green_day_wallpaper_by_jerome1234-d2w7q8dIt’s Music Monday again and time to explore a little Music@Library tune. This one is by Green Day and is called “At the Library” it’s from the band’s first album 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. It’s a great, happy, punky beat about noticing and falling for a girl in the library. Love found at the library … it’s a familiar tale. Enjoy!

This clip is of Green Day playing “At the Library” in Birmingham, England in October of 2009.

And here’s the band performing “At the Library” back in their early years at Pinole Valley High School in May 1990.

Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band led by and guitarist/vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool.

“At The Library” Lyrics:
Hey there lookin’ at me
Tell me what do you see
But you quickly turn your head away
Try to find the words I could use
Don’t have the courage to come up to you
My chance is looking a bit grey

Staring across the room
Are you leaving soon?
I just need a little time

What is it that drives me mad
Girls like you that I never had
What is it about you that I adore?
What makes me feel so much pain?
That makes me go so insane
What is it about you that I adore?

Staring across the room
Are you leaving soon?
I just need a little time

Why did you have to leave so soon?
Why did you have to walk away?
Oh well it happened again
She walked away with her boyfriend
Maybe we’ll meet again someday.
Music performed by Green Day. Artwork from Jerome Pring-Ellis.

dreamnewsdreamDream New Dreams is a remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer. For Lunch Lit today we are thrilled to bring you the DREAM NEW DREAMS excerpt and reading group guide.

“Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself,” Randy Pausch wrote about his wife. “Jai knows that she’ll have to give herself permission to make herself a priority.”
In Dream New Dreams, Jai Pausch shares her own story for the first time: her emotional journey from wife and mother to full-time caregiver, shuttling between her three young children and Randy’s bedside as he sought treatment far from home; and then to widow and single parent, fighting to preserve a sense of stability for her family, while coping with her own grief and the challenges of running a household without a partner.
Jai paints a vivid, honest portrait of a vital, challenging relationship between two strong people who faced a grim prognosis and the self-sacrificing decisions it often required. As she faced life without the husband she called her “magic man,” Jai learned to make herself a priority to create a new life of hope and happiness-as she puts it, to “feel a spark of my own magic beginning to flicker.”
Dream New Dreams is a powerful story of grief, healing, and newfound independence. With advice artfully woven into an intimate, beautifully written narrative, Jai’s story will inspire not only the legions of readers who made The Last Lecture a bestseller, but also those who are embarking on a journey of loss and renewal themselves.

 

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crusadeMystery, intrigue, and the classic “Mr. Yum Yum” aka Indiana Jones aka Harrison “Han Solo” Ford, famed adventurer and world-known archaeologist. What more could you want in a movie? Maybe to be Annette Benning on the weekends:) In the second installment of the film series, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, our hero Indy finds himself in a many beautiful libraries. That’s what I like most about the action-packed Indiana Jones films is they are so visually pleasing.

The plot: In The Last Crusade  Indy acquires an ancient diary with mysterious clues and hints that holds and a precious map with directions to the Holy Grail. Joining him on much of this adventure is Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery), his scholarly father in Italy. In the pursuit to find the Grail the two find themselves in Nazi territory, the horror. The rescue mission soon turns bad and becomes a race to find the Holy Grail. I’m sure you know the story. If not, get thee to the film store and watch immediately.

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The exterior shots of the library were filmed in the Campo San Barnaba, Italy location on which the movie was shot in August 1988. In this first video an ambitious tourist tries to retrace Fabio Indy’s movie scenes and compiles results in this amusingly, artistic video! He points out that the grocer’s boat with the green tent, remain where they were in the late 80s. The manhole never existed. A fake one was created on purpose for the movie, and closed afterwards. Fun facts.

San Barnaba Church can be seen and the massive indoor library shown in the movie was filmed elsewhere. The remainder of the Italian-based shots were filmed in the Veneto area of Italy. The interior library shots were filmed in Elstree Studios in London as were the catacombs scenes.

