tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68186819264541799722024-03-14T03:39:51.325-04:00New at the Salem Public LibrarySalem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-38862815359036753192014-05-08T12:43:00.002-04:002014-05-08T12:43:49.519-04:00New Adult Nonfiction - May 8, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781937612559" target="_blank">Rage: The Legend of "Baseball Bill" Denehy</a> by Bill Denehy and Peter Golenbock<br />
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Bill Denehy was at the top of his game... until he threw a pitch that changed the course of his life. A home-run bio about a gifted pitcher whose National League career held promise until a hard slider to Willie Mays injured his shoulder, <i>Rage</i> chronicles Denehy's injury-plagued career in major league baseball and the loss of his vision due to injections used to keep him in the game. Denehy holds nothing back as he shares the rage he felt his whole life, his lost dreams, his descent in addiction, and eventually finding peace when he entered recovery. His experience will resonate with athletes, baseball fans, those who struggle with addiction, and those who know someone who does.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781410468031" target="_blank">Changing the Way We Die: Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement</a> by Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel<br />
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There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. <i>Changing the Way We Die</i>, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape, through gripping stories of real patients, families, and doctors, as well as the corporate giants that increasingly own the market.</div>
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<i>Changing the Way We Die</i> is a vital resource for anyone who wants to be prepared to face life’s most challenging and universal event. You will learn:</div>
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<li> Hospice use is soaring, yet most people come too late to get the full benefits.</li>
<li> With the age tsunami, it becomes even more critical for families and patients to choose end-of-life care wisely.</li>
<li> Hospice at its best is much more than a way to relieve the suffering of dying. It is a way to live.</li>
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781410469885" target="_blank">Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice </a> by Scott Helman and Jenna Russell<br />
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In the tradition of <em>102 Minutes</em> and <em>Columbine</em>, <em>Long Mile Home</em> is the definitive book on the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, written by reporters from The Boston Globe and published to coincide with the first anniversary of the tragedy.<br />
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<em>Long Mile Home</em> tells the gripping story of the tragic, surreal, and ultimately inspiring week of April 15, 2013: the preparations of the bombers; the glory of the race; the extraordinary emergency response to the explosions; the massive deployment of city, state, and federal law enforcement personnel; and the nation's and the world's emotional and humanitarian response before, during, and after the apprehension of the suspects.<br />
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The authors, both journalists at The Boston Globe, are backed by that paper's deep, relentless, and widely praised coverage of the event. Through the eyes of seven principal characters including the bombers, the wounded, a victim, a cop, and a doctor, Helman and Russell trace the distinct paths that brought them together. With an unprecedented level of detail and insight, the book offers revelations, insights, and powerful stories of heroism and humanity.<br />
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<em>Long Mile Home</em> also highlights the bravery, resourcefulness, and resiliency of the Boston community. It portrays the city on its worst day but also at its best.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781410468567" target="_blank">Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books</a> by Wendy Lesser<br />
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“Wendy Lesser’s extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America’s most significant cultural critics,” writes Stephen Greenblatt. In <i>Why I Read</i>, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the country, <i>The Threepenny Review</i>, to describe her love of literature. As Lesser writes in her prologue, “Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it.”<br />
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Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is broad-minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. “Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,” she writes. “It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else’s past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times.”<br />
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A book in the spirit of E. M. Forster’s <i>Aspects of the Novel </i>and Elizabeth Hardwick’s <i>A View of My Own</i>, <i>Why I Read </i>is iconoclastic, conversational, and full of insight. It will delight those who are already<i> </i>avid readers as well as neophytes in search of sheer literary fun.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780674051157" target="_blank">The Dream of the Great American Novel</a> by Lawrence Buell<br />
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The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence<i> </i>Buell<i> </i>reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself.<br />
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The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s<i> </i>onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four "scripts" for G.A.N. candidates. One, illustrated by <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>, is the adaptation of the novel's story-line by later writers, often in ways that are contrary to the original author's own design. Other aspirants, including <i>The Great Gatsby</i> and <i>Invisible Man,</i> engage the American Dream of remarkable transformation from humble origins. A third script, seen in <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> and <i>Beloved</i>, is the family saga that grapples with racial and other social divisions. Finally,mega-novels from <i>Moby-Dick</i> to <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> feature assemblages of characters who dramatize in microcosm the promise and pitfalls of democracy.<br />
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The canvas of the great American novel is in constant motion, reflecting revolutions in fictional fashion, the changing face of authorship, and the inseparability of high culture from popular. As Buell reveals, the elusive G.A.N. showcases the myth of the United States as a nation perpetually under construction.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-80246094137810726972014-04-22T16:37:00.001-04:002014-04-22T16:37:14.979-04:00New Adult Fiction - Apr. 22, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781409134237" target="_blank">The Tournament</a> by Matthew Reilly<br />
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England, 1546. A young Princess Elizabeth is surrounded by uncertainty. She
is not currently in line for the throne, but remains a threat to her older
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In the midst of this fevered atmosphere comes an unprecedented invitation
from the Sultan in Constantinople. He seeks to assemble the finest chess players
from the whole civilised world and pit them against each other.<br />
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Roger Ascham, Elizabeth's teacher and mentor in the art of power and
politics, is determined to keep her out of harm's way and resolves to take
Elizabeth with him when he travels to the glittering Ottoman capital for the
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But once there, the two find more danger than they left behind. There's a
killer on the loose and a Catholic cardinal has already been found mutilated.
