This document provides a list of notable books for adults in 2010 selected by the American Library Association, including fiction and non-fiction works. It highlights six books in particular: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, Columbine by Dave Cullen, and Provenance by Lainey Salisbury and Aly Sujo. The list was compiled by Pat Leach of the Lincoln City Libraries and contains annotations about each work on the ALA website.
Fact, Truth & Reality: New NF for Teen from 2014 NJASL Conference - PowerPoin...Sharon Rawlins
PowerPoint to accompany handout of titles from Fact, Truth & Reality: New Non-Fiction for Teens session presented at 2014 NJASL Conference by Sharon Rawlins on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014.
A History of Connecticut Food and WineBy Amy Nawro.docxransayo
A History of Connecticut Food and Wine
By Amy Nawrocki and Eric D. Lehman
“…we are tasting, always tasting, a white, a red, rosé, a sweet dessert, oaked and unoaked, barrel-aged or bottle-ready, wines made with genius, with alchemy, with love.
You might wonder what these magical drinks of the hills and shores taste like. How to say this without pride? Like Connecticut.”
Connecticut Grown
Support Local Agriculture
Produce, Cheese, Meat….
And Wine.
Finding The Meaning of Home
A Hidden History
Wine Growing Regions Before Prohibition and Today
Late 20th Century Pioneers
Farm Wineries Today
Making Connecticut Wine
Wine Varieties of Connecticut
Whites like Chardonnay
(shown here)
Riesling,
Seyval Blanc, and dozens more…
Wine Varieties of Connecticut
Cold climate
Reds like
Marechal
Foch,
Cab Franc, (shown here)
and
St. Croix.
Wine Varieties of Connecticut
More “recognizable” red grapes like Merlot grow well in microclimates throughout Connecticut, but are too risky
You have your own palate!
Find what you like, not what some critic or friend or book tells you to drink…
From Wine to Food
Rich Bounty from Farm and Sea
Clams from the Sound
The Well-
Earned Feast
Changing Palates…
…and Changing Cuisines
Connecticut Specialties
Clear Broth Chowder and Roasted Barbecue Clams
New Haven Style
Steamed Cheeseburgers
Learning the Process
Translating for the Home Chef
The Delicious Result
*
Telling Local Stories
The Dickermans
of Hamden
By
Eric D. Lehman
1
Telling Stories of Our Homes
“One day you might stop at the ancient Jonathan Dickerman house to explore its modest rooms and primeval herb garden. Crossing the lane that Ezra Day rode to teach Sunday school, you could reflect on the longer path he took to glory and doom. A trail leads along the banks of the Mill River, past the crumbling stone foundation of the Axle Shop and to the site of Munson’s ancient dam, where a fly fisherman, the ghost of A.C. Gilbert perhaps, hooks a trout. Taking a fork in the path, you ascend through glacial wreckage to the lip of an old quarry. Below, arches and pillars of a ruin shimmer through the leaves. History itself seems to catch the corner of your eye.”
2
The Amazing Dickerman Family
Ezra Day Dickerman
Elizabeth, Abbie, and Fannie Dickerman
3
Details Make Stories
4
The Importance of Sources:
Where do we get our details from?
Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations with Additional Enlistments and Casualties
to July 1864. Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood, and Co., 1864.
Croffut, W.A. and John M. Morris. The Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the
War of 1861-1865. 3rd edition. Revised. New York, NY: Ledyard Bill, 1869.
Dickerman, Edward Dwight and George Sherwood Dickerman. Families of Dickerman Ancestry:
Descendents of Thomas Dickerman. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor Press, 1897.
Dickerman, George Sherwo.
Fact, Truth & Reality: New NF for Teen from 2014 NJASL Conference - PowerPoin...Sharon Rawlins
PowerPoint to accompany handout of titles from Fact, Truth & Reality: New Non-Fiction for Teens session presented at 2014 NJASL Conference by Sharon Rawlins on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014.
A History of Connecticut Food and WineBy Amy Nawro.docxransayo
A History of Connecticut Food and Wine
By Amy Nawrocki and Eric D. Lehman
“…we are tasting, always tasting, a white, a red, rosé, a sweet dessert, oaked and unoaked, barrel-aged or bottle-ready, wines made with genius, with alchemy, with love.
You might wonder what these magical drinks of the hills and shores taste like. How to say this without pride? Like Connecticut.”
Connecticut Grown
Support Local Agriculture
Produce, Cheese, Meat….
And Wine.
Finding The Meaning of Home
A Hidden History
Wine Growing Regions Before Prohibition and Today
Late 20th Century Pioneers
Farm Wineries Today
Making Connecticut Wine
Wine Varieties of Connecticut
Whites like Chardonnay
(shown here)
Riesling,
Seyval Blanc, and dozens more…
Wine Varieties of Connecticut
Cold climate
Reds like
Marechal
Foch,
Cab Franc, (shown here)
and
St. Croix.
Wine Varieties of Connecticut
More “recognizable” red grapes like Merlot grow well in microclimates throughout Connecticut, but are too risky
You have your own palate!
