Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
And the winner is...Bev Stout of Waynetown has won the Grand Prize in The Crawfordsville Library's adult "Race Into Reading" summer reading program. Director Larry Hathaway drew her name from 23 readers' entries in the Winners' Circle. Bev won two tickets to Myers Dinner Theater at Hillsboro and an overnight at its Victorian Rose Bed and Breakfast. Staff members Katy Myers and Carol Bennett report that quite a few patrons raced around the track again, and Jane White actually rounded the racetrack three times (reading 39 books in 13 weeks).
The new book "Cross Country" is Robert Sullivan's record of fifteen years and 90,000 miles of travel on the rural roads and interstates of America. To revisit the lives of Lewis and Clark, he reports his encounters with a lot of bad motels, a moving van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, his wife, his mother-in-law, his two kids, and enough coffee to kill an elephant. He made two dozen cross country trips from Oregon to New York, and moved his family back and forth from the East Coast to the West Coast. This is history, geography, and personal memoir as one. "Behind Closed Doors" is Natalie Collins' look at the heart of contemporary Mormonism.
"Black Like You" by John Strausbaugh tells of popular "blackface" and "whiteface" performances, popular in Broadway theater and Hollywood movies, the history that embraced minstrel-show songs and the most popular entertainers who mimicked one another. "Growing up Jim Crow" by Jennifer Ritterhouse is a study of how black and white southern children learned race. Marita Golden's book, "Don't Play in the Sun" is her personal experience as daughter of an ebony-hued father and a lighter-skinned mother analyzing her true identity influenced differently by each parent.
"Leaving Church" is a memoir of faith by Barbara Taylor who finds that the call to serve God is the call to be fully human, as she stops being the minister to be part of the flock in Georgia. "Secret Girl" is Molly Jacobs' tale of meeting her institutionalized sister after years not knowing of her existence. "America's Boy" is by Wade Rouse who buried his own unusual identity after the loss of his brother in order to keep his family comfortable.
Requested mysteries begin with the large print "Game Over", a Bill Slider story by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles that begins when a BBC journalist is murdered, and at the same time an old enemy is out to kill the Detective Inspector investigating the crime. Sandra Brown's "Smash Cut" is a Southern story featuring a CEO shot dead, his weekly companion and art dealer, the free-wheeling nephew of the deceased, and ins and outs of "breathless suspense". Harley Kozak's "A Date You Can't Refuse" follows a greeting-card artist going undercover in a media-training company that's suspected of video piracy.
Requested novels begin with Frank Delaney's "Shannon" about a World War I veteran journeying to his homeland Ireland for healing from shell shock and also for security after witnessing corruption in Boston; his journey reveals the myths, traditions, humor, and countryside allure that enrich his life. "Heaven, Texas" by Susan Phillips depends on a production assistant getting a legendary football hero back home to appear in his first movie. Brenda Joyce's "Dark Lover" is the fourth in her The Masters of Time series fantasy. Book Three in the Sisters of the Heart series by Shelley Gray is "Forgiven", a tight-knit Amish community tale about those who leave for the outside world, those who must forgive, and those seeking the truth in all societies.
Eric Tucker has composed "The Artful Vegan" with recipes from The Millennium Restaurant in San Francisco's Savoy Hotel. The stories that accompany the foods make this an especially good read.
And the winner is...Bev Stout of Waynetown has won the Grand Prize in The Crawfordsville Library's adult "Race Into Reading" summer reading program. Director Larry Hathaway drew her name from 23 readers' entries in the Winners' Circle. Bev won two tickets to Myers Dinner Theater at Hillsboro and an overnight at its Victorian Rose Bed and Breakfast. Staff members Katy Myers and Carol Bennett report that quite a few patrons raced around the track again, and Jane White actually rounded the racetrack three times (reading 39 books in 13 weeks).
The new book "Cross Country" is Robert Sullivan's record of fifteen years and 90,000 miles of travel on the rural roads and interstates of America. To revisit the lives of Lewis and Clark, he reports his encounters with a lot of bad motels, a moving van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, his wife, his mother-in-law, his two kids, and enough coffee to kill an elephant. He made two dozen cross country trips from Oregon to New York, and moved his family back and forth from the East Coast to the West Coast. This is history, geography, and personal memoir as one. "Behind Closed Doors" is Natalie Collins' look at the heart of contemporary Mormonism.
"Black Like You" by John Strausbaugh tells of popular "blackface" and "whiteface" performances, popular in Broadway theater and Hollywood movies, the history that embraced minstrel-show songs and the most popular entertainers who mimicked one another. "Growing up Jim Crow" by Jennifer Ritterhouse is a study of how black and white southern children learned race. Marita Golden's book, "Don't Play in the Sun" is her personal experience as daughter of an ebony-hued father and a lighter-skinned mother analyzing her true identity influenced differently by each parent.
"Leaving Church" is a memoir of faith by Barbara Taylor who finds that the call to serve God is the call to be fully human, as she stops being the minister to be part of the flock in Georgia. "Secret Girl" is Molly Jacobs' tale of meeting her institutionalized sister after years not knowing of her existence. "America's Boy" is by Wade Rouse who buried his own unusual identity after the loss of his brother in order to keep his family comfortable.
Requested mysteries begin with the large print "Game Over", a Bill Slider story by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles that begins when a BBC journalist is murdered, and at the same time an old enemy is out to kill the Detective Inspector investigating the crime. Sandra Brown's "Smash Cut" is a Southern story featuring a CEO shot dead, his weekly companion and art dealer, the free-wheeling nephew of the deceased, and ins and outs of "breathless suspense". Harley Kozak's "A Date You Can't Refuse" follows a greeting-card artist going undercover in a media-training company that's suspected of video piracy.
Requested novels begin with Frank Delaney's "Shannon" about a World War I veteran journeying to his homeland Ireland for healing from shell shock and also for security after witnessing corruption in Boston; his journey reveals the myths, traditions, humor, and countryside allure that enrich his life. "Heaven, Texas" by Susan Phillips depends on a production assistant getting a legendary football hero back home to appear in his first movie. Brenda Joyce's "Dark Lover" is the fourth in her The Masters of Time series fantasy. Book Three in the Sisters of the Heart series by Shelley Gray is "Forgiven", a tight-knit Amish community tale about those who leave for the outside world, those who must forgive, and those seeking the truth in all societies.
Eric Tucker has composed "The Artful Vegan" with recipes from The Millennium Restaurant in San Francisco's Savoy Hotel. The stories that accompany the foods make this an especially good read.
posted by Crawfordsville District Public Library Reader's Advisory | 4:12 PM
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