Antony and Cleopatra – Book Review

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By Colleen McCullough
New Fiction
What a book!
Colleen McCullough has written a well researched book on the events following the murder of Caesar. She weaves in all of the political intrigue, competition, and romance. She picks up Cleopatra and the son fathered by Caesar and named Caesarion. The book [...]

Ricochet – Book on CD Review

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By Sandra Brown
Read by Dennis Boutsikaris
An intriguing murder mystery set in Savannah, Georgia.
The story starts with a murder trial of a murdering dope dealer. The lead detective is so outraged by the judge calling for a mistrial because of a problem with a juror that he tells the judge [...]

The New Classics?

What makes a book or an album or even a TV show a classic? Is it that the work transcends the time and place of its original creation? If so, then how much time must pass before we dub something a classic? In its June 27th issue, Entertainment Weekly celebrates what it [...]

Love the one you’re with – Book Review

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By Emily Giffin
Hot Read
I whipped through this book over the weekend. Couldn’t put it down. Loved it. I am not usually a chick lit reader, so I may not be the best judge, but I thought it was great. I also have never read any of her other books. [...]

100 Greatest Guitar Songs

“Layla,” “Back in Black,” “Vicarious,” and “Soul Man” are just a few of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.  What songs would you include?  You’re sure to have your own thoughts about the list.  Read it online, or stop by the Tunxis Library to leisurely peruse the June 12th issue of Rolling [...]

New Audiobooks

Where are you now? – Mary Higgins Clark
In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
The Whole Truth – David Baldacci
Silver Swan – Benjamin Black
Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery – Dorothy L. Sayers
Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Age of Shiva – Manil Suri
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
The Body in [...]

New Educational DVD’s for June

Autism: The Musical
Beyond the Golden Compass
Crude Awakening
Emotional Intelligence
Gang of Souls
Listening to Children: A Moral Journey with Robert Coles
Little Rock Central
Magnificent Desolation
Most Honorable Son
My Kid Could Paint That
Mysterious Human Heart
Seeing in the Dark

Charlie Wilson’s War – Movie review

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Based on a true story. A great example of how first hand experience of a situation can change your perspective completely. A transforming experience for the individual, yet so frustrating in trying to communicate the urgency to those who have never seen what you saw. An interesting backward glance, a [...]

New International DVD’s for June

Border Cafe
Barrio Cuba
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Lovers
New Day in Old Sana’a
Rana’s Wedding
Willow Tree

New Entertainment DVD’s for June

27 Dresses
Amazing Grace
Breaker Morant
Cassandra’s Dream
Charlie Wilson’s War
Cloverfield
Cranford
Eye of the Dolphin
First Sunday
Forever Young
Gideon’s Trumpet
Golden Compass
Good Man is Hard to Find
Great Debaters
Hunting Party
I’m Not There
Last Emperor
Mad Money
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
P.S. I Love You
Pearl Diver
Savages
Things We Lost in the Fire
Untraceable