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Library News and Notable New Books
Local Travel Book Offers Scenic Tour - A new Falcon Guide called "Scenic Driving Indiana" by Douglas Wissing features a Sugar Creek trip from Thorntown through Shades and Turkey Run starting on page 142. "Halloween Propmaker's Handbook” by Kenneth Pitek has budget-friendly frights as well as sophisticated props with dozens of ways to haunt a house.
New biographies are long "works of art". Douglas Brinkley's "The Wilderness Warrior" focuses on Theodore Roosevelt's being the "naturalist president". Randy Taraborrelli's "Michael Jackson" updated with new chapters tells "The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story 1958-2009". Benjamin Moser has written the story of Clarice Lispector, "that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf", a Latin American writer who transformed her struggles into a universally resonant art; the title is "Why This World". "Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife" by Francine Prose shows Anne's diary as a work of art. Carole Seymour-Jones' "A Dangerous Liaison" tells of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre's fifty years, and the legend they created.
If you're a student interested in college financial aid, a new book is "The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2010" by Gen and Kelly Tanabe. If you need "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux" a fully updated version is offered by Mark Sobell covering 8.04 and 8.10 releases. Other 2010 helps are "Novel & Short Story Writer's Market" telling where and how to sell your fiction and "2010 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market" has good help; both are edited by Alice Pope.
Two spy books are Peter Lance's "Triple Cross" telling how Bin Laden's master spy penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI, and Sarah Helm's "A Life in Secrets" about Vera Atkins and the missing agents of World War II. "The Monuments Men" is Robert Edsel's telling of the allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history to save art, demonstrating how the best of humanity can defeat the worst. Family books include "The Baby Name Wizard" with facts, trends, ideas and many enchanting names given by Laura Wattenberg. "Yours, Mine, and Hours" holds relationship skills for blended families offered by John Penton and Shona Welsh. Jann Blackstone-Ford and Sharyl Jupe's "Ex-Etiquette for Parents" is about good behavior after a divorce or separation.
A resource guide for returning Veterans is "The Wounded Warrior Handbook" by Don Philpott and Janelle Hill, and includes straightforward answers to the questions injured heroes and their families need to receive the care they deserve and need.
"Fuller's Earth" by Richard Brenneman offers a day with Buckminster Fuller and the kids, a Classics in Progressive Education manual in which he explains his vision of how the universe works.
"The Battle for America 2008" by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson is the story of the election that shattered political barriers, brought to light undercurrents of race, gender, and class, and ignited a competitive battle among formidable rivals.
"The Sisters of Sinai" by Janet Soskice tells how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels; as identical twins from Scotland in 1892 they found the earliest known copies in ancient Syriac, the language spoken by Jesus, and Agnes and Margaret Smith translated this text themselves.
Two important reads are NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures" and "Dancing in the Dark" a cultural history of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein.
Local Travel Book Offers Scenic Tour - A new Falcon Guide called "Scenic Driving Indiana" by Douglas Wissing features a Sugar Creek trip from Thorntown through Shades and Turkey Run starting on page 142. "Halloween Propmaker's Handbook” by Kenneth Pitek has budget-friendly frights as well as sophisticated props with dozens of ways to haunt a house.
New biographies are long "works of art". Douglas Brinkley's "The Wilderness Warrior" focuses on Theodore Roosevelt's being the "naturalist president". Randy Taraborrelli's "Michael Jackson" updated with new chapters tells "The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story 1958-2009". Benjamin Moser has written the story of Clarice Lispector, "that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf", a Latin American writer who transformed her struggles into a universally resonant art; the title is "Why This World". "Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife" by Francine Prose shows Anne's diary as a work of art. Carole Seymour-Jones' "A Dangerous Liaison" tells of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre's fifty years, and the legend they created.
If you're a student interested in college financial aid, a new book is "The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2010" by Gen and Kelly Tanabe. If you need "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux" a fully updated version is offered by Mark Sobell covering 8.04 and 8.10 releases. Other 2010 helps are "Novel & Short Story Writer's Market" telling where and how to sell your fiction and "2010 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market" has good help; both are edited by Alice Pope.
Two spy books are Peter Lance's "Triple Cross" telling how Bin Laden's master spy penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI, and Sarah Helm's "A Life in Secrets" about Vera Atkins and the missing agents of World War II. "The Monuments Men" is Robert Edsel's telling of the allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history to save art, demonstrating how the best of humanity can defeat the worst. Family books include "The Baby Name Wizard" with facts, trends, ideas and many enchanting names given by Laura Wattenberg. "Yours, Mine, and Hours" holds relationship skills for blended families offered by John Penton and Shona Welsh. Jann Blackstone-Ford and Sharyl Jupe's "Ex-Etiquette for Parents" is about good behavior after a divorce or separation.
A resource guide for returning Veterans is "The Wounded Warrior Handbook" by Don Philpott and Janelle Hill, and includes straightforward answers to the questions injured heroes and their families need to receive the care they deserve and need.
"Fuller's Earth" by Richard Brenneman offers a day with Buckminster Fuller and the kids, a Classics in Progressive Education manual in which he explains his vision of how the universe works.
"The Battle for America 2008" by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson is the story of the election that shattered political barriers, brought to light undercurrents of race, gender, and class, and ignited a competitive battle among formidable rivals.
"The Sisters of Sinai" by Janet Soskice tells how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels; as identical twins from Scotland in 1892 they found the earliest known copies in ancient Syriac, the language spoken by Jesus, and Agnes and Margaret Smith translated this text themselves.
Two important reads are NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures" and "Dancing in the Dark" a cultural history of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein.
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