Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
The Library's Vast Christmas Reading Choices - Christmas books for children are collected in the center section of the main floor's east wall in the Crawfordsville Library. Adult Christmas books have been gathered on both sides of the third shelving beyond the elevator on the upper level.
Here are new books for the upcoming season. Debbie Macomber's newest story "The Perfect Christmas" finds Cassie Beaumont employing a professional matchmaker. In Robyn Carr's fourth Virgin River novel "A Virgin River Christmas" a widow seeks the man who cared for her husband when he was dying four years before in Fallujah, Iraq. Scholastic's Chicken Soup for the Soul series has issued "The Book of Christmas Virtues" with inspirational short poems and stories to warm the heart by Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen. The mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" by Agatha Christie features a cantankerous patriarch who dies after announcing he is cutting off his four sons' allowances. Donna Andrews' "Six Geese A-Slaying" is a Meg Langslow mystery for Christmas. Glenn Beck's "The Christmas Sweater" story plot weaves in his own boyhood memories and life lessons.
"Ford County" is John Grisham's first collection of short stories focusing on the Mississippi setting of his first novel, "A Time to Kill". Luanne Rice's "The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners" shows a dropout from wealth and privilege living a full life on Capri while being sought by the daughter she left behind. "Fugitive: A Novel" by Phillip Margolin follows an Oregon lawyer protecting an escapee from the Baptiste regime who is a suspected murderer. Karen Harper's "Deep Down" shows a daughter searching for her lost mother, suspecting that crimes are being committed by a disgruntled suitor and ginseng thieves.
Other new fictions are Oscar Casares' "Amigoland" a look at love, borders, death, and everyday willful ignorance in Mexico, expressed with laughter. "Strangers" by Anita Brookner shows a Londoner, resigned to his bachelorhood, who sets off for a holiday in Venice where he meets a young woman in the midst of a divorce, causing him to think about his former girlfriend, his aloneness, and need for companionship. In "A Gate at the Stairs" Lorrie Moore forms her plot based on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, the insidiousness of racism, and the blind-sidedness of war.
Emily Yellin has traveled the world to study the industry and the inner-workings of customer service and what it reveals about our world and our lives in her engaging "Your Call is (not that) Important to Us".
Here's some history. In "Defenders of the Faith" James Reston chronicles Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent and the battle for Europe, 1520-1536 that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna. "Cahokia" is Timothy Pauketat's study of the ancient great Illinois city of the Mississippi (near St. Louis) studied for the Penguin Library of American Indian History. In "Mile-High Fever" Dennis Drabelle tells about silver mines, boom towns, and high living on the Comstock Lode.
A stack of helpful technology "for Dummies" manuals has arrived. The manuals cover topics for the BlackBerry Storm, Google applications, Linux operating systems, Twitter, PC troubleshooting, WordPress, Google Blogger, and computers for seniors. Others are "Beginning Joomla!" by Dan Rahmel, "iPhone 3G Portable Genius (also covers iPhone 3G)", "Using Drupal" by Angela Bryon et al, and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Computer Basics" by Joe Kraynak.
The Library's Vast Christmas Reading Choices - Christmas books for children are collected in the center section of the main floor's east wall in the Crawfordsville Library. Adult Christmas books have been gathered on both sides of the third shelving beyond the elevator on the upper level.
Here are new books for the upcoming season. Debbie Macomber's newest story "The Perfect Christmas" finds Cassie Beaumont employing a professional matchmaker. In Robyn Carr's fourth Virgin River novel "A Virgin River Christmas" a widow seeks the man who cared for her husband when he was dying four years before in Fallujah, Iraq. Scholastic's Chicken Soup for the Soul series has issued "The Book of Christmas Virtues" with inspirational short poems and stories to warm the heart by Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen. The mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" by Agatha Christie features a cantankerous patriarch who dies after announcing he is cutting off his four sons' allowances. Donna Andrews' "Six Geese A-Slaying" is a Meg Langslow mystery for Christmas. Glenn Beck's "The Christmas Sweater" story plot weaves in his own boyhood memories and life lessons.
"Ford County" is John Grisham's first collection of short stories focusing on the Mississippi setting of his first novel, "A Time to Kill". Luanne Rice's "The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners" shows a dropout from wealth and privilege living a full life on Capri while being sought by the daughter she left behind. "Fugitive: A Novel" by Phillip Margolin follows an Oregon lawyer protecting an escapee from the Baptiste regime who is a suspected murderer. Karen Harper's "Deep Down" shows a daughter searching for her lost mother, suspecting that crimes are being committed by a disgruntled suitor and ginseng thieves.
Other new fictions are Oscar Casares' "Amigoland" a look at love, borders, death, and everyday willful ignorance in Mexico, expressed with laughter. "Strangers" by Anita Brookner shows a Londoner, resigned to his bachelorhood, who sets off for a holiday in Venice where he meets a young woman in the midst of a divorce, causing him to think about his former girlfriend, his aloneness, and need for companionship. In "A Gate at the Stairs" Lorrie Moore forms her plot based on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, the insidiousness of racism, and the blind-sidedness of war.
Emily Yellin has traveled the world to study the industry and the inner-workings of customer service and what it reveals about our world and our lives in her engaging "Your Call is (not that) Important to Us".
Here's some history. In "Defenders of the Faith" James Reston chronicles Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent and the battle for Europe, 1520-1536 that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna. "Cahokia" is Timothy Pauketat's study of the ancient great Illinois city of the Mississippi (near St. Louis) studied for the Penguin Library of American Indian History. In "Mile-High Fever" Dennis Drabelle tells about silver mines, boom towns, and high living on the Comstock Lode.
A stack of helpful technology "for Dummies" manuals has arrived. The manuals cover topics for the BlackBerry Storm, Google applications, Linux operating systems, Twitter, PC troubleshooting, WordPress, Google Blogger, and computers for seniors. Others are "Beginning Joomla!" by Dan Rahmel, "iPhone 3G Portable Genius (also covers iPhone 3G)", "Using Drupal" by Angela Bryon et al, and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Computer Basics" by Joe Kraynak.
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