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Whatcha Reading?

Season's Readings

In this special edition of Whatcha Reading, listen to library staff members review some of their favorite reads of 2009. Come into any library branch and pick up your free copy of Season's Readings or check out our online version.




Newly revised video by Skip Auld, Director of Durham County Library introducing the special edition of Whatcha Reading - Season's Readings.




Anna Cromwell, Children's Services, Main Library reviews Peeping Beauty.




Laurel Jones, Children's Services, Main Library reviews Alanna: The First Adventure.




Tom Czaplinski, Children's Services, Main Library reviews Smokejumpers One to Ten.




Elizabeth Watson, Circulation, East Regional Library reviews Deja Dead.




Bill Nesmith, Reference Services, East Regional Library reviews Summer Crossing.




Jennifer Lohmann, Reference Services, Main Library reviews The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie; The Duke of Shadows; Bleak House; Major; A Civil Campaign; and Flat Out Sexy.




Carol Passmore, Interim Manager of East Regional Library reviews In the Sanctuary of Outcasts.




Skip Auld, Library Director reviews This Boy's Life.




Archie Burke, Reference Services, East Regional Library reviews Blood Done Sign My Name.




Rheda Epstein, Administrative Librarian, Resources & Technical Services reviews The White Queen.




Skip Auld, Library Director reviews John Adams, the miniseries.




Lisa Dendy, Collection Development, Durham County Library reviews Emily the Strange.




Rheda Epstein, Administrative Librarian, Resources & Technical Services reviews The Graveyard Book and The House in the Night.




Archie Burke, Reference Services & Teen Librarian, East Regional Library reviews The Eternal Smile.


American Tobacco Campus

Downtown Durham Inc.

Bill Kalkhof - Downtown Durham Inc.

Merge Records

Paul Cardillo - Merge Records

Christina Rentz - Merge Records

Thomas Nickles - Merge Records

Government Officials

Bill Bell, Mayor of Durham

Patrick Baker, Durham City Attorney

Durham Bulls

Matt DeMargel - Director of Media Relations & Promotions - Durham Bulls

John Jaso - Catcher - Durham Bulls

Chef Picks

Amy Tornquist - Watts Grocery

Jim Anile - Revolution Restaurant

Shane Ingram - Four Square Restaurant

Wilma Dillard - Dillards Bar-B-Que

Charlie Deal - Dos Perros

The Art Scene

Jaki Shelton Green - Piedmont Poet Laureate

Mark Dendy - American Dance Festival

For more information about:

Michael Goodmon and the American Tobacco Campus
Downtown Durham Inc.
Merge Records
Mayor Bill Bell
Patrick Baker, Durham City Attorney
Matt & John from the Durham Bulls
Amy Tornquist and Watts Grocery
Jim Anile and Revolution
Shane Ingram and Four Square
Charlie Deal and Dos Perros
Wilma Dillard and Dillard's Bar-B-Que, you 'll just have to stop in and visit!
Jaki Shelton Green - Piedmont Poet Laureate
Mark Dendy and the American Dance Festival, May We Have This Cyberdance


For the books mentioned in the videos, check our online catalog for availability.

Horton Hears a Who
The Herald-Sun
News and Observer
Triangle Business Journal
Alex Cross Series by James Patterson
Hot, Flat and Crowded
by Thomas Friedman
Heat
by Bill Buford
My Life in France
by Julia Child
Agile Web Development with Rails
by Sam Ruby (on order)
Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
October 1964
by David Halberstam
The Last Oracle by James Rollins
We Might as Well Win by Johan Bruyneel
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
The story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
What Got You Here, Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter.
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
How we Choose to be Happy by Rick Forster and Greg Hicks
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
1776 by David McCullough
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins


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