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Get Acquainted with Some New Authors

Posted by on April 3, 2013

Trying a new author is like a first date. There’s some risk involved. We recommend these authors with the faith that you’ll find their stories well-written and interesting. Select from the list and take home something new to enjoy tonight.

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All Booked Up: The Invisible Bridge

Posted by on March 8, 2013

Book review of The Invisible Bridge

All Booked Up host Kathy does what she does best, tells us about a new, wonderful book to read. This week it’s The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer. The Invisible Bridge tells the story of three brothers from a Jewish family. This work of historical fiction is set in Hungary and in Paris in the [...]

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Book Reviews by Summer Readers Part 2

Posted by on July 30, 2012

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Check out what folks in Topeka and Shawnee County are reading this summer – and perhaps discover a book you’ll just have to read. Below you’ll find book reviews from our customers – both kiddos and grownups. See if your review got featured.

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Book Reviews by Summer Readers

Posted by on June 26, 2012

Customers review their summer reads

Check out what folks in Topeka and Shawnee County are reading this summer – and perhaps discover a book you’ll just have to read. Below you’ll find book reviews from our customers – both kiddos and grownups. With 5 weeks left in Summer Reading, your review could get featured. Keep reading and reviewing via summerfest.tscpl.org. [...]

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Salem Brownstone

Posted by on October 10, 2011

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Salem Brownstone A graphic novel by John Harris Dunning and Nikhil Singh Salem Brownstone is satisfied with his life as the owner of a laudromat, yet he yearns for something else. Then he learns of his estranged father’s death, and the inheritance left to him: an old house and everything inside. There, Salem meets Cassandra, a [...]

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Book Review: Divergent

Posted by on September 24, 2011

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Divergent by Veronica Roth Beatrice has a gut-wrenching decision to make. At sixteen, she must choose which faction of her dystopian society she will join for the rest of her life. She has always lived in the Abnegation sector where everyone puts the needs of others ahead of their own. And while she loves the [...]

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Book Review: Ruby Red

Posted by on September 5, 2011

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A time traveling gene runs in Gwen’s family, pulling the gene carrier uncontrollably into the past sometime during their sixteenth year. Everyone expects Gwen’s cousin Charlotte to become the time traveler, so Gwen is shocked when she is the one that feels the warning symptoms of time travelling at age sixteen instead of her cousin.

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Reviews from Summer Reading Participants

Posted by on June 30, 2011

A request for you to sign up for summer reading and read reviews by our customers

Sign up for our Summerfest reading program and contribute your own book reviews (plus we got some really cool prizes, including a Nook e-reader). Go to summerfest.tscpl.org to sign up and write a review. As of June 29, the community has read more than 20,000 hours as part of our Summerfest reading program! Join the [...]

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