National Book Award Nominees announced

The following books have been nominated for the National Book Award, with the winners being announced on November 14th.  Follow the links to reserve your copy!

Fiction:
Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
Louise Erdich, The Round House
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds


Non-Fiction
Ann Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4
Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East 

Poetry:
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies
Tim Seibles,  Fast Animal
Alan Shapiro,  Night of the Republic
Susan Wheeler,  Meme

Young Peoples Literature:
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down
Eliot Schrefer, Endangered
Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Be a rebel: Read a Banned Book!!

Sept. 30-Oct. 6 is Banned Books Week. Now is a perfect time to celebrate the Freedom to Read with by reading a book that's been challenged or banned. You can choose from the Top 10 Challenged Books by Year (2001-2011), the 100 Most Challenged Books by decade, and a list of Banned and Challenged Classics, courtesy of the American Library Association.

A few titles to whet your appetite: The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the entire Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, and Halloween ABC, by Eve Merriam.

Curious if you can find them in Framingham? Just search by title or author in the online catalog (http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/). If it's not in Framingham, you may be able to request it from another Minuteman library by hitting the "Request" button, or we'll see about borrowing it from another US library through interlibrary loan.

Questions? Contact the Reference Department  at http://www.framinghamlibrary.org/asklib.htm or fplmail6@minlib.net, or call 508-532-5570 ext. 4361).

Scott Brown-Elizabeth Warren debate tonight!

Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, candidates for U.S. Senator, will be debating tonight at 7:00 pm. The debate will be shown on WHDH-TV (Channel 7), NECN, and CSPAN. Boston.com, BostonGlobe.com, and “Political Intelligence” will provide a live blog during the candidate back-and-forth. The candidates also will debate on Oct. 10 in Springfield, and on Oct. 30 in Boston.

To find out who is running for US Representative, State Senator and State Representative, and other state offices, and find information on ballot questions for Massachusetts voters, go to: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/.

Still not registered to vote? You have until October 17th to register, by mail (http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleifv/howreg.htm) or at the Framingham Town Clerk's Office in the Memorial Building at 150 Concord Street, Room 105.

Interested in finding something on Massachusetts history or election history? Come to Reference and we'll help!