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Library News and Notable New Books
Library Reading Group Has New Format - The adult book club at the Crawfordsville Library had its first fall meeting, discussing books about quilts. A few quilts themselves showed up, expanding the conversation. Next meetings are first Mondays at 6:30 with October's subject being books about trees, November's subject Thanksgiving, and December's focus is on nonfiction or fiction about water. New members are always welcome.
Here are requested books. "Bold Endeavors" by Felix Rohatyn is a call to national action as many elements of our infrastructure are deteriorating like roads and bridges, ports and dams, water lines and air control systems. "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower" is Stephen Norwood's report about American universities' refusal to take a stand against Hitler in the 1930s. In "The Neuro Revolution" Zack Lynch tells how brain science is changing our world. "Methland" is Nick Reding's report on the death and life of the small town Oelwein, Iowa with a population of 6,000, which he calls an illustration that America's on the brink of disaster where global forces cause drug epidemics.
Jeffrey Deaver's mystery "Roadside Crosses" tells how the Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways to announce his intention to kill. A "triple threat" novel is Lis Wiehl's "Face of Betrayal" that tells how while home on Christmas break a 17-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns; the "Triple Threat", made up of a reporter, a Federal Prosecutor, and an FBI agent begin work to crack the case. Robert Parker's western "Brimstone" is a follow-up to "Resolution" and "Appaloosa" featuring two guns-for hire. Elizabeth Berg's novel "Home Safe" is about emotional transit, as a recent widow depends too much on her 27-year-old daughter and meddles in her life ignorant of the fact that her late husband had led a double life.
"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine Howe, descendant of one woman who survived the Salem witch trials, and another who did not; plots the discovery of an ancient key within a 17th century Bible that leads events in the 1690s.
Lee Child begins suspense novel "Gone Tomorrow" with "Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers." Danielle Steel's "Matters of the Heart" tells of a woman's journey from darkness into light as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his spell. Robin Cook's "Intervention" involves an ancient codex, a study linked to Saint Peter's tomb, and questions about papal infallibility. Scott Bakker's "The Warrior Prophet" and "The Thousandfold Thought" are books two and three of The Prince of Nothing series. Gary Parker dedicates "Fateful Journeys" to history majors as he offers a personal story set during the American Civil War. A grisly pattern of death has been practiced across western Washington State in "Fire and Ice" by Judith Jance. "Alex Cross's Trial" by James Patterson shows a Mississippi town where lynchings appear to be the work of the Ku Klux Klan.
Two other new mysteries are Margaret Maron's "Sand Sharks" involving a North Carolina beach, and "Below Zero" a story of a Wyoming game warden, written by C. J. Box.
The new Western, Larry McMurtry's "Rhino Ranch", is the final episode in the Duane Moore story which began in 1966 with "The Last Picture Show" and offers one last journey to Thalia, Texas, a town that continues to change at a breakneck pace. Diana Palmer's "Heartless" is a romance set in Texas ranchland. Nevada Barr's new mystery "Borderline" offers the wide-open vistas of southwestern Texas in Big Bend National Park with rafting on the Rio Grande.
Library Reading Group Has New Format - The adult book club at the Crawfordsville Library had its first fall meeting, discussing books about quilts. A few quilts themselves showed up, expanding the conversation. Next meetings are first Mondays at 6:30 with October's subject being books about trees, November's subject Thanksgiving, and December's focus is on nonfiction or fiction about water. New members are always welcome.
Here are requested books. "Bold Endeavors" by Felix Rohatyn is a call to national action as many elements of our infrastructure are deteriorating like roads and bridges, ports and dams, water lines and air control systems. "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower" is Stephen Norwood's report about American universities' refusal to take a stand against Hitler in the 1930s. In "The Neuro Revolution" Zack Lynch tells how brain science is changing our world. "Methland" is Nick Reding's report on the death and life of the small town Oelwein, Iowa with a population of 6,000, which he calls an illustration that America's on the brink of disaster where global forces cause drug epidemics.
Jeffrey Deaver's mystery "Roadside Crosses" tells how the Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways to announce his intention to kill. A "triple threat" novel is Lis Wiehl's "Face of Betrayal" that tells how while home on Christmas break a 17-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns; the "Triple Threat", made up of a reporter, a Federal Prosecutor, and an FBI agent begin work to crack the case. Robert Parker's western "Brimstone" is a follow-up to "Resolution" and "Appaloosa" featuring two guns-for hire. Elizabeth Berg's novel "Home Safe" is about emotional transit, as a recent widow depends too much on her 27-year-old daughter and meddles in her life ignorant of the fact that her late husband had led a double life.
"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine Howe, descendant of one woman who survived the Salem witch trials, and another who did not; plots the discovery of an ancient key within a 17th century Bible that leads events in the 1690s.
Lee Child begins suspense novel "Gone Tomorrow" with "Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers." Danielle Steel's "Matters of the Heart" tells of a woman's journey from darkness into light as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his spell. Robin Cook's "Intervention" involves an ancient codex, a study linked to Saint Peter's tomb, and questions about papal infallibility. Scott Bakker's "The Warrior Prophet" and "The Thousandfold Thought" are books two and three of The Prince of Nothing series. Gary Parker dedicates "Fateful Journeys" to history majors as he offers a personal story set during the American Civil War. A grisly pattern of death has been practiced across western Washington State in "Fire and Ice" by Judith Jance. "Alex Cross's Trial" by James Patterson shows a Mississippi town where lynchings appear to be the work of the Ku Klux Klan.
Two other new mysteries are Margaret Maron's "Sand Sharks" involving a North Carolina beach, and "Below Zero" a story of a Wyoming game warden, written by C. J. Box.
The new Western, Larry McMurtry's "Rhino Ranch", is the final episode in the Duane Moore story which began in 1966 with "The Last Picture Show" and offers one last journey to Thalia, Texas, a town that continues to change at a breakneck pace. Diana Palmer's "Heartless" is a romance set in Texas ranchland. Nevada Barr's new mystery "Borderline" offers the wide-open vistas of southwestern Texas in Big Bend National Park with rafting on the Rio Grande.
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