USEFUL WEB SITES

http://www.firstgov.gov

http://www.votesmart.org/ - current elected officials etc

www.mdshare.org - like bcpl community info but for state

www.bcpl.info/centers/fastfacts/ff_vbfindex.html - virtual back file

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/readingpage/strive25/index.html
BCPS recommended reading lists with leads to other outside list sites

http://www.awesomestories.com/
BOTH your user name and password are cAse sEnsItivE.
Log-in at the ACADEMIC MEMBER box, on the lower left side of the site'shome page. Your access codes are:
Password: bcpl33

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cockeysvillelibstaff

http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/taxcredits.html#htcrtc.
Property Tax Credit Appllcations. (also in Back File under Taxes)
Also available from Community Info DB link
410-7676-4433 800-944-7403

www.dbm.maryland.gov
Maryland's budget and fiscal digest

http://www.ajbillig.com/buyers_foreclosure.htm
Info re MD sales of foreclosed propertieshttp://www.ajbillig.com/buyers_foreclosure.htm

www.healthfinder.gov

www2.fdic.gov/idasp/frm_ezfind.asp is a specific bank insured by fdic?


email (username): colibrarian1@yahoo.com
password: cockeysville
Use to log onto Balto. Sun for articles

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm for kids

www.allmusic.com
www.music.myspace.com for bands with no published albums

www.imdb.com tv & movies

www.rottentomatoes.com movie reviews

www.librarything.com/suggest.php to find read-alikes

www.metacritic.com all reviews books, music & video games

www.commonsensemedia.org re objectionable content in movies

www.shelf-awareness.com books getting attention/made into movies

Books

BIBLE RELATED
Edghill, India - Queen Maker (King David’s Queen Michal)
Diamant, - Red Tent
LaHaye, Tim & Jenkins - Left Behind series
Halter, Marek - Zipporah Lilah

CLASSIC NOVELS
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Cather, Willa - My Antonia
DeFoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
Dostoevski - Brothers Karamazov
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Ses
Kerouc, Jack - On the Road
LeCarre, John - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack - Call of the Wild
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
Salinger, J D - Catcher in the Rye
Shute, Nevil - A Town Called Alice
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Styron, William - Sophie's Choice
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Twain, Mark - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five
Wilder, Thornton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey

GOOD READING
Albom - Five People You Meet in Heaven
Albom - For One More Day
Craven - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Gabaldon - Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of autumn
Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Gruen - Water for Elephants
McCullough - Morgan’s Run
Mroz, Richard - Arjuna, The White Elephant
Seabold - Lovely Bones
See, Lisa - Snowflower and the Secret Fan
See, Lisa - Peony in Love
Seton, Anya - Katherine etc
Shors, John - Beside a Burning Sea
Vreeland, Susan - Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Walls, Jeannette - Half Broke Horses
Wood, Barbara - Green City in the Sun Virgins of Paradise

GRAPHIC NOVELS - adult
Williamson - At a Crossroads

HISTORY
Allende, Isabel - Inez of my soul 07
Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain Thirteen Moons
Gregory, Philippa - Other Boleyn Girl
L’Amour, Louis - westerns
McBride, James - Song Yet Sung
O’Brian, Patrick - sea stories
Michener, James
Tademy, Lalita - Cane River

HUMOR
Evanovich, Janet - (Stephanie Plum) Fic
Lutz, Lucy - Spellman Files Fic
Wodehouse - (Jeeves)

LEGAL
Grisham, John - Fic

SAFE
Berg, Elizabeth - The Art of Mending
Berg, Elizabeth - Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Binchy, Maeve - relationships
Bowen, Rhys - Evan Blessed (Constable Evans Mystery) Scotland
Braun, Lilian Jackson - (Quilleran .. The Cat who ...)
Chiaverini, Jennifer - Quilter's Homecoming
Craven, Margaret - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Hamilton - Camel Bookmobile
Karon, Jan - At Home in Mitford
McCall-Smith, Alexander - The #1 Ladies Detective Agency
Perry, Anne - Execution Dock (Victorian London - policeman Wm.Monk)
Miss Read
Pilcher, Rosamunde - relationships
Plain, Belva
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Sparks, Nicholas
Trigiana, Adriana - Home to Big Stone Gap Fic

SCIENCE FICTION
See HUGO AWARDS - www.thehugoawards.org
Asimov, Isaac
Butler, Octavia (black author) - Kindred
Hickman, Tracy
Jordan, Robert
Lackey, Mercedes
Salvatore, R.
Weiss, Margaret

