Fairfax County Public Library

Booktalks - Soul Surfer

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:43:37 GMT

Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer, lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.

BookCast Interview with Nicole J. Burton

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:01:55 GMT

Raised in Great Britan, Burton set out to find her English adoptive parents at the age of 22 after her family had immigrated to the US.� Her memoir, Swimming Up the Sun, chronicles that search.

Booktalks - Curse of the Blue Tattoo

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:36:43 GMT

We first meet young Jacky disguised as a sailor and working aboard a ship. It isn't proper for a girl to be working on a ship in the 1800s and when she is found out she is put off.�Jacky soon finds herself at a prestigious boarding school in Beacon Hill.� The best of the best girls go there and Jacky just doesn't fit in.� She tries, she really does, but she just can't help herself

Booktalks - The Journey That Saved Curious George

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:39:43 GMT

The true wartime escape of Margaret and H.A.Rey.

BookCast Interview with Patrick Creed and Rick Newman

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:31:30 GMT

Patrick Creed and Rick Newman are the authors of Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11, a detailed account of the firefighters, emergency personnel and others who responded on September 11 to the airline crash at the Pentagon.

BookCast Interview with Ellen Posner

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:23 GMT

Ellen Posner recently published her first book of poetry, What's in a Feather.

Cox Local Edition "Public Art Statues"

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:21:22 GMT

Kathryn Falk of Cox Local Edition interviews Joan Kane, Chairman, Fairfax Library Foundation, about the Foundations's "Public Art Statues" project.

BookCast Interview with Bill Farrell

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:24:53 GMT

Bill Farrell is the author of Walter's Pond: The True Story of Three Brothers Who Went Fishing for Trouble, an early reader in verse.

Comcast Art In The Pages

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:31:38 GMT

Bobbie Longworth, Executive Director of the Fairfax Library Foundation, is interviewed by Tony Hill of Comcast Newsmakers about the Foundation's Art In The Pages statues.

BookCast Interview with Alison Larkin

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:55:40 GMT

Alison Larkin, classical actor, playwright and fiction writer is the author of The English American, published in March 2008.

BookCast Interview with Matt Dembicki

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:30:41 GMT

Matt Dembicki publishes the award-winning small-press comics Attic Wit and Mr. Big. His work has appeared in numerous comics anthologies, including the SPX (Small Press Expo) Anthology, Show & Tell and Stripburger (an alternative comics' anthology from Slovenia).

BookCast Interview with Ginny Malliet and Mary Ann Corrigan

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:45:04 GMT

Corrigan and Malliet are local mystery writers who have contributed to Chesapeake Crimes 3, an anthology of stories set in the Chesapeake Bay regions of Maryland and Virginia.

CNN and Cox "Public Art Statues" clip

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:29:31 GMT

Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Chair, talks with Kathryn Falk about public art statues.

Celebrate Fairfax

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:26:17 GMT

Celebrate Fairfax includes the Fairfax Library Foundation.

BookCast Interview with James A. Percoco

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:28:58 GMT

James A. Percoco is a nationally recognized and award-winning history teacher and has taught at West Springfield High School in Springfield, Va., since 1980. He is also currently History-Educator-in-Residence at American University in Washington, D.C.

BookCast Interview with Pamela Edwards

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:58:10 GMT

Edwards, a former school librarian and preschool teacher, is the author of more than 45 children's picture books.

BookCast Interview with Austin Camacho

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:30:21 GMT

Camacho is the author of four detective novels in the Hannibal Jones series and other action-adventure novels. He is past president of the Maryland Writers Association and teaches writing courses at Anne Arundel Community College.

BookCast Interview with Andrew Shipley

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:29:51 GMT

Andrew Shipley is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has published his first novel, The Messenger. The novel explores the consequences of blurring the lines between church and state.

BookCast Interview with Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:20:37 GMT

Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel are authors of the syndicated USA Today column, "Common Ground".

BookCast Interview with Michael Scheuer

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:00:14 GMT

This special edition of BookCast features exerpts from an interview with Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit. Scheuer is a veteran CIA counterterrorism analyst and the author of the recent book Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq.

Bookcast Interview with Robin Gerber

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:50:53 GMT

Gerber is a motivational speaker and author of Eleanor vs. Ike, her first book of fiction.

Ch 9 'Art in the Pages' Clip

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:05:48 GMT

Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Board Chair and Bobbi Longworth, Fairfax Library Foundation Executive Director are interviewed on WUSA, Channel 9 about 'Art in the Pages'.

BookCast Interview with John Sullivan

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:15:34 GMT

John F. Sullivan was a polygraph examiner with the CIA's polygraph division for more than 31 years. He is the author of the recent Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner.

BookCast Interview with Jabari Asim

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:57:20 GMT

Asim is editor-in-chief of The Crisis Magazine, published by the NAACP. He is a syndicated columnist and former deputy editor for the Washington Post's Book World. His work has appeared in "Essence," "Salon" and the "L.A. Times."

