Registration Form
About the Reading Program
It's Easy to Participate!
Register - Print a copy or stop by the front desk in the library or the office at the Gilmer campus.
Read - For each book you check out between May 18-July 21, your name will be entered for a prize drawing.
You might start by reading one or more of the reading program titles listed. There are multiple copies of these books available in the library, but you may read any book (or ebook) you'd like.
Post - Use social media to post recipes, cooking or nutrition tips, reviews of books or reading program events and we will enter your name for a weekly drawing and a grand prize drawing at the end of the program.
- E-mail - to library@daltonstate.edu
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- LibGuide - Recommend a title or post a recipe or tip in this LibGuide.
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Drawings - Weekly drawings will take place:
May 28, June 4,10,18,25, July 2,9,16.
The grand prize drawing will be held on July 16.
2015 Reading Program Titles
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by ISBN: 0060852569Publication Date: 2008-04-29Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
Babette's Feast (in Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard) by ISBN: 0679743332Publication Date: 1993-06-01In the classic short story "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by ISBN: 0375508414Publication Date: 2002-05-07Gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode tells her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is of two women—of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. As the past unfolds, the present—for Evelyn and for us—will never quite be the same.
Julie and Julia by ISBN: 031604251XPublication Date: 2009-07-01Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto.
The Joy Luck Club by ISBN: 0804106304Publication Date: 1990-04-30A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves.
Kitchen Confidential by ISBN: 158234082XPublication Date: 2000-05-22New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.
