2006 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

FICTION
March by Geraldine Brooks
HISTORY
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
BIOGRAPHY
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
POETRY
Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
GENERAL NON-FICTION
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins

For a complete listing, go to the Pulizter Prizes website.

Mystery ...Old West Style

Hop on your saddle and head out to big sky country. Meet Big Red and Old Red, two mystery solving ranch hands from Stephen Hockensmith's Holmes on the Range. Strange things are afoot at the Bar-VR ranch and the Sherlock loving Old Red drags little brother Big Red snooping around detective-style. A fun, fast paced mystery that will make you smile and conjure up images of the great Old West.

What is horror?

What makes a story a horror story? From www.wikipedia.com, it is "broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader." It has also been described as being a novel or story "that contains a monster, whether it be supernatural, human, or a metaphor for psychological torment."-Anthony Fonseca and June Pulliam, Hooked on Horror.

Some gothic novels that started horror fiction include Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), and especially Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. Of course there is Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Some more modern titles are Stephen King's Misery, Clive Barker's Imajica, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby.

Horror fiction and Gothic fiction can be interchangeable at times. Within horror fiction there are also categories like ghosts and hauntings, medical horror, psychological horror, witches, vampires, monsters, and more. Check the library catalog for the above titles and more! http://hawk.hdpl.org/catalog/ Or go to our online databases and visit Novelist to browse other categories and authors of horror fiction.

April is Jazz Apppreciation Month

The Smithsonian's 2006 Jazz Appreciation Month poster highlights Duke Ellington, composer, bandleader and pianist. Learn more about Jazz Appreciation month at the Smithsonian website and explore the materials offered on the wonderful world of jazz at any one of our Henderson libraries.

Mystery Awards Alert!

The 60th annual Edgar Awards will be handed out April 27th by the Mystery Writers of America. For Best Novel, the nominees are... The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook, Vanish by Tess Gerritsen, Drama City by George Pelecanos and Citizen by Jess Walter. For Best First Novel by an American Author the nominees include Die a Little by Megan Abbott, Immoral by Brian Freeman, Run the Risk by Scott Frost, Hide Your Eyes by Alison Gaylin and Officer Down by Theresa Schwegal. Also awarded that night, will be Breaking Faith by Jo Bannister, Dark Angel by Karen Harper and Shadow Valley by Gwen Hunter...all vying for the Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award. For more nominees, go to Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards 2006.

from Pages to Pictures in April

Guess what's been grabbed off the bookshelves to be made into film? Read up and compare to see if the movies do the books justice!

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (this film has a limited release, first starting in select theaters in California then slowly making its way across the US)

The Sentinel by Gerald Petievich (thriller involving a White House Special Agent framed for murder)

New NonFiction for April 2006

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