Donations Welcome in Library Archives by Janice Clauser

 

 

In the Crawfordsville Library’s archives, Wingate High School yearbooks for 1910, 1946, 1948, 1950 and 1953 are available for study. This collection could be made even more valuable if those with other Wingate books would allow them to be copied. They’d be returned to the owner, of course.

For many years, interurban lines delivered vital transportation. They featured big wood passenger cars, name trains, beloved stations, and varied freight services. Jerry Marlette’s “Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company” catalog recalls details of this service with a map of its routes from Sullivan to Lafayette and Richmond. 

            New editions of park catalogs from National Geographic are “Guide to National Parks” and “Guide to State Parks of the United States.” Lonely Planet has a new guide to “Argentina.”

 

           

 

 

 

 

            Salman Rushdie, the author “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini for being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur’an, was forced underground and needed constant  protection by armed police. How a writer and his family can live with this danger for nine years is the subject of his book “Joseph Anton: A Memoir.” “Farther Away” by Jonathan Franzen gathers his essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years; the author’s goal was to conceal nothing, tracing how a mature mind wrestles with itself regarding the most important issues of the day. “Terrible Swift Sword” is Joseph Wheelan’s report on the life of Civil War General Philip Sheridan, warrior, scourge of the Shenandoah and Great Plains, and savior of Yellowstone. Joseph Crespino has penned “Strom Thurmond’s America” about the major figure in modern conservative politics whose father’s last advice to him was “Do not forget that ‘skill and integrity’ are the keys to success.” Paul Auster’s “Winter Journal,” an unorthodox examination of his life, is composed in the manner of a musical fugue, using fragments that jump backward and forward in time and merge as a chorus of multiple voices.

 

           

 

 

 

 

            Here are four new mysteries. Karin Slaughter’s “Criminal” shows a brilliant agent in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who is trying to put a difficult past behind him. Suddenly he’s paired with his deputy director to solve a case that involves his own birth and parentage. Tess Gerritsen’s 10^th episode “Rizzoli & Isles: Last to Die” tells of a “circling predator” intent on doing harm to a sanctuary where young victims of crime are taught survival in their dangerous world. “Bones are Forever” by Kathy Reichs is the story which inspired the Fox TV series “Bones.” “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn is about a marriage “gone terribly, terribly wrong.” Carthage, Missouri is the setting. “Black List” is a thriller by Brad Thor following up the fact that somewhere deep inside the U.S. government is a closely guarded list of those crucial workers against terrorism who are targeted for death.

           

 

 

 

 

 

            In Emily Giffin’s “Where We Belong” a television producer in New York must team up with a 28-year-old, using a key to her past to find the one thing missing in both their lives. Bernard Cornwell’s “Death of Kings” prefaces the story with “As the Ninth Century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his dream of a unified England in danger and his kingdom on the brink of chaos;” this chapter in the saga about the making of England sounds like exciting reading today. “In the Kingdom of Men” by Kim Barnes brings the reader to 1967 when an Oklahoma granddaughter marries a hometown hero and they move to Saudi Arabia. .