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Library News and Notable New Books
A New Book Features Maurine Watkins - This article could focus on one new book, Douglas Perry's "The Girls of Murder City" about fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired the play "Chicago". Much of the text tells about one of our local authors whose name is inscribed on the outside of our library's Washington Street façade.
Perry's book depicts Chicago during 1924 with frequent deaths in the Second City, the gangland capital of the world, where a pair of murders attracted special attention. To Maurine Watkins, "a minister's daughter from tiny Crawfordsville, Indiana, big-city life offered unimagined excitement," and "within weeks of starting at the Chicago Tribune she found herself embroiled in two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases." Perry lists Maurine as his first "Character": aspiring playwright-blonde, comely and chic: a pleasant way to be." Her play "Chicago" opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York on December 30th, 1926, and from then on, fame followed Maurine's work, and "Chicago" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2002
Ben Macintyre's "Operation Mincemeat" is a World War II thriller about how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe in Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. "Helluva Town" is Richard Goldstein's story of New York City during World War II, capturing the youthful electricity of wartime, and the important role New York played in the national war effort.
"Veil of Night" by Linda Howard hints that a "bridezilla" bride with tantrums is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed (the large-print version is also available). Sandra Brown's "Tough Customer" is a search for a stalker threatening to kill a private investigator's daughter. "Death on the D-List" is a Halley Dean mystery by Nancy Grace; t
his time the prosecutor faces a group of waning T.V. celebrities being "knocked off" one by one. Thrill writer Robin Cook's medical examiner faces a dangerous puzzle involving organized crime and start-up biotech companies' espionage in "Cure". "Fly Away Home" by Jennifer Weiner is a blend of heartbreak and hilarity showing a family with multiple social crises.
On to some special inspirational books, "One More Theory about Happiness" by Paul
Guest explains his wonderful and successful life after being paralyzed at the age of 12. Bruce Feiler's eleventh book "The Council of Dads" is an unselfish concept to help his children (and all children). Jancee Dunn's "Why is my Mother Getting a Tattoo?" is about coming to grips with getting older, and analyzing people's "developed opinions".
John Wooden's "Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success" is his unique and invaluabl
e guide to life showing key values and building blocks leading from confidence to faith. Christopher McDougall's "Born to Run" features a hidden tribe, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyons, who run hundreds of miles without rest and have uncanny health and serenity.
In "Ferraris for All" Daniel Ben-Ami argues that the whole of humanity should have acc
ess to the best the world has to offer, that economic growth helps everyone everywhere on the social ladder, when in some quarters prosperity is accused of encouraging greed, and widening social inequalities.
In "The Titanic Awards" Doug Lansky celebrates the worst of travel: the worst airline food, dirtiest beach, rudest waiters, most overrated attractions and worst drivers.
A New Book Features Maurine Watkins - This article could focus on one new book, Douglas Perry's "The Girls of Murder City" about fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired the play "Chicago". Much of the text tells about one of our local authors whose name is inscribed on the outside of our library's Washington Street façade.
Perry's book depicts Chicago during 1924 with frequent deaths in the Second City, the gangland capital of the world, where a pair of murders attracted special attention. To Maurine Watkins, "a minister's daughter from tiny Crawfordsville, Indiana, big-city life offered unimagined excitement," and "within weeks of starting at the Chicago Tribune she found herself embroiled in two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases." Perry lists Maurine as his first "Character": aspiring playwright-blonde, comely and chic: a pleasant way to be." Her play "Chicago" opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York on December 30th, 1926, and from then on, fame followed Maurine's work, and "Chicago" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2002
Ben Macintyre's "Operation Mincemeat" is a World War II thriller about how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe in Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. "Helluva Town" is Richard Goldstein's story of New York City during World War II, capturing the youthful electricity of wartime, and the important role New York played in the national war effort.
"Veil of Night" by Linda Howard hints that a "bridezilla" bride with tantrums is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed (the large-print version is also available). Sandra Brown's "Tough Customer" is a search for a stalker threatening to kill a private investigator's daughter. "Death on the D-List" is a Halley Dean mystery by Nancy Grace; t
his time the prosecutor faces a group of waning T.V. celebrities being "knocked off" one by one. Thrill writer Robin Cook's medical examiner faces a dangerous puzzle involving organized crime and start-up biotech companies' espionage in "Cure". "Fly Away Home" by Jennifer Weiner is a blend of heartbreak and hilarity showing a family with multiple social crises.On to some special inspirational books, "One More Theory about Happiness" by Paul
Guest explains his wonderful and successful life after being paralyzed at the age of 12. Bruce Feiler's eleventh book "The Council of Dads" is an unselfish concept to help his children (and all children). Jancee Dunn's "Why is my Mother Getting a Tattoo?" is about coming to grips with getting older, and analyzing people's "developed opinions".John Wooden's "Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success" is his unique and invaluabl
e guide to life showing key values and building blocks leading from confidence to faith. Christopher McDougall's "Born to Run" features a hidden tribe, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyons, who run hundreds of miles without rest and have uncanny health and serenity.In "Ferraris for All" Daniel Ben-Ami argues that the whole of humanity should have acc
ess to the best the world has to offer, that economic growth helps everyone everywhere on the social ladder, when in some quarters prosperity is accused of encouraging greed, and widening social inequalities.In "The Titanic Awards" Doug Lansky celebrates the worst of travel: the worst airline food, dirtiest beach, rudest waiters, most overrated attractions and worst drivers.
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