SOLVE THE CRIME
Bourne,Sam (pseudo.of Jonathan Freedlander) - Righteous Men
Bowen, Rhys - Evan Blessed (Constable Evans Mystery) Scotland
Brown, Rita Mae - Puss 'n Cahoots: A Mrs Murphy Mystery
Burke, James Lee - some very harsh both M & Fic
Chandler, Raymond - (Philip Marlowe) M
Christie, Agatha M
Clark, Mary Higgins Fic
Cook, Robin - Medical Fic
Cornwell, Patricia M (early books better than later ones)
Coulter, Catherine = Knock Out, an FBI thriller
Davidson, Diane Mott- chef M
Francis, Dick - Horse Racing M
Gardner, Earle Stanley - (Perry Mason) M
Gerritsen, Tess - (Jane Rizzoli, etc) Fic
Grafton, Sue - (Kinsey Millhone) A is for Alibi M
Grimes, Martha M
Haines, Carolyn - Bones to Pick M
Hillerman, Tony - (Jim Chee/Leaphorn) M
Kellerman, Faye - (Peter Decker) M
Kellerman, Jonathan - (Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis) - mostly Fic
Lippman, Laura - Balto Sun (Tess Monaghan) M
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men - Fic
McKevett, G. A. - Fat Free and Fatal - M
Mortimer, John - (Rumpole at Old Bailey) M
Mosley, Walter - (Easy Rawlings) M Black
Parker, Robert B - (Spenser & Hawk) Fic
Patterson, James - (Alex Cross) Fic
Perry, Anne - Execution Dock (Victorian London - policeman Wm.Monk)
Perry, Anne - (Thomas Pitt) M
Peters, Ellis - (Brother Cadfeal) M
Sanders, Lawrence - (Archy McNally) M & Fic
Sanford, John - Dark of the Moon
Stabenow, Dana - A Grave Denied M (Alaska)
Stout, Rex - (Nero Wolfe) M
Truman, Margaret - (Murder at ....) M
Unger, Lisa - Sliver of Truth Fic
Wood, Stuart - (Stone Barrington) Fic

POPULAR WITH WOMEN
Balogh, Mary - Simply Unforgettable (Regency England romance)
Berg, Elizabeth - The Art of Mending
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Brown, Sandra - relationships - some mystery
Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a Pearl Earring; The Virgin Blue
Courter, Gay Midwife
Delinsky, Barbara - Family Tree
Garwood, Julie
Gregory, Philippa - The Other Boleyn Girl
Pilcher, Rosamonde
Plain, Belva
Rosnay, Tatiana de - Sarah's Key
Roberts, Nora -solve the mystery Fic (Also Robb, J. D. M )
Steel, Danielle Fic
Trigiani, Adriana - Home to Big Stone Gap Fic

SUSPENSE / THRILLERS
Baldacci, David - (Oliver Stone & Camel Club)-Stone Cold - political Fic
DeMille, Nelson - suspense Plum Island Fic
Flynn, Vince - Consent to Kill (CIA/political)
Follett, Ken - suspense Fic
Rankin, Ian - Blood Hunt Fic (Scottish Gordon Reeve)
White, Randy Wayne - Hunter's Moon Fic

WEIRD/DIFFERENT
Koontz, Dean - (Odd Thomas) Fic
Child, Lincoln - Deep Storm Fic (what's under the ocean) 07
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games
Collins, Suaenne - Catching Fire

