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Library News and Notable New Books
Library receives art book by Jerry and Cindy Smith and research by Donnelley and Sons...Jerry and Cindy Smith have donated their latest art book "Gems of Montgomery County" to the Crawfordsville Public Library. Their introduction tells how for over 30 years they have "canoed Sugar Creek, hiked state park trails, and have probably driven every road in Montgomery County." This volume contains plates of his paintings of local landmarks, including museums, churches, outlying towns' features, and many rural scenes the reader can enjoy while trying to identify bridges and spots in Shades State Park. It's hard to pick one favorite sketch, though Smith confesses loving to paint water in any form, and Sugar Creek is one of his many star subjects in this beautiful collection.
The library has just received the most recent Lakeside Classic from R.R. Donnelley & Son
s called "Plymouth Plantation" containing selections from the actual writings of William Bradford and Edward Winslow. Thomas Philbrick supplies the introduction full of pertinent history. This is the 107th volume, another amazing feat of research and publishing. "It Happened in Italy" holds Elizabeth Bettina's untold stories of how the people of Italy defied the horrors of the Holocaust. The fifty-year-old story about those who helped the Jews during that time abounds with memories of survival in the midst of horror and sadness.
And now fiction, James Patterson's "Worst Case" shows how a witty detective stops the most ingenious killer in the history of New York - "chaos capital of the world". Linda Fairstein's "Hell Gate" is about "a dark world most people would prefer to think doesn't exist (also in NYC). "Blood Ties" by Kay Hooper is a Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel in which a special group of mavericks and misfits are trained by the FBI to hunt the worst human monsters imaginable. "Trial by Fire" by J. A. Jance takes us to
a raging blaze in the Arizona desert, when a survivor who can't identify herself is helped in amazing ways. Eric Van Lustbader's "Last Snow" is a thriller chase that takes place after an American Senator supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine, turns up dead on the island of Capri. "The Last Surgeon" by Michael Palmer pits a doctor (a veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder) against a ruthless psychopath who has made murder his art form.
"Ticket to Ride" by Ed Gorman is a Sam McCain story in which America's favorite small-town
detective must solve two linked murders against the backdrop of America's Cultural Revolution. "Razor Sharp" by Fern Michaels offers a sisterhood of "do good" women a chance to right a wrong that's hard to do because of society's behavior. "Brava, Valentine" by Adriana Trigiani begins as snow falls like glitter over a wedding in Tuscany; the story continues in Greenwich Village and Buenos Aires. In J. D. Robb's "Fantasy in Death" it's "game over" for the criminals after NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas solves a shocking murder in a computer game tech room.
Karen White's "The Girl on Legare Street" features Charleston, South Carolina where a realtor confronts the past and must work with her mother after years of estrangement. "Thicker than Blood" by C. J. Darlington has won the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writer Guild Award; a stolen Hemingway first edition leads the main character to fear for her life on her own sister's doorstep.
A special story book is "Under the Table Books" a novel of stories by Todd Walton. The background is a bookstore where customers leave their choice of something of equal value to the books they carry away. The stories are very short, varied, and delightful each in their own way. There are 80 stories and poems, each illustrated by the author.
Library receives art book by Jerry and Cindy Smith and research by Donnelley and Sons...Jerry and Cindy Smith have donated their latest art book "Gems of Montgomery County" to the Crawfordsville Public Library. Their introduction tells how for over 30 years they have "canoed Sugar Creek, hiked state park trails, and have probably driven every road in Montgomery County." This volume contains plates of his paintings of local landmarks, including museums, churches, outlying towns' features, and many rural scenes the reader can enjoy while trying to identify bridges and spots in Shades State Park. It's hard to pick one favorite sketch, though Smith confesses loving to paint water in any form, and Sugar Creek is one of his many star subjects in this beautiful collection.
The library has just received the most recent Lakeside Classic from R.R. Donnelley & Son
s called "Plymouth Plantation" containing selections from the actual writings of William Bradford and Edward Winslow. Thomas Philbrick supplies the introduction full of pertinent history. This is the 107th volume, another amazing feat of research and publishing. "It Happened in Italy" holds Elizabeth Bettina's untold stories of how the people of Italy defied the horrors of the Holocaust. The fifty-year-old story about those who helped the Jews during that time abounds with memories of survival in the midst of horror and sadness.
And now fiction, James Patterson's "Worst Case" shows how a witty detective stops the most ingenious killer in the history of New York - "chaos capital of the world". Linda Fairstein's "Hell Gate" is about "a dark world most people would prefer to think doesn't exist (also in NYC). "Blood Ties" by Kay Hooper is a Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel in which a special group of mavericks and misfits are trained by the FBI to hunt the worst human monsters imaginable. "Trial by Fire" by J. A. Jance takes us to
a raging blaze in the Arizona desert, when a survivor who can't identify herself is helped in amazing ways. Eric Van Lustbader's "Last Snow" is a thriller chase that takes place after an American Senator supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine, turns up dead on the island of Capri. "The Last Surgeon" by Michael Palmer pits a doctor (a veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder) against a ruthless psychopath who has made murder his art form."Ticket to Ride" by Ed Gorman is a Sam McCain story in which America's favorite small-town
detective must solve two linked murders against the backdrop of America's Cultural Revolution. "Razor Sharp" by Fern Michaels offers a sisterhood of "do good" women a chance to right a wrong that's hard to do because of society's behavior. "Brava, Valentine" by Adriana Trigiani begins as snow falls like glitter over a wedding in Tuscany; the story continues in Greenwich Village and Buenos Aires. In J. D. Robb's "Fantasy in Death" it's "game over" for the criminals after NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas solves a shocking murder in a computer game tech room.
Karen White's "The Girl on Legare Street" features Charleston, South Carolina where a realtor confronts the past and must work with her mother after years of estrangement. "Thicker than Blood" by C. J. Darlington has won the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writer Guild Award; a stolen Hemingway first edition leads the main character to fear for her life on her own sister's doorstep.
A special story book is "Under the Table Books" a novel of stories by Todd Walton. The background is a bookstore where customers leave their choice of something of equal value to the books they carry away. The stories are very short, varied, and delightful each in their own way. There are 80 stories and poems, each illustrated by the author.
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