Upstairs/ Downstairs September, 2011

This is a listing of the books that have moved Upstairs from the Downstairs 7-day shelf and can now be checked out for 28 days.

As of September 17, 2011 you can find the following new books in the Adult Fiction section of the library.

Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
Everlasting Kiss by Amanda Ashley
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck
Brains: A Zombie Memoir by Robin Becker
After America by John Birmingham
The Outward Room by Millen Brand
Time to Share by Jo Ann Brown
A Nose for Justice by Rita Mae Brown
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
Summer's Child by Diane Chamberlain
A Murder of Crows by P. F. Chisholm
To Have and to Kill by Mary Jane Clark
The Spider's Web by Margaret Coel
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie
Edge by Jeffery Deaver
Against all Things Ending by Stephen R. Donald
Ambush Creek by Phil Dunlap
Family Patterns by Kristin Eckhardt
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Little Women and Werewolves by Porter Grand
The Confession by John Grisham
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Race for the Dying by Steven F. Havill
All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins
In the Company of Others by Jan Karon
A Dog Named Christmas by Greg Kincaid
Unlocked by Karen Kingsbury
Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz
Witchcraft by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
Keeping Time by Stacey McGlynn
Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber
Midnight Sons (Vol. 3) by Debbie Macomber
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Bones of Contention by Jeanne Matthews
The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
Cross Roads by Fern Michaels
Willow by Linda Lael Miller
More than Words by Judith Miller
In a Heartbeat by Rosalind Noonan
Lone Star Winter by Diana Palmer
Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
Portobello by Ruth Rendell
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
American Vampire by Scott Snyder
The Athena Project by Brad Thor

Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser

Library News and Notable New Books

New DVDs Ready for Borrowing - Here are new movies listed alphabetically, 102 Minutes That Changed America - 9/11 (History Channel); 127 Hours; 1968: The Year That Everything Changed (History Channel; The A-Team; American; Black Swan; Burlesque; Conviction; Deathtrap; Desert Triumph (The complete story, with veteran interviews about Desert Storm; The Devil Wears Prada; Dilemma; The Divinci Code; Due Date; Fair Game; Faster; Funny Face; The Green Hornet; Gulliver's Travels; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1; Hereafter; Hidden Wars of Desert Storm; Hoosiers; How Do You Know?; I Am Number Four; It's Kind of a Funny Story; Just Go With It; The King's Speech; Life As We Know It; Like Dandelion Dust; Little Fockers; Morning Glory; Mother and Child; Never Let Me Go; Narnia; The Next Three Days; No Strings Attached; Operation Valkyrie; The Other Woman; The Postman Always Rings Twice; The Quick and the Dead; Red; Rabbit Hole; Salt; Skyline; Spider-Man 2; Super Babies; Supernatural (fourth season); The Switch; Tangled; Tarzan (Volume One and Volume Two); Tourist; The Town; True Blood (Second Season); True Grit (1969); True Grit (2010); Unstoppable; You Again.

Subject DVDs are Common Expressions in American Sign Language, volume1 and volume 2, First Aid (One) and (Two), Laugh and Learn About Childbirth, Nutrition During Pregnancy, Pregnancy, and San Francisco Earthquake.

Here are new novels requested by local patrons. Two come from Pam Jenoff. "The Things We Cherished" spanning decades and continents, about a man accused of World War II-era war crimes, which he can prove false if he can find a certain timepiece last seen in Nazi Germany. Her "A Hidden Affair" about a U.S. State Department intelligence officer's life turned upside down when told her college boyfriend drowned in the River Cam. She takes a journey halfway around the world to find better answers. The description of "Robopocalypse" by Daniel Wilson begins, "In the near future, at a precise moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will spontaneously malfunction." Steve Berry's "The Jefferson Key" asks if Americans would be shocked if all our assassinated Presidents were killed for the same reason, namely a clause in the U. S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8). "Before I Go to Sleep" by S., J. Watson proposes a situation where anyone could lose his memory every time he went to sleep.

New mysteries are Alafair Burke's "Long Gone" where a newly hired art gallery manager arrives at work her first day to find the gallery gone and the owner's body on the floor. Janet Evanovich has released "Smokin' Seventeen", her newest Stephanie Plum story in which our heroine finds bodies in shallow graves, and no one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been killed, but she knows her name is on the killer's list. "Hush" by Nancy Bush starts with a tragic accident, followed by another twelve years later, showing that a group of friends are being eliminated one by one. The third "Silence" novel in Linda Castillo's series is "Breaking Silence" as a Police Chief is called to the scene of a tragedy on a peaceful Amish farm. In "Joy for Beginners" by Erica Bauermeister friends celebrate a member's recovery from illness, and the group agrees they'll all try to master some new difficult thing in the next year. "The Devil Colony" by James Rollins dares to answer a question extant in America: Could the founding of the United States be based on a fundamental lie? The answer lies hidden in the ruins of "impossibility", called The Devil Colony.

Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser

Library News and Notable New Books

The next special event at the Crawfordville Library is the upcoming book-signing session Saturday (September 10th) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to meet author Angie Klink of Lafayette. In "Divided Paths, Common Ground" Angie has brought back to life two pioneering Purdue educators, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, who "introduced science into the home" improving the lives of American women. She has also written the popular children's books "Purdue Pete Finds His Hammer" and "I Found U", and is a contributing author in "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just for Preteens" released in July. She has won 40 American Advertising Federation ADDY awards and an honorable mention in the 2007 Erma Bombeck Essay Contest. The public is invited to attend, buy a book or just meet the author!

