Library top 10

Here are the top-10 most-requested books at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., for the week of Oct. 19 through Oct. 25: “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown. “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” by Audrey Niffenegger. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett. ...

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  • ‘9 Dragons’ (Books) • ‘Dracula: The Un-Dead’ (Books) • The Swell Season (Music)
• The science of writing: KU grad in medicinal chemistry shifts gears to write novel
  A young woman walked along a beach in a dream, and Ann Warner was hooked. Who was she? Where was she going? Warner, a Ph.D. graduate from Kansas University and celebrated scholar, left the ivory tower of academia to find out.
• Creative writing collection by inmates helps participants find common ground
  A full literary cycle. That’s what Americorps volunteer Paige Blair calls the recent six-page publication of collected short stories, poems and essays created by female inmates at the Douglas County Jail.
• ‘Building of distinction’: New book explores KU’s Spooner Hall
  Even before he walked in, Kansas University architecture professor Barry Newton could tell Spooner Hall was special.

• Poet's Showcase: ‘The Myth of Stull, Kansas’
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• A marriage shown dissolving like the Dickens
• Monster success: When life is in tumult, pop-cult goes undead
• Poet's Showcase: ‘Prelude’
• Journal-World sponsoring contest for National Novel Writing Month
• Author Max Lucado talks about his Christian writings
• Missionary Gracia Burnham to speak