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.
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.
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