"Changing Planet, Changing Health" by Paul Epstein offers innovative solutions for a healthy global economic order. The Hazardous Earth series volume called "Tsunamis: Giant Waves from the Sea" by Timothy Kusky offers comprehensive information on geologic processes that are hazardous to society and the environment. Richard Alley's "Earth: the Operators' Manual" offers options for a future through energy innovation in spite of the CO 3 buildup causing global warming.

A slightly different subject is Stephen Baker's "Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything". It's about Watson, the computer that has played against contestants on the TV show Jeopardy. The art of storytelling is being reinvented in new forms, told through multiple media forms at once in "The Art of Immersion" by Frank Rose. "Life without Oil" by Purdue plant pathology teacher Steve Hallett discusses why we must shift to new kinds of energy. An amusing book about the lunatic fringe is "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. Adrian Praetzellis' "Death by Theory" covers mystery and archaeology.

A few different kinds of histories are "The World of King Arthur" illustrated, interpreted, and made into art by author Christopher Snyder, and "How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead" by Dambisa Moyo. "Common Sense" by Sophia Rosenfeld is a political history of the pamphlet that sparked the American Revolution; the phrase remains a powerful ideal, and how that populist logic has shaped modern democracy is the book's thrust.

"Brilliant" is the evolution of artificial light discussed by Jane Brox. She starts with the stone lamps of the Pleistocene era, and even covers LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. "Drive" by Daniel Pink is about what motivates us. Is it money? Is it satisfaction? Or, is it the need to direct our lives to creating new things, to do better by ourselves and our world?

Two revolutions appear in book titles: "Denim Revolution" shows Nancy Minsky's designs turning denim cast-offs into fashion must haves, while "33 Revolutions per Minute" by Dorian Lynskey is the history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day.

Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser

Library News and Notable New Books

The Crawfordsville Library will be closed Sunday, September 4th and Monday, September 5th for Labor Day, welcoming us again at 9 a.m. Tuesday, September 6th.

A new set of introductory computer classes for adults is available at the library without cost by registering at the Reference Desk or calling 362-2242, extension 117 or extension 100. The Wednesday afternoon schedule includes "Introduction to Computers" on September 7th and 14th, "Introduction to the Internet" on the 21st, "Introduction to E-Mail" on September 28th, and "Introduction to Computer Security" on October 5th.

Regarding new books to borrow, some new directions come with clear ideas and beautiful pictures. Norah Gaughan's "Comfort Knitting & Crochet - Afghans" has many affordable designs featuring Berroco's comfort yarn. Sharon Rothschild's "Sweater Renewal" shows how to rescue old woolen knits and give them renewed life as felted creations. From Search Press there's also "Fashion Dog" featuring 30 designs to knit, crochet, and sew. Wendy Mullin's "Built by Wendy, Dresses" pictures everything involved in designing, stitching, shaping, and fitting simple garments, and includes three real patterns, for a sheath dress, shift dress, and dirndl dress. Equally complete is "The River Cottage Family Cookbook" by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. "Photo Trekking" is a traveling photographer's guide to capturing moments around the world. Nick Onken teaches with clever pictures. Roger Holmes offers "Midwest Including South-Central Canada" and features 46 landscape designs with 200 plants for our region. Simple but lovely interiors are shown in "The New Traditional" by Darryl Carter.

New biographies beckon. "Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacy Schiff chronicles "the most intriguing woman in the history of the world", the last Queen of Egypt. She's gone down in history for wrong reasons so this book separates fact from fiction. Frank McLynn has written "Captain Cook: Master of the Seas" about the navigator and cartographer of the British Royal Navy during the age of discovery when adventurers like him charted the furthest reaches of the globe. "Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned" by John Farrell is the first fully documented life of our "greatest defense attorney", who forged the heroic archetype of the American lawyer. Michael Callan has made "Robert Redford" using personal papers and hundreds of hours of taped interviews. Glenn Carle shares his personal experience and soul-searching reflections on the global war on terror in "The Interrogator"; he says "I was a spy. I broke laws. I stole. I lied every day, about almost everything: to my family, to my friends, to my colleagues, to everyone around me." Charles Hill's "Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism" starts out, "A Muslim has no nationality except his religious belief" (quoting Sayyid Outb who was executed in 1966 in his homeland.) Ben Shapiro's "Prime Time Propaganda" notes the political agenda of many Hollywood writers, producers, actors, and executives. "There Are Things I Want You to Know About Stieg Larsson and Me" by Eva Gabrielsson is her story of their life together from 1972 until his death in 2004, struggling for social justice, the basis for the books in Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.

Serious subjects become snippets for whole books like "A Most Dangerous Book" in which Christopher Krebs follows Tacitus' "Germania" an unflattering book about the German tribes, from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich. An invisible revolution in how we can access information is described in "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You" by Eli Pariser; data that we receive conforms more and more to what we pursue on a computer, so the original Internet purpose as an open platform might leave each of us in an isolated world.