April Fools
Dates: 3/20/03,10:42 AM through 3/20/03,10:42 AM (1 posting)
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FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@glendaleaz.com>
REC'D: 3/20/03, 10:42 AM
Lisa
April Fools: Display Ideas compiled by Lisa Colcord of Glendale Public Library with extensive help from Fiction_L!
Display titles ideas:
April Fools
Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me. Or, Fool Me Once*
Ha! Made You Look!
Themes:
Humor, including biographies of comedians, books written by comedians, about stand-up comedy, sit-coms, telling jokes, etc.
Unexpected or twisted endings
Regular display turned upside-down
Trickery and Deception: Books about forgeries, optical illusions, covert ops, codes, frauds, cons, hoaxes, imposters, etc (for list of titles fitting this list, email [removed]@cincinnatilibrary.org)
Books about Hoaxes
Titles or authors:
Jester by James Patterson
Hop-Frog by E. A. Poe
What Men Know About Women
What Women Know About Men
Twisted or Surprise Endings:
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffery Archer
Nightwork by Irwin Shaw
Shortcut in Time by Charles Dickens
The following books with surprise endings are from Fiction_L booklists, November, 1999:
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Sabbath Day River by Jean Hanff Korelitz
River of Darkness by Renee Airth
A Place of Execurion by Val McDermid
Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Rebecca-Daphne DuMaurier
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Exclusive by Sandra Brown
The Woman and the Ape by Peter Hoeg
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
The Snake by John Godey
Presumed Innocent by Scott
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
The Other by Thomas Tryon
Primal Fear by William Diehl
Judas Child by Carol O'Connell
Judas Goat by Carol O'Connell
If Ever I return Pretty Peggy-Go by Sharyn McCrumb
The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb
The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
The Last Day by Glen Kleier
High Crimes by Joseph Finder
Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson
The List of 7 by Mark Frost
The Giants House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Day after Tomorrow by Alan Folsom
Almost Paradise by Susan Isaacs
The Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
A Breach of Promise by Anne Perry
GENERAL AUTHORS of surpise endings (from above list):
Robert Goddard
Agatha Christie
Ruth Rendell
Thomas H. Cook
O. Henry
Hoaxes:
Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public From the Middle Ages to the New Millennium by Alex Boese
Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ
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