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Audie Award Winners Announced
The 2010 winners of the Audie Awards, the award recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association:
Audiobook of the Year: NELSON MANDELA'S FAVORITE AFRICAN FOLKTALES
Audio Drama: THE WORD OF PROMISE AUDIO BIBLE
Audiobook Adaptaion: THE MALTESE FALCON
Biography/Memoir: ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED
Business/Educational: RAIN
Children's Titles, Ages 8-12: OPERATION YES
Children's Titles, Ages up to 8: LOUISE, THE ADVENTURES OF A CHICKEN
Classic: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Fiction: THE HELP
History: TEARS IN THE DARKNESS
Humor: CHURCH PEOPLE
Inspiration/Faith-Based Fiction: A MONTH OF SUMMER
Inspiration/Faith-Based Non-Fiction: THE WORD OF PROMISE AUDIO BIBLE
Literary Fiction: WOLF HALL
Multi-voiced Performance: NELSON MANDELA'S FAVORITE AFRICAN FOLKTALES
Mystery & Suspence: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
Narration by the Author(s): ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS
Non-fiction: THE NATIONAL PARKS
Original Work: TELL ME A STORY
Personal Development: NURTURESHOCK
Romance: THE UNTAMED BRIDE
Science Fiction / Fantasy: BELLWETHER
Short Stories / Collections: BLACK MASK AUDIO MAGAZINE, VOL. 1
Teens: PEACE, LOCOMOTION
Thriller / Suspense: DARLING JIM
Memorial Day
The Library will be closed on Sunday, May 30 and Monday, May 31 in honor of Memorial Day.
Chilton Library is now online!
Your library card gives you 24/7 access to the complete Chilton library thru ChiltonLibrary.com. ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks back to 1940.
Katyn Film & Discussion: Sunday, May 16 at 1:00 p.m.
Local Polish Historian & Film Expert Eric Raciborksi presents the Polish film Katyn with discussion on both the historic massacre at Katyn and the recent connected tragedy of the plane crash that took the lives of 96 members of Poland's political & cultural elite including Poland's Presid
AARP Driver Safety Program: May 11 & 12, 1-5 pm
The AARP Driver Safety Program meets for 2 days to teach older adults about safe driving. There is a fee for the program, $14 ($12 AARP members) payable the first day of the class. Participants will receive a workbook and a certificate upon completion worth a deduction in auto insurance premiums.
The 10 Secrets to Getting Your Book Successfully Published!
Local author & agent team Brett Nicholaus & Joseph Durepos discuss their ten steps to getting your book published. Learn what works, what doesn't, and what to expect when you enter the world of Publishing.
Fine Forgiveness during National Library Week
Help the Library celebrate National Library Week starting Sunday, April 11. In addition to special programming, the library is offering to clear all of your fines for $1.
Sorry, this does not include fines from other libraries, lost/damaged items, and fines resulting from overdue laptops.
Top 10 Historical Fiction 2010
Are you a fiction lover who insists historical fiction is not for you? Try one of these historical novels, which were reviewed in Booklist over the past year, and your attitude is guaranteed to change.
All Other Nights by Dara Horn. Horn both unearths a fascinating, relatively unexplored aspect of American history—the role of Jewish Americans in the Civil War—and delivers a novel rich in human emotion and ambiguity.
The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott. Stott effortlessly captures both the chaos of immediate post-Napoleonic Paris’ changing social hierarchy and the exhilaration of intellectuals who have freed themselves from the tyranny of dogma.
Devil’s Dream by Madison Smartt Bell. Bell returns from his celebrated Haitian trilogy to his native ground, Tennessee, to tell the tale of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a feared Confederate general of profound contradictions, strategic brilliance, and outrageous valor.
Four Freedoms by John Crowley. The author’s detailed descriptions of sights, smells, and sounds in an American aircraft plant during WWII, and his evocation of everyday life at home, make this a wonderful, unforgettable novel.
Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow. Doctorow creates a mythic tale of compulsion, alienation, and dark metamorphosis inspired by the wealthy and famously eccentric Collyer brothers, reclusive hoarders in early-twentieth-century New York City.
The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner. Heartbreaking and exhilarating, misfit hero Edgar Jones’ rite of passage into adulthood is also a Darwinian portrait of a society in upheaval.
No Less Than Victory by Jeff Shaara. The final volume in the author’s WWII trilogy, a grand achievement, employs the same technique as the first two: focusing on individuals, both historical figures and anonymous GIs, to tell the story.
Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey. Carey presents a brilliant and sly variation on the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the indelible Democracy in America.
Pearl of China by Anchee Min. Min’s fresh and penetrating interpretation of American novelist Pearl S. Buck’s extraordinary life delivers profound psychological, spiritual, and historical insights.
The Puzzle King by Betsy Carter. In a series of unfolding stories, two young immigrants are bound to one another by loneliness and a desire to create family ties in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s; a poignant story of love, longing, and the truths of family connectedness.
Laptops Available for At-home Use
Patrons have been checking out laptops to use in the library since 2007, but starting on Monday, March 8 patrons will be able to check out laptops to bring home for a 3-day period. The pilot program is for Brookfield patrons only; children ages 14-17 must have a release signed by a parent or guardian. For more information, please find our policy, press release, and instruction sheet.
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