Fairfax County Public Library

Comcast Local Edition - Tutor.com

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:05:07 GMT

Comast Local Edition interviews Lydia Patrick, Director of Internet Services for the Fairfax County Public Library, about Tutor.com.

BookCast Interview with Kevin Garrahan

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:15 GMT

Kevin Garrahan, a sixth-grade teacher at Louise Archer Elementary School in Vienna, has published his first book -- "Third House Down Hidden Cove", a novel for preteens.

BookCast Interview with Kathyrn Erskine

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:32:05 GMT

Kathyrn Erskine's first young adult novel "Quaking" is a Virginia Reader Choice Master List selection. It is the story of Goth teen Matilda (Matt), who has experienced a traumatic childhood. Things change after she is taken in by a peaceful Quaker family during the divisive days of war in the Middle East.

BookCast Interview with David Rothman

Mon, 18 May 2009 21:03:23 GMT

David Rothman is the author of six non-fiction books and a native of the Washington area. "The Solomon Scandals" is his first novel and is based on his work as a local investigative reporter in the 1970s.

BookCast Interview with Sara Rosett

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:08:46 GMT

Sara Rosett is the author of four books in her Mom Zone mystery series that features military spouse turned detective Ellie Avery.

BookCast Interview with Alan Gropman

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:58:15 GMT

Alan Gropman, author of The Air Force Integrates, is a retired Air Force colonel who served for 27 years and flew 650 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy at the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

BookCast Interview with Hal Fleming

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:14:44 GMT

Hal Fleming has worked for the Peace Corps, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, UNICEF and the US Mission to the United Nations. Fleming's novel, "The Brides' Fair" is a novel of intrigue set in the North Atlas mountains of Morocco among the Berbers. The Brides' Fair is an actual event among these tribal people where communal bridal fairs are common.

BookCast Interview with Solveig Eggerz

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:46:50 GMT

Eggerz has lived in Alexandria since 1974. She has worked as a journalist and professor of writing and research. Her first novel, Seal Woman, was published in May 2008 by Ghost Road Press.

Booktalks - The Legend of Spud Murphy

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:13:08 GMT

It's summertime and Will and Marty have been ordered to spend educational time at the library. "Don't make us join the library, Dad! It's dangerous!" whines Marty. "Dangerous?" replies Dad. "It's not the library," Marty whispered, "it's the librarian!"

BookCast Interview with Laura Elliott

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:57:48 GMT

Laura Malone Elliott, who also writes as L.M. Elliott, is the author of a number of books for preschoolers, middle grade students and young adults.

Booktalks - Red Kayak

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:56:51 GMT

Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

BookCast Interview with Charles Krohn

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:37:27 GMT

A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Charles Krohn is a military writer and a combat veteran of Vietnam. He first published The Lost Battalion of Tet: Breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue in 1993.

BookCast Interview with Richard Stillson

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:31:05 GMT

"Spreading the Word: a History of Information in the California Gold Rush" examines the ways in which easterners who traveled west during the California gold rush of 1849-51 obtained, assessed and used information.

The Serpent Came to Gloucester

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:17:03 GMT

In 1817 on a normal August day the entire town of Gloucester saw a slithering, swimming sea serpent They all said it they saw it. But is it true. Do you believe?

Booktalks - Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:10:09 GMT

Steven Appler was a pretty typical eighth grader, until his little brother is diagnosed with lukemia. With his family's attention focused on his little brother Steven turn to drumming, spending hours and hours practicing in his basement. What sounds like a sad book about a family in crisis, is also a very funny book that shows how life goes on even when you have big problems.

Booktalks - Project Mulberry

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:11:44 GMT

Julia Song is the daughter of Korean immigrants and she wants desperately to fit in with her 7th grade friends. She and her best friend Patrick decide to raise silkworms as a science project. In time they become like pets to her, and she is horrified when she discovers she has to kill them to get the silk. Read Project Mulberry to find out if Julia is able to sacrifice her pets for her science project.

Booktalks - Mr. Maxwell's Mouse

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:02:05 GMT

Mr. Howard Maxwell is what one would call a FAT Cat but it seems that all that money and good living has made Howard more than a little soft. Today he's feeling a little frisky. Today he decides to break his routine. Today this sophistacat who is used to things going exactly as he planned is in for a rude surprise.

BookCast Interview with Barbara O'Kane

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:53:18 GMT

Barbara O'Kane is a scientist who has spent the last 30 years working with a thermal-imaging camera. Using her own photos, she has authored a children's book, Seeing Heat, which explains the concepts of heat, light and energy to children.

Booktalks - Montmorency

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:41:17 GMT

Until he was caught, he'd been a petty thief living on the bottom rung of London's ladder of lowlifes. By the time he was released, Prisoner 493 had figured out how to live two lives, both supported by crime. As Montmorency, he would be a gentleman, wealthy, cultured, privileged. As Scarper, he would be a sewer rat and a burglar, and Montmorency's servant, who crept out at night to steal and vanish, only to steal again.

Booktalks - Double Identity

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:03:12 GMT

Left by her parents, Bethany tries to adjust to her life with Aunt Myrlie. When she uncovers some dark secrets about her family she gets the shock of her life.

BookCast Interview with Fred Bowen

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:05:58 GMT

Fred Bowen writes sports fiction for kids 8 and up. He has written five books on baseball and four on basketball. His most recent book is Winners Take All.

Booktalks - Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:41:23 GMT

Join Clemency Pogue in an adventure to help bring fairies back to life!

BookCast Interview with Stefan Fatsis

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:23:39 GMT

Stefan Fatsis has been a reporter and sportswriter for the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal. He is a regular sports commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered" and has also appeared on CNBC, ESPN and other networks.

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.

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 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 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 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.