Find what you like, not what some critic or friend or book tells you to drink…
From Wine to Food
Rich Bounty from Farm and Sea
Clams from the Sound
The Well-
Earned Feast
Changing Palates…
…and Changing Cuisines
Connecticut Specialties
Clear Broth Chowder and Roasted Barbecue Clams
New Haven Style
Steamed Cheeseburgers
Learning the Process
Translating for the Home Chef
The Delicious Result
*
Telling Local Stories
The Dickermans
of Hamden
By
Eric D. Lehman
1
Telling Stories of Our Homes
“One day you might stop at the ancient Jonathan Dickerman house to explore its modest rooms and primeval herb garden. Crossing the lane that Ezra Day rode to teach Sunday school, you could reflect on the longer path he took to glory and doom. A trail leads along the banks of the Mill River, past the crumbling stone foundation of the Axle Shop and to the site of Munson’s ancient dam, where a fly fisherman, the ghost of A.C. Gilbert perhaps, hooks a trout. Taking a fork in the path, you ascend through glacial wreckage to the lip of an old quarry. Below, arches and pillars of a ruin shimmer through the leaves. History itself seems to catch the corner of your eye.”
2
The Amazing Dickerman Family
Ezra Day Dickerman
Elizabeth, Abbie, and Fannie Dickerman
3
Details Make Stories
4
The Importance of Sources:
Where do we get our details from?
Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations with Additional Enlistments and Casualties
to July 1864. Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood, and Co., 1864.
Croffut, W.A. and John M. Morris. The Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the
War of 1861-1865. 3rd edition. Revised. New York, NY: Ledyard Bill, 1869.
Dickerman, Edward Dwight and George Sherwood Dickerman. Families of Dickerman Ancestry:
Descendents of Thomas Dickerman. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor Press, 1897.
Dickerman, George Sherwo.
From caldecott to printz lit award for j & ya njasl 2010Sharon Rawlins
What are the major youth awards and what are the most recent winning and honor titles? Two librarians, knowledgeable in the fields of children’s and young adult literature, will present a PowerPoint presentation on the various youth literature awards, accompanied by booktalks
of approximately sixty of the newest winning and honor titles. A handout that includes both children’s and young adult titles will make collection development in these categories much easier and more enjoyable. Presented by Bonnie Kunzel and Sharon Rawlins. (PreK-12)
From caldecott to printz lit award for j & ya njasl 2010Sharon Rawlins
What are the major youth awards and what are the most recent winning and honor titles? Two librarians, knowledgeable in the fields of children’s and young adult literature, will present a PowerPoint presentation on the various youth literature awards, accompanied by booktalks
of approximately sixty of the newest winning and honor titles. A handout that includes both children’s and young adult titles will make collection development in these categories much easier and more enjoyable. Presented by Bonnie Kunzel and Sharon Rawlins. (PreK-12)
1. Notable Books for Adults List, 2010<br />Fiction<br />Anthony, Jessica. The Convalescent. McSweeney’s. 9781934781104<br />Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood: A Novel. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese. 9780385528771<br />*Baker, Nicholson. The Anthologist: A Novel. Simon & Schuster. 9781416572442.<br />Chaon, Dan. Await Your Reply: A Novel. Ballantine. 9780345476029. (Nebraska connection)<br />Cleave, Chris. Little Bee: A Novel. Simon & Schuster. 9781416589631.<br />Dexter, Pete. Spooner. Grand Central. 9780446540728.<br />Harding, Paul. Tinkers. Bellevue Literary Press. 9781934137123.<br />Li, Yiyun. The Vagrants: A Novel. Random. 9781400063130.<br />*McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin: A Novel. Random. 9781400063734.<br />Morrison, Toni. A Mercy: A Novel. Knopf. 9780307264237<br />Powers, Richard. Generosity: An Enhancement. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 9780374161149.<br />*Toibin, Colm. Brooklyn: A Novel. Scribner. 9781439138311.<br />Non-Fiction<br />*Cullen, Dave. Columbine. Twelve. 9780446546935.<br />*Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun. McSweeney’s. 9781934781630.<br />Finkel, David. The Good Soldiers. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 9780374165734.<br />Grann, David. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. Doubleday. 9780385513531.<br />Guibert, Emmanuel. The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders. First Second. 9781596433755.<br />Holmes, Richard. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. Pantheon. 9780375422225.<br />Keefe, Patrick Radden. Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld & the American Dream. Doubleday. 9780385521307.<br />McDougall, Christopher. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Knopf. 978-0307266309.<br />Norman, Michael and Elizabeth M. Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 9780374272609.<br />*Salisbury, Lainey and Aly Sujo. Provenance: How a Con Man & a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. Penguin. 9781594202209.<br />Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir. Norton. 9780393068573.<br />Thompson, Nicholas. The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War. Holt. 978-0805081428.<br />Poetry<br />Alexie, Sherman. Face. Hanging Loose Press. 9781931236706.<br />Dunn, Stephen. What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995–2009. Norton. 978039306775.<br />*Pat’s top six books from this list, in terms of being generally appealing, well-written, and worth reading.<br />quot;
2010notable,quot;
American Library Association, January 20, 2010.http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/awards/notablebooks/lists/2010/2010notable.cfm (Accessed October 04, 2010)Document ID: 574402<br />Note: Annotations are available on the website.<br />Prepared by Pat Leach, Lincoln City Libraries, 10-10<br />Pat’s blog about her reading and other topics: http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/firefly/<br />