Check It Out @ MPPLtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5778692009-07-09T14:25:33ZTypePadThe Other Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341df63153ef011570df09fd970c2009-07-09T09:25:33-05:002009-07-09T14:25:12ZSir Arthur Conan Doyle is known as the creator of the hyper-rational character Sherlock Holmes. History took a crooked twist then when Doyle also became one of the more famous proponents of supernatural causes such as Spiritualism and the existence...Readers AdvisoryThe Awkward Yearstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341df63153ef011570b93550970c2009-07-06T07:00:00-05:002009-07-06T16:01:53ZWhy would anyone want to relive high school in the 1980s? Because it can be funny, real, and entertaining -- that’s why! Freaks and Geeks, a near-perfect series that was canceled too soon, is a welcome counterpoint to the glut...Readers AdvisoryMostly Good and Competent Mentag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341df63153ef01157172d7fc970b2009-07-02T07:00:00-05:002009-06-27T19:50:19ZLarry of the Fiction/AV/Teen Department recommends Mostly Good and Competent Men by Robert P. Howard: Mostly Good and Competent Men, written by the late journalist and historian Robert P. Howard chronologically describes the strengths, weaknesses, and foibles of the governors...Readers AdvisoryThe Devil May Wear Prada, but She Works in Publishingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341df63153ef0115707ddad1970c2009-06-29T09:35:39-05:002009-07-01T21:39:08ZEver feel as if you were a character in a novel? Angel Robinson does. She has landed a promising new job with renowned literary agent Lucy Fiamma. Her dragon-lady boss is a nightmare, but Angel quickly adapts to the insane...Readers AdvisoryThe City of Lost Childrentag:typepad.com,2003:post-684833572009-06-25T09:23:23-05:002009-06-25T16:35:59ZKrank is a lunatic scientist so very alone that he Frankensteined a family. His dwarf wife is a genetic experiment gone wrong. His confidant is a brain attached to a robot. Krank’s friends include clones he made…of himself. Yet Krank...Readers AdvisoryThe Chemistry of Mysterytag:typepad.com,2003:post-682881212009-06-22T07:00:00-05:002009-06-19T22:01:35ZTake an eleven-year-old aspiring chemist, a bird with a stamp impaled on its beak, and a red-haired stranger gasping his last words in the family cucumber patch, and what do you have? You have Sweetness at the Bottom of the...Readers AdvisoryAre You Hep to the Jive?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-682416372009-06-18T09:55:01-05:002009-06-18T14:52:29ZDjango Reinhardt played the jazz guitar like the devil burned coal. Hot and fast. Back when folks thought that guitars weren’t worth a solo spotlight, Django Reinhardt showed them what for. Even virtuosos have troubles and Django had his share....Readers AdvisoryUp with Down tag:typepad.com,2003:post-679964092009-06-15T07:00:00-05:002009-06-12T22:28:18ZThe world’s richest prize for a work of fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, has been awarded to American author Michael Thomas for Man Gone Down. This extraordinary debut novel is the story of a young black father of...Readers AdvisoryIn Like Flynntag:typepad.com,2003:post-679041712009-06-11T07:00:00-05:002009-06-09T20:08:57ZHedonist? Brawler? Popular with the ladies? Absolutely! Errol Flynn was expelled from high school for boxing with the boys and allegedly wrestling with the school laundress. From there he bought a copper mine…failed. He bought a New Guinea tobacco plantation…failed....Readers AdvisoryAudio Spectacular!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-676863132009-06-07T19:00:00-05:002009-06-05T20:09:22ZLove to listen to a great story? Celebrate June as Audiobook Month by checking out the newly crowned winners of the 2009 Audies. The utterly fantastic The Graveyard Book, written and read by Neil Gaiman, won top honors as Audiobook...Readers Advisory