|
Monthly Display & Events August 2014
|
|
IndieFlix
Bring the film festival experience to your home with Indieflix.
|
|
WBPL's Writers Club A place where you can put your thoughts on paper! Enhance your writing skills, participate in free-writing exercises and get feedback on written work. Registration is underway!
|
Tuesday, August 12, 2:00 PM
|
|
Let's Talk About Books! The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss THE GOOD AMERICAN by Alex George. Registration begins Friday, August 15.
|
Thursday, September 25, 1:30 PM
|
|
|
Summer rental
by Mary Kay Andrews
Ellis questions everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job, while Julia struggles with insecurities that threaten a loving relationship and Dorie confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal. By the best-selling author of The Fixer Upper. 150,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Questions of travel : a novel
by Michelle De Kretser
An Australian tour-guide, returning to work in Sydney after a small inheritance allows her to travel the world, crosses paths with a Sri Lankan political exile in this novel that juxtaposes tourism with the lives of locals. 20,000 first printing.
|
|
Europe by Eurail 2013 : touring Europe by train
by LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski
A complete guide to touring Europe by train offers a country by country, city by city handbook that provides information on schedules, fares, destinations, rail passes, tourist facilities and hotel accommodations; outlines day trips and longer itineraries from several base cities on the continent; and provides directions on how to get to and from stations. Original.
|
|
|
|
Bon bon voyage
by Nancy Fairbanks
Food columnist Carolyn Blue's much anticipated gourmet cruise aboard the luxury liner Bountiful Feast to the Canary Islands does not turn out the way she had expected, thanks to the presence of her mother-in-law, the disappearance of a female passenger, and the discovery of a corpse on board the ship. Original. 15,000 first printing.
|
|
The stench of Honolulu : a tropical adventure
by Jack Handey
The first novel from the humor writer best known for his Deep Thoughts musings on Saturday Night Live describes a quest through Hawaii after two friends are given a treasure map by a travel agent. 35,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
The five-forty-five to Cannes
by Tess Uriza Holthe
Set against the backdrop of the French Riviera and Italy, a collection of interconnected stories captures the lives of a group of compelling and colorful characters whose lives are linked by the 5:45 train to Cannes--Chazz, the heir to a fortune who suffers from debilitating mood swings; GianCarlo, hardened by poverty; and Sophie, a young photographer wracked by grief. 20,000 first printing.
|
|
Contents may have shifted : a novel
by Pam Houston
A woman seeking a reprieve from a going-nowhere relationship finds solace in flying to exotic places around the world from Alaska to Bhutan in this new novel from the author of the best-selling Cowboys Are My Weakness. 25,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Russian inspectors Karpo and Zelach follow leads in the disappearance of an anti-Semitic rock star that lead them into the seedy, post-punk Moscow underground, while Chief Inspector Rostnikov heads for Vladivostok aboard the Trans-Siberian Express to find an extortionist who may possess information that could bring down the Russian government. 25,000 first printing.
|
|
Up in the air : [a novel]
by Walter Kirn
A traveling management consultant for Denver's Integrated System Management, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Bingham spends his life on airplanes and airports as he travels around the country, pursuing his goal to accumulate one million miles in his frequent flyer account. 20,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
Mrs. Queen takes the train : a novel
by William M Kuhn
When Queen Elizabeth, disguised in a skull-emblazoned hoodie, sneaks out of Buckingham Palace to escape her duties for a little while an unlikely sextet of royal attendants team up to find their missing monarch and bring her back before her absence sets off a national scandal. 25,000 first printing.
