Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
Nine new biographies at the Crawfordsville Library cover several centuries. First, Richard Brookhiser gives a portrait of America’s "smartest, toughest, and wiliest founding father", fourth president "James Madison". Jim Newton recalls the White House Years of our 34th president entitled "Eisenhower". In "Towers of Gold" Frances Dinkelspiel writes how one Jewish immigrant, her great-great-grandfather Isaias Hellman, created California (as the financier who helped develop banking, oil,
transportation, education, water and wine industries). "Death in the City of Light" is David King’s story of the serial killer (a handsome, charming physician Dr. Marcel Petiot) of Nazi-occupied Paris. Painting a picture of Old Order Amish life in Ontario, Ira Wagler composed "Growing up Amish" after removing himself at 17 to become a Pennsylvania businessman. A boy’s coming into manhood at sea titled "The Voyage of the Rose City" relates John Moynihan’s adventure as a Merchant Marine between his college years, never telling that his father was Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 
William Shatner offers his guide to understanding the Shatnerverse and the world at large in "Shatner Rules".
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s memoir as Africa’s first woman President (Liberia) is called "This Child Will Be Great"; a presidential candidate’s own book is "This is Herman Cain!"
Daniel Silva’s "Portrait of a Spy" is fiction about a "gifted deceiver", once a CIA worker and mastermind plotting terrorist attacks, whose work must be destroyed from the inside. Lee Child’s "The Affair" (a Jack Reacher novel) recounts a crime scene from 1997 in Mississippi where a woman’s death points to a scheme at a nearby military base. As Reacher tries to solve the case others work to bury it forever. In Paradise, Massachusetts, a string of car thefts leads to a complicated plot named "Killing the Blues" by Robe
rt Parker. The Chief Inspector Gamache novel "A Trick of the Light" by Louise Penny is a case for homicide detectives in a Quebec village. Danielle Steel’s "Hotel Vendome" invites readers to a glamorous New York hotel; after his wife runs away, the builder rears his daughter there and we are brought into its upstairs-downstairs world. "Zero Day" by David Baldacci tells about a military investigator in the US Army’s Criminal Investigative Division who is challenged by a crime in West Virginia where nothing is as it’s billed to be.
"The Wedding Quilt" is an Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini where friends gather to make a "last minute quilt" for a bride, and memories of the past spill forth within the group. Neal Stephenson returns to the terrain of his past novels in the high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller "Reamde"; a tech entrepreneur gets involved in the crossfire of his own online war game called T’Rain, a multibillion-dollar, online role-playing game popular around the world.
Nine new biographies at the Crawfordsville Library cover several centuries. First, Richard Brookhiser gives a portrait of America’s "smartest, toughest, and wiliest founding father", fourth president "James Madison". Jim Newton recalls the White House Years of our 34th president entitled "Eisenhower". In "Towers of Gold" Frances Dinkelspiel writes how one Jewish immigrant, her great-great-grandfather Isaias Hellman, created California (as the financier who helped develop banking, oil,
transportation, education, water and wine industries). "Death in the City of Light" is David King’s story of the serial killer (a handsome, charming physician Dr. Marcel Petiot) of Nazi-occupied Paris. Painting a picture of Old Order Amish life in Ontario, Ira Wagler composed "Growing up Amish" after removing himself at 17 to become a Pennsylvania businessman. A boy’s coming into manhood at sea titled "The Voyage of the Rose City" relates John Moynihan’s adventure as a Merchant Marine between his college years, never telling that his father was Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 
William Shatner offers his guide to understanding the Shatnerverse and the world at large in "Shatner Rules".Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s memoir as Africa’s first woman President (Liberia) is called "This Child Will Be Great"; a presidential candidate’s own book is "This is Herman Cain!"
Daniel Silva’s "Portrait of a Spy" is fiction about a "gifted deceiver", once a CIA worker and mastermind plotting terrorist attacks, whose work must be destroyed from the inside. Lee Child’s "The Affair" (a Jack Reacher novel) recounts a crime scene from 1997 in Mississippi where a woman’s death points to a scheme at a nearby military base. As Reacher tries to solve the case others work to bury it forever. In Paradise, Massachusetts, a string of car thefts leads to a complicated plot named "Killing the Blues" by Robe
rt Parker. The Chief Inspector Gamache novel "A Trick of the Light" by Louise Penny is a case for homicide detectives in a Quebec village. Danielle Steel’s "Hotel Vendome" invites readers to a glamorous New York hotel; after his wife runs away, the builder rears his daughter there and we are brought into its upstairs-downstairs world. "Zero Day" by David Baldacci tells about a military investigator in the US Army’s Criminal Investigative Division who is challenged by a crime in West Virginia where nothing is as it’s billed to be.
"The Wedding Quilt" is an Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini where friends gather to make a "last minute quilt" for a bride, and memories of the past spill forth within the group. Neal Stephenson returns to the terrain of his past novels in the high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller "Reamde"; a tech entrepreneur gets involved in the crossfire of his own online war game called T’Rain, a multibillion-dollar, online role-playing game popular around the world.
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