Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
The Crawfordsville Library will be closed Thursday, December 24; Friday, December 25; and Saturday, December 26.
Another Important Library Donation - "Rivers, Rails, and Runways" is a book of poetry donated to the Crawfordsville Library by the Montgomery County Women's Republican Club. The writings of Norbert Krapf, present Indiana Poet Laureate, and of four other local "Airpoets" honor the Indiana landscape. The collection was chosen by British glass artist Martin Donlin to inspire his twenty-five foot windows at the new Midfield Terminal of the Indianapolis International Airport. (The "other" collaborative writers are Indiana Poet Laureate 2002-2008 Joyce Brinkman, artist and poet Ruthelen Burns, Chair of the English department at DePauw Joseph Heithaus, and Jeannie Deeter Smith.) "The Shadow of Sirius" is a collection of 92 poems by W. S. Merwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" is called "an arresting and unlikely black comedy", "blazingly savage and brilliant," and a "side-splitting account of India today". Also just arrived is his "Between the Assassinations" which "enlarges our understanding of the world we live in".
Lots of people borrow biographies. "Booker T. Washington" by Raymond Smock subtitled Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow, is issued by the Library of African-American Biography. "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers" is Barry Mazor's story of how America's original roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century. Rodgers produced tones, tunes, and themes that had much influence on his contemporary performers. C. W. E. Bixby's "Arthur Miller" includes insights into his marriage to Marilyn Monroe and sheds light on how it influenced his subsequent great plays. "Prairie Tale" by Melissa Gilbert describes her work being Laura Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie" TV shows, while she was forcing herself to solve a self-destructive pattern of addiction and codependence.
Six history books beckon. "A Brave Vessel" by Hobson Woodward, is the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare's "The Tempest"; William Strachey kept meticulous records of their Atlantic Ocean disaster surviving island life for a year, and his work enabled the great play's plot. "Eagles and Empire" tells about the United States and Mexico from the fall of the Alamo to the conquest of Mexico City. DK Books has issued "World War II, The Definitive Visual History from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb" a complete set of pictures and headlines of its events, people, eyewitnesses, weapons, and connections. "The Box from Braunau" is Jan Elvin's search for his father's war; as a World War II soldier William Elvin, Jr. was a hero but as a father and husband he spent his life struggling with ravages and demons his family could not comprehend. "Last Journey, A Father and Son in Wartime" comes from Darrell Griffin, Sr. and Jr., the latter killed in action during duty in Iraq, the former explaining what life is like for soldiers there, a grim reminder of the human cost of war.
Christopher Beha's memoir "The Whole Five Feet" tells what the Great Books taught him about life and death when he read all 22,000 pages of the Harvard Classics 100 years after their original publication.
The Christmas mystery story "The Body in the Sleigh" by Katherine Page just arrived; a body is discovered in a Maine village's antique sleigh the same day someone leaves a newborn baby in the manger of a nearby barn on Christmas Eve.
The Crawfordsville Library will be closed Thursday, December 24; Friday, December 25; and Saturday, December 26.
Another Important Library Donation - "Rivers, Rails, and Runways" is a book of poetry donated to the Crawfordsville Library by the Montgomery County Women's Republican Club. The writings of Norbert Krapf, present Indiana Poet Laureate, and of four other local "Airpoets" honor the Indiana landscape. The collection was chosen by British glass artist Martin Donlin to inspire his twenty-five foot windows at the new Midfield Terminal of the Indianapolis International Airport. (The "other" collaborative writers are Indiana Poet Laureate 2002-2008 Joyce Brinkman, artist and poet Ruthelen Burns, Chair of the English department at DePauw Joseph Heithaus, and Jeannie Deeter Smith.) "The Shadow of Sirius" is a collection of 92 poems by W. S. Merwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" is called "an arresting and unlikely black comedy", "blazingly savage and brilliant," and a "side-splitting account of India today". Also just arrived is his "Between the Assassinations" which "enlarges our understanding of the world we live in".
Lots of people borrow biographies. "Booker T. Washington" by Raymond Smock subtitled Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow, is issued by the Library of African-American Biography. "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers" is Barry Mazor's story of how America's original roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century. Rodgers produced tones, tunes, and themes that had much influence on his contemporary performers. C. W. E. Bixby's "Arthur Miller" includes insights into his marriage to Marilyn Monroe and sheds light on how it influenced his subsequent great plays. "Prairie Tale" by Melissa Gilbert describes her work being Laura Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie" TV shows, while she was forcing herself to solve a self-destructive pattern of addiction and codependence.
Six history books beckon. "A Brave Vessel" by Hobson Woodward, is the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare's "The Tempest"; William Strachey kept meticulous records of their Atlantic Ocean disaster surviving island life for a year, and his work enabled the great play's plot. "Eagles and Empire" tells about the United States and Mexico from the fall of the Alamo to the conquest of Mexico City. DK Books has issued "World War II, The Definitive Visual History from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb" a complete set of pictures and headlines of its events, people, eyewitnesses, weapons, and connections. "The Box from Braunau" is Jan Elvin's search for his father's war; as a World War II soldier William Elvin, Jr. was a hero but as a father and husband he spent his life struggling with ravages and demons his family could not comprehend. "Last Journey, A Father and Son in Wartime" comes from Darrell Griffin, Sr. and Jr., the latter killed in action during duty in Iraq, the former explaining what life is like for soldiers there, a grim reminder of the human cost of war.
Christopher Beha's memoir "The Whole Five Feet" tells what the Great Books taught him about life and death when he read all 22,000 pages of the Harvard Classics 100 years after their original publication.
The Christmas mystery story "The Body in the Sleigh" by Katherine Page just arrived; a body is discovered in a Maine village's antique sleigh the same day someone leaves a newborn baby in the manger of a nearby barn on Christmas Eve.
posted by Crawfordsville District Public Library Reader's Advisory | 12:30 PM
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