NON-FICTION
Ackerman, Diane - The Zookeeper's Wife
Adams, Cindy - The Gift of Jazzy
Albom, Mitch - Have a Little Faith
Albom, Mitch - Tuesdays with Morrie
Ambrose, Stephen - Undaunted Courage (Meriwether Lewis)
Anderson, Allen & Linda - Horses with a Mission
Aslan, Reza - How to Win a Cosmic War 09
Berendt, John - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt, John - The City of Falling Angels (Venice)
Bowker, Michael - Fatal Deception, Untold Story of Asbestos
Bradley, James - Flags of Our Fathers (Iwo Jima)
Brokaw, Tom - A Long Way from Home
Browne, Sylvia - Life on the Other Side etc
Bryson, Bill - Walk in the Woods etc
Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret 07
Cahill, Thomas - Gifts of the Jews
Carson, Ben - Gifted Hands
Carter, Jimmy - Up Before Dawn
Carter, Jimmy - Christmas in Plains
Casey, Susan - The Devil’s Teeth (obscession/survival sharks)
Conway, Jill - Road from Coorain
Cronkite, Walter - A Reporter’s Life
Crystal, Billy - 700 Sundays
Dorsey, Pat - The Little Book that Builds Wealth
Egan, Timothy - The Big Burn, Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America
Edelman, Ric - Rescue Your Money
Ephron, Nora - I Feel Bad About My Neck & Other Thoughts ....
Epping, Randy Charles - The 21st Century Economy
Esfandiari, Haleh - My Prison, My Home (Iran)
Finkel, David - The Good Soldiers
Friedman, Thomas - World is Flat 05
Friedman, Thomas - Lexus and the Olive Tree 99
Friedman, Thomas - Longitudes & Attitudes 02
Gladwell, Malcolm - Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Gladwell, Malcolm - Outliers
Gladwell, Malcolm - The Tipping Point
Graham, Katherine - Personal History
Green, Alexander - The Secret of Shelter Island
Grothe, Mardy - Ifferisms
Hautzig, Esther - The Endless Steppe J & Ya
Hillenbrand - Seabiscuit
Ivins, Molly - (any books - she’s funny - political)
Johnson, Spencer - Who Moved My Cheese?
Junger, Sebastian - The Perfect Storm
Katz, Jon - A Good Dog
Kidder, Tracy Mountains Beyond Mountains - (Dr. Paul Farmer)
Kinder, Gary - Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (search 1857 ship)
Kingsolver, Barbara - Small Wonder - Essays
Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air
Krakauer, Jon - Into the Wild (Chris McCandless death in Alaska)
Krakauer, Jon - Under the Banner of Heaven (Mormans)
Lange, Henrik - 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry (cartoons)
Larson, Erik - Isaac’s Storm
Larson, Erik - Devil in the White City (Chicago World’s Fair)
Lefler, Carol - When You Lie About Your Age ...
Levitt, Steven - Freakonomics
- Super Freakonomics
Livingston, Gordon - Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Maraniss, David - When Pride Still Mattered (Vince Lombardi
Markham, Beryl - West with the Night
Maas, Peter - The Terrible Hours (submarine rescue)
McBride, James - Song Yet Sung
McCain, John - Faith of my Fathers
McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes
McCourt, Frank - Teacher Man
McCullough, David - various biographies
McGough, Matthew - Bat Boy ..... New York Yankees
Meller, William - Evolution Rx
Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea
Nasar, Sylvia - A beautiful Mind (John Nash)
Paris, Stephen - Forecast
Paul, Ron - End the Fed
Pausch, Randy - Last Lecture
Philbrick, Nathaniel - Mayflower
Philbrick, Nathaniel - In the Heart of the Sea (whaleship Essex)
Pilkington, Doris - Rabbit Proof Fence
Powell, Colin - My American Journey
Quindlen, Anna - Loud and Clear
Rather, Dan - I Remember
Rawicz, Slavomir - The Long Walk
Ricks, Thomas - The Gamble .. military..Iraq ..06-08
Rubin, Susan - The Cat with the Yellow Star (WW II Terezin Camp)
Rusesabagina, Paul - An Ordinary Man (Rwandan genocide in 94)
Russert, Tim - Big Russ and Me
Sandel, Michael - Justice, What's the Right Thing to Do 09
Shell, Ellen Ruppel - Cheap, the High Cost of Discount Culture
Sherwood, Ben - The Survivors Club
Siegel, Jeremy - Future for Investors 05
Siegel, Jeremy - Stocks for the Long Run 08
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks With my Brother
Stanley, Thomas - The Millionaire Next Door
Stahl, Leslie - Reporting Live
Stossel, John - Give Me a Break
Sullenberger, Capt. "Sully" - Highest Duty - My Search for What Really Matters
Suskind, Ron - Hope in the Unseen (Cedric Jennings) (One Maryland, One Book)
Susanka - The Not So Small House
Taylor and Nicola - The Secret of Priest's Grotto (Jews in Ukraine hide in cave for over 1 year - read only for unusual story)
Tolle, Eckhart - Guardians of Being (drawings & few words) (live in now)
Tucker, Neely - Love in the Driest Season 2004
Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle (Biog.)
Winchester, Simon - The Professor & the Madman (Oxford Eng. Dic)

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