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Review: Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

December 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

© Claire Ramsey Used by Permission I think, with the advent of Stephanie Meyer and the Twilight Saga, together with the continued popularity of Anne Rice and the once-and-future-king of vampire stories, Bram Stoker, I can make a safe assumption: humans, especially young adult humans, LOVE the tales of the bloodsucking fiends that look at [...]

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Local author to appear at book signing Friday

June 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Local children’s author Elizabeth Carroll will be at the Richard Thornton Library in Oxford this Friday, June 19, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. If you have not yet purchased a copy of the novel, copies will be available at Friday’s event.

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HiH bookshelf: Small Favor

June 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment

by Claire Ramsey The latest installment in the popular Dresden series, Small Favor by Jim Butcher keeps the adventure and weird geeky humor going, keeping faith with Butcher’s many fans.

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Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies” Series

February 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment

A review by Claire Ramsey “Tally smiled…. ‘I’m Tally Youngblood,’ she said. ‘Make me pretty.’”

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Read more books ’bout bugs!

February 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Learning about Bugs (and Books, and Character, and…) in Summer Reading 2008 by Claire Ramsey Imagine the world from the view of a bug! An ant, a fly, a bee – or from a real bug, like a shield-bug – or one of the things that looks like a bug, but isn’t, (like a spider!).

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Ramsey leaves library staff; Lambert joins

May 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Dear Home in Henderson readers, In one of my last acts as Vance County and Perry Library’s children’s librarian, it is my very great pleasure to introduce a new children’s librarian to you.

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Storytelling Festival 2007 on April 24

April 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment

The Storytelling Festival is a a free event for Vance County’s fourth grade and fourth-grade-level students during the day, and a free Family Festival in the evening.

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Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

April 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Home in Henderson is deeply saddened to report that author Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at the age of 84.

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Children’s author delights with Furry Tails

February 26, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Children’s author Tristan Perry reads Furry Tails New children’s author Tristan Perry brought furry tails, and tales, to the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library Tuesday, February 20, to the delight of Vance County children and adults.

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Next in Harry Potter series to be released

February 2, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Cover art from the seventh book of the Harry Potter series to be released July 21 Though Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has been garnering some non-Hogwarts publicity (his London stage performance in Equus is about to open at the end of February), today it is J. K. Rowling’s books that began the whole Harry [...]

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