Nancy's pearls: our favorite librarian's favorite reads

While there are many new outlets to hear what Nancy has enjoyed reading-from Pearl's Picks online (the service she sells to libraries with her monthly suggestions) to National Public Radio-I thought it would be nice to invite her home, figuratively, and ask her to share what she has loved readi...

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Published inLibrary journal (1976) Vol. 132; no. 20; p. 172
Main Author Wyatt, Neal
Format Book Review Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Library Journals, LLC 01.12.2007
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al-Sadr, Moktada
Collection development
Ferris, Joshua
French, Tana
Librarians
Library Personnel
Library Services
Novels
Readers
Readers advisory work
Ryan, Rob
Stace, Wesley
Terrorism
War
United States > US
Siberia
Chicago Illinois
Iraq
Australia
Virginia
Russia
New York City New York
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ISSN0363-0277

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Summary:While there are many new outlets to hear what Nancy has enjoyed reading-from Pearl's Picks online (the service she sells to libraries with her monthly suggestions) to National Public Radio-I thought it would be nice to invite her home, figuratively, and ask her to share what she has loved reading this past year. When Gina Davies, an exotic dancer known as "the doll," has a one-night stand with a man later identified as a terrorist suspect, she, too, becomes the subject of a nationwide obsession and a political and media game. Joining the ranks of epic war reporters, Martha Raddatz, of ABC News, has captured the attack by Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army on the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in The Long Road Home (Putnam. 2007.
ISSN:0363-0277