Pines and Plains Libraries

"Social media and digital technologies are transforming what, and how, we read. Books and Social Media considers the way in which readers and writers come together in digital communities to discover, and create, new works of fiction. This new way of engaging with fiction stretches the boundaries of what has been considered a book in the past, by moving beyond the physical, or even digitally, bound object to the consideration of content, containers,...

From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his novel, Her Infinite Variety. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us the rollicking tale of an unforgettable woman of mid-twentieth century America:...

Ed Breslin was a down-on-his-luck alcoholic until he bought a dog, Miss Dutchie. Caring for Miss Dutchie helped Ed overcome his drinking problem and completely reform his life. Here, he tells his heart-moving story.

"Traces the evolution of New York's publishing trade from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. Explores the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks in the early republic"--Provided by publisher.

On Monday , January 10, 2000, America Online announced that it was buying Time Warner for $163 billion. The news was crazy, incredible. The biggest merger ever, it was, according to the media, an "awesome megadeal" and "a fusion of guts and glory." It was "the deal of the century" and "a mega-marriage of earth and cyberspace." An Internet upstart, AOL was buying the world's most powerful media and entertainment company. "A company that isn't old enough...

Biography of the cartoonist who originated such famous cartoon superheroes as The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man.

"A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--

A poignant, romantic, and delightful new novel about a young woman who refuses to believe happy endings are real, from internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans. At twenty-two, Eleanor Bee is sure about three things: she wants to move to London and become a literary superstar, she wants to be able to afford to buy a coffee and croissant every morning, and she doesn't believe in happy endings. She saw what divorce did to her parents, especially...

"A personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1958, Godwin met with Knopf scouts who came to campus every spring in search of new talent. Though her five pages of Windy Peaks were turned down and the novel never completed, she would go on...