There's still room in the Monday, April 30, 6:30 p.m. informational workshop on library e-books. Learn to search the DigitalLibraryNJ catalog, "check out" a title, and prepare your e-reader to download your selection. Tips and tricks handout.
Register online or call 973-835-5044.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Pulitzer Prize Awards 2012
Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday. Here are the results for Letters and Drama:
See awards press release at http://www.pulitzer.org/files/2012/longlist2012.pdf
Fiction --No Award (the last time was 1977 that there was no award for Fiction)
Drama --Water by the
Spoonful by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes
History --Malcolm X: A
Life of Reinvention by the late Manning Marable (Viking)
Biography --George F.
Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
Poetry --Life on Mars
by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction --The
Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and
Company)
See awards press release at http://www.pulitzer.org/files/2012/longlist2012.pdf
Friday, April 13, 2012
A New Feature in our Library Catalog
Want to see what's new at the Riverdale Public Library? In the library catalog, click on New Titles in the navigation bar at the left side of the screen. You have four choices: New Books, New Videos, New Sound Recordings and New Large Print.
Click on one of these choices, and see what's been added into our collection in the last 31 days.
Click on one of these choices, and see what's been added into our collection in the last 31 days.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
April Book Discussion
Join us for a great discussion and refreshments on Monday, April 16, at 6:30 p.m. We'll be talking about Wedding in December by Anita Shreve. The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Light on Snow"
returns with a powerful new novel about old friends, a wedding, and a
gathering that will change their lives.
Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Hunger Games, the movie blockbuster, is the first book in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire, and Mockingjay are the other two books).
How did I know? I checked Novelist, a database available to our library patrons. Check out your favorite authors, series, author read-alikes, plot lines you would like to read, etc.
Use Novelist, and you'll never be at a loss as to what to read next.
You can access Novelist from out library catalog, or from the Riverdale Public Library website, or click here
How did I know? I checked Novelist, a database available to our library patrons. Check out your favorite authors, series, author read-alikes, plot lines you would like to read, etc.
Use Novelist, and you'll never be at a loss as to what to read next.
You can access Novelist from out library catalog, or from the Riverdale Public Library website, or click here
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Looking for something "Irish" to read?
Here are a few fiction titles in our collection with a plot set in Ireland:
The Dublin Saga series by Edward Rutherfurd
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
Ireland by Frank Delaney
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchey
The Night Swimmer by Chris Bondurant
On an Irish Island by Robert Kanigel
Only a few of the "green" titles we own. Stop by and see us for a recommendation!
Looking for something "Irish" to read?
Here are a few fiction titles in our collection with a plot set in Ireland:
The Dublin Saga series by Edward Rutherfurd
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
Ireland by Frank Delaney
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchey
The Night Swimmer by Chris Bondurant
On an Irish Island by Robert Kanigel
Only a few of the "green" titles we own. Stop by and see us for a recommendation!
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