Race into Reading: Adult Summer Reading Club

Race into Reading
(Or, why should the little readers have all the fun?)

2009 CDPL Adult Summer Reading Club
June 1 - August 31
Open to adults ages 18 and up

This year, the Crawfordsville District Public Library will sport an auto race summer reading club. Participants will receive a registration package, which will include a bookmark, pen, notebook, paper car, and instructions.

Each section of the reading race track will represent a genre such as mystery or suspense. To drive your car around the track simply read a book from the genre that represents each section. Wish you could "speed" through a section? Use the "skip" ticket in your packet and drive through one section without stopping to read. When you hit the pit stop, read a play, poetry, or book of short stories. After passing the pit stop, you'll win a black and white Carnegie Museum coffee mug. Once you've crossed the finish line, your name will be entered into a drawing. The winner will receive a free night at Myers Dinner Theater and an overnight stay at their bed and breakfast.

If you need help finding and choosing a book, check out our "Categories" feature on this blog. Many of the categories match the race track genres. You can also ask a library staff member to show you how to use the PAC (public access catalog). Once you've learned how to "navigate" the PAC you'll always be in the driver's seat when looking for a good book to read from the library.

Upstairs/Downstairs May 2009

This is a listing of the books that have moved Upstairs from the Downstairs 7-day shelf and can now be checked out for 28 days!

As of May 14 you will find the following new books in the Adult Fiction section of the library:

Her Every Pleasure by Gaelen Foley

Indiana Jones Omnibus Vol 1

Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen

Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella

World Made by Hand by James Kunstler

The Boat by Nam Le

Collateral Damage by Fern Michaels

The Long Walk Home by Will North

Star Wars: Death Star by Michael Reaves

Guilty by Karen Robards

What Burns Within by Sandra Ruttan

Phantom Prey by John Sandford

I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming

To My Dearest Friends y Patricia Volk

Certain Girls by Jennifer by Weiner

Upstairs/Downstairs April 2009

This is a listing of the books that have moved Upstairs from the Downstairs 7-day shelf and can now be checked out for 28 days!

As of April 30th you will find the following new books in the Adult Fiction section of the library:

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks

America America by Ethan Canin

The Assassin by Stephen Coonts

Water Like a Stone by Deborah Cromie

Findings by Mary Anna Evans

Finishing Nouf by Zoe Ferraris

Silks by Dick Francis

The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory

The Condition by Jennifer Haigh

The Reluctant Fundeamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Missy by Chris Hannan

Left to Die by Lisa Jackson

Ancient Highway by Bret Lott

Ash Wednesday by Ralph McInery

The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow

Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx

Exit Music by Ian Rankin

Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck

Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

Fractured by Karin Slaughter

Eighth Shepherd by Bodie and Brock Thoene

Midori by Moonlight by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

How to be Single by Liz Tuccillo

They Abyssinian Proof by Jenny White

Playing in the Light by Zoe Wicomb

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Barbie's 50th Birthday: Think Barbie Think Princess

In conjunction with the May display featuring staff owned past and present Barbies and accessories, we will provide book titles and reviews available at CDPL that have some relation to the Barbie phenomenon.

Barbie is a busy doll. According to Wikipedia article "Barbie's Careers" she has represented career women in the fields of medicine, politics, military, education, public service and transportation, just to name a few. However, Mattel's attempts at keeping Barbie "real" is often overshadowed by her heavily marketed sparkly, magical, and glamourous image. For many past, present, and future little girls, when we think Barbie, we think Princess.

A Lick Of Frost: A Novel
By Laurell K. Hamilton

Commanded by her aunt, the dark Queen Andais, to conceive a child as heir to the throne, Meredith Gentry, a half-mortal, half-faerie princess, returns to Los Angeles, only to find herself and her lovers trapped between the dark and light faerie courts and human law.





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The Enchantress Of Florence: a Novel
By Salman Rushdie

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?--From publisher description.

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Her Every Pleasure: A Novel
By Gaelen Foley

Princess Sophia was only a child when Napoleon conquered the island paradise ruled by her father. Raised in England and now twenty-one, she means to claim the throne that is rightfully hers and bring peace to her war-torn land. But an ambush by enemies forces Sophia into hiding outside London where she meets Major Gabriel Knight, a wounded warrior whose brush with death has utterly changed him.



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Dirty Blonde
by Lisa Scottoline

Cate Fante is strong and smart, but when she becomes a federal judge, even she wonders if she can do the job justice. She's in her thirties, so she feels as though she's joining the world's most exclusive retirement village. She worries inwardly that she only looks the part, in a designer suit donned like overpriced armor. After all, a job described in the United States Constitution would intimidate anybody. But Cate keeps her doubts a secret. And, as it happens, much else. For she leads a dark double life that she hides from everyone, even her best friend. Then a high-profile case in her courtroom explodes into a shocking murder-suicide, and it blasts her cover wide open. Overnight the tabloids tell her secrets, her boyfriend dumps her, and her new career hangs in tatters. But Cate's troubles are only beginning. An enemy no one anticipated sends her running for her life -- embarking on a journey that begins in the mystery of her own childhood, where she first learned to lie. She'll have to fight her way back to the truth, or die trying.

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