New Collection at WRL

The library is excited to announce our new collection of downloadable titles for audiobook listeners. These titles are compatible with most digital audio players, including iPods. The collection was purchased through the generosity of the Friends of Williamsburg Regional Library.
To access the collection you will need an active Williamsburg Regional Library card. Titles can be [...]

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BFGB wins the 2009 Louis Shores/Greenwood Publishing Group Award

We are excited to announce that Blogging for a Good Book is the winner of the 2009 Louis Shores/Greenwood Publishing Group Award given for excellence in book reviewing. We are honored that the committee noted that “Blogging for a Good Book serves as a model for book reviewing of the future.” We thank the committee [...]

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Best of the Best: A Unified List of the Best Books of 2008

Which books were really the best of 2008? That’s a very subjective question, but to make it a little less so, I’ve compiled a unified list of the best books of the year as named by 70 different review sources and award nomination lists. The unified list shows the number of votes received by each [...]

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The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth

Williamsburg Regional Library is the only Virginia site hosting Philip Roth’s online discussion of his new book, Indignation, on September 16. If you are interested in free tickets, please call the Adult Services desk at 259-4050.
I read Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here many years ago, so when Roth published Plot, it was natural [...]

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American Pastoral, by Philip Roth

Williamsburg Regional Library is the only Virginia site hosting Philip Roth’s online discussion of his new book, Indignation, on September 16. If you are interested in free tickets, please call the Adult Services desk at 259-4050.
American Pastoral is Roth’s attempt to process the fundamental changes to American society in the 1960s. That [...]

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Unpacking the ARCs

This week our Bluesocks book group will highlight discoveries from the stack of ARCs (Advanced Reading Copies) from which we selected books for our monthly meeting. We’re pleased to share these brand-spanking-new titles!

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Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear

On this week’s Blogging for a Good Book, I’m posting about four authors who are coming to the Williamsburg Library Theatre on Monday, March 31. We’ll be having a relaxed conversation with Margaret Coel, David L. Robbins, and Jacqueline Winspear, led by Willetta L. Heising. The event starts at 7 pm in the Theatre at [...]

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Happy Birthday, BFGB!

I’m interrupting the week’s postings on the authors coming to Mysteries @ Your Library to recognize this milestone in our Blogging for a Good Book site.
If the tone of this post is too self-congratulatory, please know it isn’t meant to be. When you pull off a project that has widespread backing among your co-workers [...]

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Eagle Catcher, by Margaret Coel

On this week’s Blogging for a Good Book, I’m posting about four authors who are coming to the Williamsburg Library Theatre on Monday, March 31. We’ll be having a relaxed conversation with Margaret Coel, David L. Robbins, and Jacqueline Winspear, led by Willetta L. Heising. The event starts at 7 pm in the Theatre at [...]

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This week on Blogging for a Good Book

This week’s posts are contributed by members of WRL’s Bluesocks book group. We’re going to share a variety of international mysteries for your reading pleasure.

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