BookCast Interview with Lori Smith

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:27:39 GMT

Lori Smith is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Washingtonian and Today's Christian Woman. She is author of The Single Truth and Walking with Jane Austen. She is also the creator of the popular literary blog Jane Austen Quote of the Day.

BookCast Interview with John Bolton

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:36:08 GMT

John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, is the author of Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the U.N. and Abroad.

CNN and Cox 'Art In The Pages' Clip

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:10:34 GMT

Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Board Chair is interviewed by Kathryn Falk on CNN Cox Local Edition.

BookCast Interview with Alice McGill

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:38:56 GMT

Alice McGill is an award-winning author and storyteller. Her first book Molly Bannaky is based on one of her favorite stories. It was an ALA Notable Book in 2000 and won the 2000 Jane Addams Peace Award; International Reading Award; 2000 Skipping Stones Award; and 2001 Living the Dream Award.

McGill was born in a small farming community in North Carolina where in nearby Scotland Neck, "people still park in the middle of the street." She attended a four-room school with her five brothers and two sisters. Storytelling and reading were favorite pastimes in her home.

BookCast Interview with Andrew Zhang

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:32:29 GMT

Zhang is the author of the novel, Memories of an Eastern Sky, which he wrote while a member of a library-sponsored writing group at the Kingstowne Library. He will be giving a reading from the novel at the branch at noon on Feb. 9.

Born during the Cultural Revolution, Andrew Zhang worked as a freelance writer with articles published in several major Chinese newspapers prior to coming to the U.S. in 1996. His career in the U.S. focused on technical writing and software engineering before he began writing Memories of an Eastern Sky in 2005.

BookCast Interview with Adjoa Burrowes

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:53:17 GMT

Burrowes has illustrated 17 books, as well as puzzles, posters and greeting cards using her signature cut-paper collage technique.Her latest book, Grandma's Purple Flowers, which she both wrote and illustrated, was an American Booksellers Association (ABA) Kids Pick of the List winner, a Bank Street College Kids Book of the Year selection and a first-place winner of the 2001 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.

She will be at the 2008 African-American Read-In at 3 p.m. February 3 at the Sherwood Regional Library.

The Curse of the Blue Tattoo

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:56:39 GMT

A synopsis of The Curse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer

BookCast Interview with Maria Petringa

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:14:52 GMT

Maria Petringa is the author of Brazza, A Life for Africa, the biography of a humanitarian 19th-century explorer. She became interested in her subject while living in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and wondered why the town was named for a white colonial.

Born in Boston, a graduate of Harvard and the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Petringa has spent her adult life in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. She has worked as a teacher and translator, and is now a non-fiction writer and art critic. She lives in Paris.

BookCast Interview with Ellen Byerrum

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:37:46 GMT

A journalist, Ellen Byerrum has written five books in the Crime of Fashion series, including Killer Hair, Designer Knockoff, Hostile Makeovers, Raiders of the Lost Corset, and Grave Apparel. The books feature sleuth Lacey Smithsonian who "strides through her mysteries in high heels and knockout vintage suits" in DC, "the city that fashion forgot."

She will be at the Martha Washington Library at 7 p.m. on January 28 for a program and book signing.

BookCast Interview with Chef Roland Mesnier

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:51:21 GMT

Roland Mesnier served as Executive Pastry Chef at the White House from 1979, when he was hired by Rosalynn Carter, until 2004. He served under five presidents.

He is the author of a memoir, All the President's Pastries, as well as recipe books such as Roland Mesnier's Basic to Beautiful Cakes and Dessert University.

BookCast Interview with Ed Lynskey

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:09:16 GMT

Local mystery writer Ed Lynskey lives in Annandale, Virginia. He is the author of the recently published, The Blue Cheer and The Dirt Brown Derby, both feature his P.I. Frank Johnson.

BookCast Interview on Fairfax County Stories:1607-2007

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:30:19 GMT

Fairfax County Stories: 1607 - 2007 is the legacy book project produced by the Fairfax County 2007 Community Citizen Planning Committee to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va.

BookCast Interview with Elizabeth Scott

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:25:44 GMT

Elizabeth Scott's first young adult novel Bloom was published in April 2007. Two additional titles will be released in 2008, Perfect You and Stealing Heaven.

BookCast Interview with Vincent Lee-Thorp

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:28:00 GMT

Vincent Lee-Thorp worked as a mechanical and electrical engineer in Washington, D.C. for forty-five years. His book, Washington Engineered, follows the evolution of Washington D.C. from the first ferries across the Potowmack River in 1740 to the building of railroads, subways, the President's House and the formation of NASA.

BookCast Interview with Emilie Richards

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:48:59 GMT

Emilie Richards lives in Arlington, VA and is the author of more than 50 books, most of them romance and family dramas. Richards has received a number of awards, including the RITA from the Romance Writers of America.

