Blog 358: December 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011

http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2012/sessions/4/Registered for Library Technology Conference, 2012 to be held in March at Macalester College in St. Paul. Difficult to choose which session to attend! Looks like great keynote speakers and topics.

Book Club Selections

February - The Space Between Sisters - By Mary McNear
January - A Man Called Ove - By Frederik Bickman
December - Rise of the Rocket Girls - By Nathalia Holt
October - Lab Girl - By Hope Jahren
September - The Nightingale - By Kristin Hannah
July - Ordinary Grace - By William Kent Krueger
June - The Big House - By George Howe Colt
May - Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend - By Matthew Dicks
April- Under Minnesota Skies - By Bernadette Hondl Thomasy & Colleen Hondl Gengler
March - Best to Laugh - By Lorna Landvik
February - I Am Malala - By Malala Yousafzai
December - Safe From the Sea - By Peter Geye
November - An Unnecessary Woman - (By Rabih Alameddine)
October - The Girl on The Train - (By Paula Hawkins)
September - The Annotated Autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder
May - Leaving Tme - (By Jodi Picoult)
April - Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson (By William Swanson)
February - Sum It Up - (By Pat Summitt)
January - The Aviator's Wife - (By Melanie Benjamin)
December - Flight Behavior - (By Donna Kingsolver)
November - The Goldfinch - (By Donna Tartt)
October - Zeitoun - (By Dave Eggers)
May - This House of Sky - (By Ivan Doig)
April - My Notorious Life (By Kate Manning)
February - Remarkable Creatures (By Tracy Chevalier)
January - The Things They Carried - (By Tim O'Brien)
December - Lean In (By Sheryl Sandberg)
November - The House Girl (By Tara Conklin)
October - My Beloved World (By Sonia Sotomayor)
September - The Destiny of the Republic
May - Digging to America (By Anne Tyler)
April - Alice Bliss (By Laura Harrington)
March - All He Ever Wanted (By Anita Shreve)
February - Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (By Anna Quindlen)
January - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail (By Cheryl Strayed)
December - A Reliable Wife (By Robert Goolrick)
November - A Song at Twilight (By Nancy Paddock)
October - The Sibling Effect (By Jeffrey Kluger)
September - Steve Jobs (By Walter Isaacson)
May - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (By Lisa See)
April - Dressmaker of Khair Khana (By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon)
March - Unbroken (By Laura Hillenbrand)
February - Rebecca (By Daphne DuMaurier)
January - The Hunger Games (By Suzanne Collins)
December - The Grace of Silence (By Michele Norris)
November - The Postmistress (By Sarah Blake)
October - Memory of Trees (By Gayla Marty)
September - The Help (By Kathryn Stockett)
May - I Remember Nothing (By Nora Ephron)
April - The Life You've Imagined (By Kristina Riggle)
February - Audition (By Barbara Walters)
January - Left to Tell (By Immaculee Ilibagiza)
December - Invisible Wall (By Harry Bernstein)
November - Methland (By Nick Reding)
October - Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (By Rebecca Skloot)
September - Alice I Have Been (By Melanie Benjamin)
April - The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
March - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
February - Sarah's Key (By Tatiana de Rosnay)
January - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (By Betty Smith)
November - The Girls From Ames (By Jeffrey Zaslow)
October - We Are All Welcome Here (By Elizabeth Berg)
September - I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (By Diana Joseph)
April - The Cape Ann (By Faith Sullivan)
March - Run (By Ann Patchett)
February - Confessions of A Shopaholic
January - The Last Lecture
November - Three Cups of Tea
October - Water for Elephants
September - The Memory Keeper's Daughter