Saturday, September 22, 2012
A selection of children’s books now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of four children's books, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. The polar bear scientists by Pete Lourie Young readers can follow scientists as they scan the Alaskan wilderness for these magnificent creatures. Full color. Dumpling days by Grace Lin There was no day that dumplings couldn't make better. Pacy is back! The beloved heroine of The Year of the Dog and The Year of the Rat has returned in a brand new story. This summer, Pacy's family is going to Taiwan for an entire month to visit family and prepare for their grandmother's 60th birthday celebration. Pacy's parents have signed her up for a Chinese painting class…
42.25431
-71.07777
Milton Public Library
476 Canton Ave, Milton, MA
/articles/this-just-in-new-children-s-books-at-the-milton-public-library-d4e62866
231946
/locations/7889217
Saturday, September 15, 2012
A selection of nonfiction books now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of nonfiction books, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. Subversives: the FBI's war on student radicals, and Reagan's rise to power by Seth Rosefeld Through three converging narratives pf Berkeley during the 60s, award-winning reporter Rosenfeld tells a dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance and infiltration, and how the FBI's covert operations--led by J. Edgar Hoover--helped ignited an era of protest. A case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation by Tal McThenia A case for Solomon chronicles one of the most celebrated—and most misunderstood—kidnapping cases in American history…
Sunday, September 9, 2012
A selection of novels now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of nonfiction books, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. Blood money by James Grippando A nation is obsessed with Sydney Bennett, a hot nightclub waitress accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. It's the most watched trial since O.J. Simpson, and millions of "TV Jurors" have convicted Jack's client in the arena of public opinion. The shocking verdict--not guilty--creates an immediate uproar, from angry phone calls to outright threats. Media-fed rumors of "blood money" in the form of seven-figure book and movie deals put Sydney and everyone around her at risk. On the night of Sydney…
42.25431
-71.07777
Milton Public Library
476 Canton Ave, Milton, MA
/articles/this-just-in-new-fiction-books-at-the-milton-public-library-72e5a77e
231946
/locations/7731943
Saturday, September 1, 2012
A selection of nonfiction books now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of nonfiction books, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. On a farther shore: the life and legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. …
Sunday, August 26, 2012
A selection of books for young adults now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of books for young adults, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The additions were found on the Old Colony Library Network’s website and the summaries were found on goodreads.com. Thou shalt not road trip by Anthony John When sixteen-year-old Luke's book, Hallelujah, becomes a national bestseller, his publishing house sends him on a cross-country book tour with his older brother, Matt, as chauffeur. But when irresponsible Matt offers to drive Luke's ex–soul mate, Fran, across the country too, things get a little crazy. On the trip, Luke must loosen up, discover what it truly means to have faith, and do what it takes to get the girl he loves. Kill switch by Chris Lynch All Daniel wants…
Sunday, August 19, 2012
A selection of children’s books now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of children's books, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. Hawaii by Ann Gaines The first edition of It's My State! was chosen by Booklist as one of the top five state series, and this new edition picks up where the first series left off. It's My State! Second Edition is a great source of quick and reliable information that helps young readers identify what is common to and unique about individual states across America. Updated with revised text and all new photographs, each book in the series provides a broad overview of the state in question, from a concise geography and detailed history to a discussion of its …
Saturday, August 11, 2012
A selection of books for young adults now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of books for young adults, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. Devil's wake by Steven Barnes What happens when an unprecedented infection sweeps the world, leaving the earth on the brink of the Apocalypse? But this infection goes far beyond disease. Beyond even the nightmare images of walking dead or flesh-eating ghouls. The infected are turning into creatures unlike anything ever dreamed of . . . more complex, more mysterious, and more deadly. Trapped in the northwestern United States as winter begins to fall, Terry and Kendra have only one choice: they and their friends must cross a thousand miles of no-man's-land …
42.25431
-71.07777
Milton Public Library
476 Canton Ave, Milton, MA
/articles/this-just-in-new-young-adult-books-at-the-milton-public-library-9dbb2e0c
231946
/locations/7603336
Saturday, August 4, 2012
A selection of novels now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of nonfiction books, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. Picture this by Jacqueline Sheehan The wonderfully evocative and poignant sequel to Sheehan's runaway bestseller, "Lost & Found." In this novel, Rocky's world is shaken when a young girl raised in foster care claims to be her late husband's daughter. Looking for yesterday by Marcia Muller Three years ago, Caro Warrick was acquitted for the murder of her best friend Amelia Bettencourt, but the lingering doubts of everyone around Caro is affecting her life. Sharon McCone is confident that she can succeed where other detectives have failed (though at times it's …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
A selection of books for young adults now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of books for young adults, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. Fever by Lauren DeStefano The second book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy reveals a world as captivating - and as dangerous - as the one Rhine left behind in Wither . Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but they're still in danger. Outside, they find a world even more disquieting than the one they left behind. Determined to get to Manhattan and find Rhine's twin brother, Rowan, the two press forward, amid threats of being captured again... or worse. The road they are on is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty…
42.25431
-71.07777
Milton Public Library
476 Canton Ave, Milton, MA
/articles/this-just-in-new-young-adult-books-at-the-milton-public-library-72df6748
231946
/locations/7495329
Saturday, July 21, 2012
A selection of non-fiction now available at the Milton Public Library.
The following is a list of adult fiction books, which were recently added to the Milton Public Library’s collection. The descriptions are from the Old Colony Library Network’s website. The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death by Jill Lepore Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? "All anyone can do is ask," Lepore writes. "That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity." Lepore starts that history with the …