BookCast Interview with Tom Jones

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:59:12 GMT

Author Tom Jones spent 11 years in the NASA astronaut program and made four trips into space. He spent 52 days orbiting earth and 19 hours outside the spacecraft "skywalking", 200 miles from Earth, with the craft orbiting at 17,000 miles per hour.

In addition to Skywalking, Jones has coauthored The Complete Idiot's Guide to NASA as well as two books on space and history for young people.

BookCast Interview with Mary Lyons

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:07:45 GMT

Mary Lyons, a reading specialist and school librarian for 23 years, is the author of 18 books for young people, including the recently published Letters From a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs, a companion to her 1992 book, Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs.

BookCast Interview with Patrick O'Donnell

Thu, 17 May 2007 20:38:45 GMT

Combat historian Patrick O'Donnell is the author of four books. He was a historical consultant for DreamWorks' award-winning mini-series "Band of Brothers," and for documentaries produced by the BBC, Fox News, and The History Channel.

BookCast Interview with Kay Karim

Fri, 04 May 2007 15:30:54 GMT

Kay Karim, author of An Iraqi Family Cookbook, was born in Mosul in northern Iraq, but grew up in Baghdad and immigrated to the U.S. in 1968. She is now the head of children's services at a branch of the Fairfax County Public Library.

BookCast Interview with Kalli Dakos

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:28:52 GMT

Kalli Dakos, a former Fairfax County Public School teacher, is the author (with her daughter, Alicia DesMarteau) of Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig, about a pig named Hamlet who speaks in Shakespearean verse. Dakos has written more than 2,000 poems about life in elementary school classrooms. She now travels the country giving a workshop called "A Celebration of Life in the Classroom," which encourages literacy through poetry and play.

Woodrow Wilson Opening Ceremony

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:58:06 GMT

Remarks from the 1967 Opening Ceremony of the Woodrow Wilson Library.

BookCast Interview with John C. Wright

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:40:20 GMT

John C. Wright has written seven books in three sci-fi or fantasy series. After The Golden Age was published, Publishers Weekly called Wright "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent." Orphans of Chaos was a finalist for the Nebula Award.

Wright lives in Centreville, VA with his wife, science fiction writer L. Jagi Lamplighter, and three children.

BookCast Interview with Ellen Crosby

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:36:15 GMT

Ellen Crosby is the author of The Merlot Murders, set in a fictional winery in northern Virginia where she now lives. The second book in the series, The Chardonnay Charade, is scheduled for release in August 2007, and two more books are planned for the series.

BookCast Interview with Bob Gallagher

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:18:24 GMT

Bob Gallagher is a former freelance sports writer, who now works for the Fairfax County Public Library. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Baseball Digest, the Redskins Report and the old Washington Star. He is the author of "Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express."

BookCast Interview with John Gilstrap

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:00:08 GMT

John Gilstrap is the author of four thrillers, Scott Free, Even Steven, At All Costs and Nathan's Run. His most recent book, Six Minutes to Freedom, was written with Karl Muse, and is a non-fiction account of how Muse, a U.S. civilian, was rescued from prison in Noriega's Panama by the U.S. Army's Delta Force.

BookCast Interview with Sharon Cavileer

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:32:12 GMT

Interview with Sharon Cavileer

BookCast Interview with Kathryn Caskie

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:44:40 GMT

Kathryn Caskie is a former magazine editor, TV producer, and copywriter for radio and TV commercials. She began writing romances when her family moved to a 200-year-old Quaker home in the Virginia Blue Ridge and Caskie became interested in 19th-century history.Her debut novel, Rules of Engagement, won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for Best Long Historical Romance Manuscript.

BookCast Interview with Sharon Bulova, Mary Lipsey and John Browne

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:43:17 GMT

Braddock's True Gold: 20th-Century Life in the Heart of Fairfax County by Marion Meany and Mary Lipsey began in October, 2004 as a series of three programs entitled "A Look Back at Braddock: The Miniseries," sponsored by Sharon Bulova, the Braddock District representative on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.

BookCast Interview with John Lubetkin

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:43:13 GMT

M. John Lubetkin is the author of Jay Cooke's Gamble, the story of how Cooke's financing of the Northern Pacific Railroad reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873.

He is the 2004 recipient of the Little Bighorn Associates' Lawrence A. Frost Award

BookCast Interview with Melanie Jeschke

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:05:45 GMT

Melanie Jeschke is the author of three historical romances in her Oxford Chronicles series: Inklings (2004); Expectations (2005); and Evasions (2006). The novels are set during the period when both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were at Oxford University in Great Britain.

BookCast Interview with Caroline Kettlewell

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:51:20 GMT

Caroline Kettlewell is a freelance reporter whose articles have appeared in The Washington Post. She has had two books published: Skin Games, a memoir about self-injury, and the narrative non-fiction book Electric Dreams, which has been adapted into a script for a film.

BookCast Interview with Sam Clay

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:33:33 GMT

This interview introduces the host of the Fairfax County Public Library's BookCast series, Sam Clay. Mr. Clay is the Director of the Fairfax County Public Library in Virginia.