|
|
On such a full sea
by Chang-rae Lee
A tale set in a class-divided future America where urban neighborhoods function as labor colonies for elite charter villages, Fan, a female fish-tank diver, embarks on what becomes a legendary quest to find the man she loves in a region overcome by anarchic forces. By the award-winning author of Native Speaker. 100,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
The last resort : a novel
by Alison Lurie
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist tells the story of a famous, suicidal naturalist and his dutiful wife, who persuades him to travel to Key West in hopes of relieving his depression and is tempted into committing adultery. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
|
|
A turn in the road
by Debbie Macomber
Three women--Bethanne Hamlin, her daughter Annie and her former mother-in-law Ruth--go on a road trip across the country, in an adventure that changes all of their lives as they each contemplate taking different paths in their romantic lives. Original. 300,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy
by Frances Mayes
In a national best-seller, the author applies a poet's sensibility, a seasoned traveler's eye, and a cook's palate to the pleasures of the Tuscan countryside, where she began restoring an abandoned villa. Reprint. $30,000 ad/promo.
|
|
Trains and Lovers
by Alexander McCall Smith
Inspired by a love of trains and the nature of love, a series of intertwined romantic tales follows the experiences of four strangers traveling from Edinburgh to London who entertain each other with reminiscences about how trains have changed their lives. By the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
|
|
|
|
TransAtlantic : a novel
by Colum McCann
A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan. By the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin.
|
|
The road
by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
|
|
|
|
Night train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier
Abandoning his old life to start a new one following a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman, former Latin teacher Raimund Gegorius boards the night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, with whose work he becomes obsessed, and journeys all over the city of Lisbon in search of the truth about the author.
|
|
Dear American Airlines
by Jonathan Miles
Traveling to the wedding of his estranged daughter and left stranded in O'Hare Airport when his flight is cancelled, Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet and translator, begins writing a letter of complaint to the airline that evolves into a painful lament for a life that has gone badly awry. A first novel.
|
|
|
|
Lost luggage : a novel
by Jordi Puntí
Four brothers--none of whom knew the others existed--come together for the first time to search for their missing father, a truck driver who abandoned them when they were young, and put together the pieces of his life
|
|
Leaving unknown
by Kerry Reichs
From the author of The Best Day of Someone Else’s Life comes a funny and touching story of a young woman who, while traveling across the country, finds herself stuck in Unknown, Arizona. Original. 30,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
The girls of August
by Anne Rivers Siddons
Four friends who used to meet for an annual summer beach vacation drift apart after one of their group tragically dies but reconvene years later in the new novel from the author of Burnt Mountain. 150,000 first printing.
|
|
Here today, gone to Maui
by Carol Snow
Invited by her boyfriend, Jimmy, to spend a week at a posh Maui resort, Jane Shea is thrilled, but her enjoyment is undermined by her worries about every aspect of the trip and by Jimmy's mysterious disappearance, the supposed victim of a drowning. Original.
|
|
|
|
Sunset in St. Tropez
by Danielle Steel
Taking a summer vacation by way of grieving over the passage of one of their group, five friends are dismayed by the ramshackle mansion they find instead of the garden villa they expected, a situation that is further complicated by the unexpected appearance of the much-younger new girlfriend of the widowed husband. 950,000 first printing.
|
|
The vacationers
by Emma Straub
Celebrating their 35th anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they would conceal. By the author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures.
|
|
|
|
World's best travel experiences : 400 extraordinary places
by Bill Bryson
An evocative travel gift book in the spirit of National Geographic Traveler's acclaimed "Places of a Lifetime" features sumptuously photographed coverage of some of the world's most transformative locales, from Norway's western fjords and Cambodia's Angkor Wat to Kyoto's Moss Garden and the urban surprises of Denver, Pittsburgh and Vancouver.
|
|
Worlds to explore : classic tales of travel & adventure from National Geographic
by Mark Jenkins
A classic compilation of travel and adventure writing from the pages of National Geographic brings together fifty tales of exotic locales in works by Robert Peary, Amelia Earhart, Teddy Roosevelt, and other notables, all accompanied by concise essays providing context and perspective on the journeys. 15,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
The leisure seeker
by Michael Zadoorian
Recognizing that the final stage of their lives is upon them, John and Ella Robina, the former an Alzheimer's patient, the latter succumbing to cancer, sneak away from their over-protective children and doctors to embark on an RV vacation along Route 66. 35,000 first printing.
|
|
|
West Babylon Public Library 211 Route 109 West Babylon, New York 11704 (631) 669-5445http://wbpl.us |
|
|
|