Uncommonly Good Books Read By Two Common Guys – The Best Game Ever

Posted by on October 19, 2010

Dave: Today we’re discussing the book, “The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL”, by Mark Bowden. The game the book focuses on, the 1958 NFL Championship Game, has been labeled the greatest game ever played by many people for decades. It was the first professional football game to [...]

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Uncommonly Good Books Read By Two Common Guys – Hunting Eichmann

Posted by on August 19, 2010

Nate:  Hi everyone, today we’re discussing the book “Hunting Eichmann”, by Neal Bascomb, which focuses on the search for the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the years following World War II.  I have to say, Dave, I didn’t know a lot of the details surrounding Eichmann, the search for him, and the way he was actually [...]

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Book Your Journey Now

Posted by on August 13, 2010

What could be more intriguing to a traveling book-lover that a book about literary destinations?  Not much…unless it’s actually traveling to those destinations.  So when I came upon “Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen’s Bath to Ernest Hemingway’s Key West” by Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon, I couldn’t resist it. There’s something about [...]

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Watercolor class inspires a new hobby

Posted by on July 26, 2010

Working at the library, I usually spend a good 40 hours in the building each week and can’t wait to go home and relax.  Sometimes I attend one of the many amazing programs or classes we offer, but I must admit I would rather spend my evenings at home.  But when I saw the library [...]

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