Two more travel videos in Venice, film location walk throughs. Tourists having fun on sunny days in Italy, pure bliss if you ask me:

 

Temple of Doom was the first movie that was released in 1984 with The Last Crusade following up in 1989. Here’s the original film trailer with the tagline “Germany has declared war on the Jones”

homeland insecurity the onioniIt’s hilarious, but it’s news, it’s The Onion, of course. Who doesn’t love the humor, packed fun that The Onion consistently delivers each Wednesday to newsstands across America. Well, this Friday we’re extending the mock-news-week into the weekend with today’s Lunch Lit excerpt. Drum roll, please … HOMELAND INSECURITY : THE ONION COMPLETE NEWS ARCHIVE: Volume 17 excerpt is jammed full with funny.  

Hot off the reprint presses!

Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from America’s Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our country’s history ripe for further examination by America’s Finest News Source, Homeland Insecurity collects all the news reporting you were too lazy to read when it first appeared, now delivered in a handy single volume that will fit perfectly on the bookshelf of your dorm, ward, or cell. Homeland Insecurity is Volume 17 in the always bestselling and always entertaining Onion series.

The Onion is the world’s most popular humor publication, with more than 3.8 million weekly visitors to its website (theonion.com) and a print circulation of more than 500,000. More than a million copies of its various books have been sold to date, beginning with Our Dumb Century, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

The Onion is the world’s most popular humor publication, with more than 3.8 million weekly visitors to its website (theonion.com) and a print circulation of more than 500,000. More than a million copies of its various books have been sold to date, beginning with Our Dumb Century, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Heartbroken - Lisa Unger

Today for a Lunch Lit tidbit excerpt we have HEARTBROKEN by Lisa Unger. I love the opening lines to the prologue:

“Birdie Burke stood on the edge of the rock and watched the first light of morning color the sky a dusty rose. As she perched on the cold, slippery stone shore, the lake water lapped at her toes. Other than the whisper of a light breeze through the trees, there was only
the distant calling of a loon.”

Does that not sound like a pleasant way to spend the morning hours? 

HEARTBROKEN:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies, Fragile, and Darkness, My Old Friend, a shattering new thriller about the ties that bind.
Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. Adrift, and involved with the wrong man, she is being drawn into darkness, with horrific consequences. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn’t be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map: Heart Island, an idyllic place in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks, owned for generations by Birdie Burke’s family. The harsh and unyielding Birdie is at one with this island, which has a terrifying history all its own. She, too, has consequences to face.

Heartbroken is the mesmerizing story of these three women on a collision course, of an island haunted by dark memories and restless ghosts, and of the all-too-real demons we must battle. Part thriller, part ghost story, part meditation on what holds us together and keeps us apart, this is a riveting tale of family dysfunction and a ticking clock of bad deeds and even more sinister outcomes.

 Check out more of the Heartbroken exerpt here.


Join us as we cheer on our colleague, Amy Haddock, from the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group when she presents a fantastic list of authors and novels during Library Journal’s Christian Fiction Spring Book Buzz! 

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Thursday, May 10th @3pm EST!

She’s revealing new titles from perennial favorites Liz Curtis Higgs, Jane Kirkpatrick, and Cindy Woodsmall, plus many more inspirational romance novels and women’s fiction you won’t want to miss!

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genghisI’m really excited that this historical marvel of a book went up on Scribd today … We bring you for your lunch break today a Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World excerpt by Jack Weatherford. It’s a very interesting read filled with lots of factiods about Mr. G. Khan. It has some amazing maps and line drawings that are breathtaking. Check it out.

