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Library News and Notable New Books
Winners Drawn to Conclude Adults' "Readopoly" - Prizes were awarded to a few lucky participants in the 2010 Crawfordsville Public Library Adult Summer Reading Club titled "Readopoly". The first place winner was awarded tickets to the Vanity Theater and dinner at The Iron Gate, both in Crawfordsville, Indiana. The grand prize winner was thrilled to take home tickets to the Myers Dinner Theater with an overnight stay at the Victorian House in Hillsboro. The whole program was a big success. CDPL Staff and summer reading club winners alike extend their thanks to the businesses and organizations whose prize donations helped make this year’s summer reading club such a big success.
The Library has just received the 11th edition of Frommer's "USA" travel guide, and a group of 2010 Mobil Travel Guides to "Coastal Southeast", "Florida", "Hawaii", "New England", "Mid-Atlantic", "New York", "Northern California", "Northern Great Lakes", "Northwest", "Southern California", and "Texas". There is also Forbes 2010 travel guide labeled "City Guide Chicago". "Golden Gate" by Kevin Starr is the life and times of "America's greatest bridge".
Here are three powerful biographies. Frank McLynn has written "Marcus Aurelius" about the
philosopher, soldier, and Emperor (121-180 AD) whose "Meditations" has been compared by John Stuart Mill to the Sermon on the Mount. His life represented the fulfillment of Plato's famous words that mankind will prosper only when philosophers are rulers and rulers are philosophers. Tim McGrath's "John Barry, An American Hero in the Age of Sail" portrays the first Captain of the United States Navy. From County Wexford, Ireland, he arrived in Philadelphia just before the American Revolution and volunteered to fight for the Continental Cause, capturing the first 
enemy warship and fighting the last battle of the Revolution. Later he opened trade with China. The book cites primary source documents. "High Financier" by Niall Ferguson is the biography of the German refugee to London, banker Siegmund Warburg, whose philosophy of finance was the antithesis of the debt-fueled banking of our own time, and who contributed to the healing of postwar Europe. His business methods and strict ethical code set him apart from speculators and traders, and the book adds his idiosyncrasies gleaned from hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries.
"The Ninth" is Harvey Sachs' research about composer Ludwig Von Beethoven and the world in 1824. Part history, part memoir, this book shows how his then unorthodox music brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity; it is the work most often used to solemnize an important event like the opening of the United Nations, the signing of peace treaties, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the opening of new concert halls.
S. C. Gwynne's "Empire of the Summer Moon" spans two stories: the rise and fall of the Comanche Indians, and the saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, last and greatest chief of the Comanches. With their greatest fighting abilities, the tribe forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and the advent of the new six-gun weapon designed to fight them.
Two new fictions were requested by patrons. "The Three Weissmanns of West
port" by Cathleen Schine is a novel about a couple who divorce in their seventies. The story is a "playful, devoted, loose-jointed homage to Jane Austen's beloved 'Sense and Sensibility'". Jude Deveraux's Virginia-situated "Scarlet Nights" revolves around the search for a notorious woman criminal in a romantic atmosphere.
Winners Drawn to Conclude Adults' "Readopoly" - Prizes were awarded to a few lucky participants in the 2010 Crawfordsville Public Library Adult Summer Reading Club titled "Readopoly". The first place winner was awarded tickets to the Vanity Theater and dinner at The Iron Gate, both in Crawfordsville, Indiana. The grand prize winner was thrilled to take home tickets to the Myers Dinner Theater with an overnight stay at the Victorian House in Hillsboro. The whole program was a big success. CDPL Staff and summer reading club winners alike extend their thanks to the businesses and organizations whose prize donations helped make this year’s summer reading club such a big success.
The Library has just received the 11th edition of Frommer's "USA" travel guide, and a group of 2010 Mobil Travel Guides to "Coastal Southeast", "Florida", "Hawaii", "New England", "Mid-Atlantic", "New York", "Northern California", "Northern Great Lakes", "Northwest", "Southern California", and "Texas". There is also Forbes 2010 travel guide labeled "City Guide Chicago". "Golden Gate" by Kevin Starr is the life and times of "America's greatest bridge".
Here are three powerful biographies. Frank McLynn has written "Marcus Aurelius" about the
philosopher, soldier, and Emperor (121-180 AD) whose "Meditations" has been compared by John Stuart Mill to the Sermon on the Mount. His life represented the fulfillment of Plato's famous words that mankind will prosper only when philosophers are rulers and rulers are philosophers. Tim McGrath's "John Barry, An American Hero in the Age of Sail" portrays the first Captain of the United States Navy. From County Wexford, Ireland, he arrived in Philadelphia just before the American Revolution and volunteered to fight for the Continental Cause, capturing the first 
enemy warship and fighting the last battle of the Revolution. Later he opened trade with China. The book cites primary source documents. "High Financier" by Niall Ferguson is the biography of the German refugee to London, banker Siegmund Warburg, whose philosophy of finance was the antithesis of the debt-fueled banking of our own time, and who contributed to the healing of postwar Europe. His business methods and strict ethical code set him apart from speculators and traders, and the book adds his idiosyncrasies gleaned from hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries.
"The Ninth" is Harvey Sachs' research about composer Ludwig Von Beethoven and the world in 1824. Part history, part memoir, this book shows how his then unorthodox music brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity; it is the work most often used to solemnize an important event like the opening of the United Nations, the signing of peace treaties, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the opening of new concert halls.
S. C. Gwynne's "Empire of the Summer Moon" spans two stories: the rise and fall of the Comanche Indians, and the saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, last and greatest chief of the Comanches. With their greatest fighting abilities, the tribe forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and the advent of the new six-gun weapon designed to fight them.
Two new fictions were requested by patrons. "The Three Weissmanns of West
port" by Cathleen Schine is a novel about a couple who divorce in their seventies. The story is a "playful, devoted, loose-jointed homage to Jane Austen's beloved 'Sense and Sensibility'". Jude Deveraux's Virginia-situated "Scarlet Nights" revolves around the search for a notorious woman criminal in a romantic atmosphere.
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