Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
Happy New Year! While the Crawfordsville Library is closed Thursday, December 31 and Friday, January 1, here are some requested and perhaps enticing books for your New Year's reading. "The Secret Wife of Louis XIV" by Veronica Buckley is about Francoise D'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King born in a bleak French prison in 1635 because her father was a condemned traitor and murderer, and her mother was the warden's seduced daughter. After begging in the streets, her beauty, intellect, and judgment got her to Versailles and onward. David Tyree's "More than Just the Catch" is the true story of achieving the impossible as he relates his mistakes and second chances so he could serve the New York Giants. "Quick & Clever Instant Cards" and "Quick & Clever Handmade Cards" are Julie Hickey's instruction books. How about Stephen King's 1074-page "Under the Dome"!
Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller's new book "The Appointment" is her own powerful life story as a factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. Another Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk, offers fiction called "The Museum of Innocence" set in Istanbul in 1975 when a settled fiance meets a distant cousin and his life changes; he becomes a "collector" in the two-sided city. The brutality and beauty of life today on the Arizona-Mexico border defines the story "Crossers" by Philip Caputo. "Await Your Reply" by award winner Dan Chaon follows three separate young people who are hiding by fleeing their normal lives. "To Try Men's Souls" is Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen's novel of George Washington and the miracle of American success.
"Grave Secret" by Charlaine Harris (writer of the Sookie Stackhouse novels) tells about family secrets. The novel "The Elephant Keeper" by Christopher Nicholson takes us to England in 1766 both in its countryside and its dark London streets, showing the love and loyalty between a man and two elephants, changing the lives of all who meet them. The tie between a recalcitrant boy and his patient step-father is "Spooner"
by Pete Dexter. "Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem tells about "Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies." The late Kurt Vonnegut's "Look at the Birdie" holds 14 previously unpublished short stories, illustrated with his own line drawings. "The Suicide Run" contains five tales of the Marine Corps by Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron. Philip Roth's 30th fiction novel "The Humbling" profiles a "finished" actor needing renewal. "Waiting for Columbus" by Thomas Trofimuk tells about a mental patient claiming to be the famous explorer, and the efforts to discover what pain caused his delusion. Brad Leithauser's "The Art Student's War" portrays a young, female artist in a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday during World War II.
"The Confessions of Edward Day" by Valerie Martin shows New York in the 1970s as the "Method" teachers were taking students among Broadway actors; "truth, in the theater as in life, is ever elusive and never inert." In Roberto Bolano's "2666", three academics are on the trail of a reclusive author, a new reporter, a widowed philosopher, and a police detective, in a border city where hundreds of women have disappeared. "Last Night in Twisted River" by John Irving profiles 1954 in a sawmill settlement in New Hampshire and spans fifty years of society as a father and son become fugitives because of an accidental crime.
Happy New Year! While the Crawfordsville Library is closed Thursday, December 31 and Friday, January 1, here are some requested and perhaps enticing books for your New Year's reading. "The Secret Wife of Louis XIV" by Veronica Buckley is about Francoise D'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King born in a bleak French prison in 1635 because her father was a condemned traitor and murderer, and her mother was the warden's seduced daughter. After begging in the streets, her beauty, intellect, and judgment got her to Versailles and onward. David Tyree's "More than Just the Catch" is the true story of achieving the impossible as he relates his mistakes and second chances so he could serve the New York Giants. "Quick & Clever Instant Cards" and "Quick & Clever Handmade Cards" are Julie Hickey's instruction books. How about Stephen King's 1074-page "Under the Dome"!
Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller's new book "The Appointment" is her own powerful life story as a factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. Another Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk, offers fiction called "The Museum of Innocence" set in Istanbul in 1975 when a settled fiance meets a distant cousin and his life changes; he becomes a "collector" in the two-sided city. The brutality and beauty of life today on the Arizona-Mexico border defines the story "Crossers" by Philip Caputo. "Await Your Reply" by award winner Dan Chaon follows three separate young people who are hiding by fleeing their normal lives. "To Try Men's Souls" is Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen's novel of George Washington and the miracle of American success.
"Grave Secret" by Charlaine Harris (writer of the Sookie Stackhouse novels) tells about family secrets. The novel "The Elephant Keeper" by Christopher Nicholson takes us to England in 1766 both in its countryside and its dark London streets, showing the love and loyalty between a man and two elephants, changing the lives of all who meet them. The tie between a recalcitrant boy and his patient step-father is "Spooner"
by Pete Dexter. "Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem tells about "Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies." The late Kurt Vonnegut's "Look at the Birdie" holds 14 previously unpublished short stories, illustrated with his own line drawings. "The Suicide Run" contains five tales of the Marine Corps by Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron. Philip Roth's 30th fiction novel "The Humbling" profiles a "finished" actor needing renewal. "Waiting for Columbus" by Thomas Trofimuk tells about a mental patient claiming to be the famous explorer, and the efforts to discover what pain caused his delusion. Brad Leithauser's "The Art Student's War" portrays a young, female artist in a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday during World War II.
"The Confessions of Edward Day" by Valerie Martin shows New York in the 1970s as the "Method" teachers were taking students among Broadway actors; "truth, in the theater as in life, is ever elusive and never inert." In Roberto Bolano's "2666", three academics are on the trail of a reclusive author, a new reporter, a widowed philosopher, and a police detective, in a border city where hundreds of women have disappeared. "Last Night in Twisted River" by John Irving profiles 1954 in a sawmill settlement in New Hampshire and spans fifty years of society as a father and son become fugitives because of an accidental crime.
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