The Second Floor Librarians

American novelist and short story writer J D Salinger, author of The Catcher In The Rye, died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010.   He was 91.
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Recently, NPR listeners cast 136,000 votes on what they thought were the best beach books ever.

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Our fiction librarian extraordinaire, Sharon, has created a great reading suggestions page for you fiction lovers out there.

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This weekend is the PRIDE Corvallis celebration (events calendar here).
I thought this would be a fitting time to highlight some of the great GLBTQ books in our collection here on the second floor.

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We’re all looking for new authors and titles to read, aren’t we? (I know I am). There are a lot of ways to get this sort of information, but here are two fun ones.

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I recently discovered the wealth of book lists available on the Multnomah County Library website.
Last week I used it to help a patron who wanted a list of mystery authors from other countries.

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On Monday, April 20th at 7pm, we are honored to have three Oregon Book Award winning and nominated authors visiting our library. They will be reading from their books, and afterward there will be conversation with the authors, book sales and book signing.

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Yesterday I stepped out into my small side yard and heard a very loud buzzing sound.  First I thought, “what kind of power tool is that?”.   I then looked up at the two plum trees in my neighbor’s yard, and was amazed to see that they were filled with bees.

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I guess I can’t resist throwing in a little bit about Canada now and then. And this is book-related, so all the better, eh?

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I had someone ask me this question at the reference desk the other day. I don’t really have one particular favorite, and this sort of made me feel like a bad librarian.

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