This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature was announced, and the winner is Mario Vargas Llosa, a renowned Peruvian novelist. We have quite a few of his works, in English and in Spanish. Click the links below to see what’s available. Vargas Llosa in English and in Spanish Happy reading! Posted by Lisa, a second floor [...]
For the most part, I’m stuck in town all summer. This is more or less self-inflicted, so I can’t complain too much. However, I still occasionally get the childish why-can’t-I-go feeling when I see cars with camping gear heading over the bridge out of town.
I grew up in a climate slightly rainier than Corvallis, so I learned to appreciate sunny days! Because of this, I always feel guilty staying inside when the weather is nice – it just feels wrong. So normally I would feel bad enjoying a great book on the couch in June, but since the weather [...]
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. Click here for more biographical information including encyclopedia and news articles from Biography Resource Center
Recently, NPR listeners cast 136,000 votes on what they thought were the best beach books ever.
Our fiction librarian extraordinaire, Sharon, has created a great reading suggestions page for you fiction lovers out there.
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.
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.
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.
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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