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LISTS: Post-punk

Boys Don't Cry alternative album coverPost-punk is a rock music genre that can be considered punk’s artsy, more experimental little sister. Eventually, the white noise, synthesizers and moodiness of post-punk turned into new wave, industrial, and alternative rock.

For post-punk albums, click here.

By Readers' Advisor on May 24, 2013 Categories: Lists, Music

LISTS: Canadian TV Series

Slings and Arrows DVD coverEveryone knows that once you get sick of American TV, you try the BBC, but who do you turn to once you’ve torn through British TV, too? Try Canadian TV!

Click here for some of the best Canadian TV shows the Library has to offer.

By Readers' Advisor on May 17, 2013 Categories: Lists, Movies and Television

LISTS: Latin American Lit

Hundred Years of Solitude book coverWhen was the last time you tried a non-U.S. author? Latin American literature spans the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, to the lush, character-driven style of Isabel Allende, to the intricate, gritty plots of Roberto Bolano.

Click here to explore Latin American literature.

By Readers' Advisor on May 10, 2013 Categories: Books, Lists

LISTS: If You Like Lilian Jackson Braun

Double Booked for Death book coverLilian Jackson Braun wrote cozy mysteries with laid-back pacing and a cast of colorful feline and human characters. If you’ve made your way through all of her “Cat Who…” series, how about trying something new?

Click here for authors similar to Lilian Jackson Braun.

By Readers' Advisor on May 3, 2013 Categories: Books, Lists, Mysteries/Thrillers/Suspense

LISTS: For METAL!!! Maniacs

No Remorse album cover“We want to be the band that if we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die,” said Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead. From hair bands to thrash to Finnish folk death metal, the Library has your heavy metal needs covered.

For metal movies and books, click here.
Click here for classic metal bands.
Click here for 80s metal bands.
Click here for contemporary metal.

By Readers' Advisor on April 26, 2013 Categories: Books, Lists, Movies and Television, Music

LISTS: Hip Hop

Decoded book coverIn his book Decoded, Jay-Z said, “Hip-hop has always been controversial, and for good reason…The music is meant to be provocative – which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it’s dense with multiple meanings. Great rap should have all kinds of unresolved layers that you don’t necessarily figure out the first time you listen to it. Instead it plants dissonance in your head.”

Click here for albums from the golden age of hip hop.
If you want to read Jay-Z’s Decoded or other nonfiction about rap, click here.
In the mood for a novel? Click here for fiction involving hip hop.

By Readers' Advisor on April 19, 2013 Categories: Books, Lists, Music, Nonfiction

LISTS: If You Like Nicholas Sparks

Fireworks Over Toccoa book coverThe Notebook, Dear John, The Last Song, The Lucky One – all of these movies are based on books written by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks has a penchant for penning bittersweet love stories. He can make you reach for the Kleenex box as easily as send your heart aflutter.

If you have already seen and read what Nicholas Sparks has out there and want to explore similar authors, click here.

By Readers' Advisor on April 12, 2013 Categories: Books, Lists

LISTS: Contemporary War Fiction

Fobbit book coverRecently the U.S. passed the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq War. The U.S. continues to see effects from the War in Afghanistan as well. One of the results of both conflicts has been the creation of fiction – from thrillers to quiet stories of PTSD.

Click here for novels revolving around the Iraq War and here for fiction involving the War in Afghanistan.

By Readers' Advisor on April 5, 2013 Categories: Books, Lists

LISTS: Fairy Tales for Adults

Brothers Grimm DVD coverBeing a grown up can be a drag…but living in a world where a simple walk in the woods can turn magical, where beasts and mirrors can talk, and to-do lists include epic adventures, evil witches, and brothers named Grimm – now that is living.

Click here for fairy tale books and here for fairy tale movies aimed at adults.

By Readers' Advisor on March 29, 2013 Categories: Books, Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Lists, Movies and Television

LISTS: If You Like Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy author photoIt has been a snowy, cold winter, but Maeve Binchy’s character-driven stories of friendship and family will warm you from the inside out. Binchy (1940 – 2012) was a novelist, playwright, and columnist best known for making the lives of her everyday, usually Irish, characters undeniably absorbing to readers.

Click here for a list of leisurely-paced authors similar to Maeve Binchy, while you wait for her last novel, A Week in Winter, to come up on hold.

By Readers' Advisor on March 22, 2013 Categories: Books, Lists