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.
“There is very little time for reading in my new job. But of the few books I’ve read, my favourite is Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (Crown Publishers, New York). It’s a fascinating book portraying Genghis Khan in a totally new light. It shows that he was a great secular leader, among other things.”
-Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India

“Reads like the Iliad. . . Part travelogue, part epic narrative.”
-Washington Post

“It’s hard to think of anyone else who rose from such inauspicious beginnings to something so awesome, except maybe Jesus.”
-Harper’s

“Weatherford’s lively analysis restores the Mongol’s reputation, and it takes wonderful learned detours. . . . Well written and full of suprises.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“Weatherford is a fantastic storyteller. . . . [His] portrait of Khan is drawn with sufficiently self-complicating depth. . . . Weatherford’s account gives a generous view of the Mongol conqueror at his best and worst.”
-Minneapolis Star Tribune

Jack Weatherford is a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers, Native Roots, Savages and Civilization, and The History of Money.
 

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO BREAKING NEWS:

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This is the only available premium edition of DRAGON TATTOO. Same book, same ISBN, new cover. Books with the new cover are available now and will start shipping immediately!

 

GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson

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978-0-679-45081-8Today we give you and excerpt of the The Fannie Farmer Cookbook Anniversary: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of America’s Great Classic cookbook. It just went up on Scribd. Fannie Farmer is a staple in my kitchen when it comes to family, wholesome cooking. It was originally published in 1896. Now that is an American classic.

By reading this excerpt I learned that “beurre manie” means “handled butter” in French. It refers to butter that is used as a thickening agent for soup that is already cooked. On this cold rainy, New York day soup sounds good. Also reading this excerpt I got great recipes for Sauteed Mushrooms on Polenta or Buttered Toast and Zucchini Pancakes. If only the fresh zucchini from my Mom’s garden were ready, I suppose I’ll have to wait til mid summer when they become huge and I may have all the zucchini pancakes I desire:(

So check out this excerpt on Scribd and get inspired to cook something yummy soon!

mymorningjacketIt’s Monday, end of day and we’d like to bring you a little music to brighten your day. So sit back and listen to “Librarian” by My Morning Jacket. This is a live performance from Austin City Limits – - – Enjoy!

Louisvilled-based My Morning Jacket is a roots/psychedelic/country indie rock band and was founded in 1998. The band consists of Jim “ Yim Yames” James (singer-songwriter, guitar), Tom ‘Two-Tone Tommy’ Blankenship (bassist), Patrick Hallahan (drummer), Carl Broemel (guitarist, pedal steel guitarist, saxophonist, vocalist), and Bo Koster (keyboardist, percussionist, vocalist).

Learn to play it yourself “Librarian” chords.

“Librarian” by My Morning Jacket

walk across the courtyard, towards the library.
i can hear the insects buzz and the leaves ‘neath my feet…

ramble up the stairwell, into the hall of books…
since we got the interweb these hardly get used.

duck into the men’s room… combing thru my hair…
when god gave us mirrors he had no idea…

looking for a lesson in the periodicals…
there i spy you listening to the AM radio…

karen of the carpenters- singing in the rain…
another lovely victim of the mirror’s evil way.
[Librarian Lyrics On http://www.elyricsworld.com/ ]
it’s not like you’re not trying, with a pencil in your har
to defy the beauty the good lord put in there…

simple little bookworm- buried underneath…
is the sexiest librarian…take off those glasses and let down your hair for me.

so i watch you thru the bookcase- imaging a scene:
you and i at dinner, spending time, then to sleep.

and what then would i say to you- lying there in bed?
these words, with a kiss, i would plant in your head:

“what is it inside our heads that makes us do the opposite?
makes us do the opposite of what’s right for us?
cause everything’d be grrreat…and everything’d be good…
if everybody gave…like everybody could.”

sweetest little bookworm. hidden underneath…
is the sexiest librarian…
take off those glasses and let your hair down for me.
take off those glasses and let your hair down for me.

simple little beauty- heaven in your breath.
the simplest of pleasures- the world at it’s best.

“Librarian” written by James Edward Olliges Jr

Lyrics copyright Chrysalis Music Group

(Photo courtesy of Austin City Limits)

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