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  • Tacos with Joe Schreiber

    Posted October 28, 2009 in  Books and MoreEventsGeneralTeens
    Feel like some horror with your tacos? Join us for Qdoba with author Joe Shreiber on Monday, November 2 at 5:30 pm, and stay for his reading at 6:30 pm if you like. Shreiber has recently released two books, No Doors and No Windows (horror/suspense), and Death Troopers (a Star Wars/Zombie read). Continue…
  • Book Review:  Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

    Posted September 29, 2009 in  Books and MoreGeneral
    This is the story of a group of people who grow to know each other following the 2nd World War after a stray used book connects them. Author Juliet Ashton is living in London and suffering from writer’s block when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a farmer in Guernsey. Soon, she and Continue…
  • Book Review:  Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Patillo

    Posted September 9, 2009 in  Books and More
    For all you Jane Austen lovers out there who are searching for your next anglophile fix, this is the book for you. This is a story about Emma, a college professor in the midst of a messy divorce whose credibility has been severely challenged. Our heroine bitterly blames her troubles on Jane Continue…
  • Book Review:  Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

    Posted September 9, 2009 in  Books and MoreTeens
    Gemma Doyle has lived in India all her life. On her sixteenth birthday, her mother dies under mysterious circumstances and Gemma begins to have visions which frighten and confuse her. She is sent away in all her grief to boarding school in England where she is followed by a mysterious man. Continue…
  • Ebook Readers for Circulation

    Posted September 1, 2009 in  Books and More
    The Portage District Library will begin circulating portable ebook readers. We will have two Kindles for circulation. Each has a collection of 20 popular fiction and non-fiction titles, a collection that will grow over time, and will circulate for two weeks. They may not be renewed. You may place Continue…