New Acquisitions

1. Dubliners by James Joyce
2. An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
3. 3 Screenplays: The Player, The Rapture, and The New Age by Michael Tolkin
4. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
5. Little Black Dress by Loren D. Estleman
6. The Journey Out: A Guide for and About Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Teens by Rachel Pollack and Cheryl Schwartz
7. Street Dreams by Faye Kellerman
8. Black Blade by Eric Lustbader
9. Departure, A Novel by Janet Stevenson
10. Luciano's Luck by Jack Higgins
11. We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
12. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used against Women by Naomi Wolf

New Acquisitions

1. A Long Way Gone by Ishamel Beah
2. The Lanahan Readings in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 2nd Ed. Edited by David M. O'Brien
3. Journalism 2.0: How to survive and thrive by Mark Briggs
4. A Short Guide to Writing About History 6th Ed by Richard Marius and Melvin Page
5. Constitutional Law study guide 11th Ed by Jacqueline Kanovitz and Michael Kanovitz
6. cinematography: Theory and Practice, Image Making for Cinematographers, Directorsm and Videographers by Blain Brown
7. Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith
8. The Delicate Distress: Elizabeth Griffith (Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, Editors)
9. Reports from the Fields (Liberal Learning and the Arts and Science Major Vol. 2)

New Acquisitions

1. The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
2. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
3. the Assassination Bureau, Ltd. by Jack London
4. Conversations with the Fat Girl by Liza Palmer
5. don't Look Back by Karin Fossum
6. Size 14 is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
7. The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
8. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
9. Clean Cut by Lynda La Plante

New Acquisitions

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The Life You save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie
3.The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
4. The Conquest of Gaul by Caesar
5.Sleepers: A True Story by Lorenzo Carcaterra
6. The Gold Coast by Nelson Demille
7.The Copy-editing and Headline Handbook by Barbara Ellis

Chinese wins 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize

Chinese writer Su Tong won the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.  Read report here.

New Acquisitions

1. Everyman by Philip Roth
2. Great Stories by Chekhov (Edited by David H. Greene)
3. Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
4. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
5. The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (New Translation by Paul Roche)
    The complete texts of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigon
6. The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble
7. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
8. The Odyssey of Homer (Translated into English prose by T. E. Shaw [Col. T. E. Lawrence])
9. Select Edition:
    Silks by Dick Francis and Felix Francis
    Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
    Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais
    Water, Stone, Heart by Will North

New Acquisitions

1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
3. The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
4. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore

Note: I actually saw Meyer at Barnes and Noble here in Pittsford, NY months ago (or was it last year). She was in a gown. She was walking towards the table where she signed copies of her books. She actually smiled at me. I didn't know her then.

New Acquisition

1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

New Acquisitions

1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
2. Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
3. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas Stanley and William Danko
4. The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel by Stephen King
5. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
6. The Paid Companion by Amanda Quick
7. Bug-Jargal by Victor Hugo
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Cornell University Edition)
9. Listen to the Warm (poems) by Rod McKuen
10. Lonesone Cities (poems) by Rod McKuen

New Acquisitions

1. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
3. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
4. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
5. Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton
6. Well-scholled in Murder by Elizabeth George
7. The Right Hand of God by Russell Kirkpatrick
8. Rehoboth Beach: A History of Surf and Sand by Michael Morgan
9. My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Cunningham Devoto
10. Gossip by Wendy Corsi Straub
11. The Sigma Tau Delta Review: Journal of Critical Writing Vol. 6, 2009
12. Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James Fallows
13. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
14. The Last Male Virgin by Katherin Deauxville
15. Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts
16. Homecoming by Fern Michaels, Janet Dailey, Sharon Sala and Deborah Bedford
17. The Pact by Jodi Picoult

New Acquisitions

1. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
2. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table by Oliver Wendell Holmes
3. Latecomers by Anita Brookner
4. Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
5. Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg
6. Great Short Works of Stephen Crane
7. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

New Acquisitions

1. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2. Stories by T.C. Boyle

New Acquisitions

1. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
2. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
3. Select Editions-
Summer Light by Luanne Rice
Echo Burning by Lee Child
The Rich Part of Life by Jim Kokoris
On The Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
4. Dark of the Moon by John Sandford
5. The Natural by Bernard Malamud
6. Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
7. The Source by James Michener
8. Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid
9. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
10. The Summons by John Grisham

Recent Acquisitions

1. The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
2. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
3. Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

Acquisitions

1. Direct Descendand by Charles Wilson
2. Stories by Katherine Mansfield
3. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
4. The Appeal by John Grisham

Recent Acquisitions

1. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
2. The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun by Martin Prechtel (autographed copy)

(I am missing one book and I can't remember what it was?)

Recent Acquisitions

1. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
2. Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
3. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
4. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
5. A Day, A Night, Summer (Stories) by Christine Schutt
6. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7. Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam
8. Fire Watch (Stories) by Connie Willis
9. A New Song by Jan Karon
10. Letters to Penthouse XXVI (Destinationa S-E-X) by The Editors of Penthouse Magazine
11. Marry Me by John Updike
12. Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
13. Herzog by Saul Bellow
14. Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
15. The Secret Hour by Luanne Rice
16. Addicted by Zane
17. Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing by James Waller
18. 75 Short Masterpieces (Stories from the World's Literature)
19. The Flounder by Gunter Grass
20. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
21. The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

Doveglion

I was so delighted and elated (still am) when David surprised me with this book:

This is the definitive book of poems of Jose Garcia Villa which I have been browsing through over and over at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Pittsford. I thought there would be enough credits left from my Barnes and Noble/BASC scholarship to buy the book, sadly I put on hold in purchasing the book. Then, with David's generosity the book fell on my hand one evening.

I have told my friends that the things that should be included in my coffin when I die would be Villa's books I have collected for years (and several other things dear to me).

Thank you sooooo much, David! I owe you a lot.

New Acquisitions

1. The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkein (printed in Britain, a very old edition)

2. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

3. Hiroshima by John Hersey

4. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

5. The Second Perimeter by Mike Lawson

6. The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

7. Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George

8. Map of Bones by James Rollins

Viva Villa

I was so delighted having read Filipino award-winning writer Ian Casocot's report about Jose Garcia Villa's new book. It's aptly titled: Dove, Eagle, Lion and published by Penguin. I went to the Barnes and Noble bookstore near our place right away and asked where I could find the copies. Sadly, I didn't read carefully the publication date on the B&N Web site. The store clerk browsed through their file and pointed out that the book will be released on the 29th. I was hoping to grab a copy if I still have some credit left from my Barnes and Noble/BASC scholarship this semester. Or else I will have to borrow it from the library.

I have a copy of the Penguin catalogue (which I picked up from the English Dept. at school. Some professor didn't want it and put it on the table outside the dept. where free books are usually stacked. Oh, yeah, most professors at school are literary reviewers and when they get tired of some books they "share" them to whoever's interested). My copy only registered Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere. I am delighted that Villa's poetry collection made it this year.


I am a Villa fan. I value my copy of his final poetry volume, Selected Poems and New. I also love my copies of Critical Villa by Jonathan Chua and Doveglion and Other Cameos by Quijano de Manila (pen name of the late National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin). I even borrowed from the school's library over and over again Villa's first short story collection published in America, Footnote to Youth. It is the only copy here in Rochester and I was so happy to have read it. It is always a pleasure reading his stories and poems.