalici will lead an interactive Drum Cir

New Displays: Inspired-by-Jane Austen & Staff Picks

As we enter a new month, we have some exciting new displays in the Fiction Department:

2013 Tournament of Books

March Madness isn’t  just about basketball anymore:  Putting aside the sillier bracket satires that abound this time of year, ranking just about anything you can imagine in popular culture--from internet memes to movies and snack foods or even this year’s cheeky “Sweet Sistine” papal bracket--there’s one contest that’s worth following:  The Morning News’ Tournament of the Books.

Garfield - The Cat with More Than 9 Lives

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Garfield. I had a poster on my closet door. I had a plush propped against my bed pillows. I had several stationery sets for writing letters to my friends and family back in the States. I had a stack of Garfield comics checked out from the local library. This was in the 1980s, people. How can Garfield still be so ridiculously popular in 2012!?

Because he is. Make no mistake. The cat that first appeared in a comic strip in 1978, the cat that holds the Guinness record for world's most widely syndicated comic strip -- he STILL spawns books, TV shows, and movies. And kids can't get enough of him.

Something Fowl Is in the Air

When Artemis Fowl first came out in 2007, I checked it out from the Hoover Public Library. I read it in one sitting, turned it in, then drove straight to a bookstore to buy my own copy. I purchased every title in the eight-book series. The final one came out in July, and it was a fitting conclusion to one of my favorite fantasy epics. But I'm still pretty sad that it had to end.
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