tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81553164985680857292012-02-16T15:32:40.653-05:00Portland Library ~ 20 Freestone Avenue ~ Portland, CT 06480 ~ 860-342-6770 http://www.portlandlibraryct.orgPortland Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686120473435138761noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155316498568085729.post-79351274658195911312012-02-16T15:29:00.001-05:002012-02-16T15:32:40.659-05:00Monthly Book Discussions<br />Thursday, March 1st , 2012 at 6:30 pm<br /><em>Still Alice</em> by Lisa Genova<br />Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children is only 50 years old when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis, early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind.<br /> <br />Thursday, April 5th , 2012 at 6:30 pm<br /><em>The Outlander</em> by Gil Adamson<br />It’s 1903, and nineteen-year-old Mary Boulton is fleeing alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. With stunning prose and a captivating mood, Gil Adamson's intoxicating debut novel weds a brilliant literary style to the gripping tale of one woman's desperate escape.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8155316498568085729-7935127465819591131?l=portlandlibrary.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Portland Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686120473435138761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155316498568085729.post-541515823702317442010-10-04T14:17:00.002-05:002010-10-04T14:20:50.753-05:00Something New for Readers!<br />Experience Books &amp; Authors, a new resource available to fiction and nonfiction readers of all ages. Just click on the link from our website database page and you can find reading recommendations contributed by experts, keep up to date on bestsellers in the United States and Canada, create a personal “reading room” online, join communities of other readers with similar interests, and much more. This site is fun and easy to use—all you need is your library card for access— and is provided by the Connecticut State Library.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8155316498568085729-54151582370231744?l=portlandlibrary.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Portland Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686120473435138761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155316498568085729.post-33236433302440205242009-09-23T10:34:00.001-05:002009-09-23T10:36:35.832-05:00Library News You Can Use!<br /><br />Looking for relevant fiction, for pleasure reading a bookclub title or for a class you are taking. The title or author you wanted is already checked out? Just looking for a “good book”?<br /><br />The library has an online database to help you!<br />NoveList® can help you find your next book to read. This database of over 155,000 fiction titles for readers of all ages lets you use your favorite author to link to other books you might enjoy.<br /><br />The easy to use Find box enables you to quickly find books, authors, series, lists and more! For example, a search for Harry Potter provides you with all of the Harry Potter books as well as additional feature content to further enrich your reading experience such as Author Read-alikes, BookTalks, feature articles, Book Discussion Guides and the Harry Potter series. This is a wonderful place to see what titles are in your favorite author’s new series.<br /><br />Not Sure What You Are Looking For? Click on Recommended Reads to browse through hundreds of titles carefully selected by librarians and organized by reading level as well as genre or topic or type in a topic you are interested in (baseball, summer vacations, “women detectives in New York”) and “play” with the results.<br /><br />Ready? From the Library's website, click on DATABASES on the top red menu bar. From the next screen, click on the link to NOVELIST.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8155316498568085729-3323643330244020524?l=portlandlibrary.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Portland Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686120473435138761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155316498568085729.post-6754610899370973552009-05-29T15:27:00.005-05:002009-09-15T13:28:28.488-05:00For Portland residents... with a Library card!<br /><br />Your audiobook &amp; eBook connection at <a href="http://libraryconnection.lib.overdrive.com/">http://libraryconnection.lib.overdrive.com/</a><br />also just added at iCONN, Connecticut's Digital Library at <a href="http://connstatelib.myilibraryaudio.com/">http://connstatelib.myilibraryaudio.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Enjoy digital books on your computer, burn some audio titles to CD and listen in your car, transfer some titles to your iPod or MP3 player and listen anywhere. Check out the large collection of titles.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8155316498568085729-675461089937097355?l=portlandlibrary.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Portland Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686120473435138761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155316498568085729.post-7752993473113404802008-01-30T11:09:00.001-05:002008-05-22T12:34:45.727-05:00Share your comments about the book you've read. Others would love to know. Thanks!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8155316498568085729-775299347311340480?l=portlandlibrary.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Portland Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686120473435138761noreply@blogger.com4