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Every week we'll bring you a list of new and featured books available at Gwinnett County Public Libraries. Reserve titles online at gwinnettpl.org and they'll be sent to the closest branch for pick up.Just because the economy is in a slump, doesn't mean you have to sit there and take it. These popular business books will provide information, and inspiration, for the CEO within. Put them on hold at Gwinnettpl.org, then pick them up at the Peachtree Corners branch. 1. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses 2. How to Start a Home-based Mail Order Business 3. Top 100 Careers Without a Four-Year Degree, 10th Ed: Your Complete Guidebook to Good Jobs in Many Fields 4. All I Know About Management I Learned From my Dog 5. A …
Can't stand to read one more predictable thriller? The Gwinnett Public Libraries circulations department has "bookmarked" these completely unique reads from debut or literary writers. Check them out at gwinnettpl.org, then have them sent to the library's Peachtree Corners branch for pick up. 1. The Barbarian Nurseries By Hector Tobar 2. Bent Road By Lori Roy 3. Warm Bodies: A novel By Isaac Marion 4. I Knew You'd Be Lovely: Stories By Alethea Black 5. Farishta By Patricia McArdle 6. Rules of Civility By Amor Towles 7. Turn of Mind By Alice Laplante 8. Death at the Château Bremont: A Verlaque …
I'm sure I'm not the first one to tell you that science is really cool. These books, which you can put on hold at gwinnettpl.org and pick up at the Peachtree Corners branch, help make a little more sense of the world. 1. Backyard Birding: Using natural gardening to attract birds 2. Math for Grownups By Laura Laing 3. Feathers: The evolution of a natural miracle By Thor Hanson 4. Everyday Math Tricks for Grown-Ups: Shortcuts and Simple Solutions for the Not-So-Math Minded 5. Annoying: The science of what bugs us By Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman 6. The Book of Fungi: A life-size guide to six …
Every week, we bring you great books available for check out at your local branch of the Gwinnett Public Library. Put them on hold at gwinnettpl.org then have them sent to your closest branch. Inspired by Sports Center-watching dads everywhere--most of whom are, lets face it, armchair athletes--we bring you stories about sports and the incredible people who play them. 1. At the Fights: American writers on boxing Edited By George Kimball & John Schulian 2. 56: Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports By Kostya Kennedy 3. Eat, Sleep, Ride: How I braved bears, badlands, and big …
Can't afford to travel but can afford to gawk? The Peachtree Corners library has travel DVDs that will make your jaw drop--and might even inspire you to break the bank. Go to gwinnettpl.org to reserve, then pick them up at your nearest branch. 1. Nigeria 2. Morocco 3. The Balkans 4. Micronesia & Pacific Islands 5. Madrid 6. Nepal 7. Route 66 8. French Riviera 9. Egypt 10. Greece
Go to gwinnettpl.org to check out these books that offer incredible stories about some well known people and some you may never have heard of. Then have them sent to the Peachtree Corners library to pick up and enjoy. 1. What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years By Ricky Riccardi 2. The House in France: A Memoir By Gully Wells 3. There Are Things I Want You to Know about Stieg Larsson and Me By Eva Gabrielsson 4. Sean Connery: A Biography By Christopher Bray 5. A Man from Another Land : How finding my roots changed my life By Isaiah Washington 6. Innocent Spouse : A…
