December 2016

Some More Best Books of 2016 Lists

NPR’s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2016’s Great Reads NPR has put together a list of 309 books that staff and critics liked this year. On this page you can see the covers of all the choices. Or you can use the filters on the left side of the page to isolate particular kinds of […]

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14 Monumental Books to Read on the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

Off the Shelf commemorates 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor with an essential WWII reading list. Source: 14 Monumental Books to Read on the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor I’ve only read one book on this list, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, since I read way more fiction than nonfiction. But I have just

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Last Week's Links

Last Week’s Links

Here are some of the articles from around the web that I’ve been looking at recently. Protecting Your Digital Life in 7 Easy Steps Some suggestions for how to make your personal data”more difficult for attackers to obtain.” Excavations at Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre Reveal Elizabethan Secrets Fascinating discoveries from excavation of the Curtain Theatre, a

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More Best Books of 2016 Lists

The King County Library System’s five top books of 2016 The King County Library System, one of the largest public library systems in America with a lot of avid readers among its patrons, has released its list of the five most popular books of 2016. The library measures popularity by the number of holds placed

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Books You Can Read in One Day

The countdown to year’s end has begun. If you’re behind on your reading challenge for 2016 or just want to pad your statistics, here are some books you can easily read in a day or less. Fiction My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Dubliners by James Joyce Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

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