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- Library Honored In Fight Against Breast Cancer
Oct. 25, 2011: VBCF's Lydia Stewart presents Library Director Diane Kresh with a check as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Arlington Public Library is taking the fight against breast cancer to a higher level with the help of a new $800...
- October Special: Literary Selections Of The Dead
Want to read something scary? Try a good zombie book: How to be a Zombie by Serena Valentino Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith Monster Island: a zombie novel by David Wellington The Walking Dead (graphic novels) by David Kirkman, illustrated...
- Washington Post Obituary For A Former Columbia Pike Librarian
Marilyn Earl Thrall, former Columbia Pike librarian and Arlington resident, died on December 22, at age 79. The following obituary was published Friday, Jan. 8, in the Washington Post. Marilyn Earle Thrall, 79, a librarian and homemaker, died of cancer...
- New Books In August!
It's the early 1970's. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted,...
- September Books Are Arriving!
Agnes and the Hitman, by Jennifer Cruise Away, by Amy Bloom Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined...
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One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die.
In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children's illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David--a highly anxious yet supremely talented child--all too often became the unwitting object of his parents' buried frustration and rage.
Believing that they were trying to do their best, David;s parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician, who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son's respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David's cancer. Elizabeth, David's mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden.
Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen--with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist--will resonate as the ultimate survival statement.
A silent movie, masquerading as a book, Stitches,renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again.
Don't forget these......
The Big Dirt Nap, by Rosemary Harris
Blood at Bear Lake, by Gary Franklin
The Christmas Dog, by Melody Carlson
Click to Play, by David Handler
The Big Dirt Nap, by Rosemary Harris
Blood at Bear Lake, by Gary Franklin
The Christmas Dog, by Melody Carlson
Click to Play, by David Handler
Danger in a Red Dress, by Christina Dodd
Final Breath, by Kevin O'Brien
Final Breath, by Kevin O'Brien
Fit to be Tied, by Robin Lee Hatcher
Irreplaceable, by Stephen Lovely
The Last Stand of Fox Company, by Bob Drury
The Last Undercover, by Bob Hamer
The Lightkeeper's Daughter, by Colleen Coble
The Lost Witness, by Robert Ellis
Mistress of the Sun, by Sandra Gulland
The Music Teacher, by Barbara Hall
North by Northwestern, by Sig Hansen
One Minute to Midnight, by Michael Dobbs
Palace Circle, by Rebecca Dean
The Parlor House Daughter, by Joanne Sundell
The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria
The Rules of the Game, by Leonard Downie Jr.
The Secret of Us, by Roxanne Henke
The Tenth Case, by Joseph Teller
Thai Die, by Monica Ferris
A Vote of Confidence, by Robin Lee Hatcher
A Voyage Long and Strange, by Tony Horwitz
- Library Honored In Fight Against Breast Cancer
Oct. 25, 2011: VBCF's Lydia Stewart presents Library Director Diane Kresh with a check as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Arlington Public Library is taking the fight against breast cancer to a higher level with the help of a new $800...
- October Special: Literary Selections Of The Dead
Want to read something scary? Try a good zombie book: How to be a Zombie by Serena Valentino Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith Monster Island: a zombie novel by David Wellington The Walking Dead (graphic novels) by David Kirkman, illustrated...
- Washington Post Obituary For A Former Columbia Pike Librarian
Marilyn Earl Thrall, former Columbia Pike librarian and Arlington resident, died on December 22, at age 79. The following obituary was published Friday, Jan. 8, in the Washington Post. Marilyn Earle Thrall, 79, a librarian and homemaker, died of cancer...
- New Books In August!
It's the early 1970's. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted,...
- September Books Are Arriving!
Agnes and the Hitman, by Jennifer Cruise Away, by Amy Bloom Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined...