By: Beth Cravey on January 10, 2012 - 2:52pm - 1 CommentMichele Norris, host of the long-running NPR newsmagazine "All Things Considered," will be the guest speaker at the Jacksonville Women's Network's annual event Feb. 23.
By: DispatchDaemon on January 8, 2012 - 12:05am - Add new commentBY THE NUMBERS Extra, extra! According to the 2011 edition of Library and Book Trade Almanac, the number of young adult and children’s book titles published in 2010 (the last year for which data is complete) was 25,039. BOOK TALK CAFE Best-selling St. Augustine thriller writer Steve Berry kicks off the Ponte Vedra Friends of the Library’s monthly Book Talk Cafe program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Berry’s latest work is “The Jefferson Key,” featuring protagonist Cotton Malone. The event is free, and anyone may attend....
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The 2011 Edgar Award winner and nominees for best young adult mysteries reflect a trend to pull out the stops in stories that probe realistic dysfunction, alcohol and drug use and death.
By: Beth Cravey on January 5, 2012 - 1:11pm - Add new commentRegistration is under way for a Jan. 21 tutor training class to be held by the Clay County Literacy Coalition. The free class will be held 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Orange Park High School Adult Education Center, 2306 Kingsley Ave. Participants will learn how to provide one-to-one instruction for adults from various parts of the world who want to improve their English language skills. Also, they will learn how to provide one-to-one basic reading/writing instruction for adults who want to improve their literacy skills, according to a news release....
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on December 25, 2011 - 11:52am - Add new commentWith the sometimes numbing precision of an accountant, Pensacola State College history professor Brian Rucker takes us on a tour of his beloved West Florida.
December 25, 2011 - 11:50am - Add new commentWe can’t stop loving late Victorian pulp icons. They part the swirling London fog in endless adaptations, reboots and mashups.
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on December 25, 2011 - 11:38am - Add new commentNew and notable
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on December 25, 2011 - 12:01am - Add new commentIn "The Litigators," John Grisham has written a sky-has-fallen book for the legal profession and nobody, including the author, is paying attention.
By: DispatchDaemon on December 16, 2011 - 5:12pm - Add new comment■ The Jacksonville Historical Society has published "The Broward Family, From France to Florida: 1764-2011" by Robert C. Broward.
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on December 11, 2011 - 12:00am - Add new commentBest-selling author Larry Baker ("The Flamingo Rising," "A Good Man") will discuss his writing at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Library's Book Talk Cafe at the library, 1010 Library Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach.
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