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Group Discussion of "The Forger's Spell" Welcomes You - The next "Deweys Do" book club meeting at the Crawfordsville Library is Monday, May 3rd at 6:30. The discussion book is Edward Dolnick's "The Forger's Spell" about a big art hoax, Nazis, and painter Dutch Baroque Era painter Jan Vermeer. All are welcome to attend.
New research is exciting reading for many patrons. "Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand (editor of the Whole Earth Catalog) is an "ecopragmatist manifesto"
warning that three transformations are under way on earth right now, namely climate change, urbanization, and biotechnology, and that future policies will need to shape a more sustainable society. "How Capitalism Will Save Us" is Steve Forbes' essay about why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy. "Pink Brain, Blue Brain" by Lise Eliot shows how small differences at birth can grow into troublesome gaps, and tells what we can do about them. The powerful evidence of evolution in human DNA is explained in Daniel Fairbanks' "Relics of Eden". "The Age of Entanglement" with history of quantum physics and its development since 1935 is written by Louisa Gilder, bringing to life the personalities and passions of the physicists themselves.
An office power ballad "Rock On" by Dan Kennedy is the absurd and funny story of his generation's relationship with the music industry, where he had a job that propels his story. "Marriage and Other Acts of Charity" is Kate Braestrup's memoir of her life as a minister performing weddings, and what it truly means to share your life with someone. "The Cello Suites" is a well-researched study by Eric Siblin concerning J. S. Bach, and why he composed for the cello, considered a lowly instrument in his day. An "ambitious student's guide to financial aid" is "Don't Miss
Out" by Anna & Robert Leider. "Lit" is a humorous memoir by Mary Karr about getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, and learning to write by learning to live. "Thou Art That" offers Joseph Campbell's previously uncollected hopeful essays and lectures about the Judeo-Christian tradition. Dani Shapiro's memoir "Devotion" is her "literary excavation to the core of a life", in other words, finding what she really believed. "Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies" by Marilyn McEntyre was a series of lectures at Princeton in 2004 proposing a revolution of human expression towards precision, honesty and felicity to the spoken and written word.
"The Last Steam Railroad in America" combines photos by Winston Link and texts by Thomas Garver about the Norfolk and Western Railway before it was forced to convert from steam to diesel in the mid-1950s; it's a happy look at local scenery and the accomplishments of this transportation company.
"There Goes the Bride" by M.C. Beaton is an Agatha Raisin mystery that starts
with our Agatha attending her ex-husband's wedding when his new bride is shot minutes before saying "I do." "A Matter of Class" by Mary Balogh, a "tale rife with dark secrets, deception, and the trials of love" finds a bride and groom strained because their "hook-up" is forced upon them to protect funds and reputations. "Greedy Bones" is Carolyn Haines' Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery about a series of vicious illnesses that can't be explained by feuding scientists in Mississippi. In Beverly Lewis' "The Missing", the Amish narrator is mystified by her mother's night walks in a cornfield. "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah presents a mother 
promising her ill husband she'll tell her daughters the end of an unfinished story. "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult tells of a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome who because of his manner becomes accused of the kind of murder he has solved for the police many times.
Group Discussion of "The Forger's Spell" Welcomes You - The next "Deweys Do" book club meeting at the Crawfordsville Library is Monday, May 3rd at 6:30. The discussion book is Edward Dolnick's "The Forger's Spell" about a big art hoax, Nazis, and painter Dutch Baroque Era painter Jan Vermeer. All are welcome to attend.
New research is exciting reading for many patrons. "Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand (editor of the Whole Earth Catalog) is an "ecopragmatist manifesto"
warning that three transformations are under way on earth right now, namely climate change, urbanization, and biotechnology, and that future policies will need to shape a more sustainable society. "How Capitalism Will Save Us" is Steve Forbes' essay about why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy. "Pink Brain, Blue Brain" by Lise Eliot shows how small differences at birth can grow into troublesome gaps, and tells what we can do about them. The powerful evidence of evolution in human DNA is explained in Daniel Fairbanks' "Relics of Eden". "The Age of Entanglement" with history of quantum physics and its development since 1935 is written by Louisa Gilder, bringing to life the personalities and passions of the physicists themselves.
An office power ballad "Rock On" by Dan Kennedy is the absurd and funny story of his generation's relationship with the music industry, where he had a job that propels his story. "Marriage and Other Acts of Charity" is Kate Braestrup's memoir of her life as a minister performing weddings, and what it truly means to share your life with someone. "The Cello Suites" is a well-researched study by Eric Siblin concerning J. S. Bach, and why he composed for the cello, considered a lowly instrument in his day. An "ambitious student's guide to financial aid" is "Don't Miss
Out" by Anna & Robert Leider. "Lit" is a humorous memoir by Mary Karr about getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, and learning to write by learning to live. "Thou Art That" offers Joseph Campbell's previously uncollected hopeful essays and lectures about the Judeo-Christian tradition. Dani Shapiro's memoir "Devotion" is her "literary excavation to the core of a life", in other words, finding what she really believed. "Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies" by Marilyn McEntyre was a series of lectures at Princeton in 2004 proposing a revolution of human expression towards precision, honesty and felicity to the spoken and written word.
"The Last Steam Railroad in America" combines photos by Winston Link and texts by Thomas Garver about the Norfolk and Western Railway before it was forced to convert from steam to diesel in the mid-1950s; it's a happy look at local scenery and the accomplishments of this transportation company.
"There Goes the Bride" by M.C. Beaton is an Agatha Raisin mystery that starts
with our Agatha attending her ex-husband's wedding when his new bride is shot minutes before saying "I do." "A Matter of Class" by Mary Balogh, a "tale rife with dark secrets, deception, and the trials of love" finds a bride and groom strained because their "hook-up" is forced upon them to protect funds and reputations. "Greedy Bones" is Carolyn Haines' Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery about a series of vicious illnesses that can't be explained by feuding scientists in Mississippi. In Beverly Lewis' "The Missing", the Amish narrator is mystified by her mother's night walks in a cornfield. "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah presents a mother 
promising her ill husband she'll tell her daughters the end of an unfinished story. "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult tells of a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome who because of his manner becomes accused of the kind of murder he has solved for the police many times.
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