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  • Heartland Horticulture
    By Bonnie L. Poquette - 11/01/2009
    Midwestern gardeners are legendary for enduring and outwitting winter, with its heavy snowpack and recurring freezes and thaws. Most of them also reckon with a relatively short growing period. All of them find their horticultural plans complicated by hot, humid summers. In fact, the Midwest deals with four seasons dictating special considerations for plants, pests, and chores! This article use... More

  • 35 Going on 13: The Best YA for Adults 2009
    By Angelina Benedetti, King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA - 11/19/2009
    Here are 12 books, engagingly paired, that represent the very best YA for adults in 2009. The best nonfiction? The best character-driven studies? It’s all here for anyone who’s 35 going on 13. More
  • Top Twenty Holds from Hennepin County Library
    By Anna Katterjohn - 11/19/2009
    Behind every best seller you're likely to find a library hold. See what patrons are lining up to read at the Hennepin County (MN) Library, where local mystery author William Kent Krueger is among popular authors Patricia Cornwell, Nicholas Sparks, and Malcolm Gladwell. More
  • Parenting Short Takes: Ethics & "Endless Adolescence"
    By Julianne J. Smith, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., MI - 11/19/2009
    From feeding the youngest eaters to getting your college grad to enter the real world, this month’s Short Takes offers something for parents at every stage of the journey. The diversity of materials required for a strong parenting collection is on my mind right now as I weed my library’s. More
  • Wyatt’s World: Short Days, Short Stories
    Neal Wyatt - 11/16/2009
    Five modern collections. More
  • Flying the Friendly Skies!
    Edited by Neal Wyatt - 11/15/2009
    Humans have always had a desire to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci and his studies and drawings of flight to Orville and Wilbur Wright's flying machine to Amelia Earhart and her famous disappearance, the world has always craved learning about those daring individuals who have risked life and limb to soar. More
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  • Wyatt’s World: What’s In a Name—Maps and the Creation of America
    Neal Wyatt - 11/09/2009
    Mapping out our nation's founding. More
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