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covertocover2.jpg (13693 bytes) Library staff members Kim Bui-Burton and Jeanne McCombs review and recommend good books for your reading enjoyment on Cover to Cover, which can be viewed on Channel 25 daily at 6:30 p.m.

The Library offers streaming video of selected Cover to Cover segments. Click here to view past shows.

Availability of each item discussed during the program may be checked by clicking on its title below.

Click here for a list of past titles discussed.

July 2008 The Book vs. The Movie	View this show VIDEO HELP
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

June 2008 Book vs. Movie Throwdown	View this show VIDEO HELP
"The Bear came Over the Mountain" (short story from Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Russia House by John Le Carre

May 2008 Reader's Choice	View this show VIDEO HELP
Consequences by Penelope Lively
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
One Around the Track by Sharyn McCrumb
The Photograph by Penelope Lively

Apr 2008 Love and Romance	View this show VIDEO HELP
Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear by Jonathan London
The Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner
The Essential Rumi
A Few Thousand Words about Love by Mickey Pearlman
Hazel’s Amazing Mother by Rosemary Wells
I Love You, Sun I Love You, Moon by Karen Pandell
Love and Survival by Dean Ornish
Love’s a Sweet by Clyde Watson
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea by Cynthia Rylant
Thirst by Mary Oliver
True love: a Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh

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