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NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Try a Little Wine and Cheese


Alig, Peter.   The Everything Guide to Wine:  All You Need to Know about Buying, Storing, Serving, and Enjoying the world's most remarkable wines.

Boteler, Alison.   The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Wine: How to Use Wine to Take Simple Recipes from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

Dornenburg, Andrew.   What to Drink with What You Eat: the Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea -- Even Water -- Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers.

History in a Glass: Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet

Jacobsen, Rowan.   American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, & Fields.

Kaufelt, Rob.   The Murray's Cheese Handbook:  More than 300 of the World's Best Cheeses.

Kessler, Brad.   Goat Song: a Seasonal LIfe, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese.

Losh, Chris.   Enjoying Wine: A Complete Guide to Understanding, Choosing and Drinking Wine.

Milton, Giles.   Edward Trencom's Nose: a Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese.

Old, Marnie.   He Said Beer, She Said Wine.

Oldman, Mark.   Oldman's Brave New World of Wine.

Siler, Julia Flynn.   The House of Mondavi: the Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

Teague, Lettie.   Educating Peter:  How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference between Cabernet and Merlot, or, How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert.

Wallace, Benjamin.   The Billionaire's Vinegar:  the Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine.

Werlin, Laura.   Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials: an Insider's Guide to Buying & Serving Cheese.

Wolf, Clark.   American Cheeses:  the Best Regional, Artisan, & Farmhouse Cheeses, Who Makes Them, & Where to Find Them.



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Categories: Food,  Book Lists,  entertaining

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010
Science News
It seems that something interesting is always happening in the various fields of science, but how can you keep up with all that is new?  Here are a few Web sites that will help.
 Where do you go for your science news?  Let us know in a comment.

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Category: Science

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Preparing for College
Here are some resource highlights from last week's college preparation program designed to help students and parents get ready.

Practice Tests (Dewey Decimal # 378.1662 for ACT and SAT, AP by subject)
  • Learning Express Library - This resource offers interactive practice tests on a variety of AP exams, as well as the SAT and ACT. 
Career Discovery (Dewey Decimal #331.7)
College Search (Dewey Decimal # 378 and 378.73
College Applications and Admissions (Dewey Decimal # 378.161)
 Student Aid and Scholarships (Dewey Decimal # 378.3 and 378.34)

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Category: Education

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010
On-the-Road at Starbucks Book Club
First Tuesday of each month from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at
Starbucks, 2418 Far Hills Avenue, in Oakwood.

Come join us!
 
Tuesday, July 2 - OAKWOOD READS 2013, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.  At 28, Dellarobia Turnbow has reached the end of her rope; she decides she can no longer tolerate grinding poverty, a hapless husband and her critical in-laws.  She plans to burn her bridges by having an affair up in a mountain shack.  Then, on the climb, she discovers a miracle.  As scientists arrrive, Dellarobia sets out to understand exactly what is going on and witnesses the miracle morphing toward catastrophe.  Barbara Kingsolver shows us a woman waking up to a different reality and then discovering how to chart her own flight forward.

Tuesday, August 6 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.  It's 1950 and criminals beware, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is on the case and looks unstoppable.  Flavia lives in England with her father, two dreadful sisters, and their loyal retainer, Dogger.  When murder threatens the family, Flavia turns her mad passion for chemistry to sleuthing, jumps on her bicycle Gladys, and tracks danger to its doorstep.  First-time novelist, Alan Bradley, won the Debut Dagger in 2007, the Agatha Award for best first novel, and the Macavity Awards, Best First Mystery Novel for 2010.

Tuesday, September 3 - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.  When her father dies, Alexandra Bergson takes over the running of the family farm and the raising of her three brothers.  She devotes herself to taming the wild, desolate prairie into orderly and productive fields.  As other immigrant families give up, the Bergsons grow roots and some find love.  This is the first novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark and My Antonia.  Here she gave first literary voice to Swedish, French and Bohemian homesteaders and celebrated the windswept Nebraskan prairie.
 

Earlier books:

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Categories: Book Club,  Reading

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010
Free eBooks
Wright Library's Digital Collection has been expanded.  Fifteen thousand public domain ebooks (they are not audiobooks) have been added to the Ohio Ebook Project.  The titles are supplied from Project Gutenberg.

These ebooks are in the EPUB format  and use the Adobe Digital Editions software to download, display, and transfer the titles.  If you cannot use this format or this software, visit Project Gutenberg where titles are available in more formats (sometimes as audiobooks).  Additionally, because these are public domain books there are no lending periods or download limits.  Enjoy!

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Categories: Digital Collection,  Ebooks

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