Ascham is asked by the Sultan to investigate the crime. But as he and Elizabeth
delve deeper, they find dark secrets, horrible crimes and unheard-of depravity - things that mark the young princess for life and define the queen she will become.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781604864960" target="_blank">The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories</a> by Marge Piercy<br />
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In this collection of short stories, bestselling author Marge Piercy brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy's novels, the collection spans decades of her writing along with a range of locations, ages, and emotional states of her protagonists. From the first-person account of hoarding and a girl's narrative of sexual and spiritual discovery to the recounting of a past love affair, each story is a tangible, vivid snapshot in a varied and subtly curated gallery of work. Whether grappling with death, familial relationships, friendship, sex, illness, or religion, Piercy's writing is as passionate, lucid, insightful, and thoughtfully alive as ever.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780802122650" target="_blank">High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread</a> by Joyce Carol Oates<br />
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Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human flaws. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals—a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway—in the fearless prose for which she’s become so celebrated. <br />
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In the title story, “High Crime Area,” a white, aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic, she has a handgun stowed away in her purse—just in case. But when she turns to confront her black, male shadow, the situation isn’t what she expects. In “The Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner city Trenton, New Jersey to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers. And in “The Last Man of Letters,” the world-renowned author X embarks on a final grand tour of Europe. He has money, fame, but not a whole lot of manners. A little thing like etiquette couldn’t bring a man like X down, could it? <br />
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In these biting and beautiful stories, Oates confronts, one by one, the demons within us. Sometimes it’s the human who wins, and sometimes it’s the demon.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780802122544" target="_blank">The Lie</a> by Helen Dunmore<br />
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Cornwall, 1920. Infantry officer Daniel Branwell has returned to his coastal hometown after the war. Unmoored and alone, Daniel spends his days in solitude, quietly working the land. However, all is not as it seems in the peaceful idylls of the countryside; and although he has left the trenches, Daniel cannot escape his dreadful past. As former friendships re-ignite, Daniel is drawn deeper and deeper into the tangled traumas of his youth and the memories of his best friend and his first love. Old wounds reopen, and old troubles resurface, though none so great as the lie that threatens to ruin Daniel's life, the lie from which he cannot run. Told with Dunmore's breathtaking poise and exacting suspense, <i>The Lie</i> is a haunting and captivating journey through the mind of a tormented man, as he tries to fit the pieces of his shattered past together. <br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780316324687" target="_blank">Frog Music: A Novel</a> by Emma Donoghue<br />
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Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. <br /><br />The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.<br /><br />In thrilling, cinematic style, <em>Frog Music</em> digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-38285283237833857262014-03-31T18:44:00.001-04:002014-03-31T18:44:24.007-04:00New Adult Nonfiction - Mar. 28, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781593275082" target="_blank">Beautiful LEGO</a> by Mike Doyle<br />
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Mix hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks with dozens of artists, and what do you get? <i>Beautiful LEGO</i>, a compendium of LEGO artwork that showcases a stunning array of pieces ranging from incredibly lifelike replicas of everyday objects and famous monuments to imaginative renderings of spaceships, mansions, and mythical creatures.<br />
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You'll also meet the minds behind the art. Interviews with the artists take you inside the creative process that turns simple, plastic bricks into remarkable LEGO masterpieces.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781400205172" target="_blank">Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship</a> by John MacArthur<br />
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In <em>Strange Fire</em>, bestselling author and pastor John MacArthur lays out his case that the Charismatic movement in the Christian church is heretical. He claims it is consumed by the empty promises of the prosperity gospel, promotes a "Christianity" without Christ, and does not show true reverence to the Holy Spirit.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781590516102" target="_blank">Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood</a> by Joachim Fest<br />
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Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around the world. Born in 1926, Fest experienced firsthand the rise of the Nazis, the Second World War, and a catastrophically defeated Germany, thus becoming a vital witness to these difficult years.<br />
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In this memoir of his childhood and youth, Fest offers a far-reaching view of how he experienced the war and National Socialism. True to the German <i>Bildung </i>tradition, Fest grows up immersed in the works of Goethe, Schiller, Mörike, Rilke, Kleist, Mozart, and Beethoven. His father, a conservative Catholic teacher, opposes the Nazi regime and as a result loses his job and status. Fest is forced to move to a boarding school in the countryside that he despises, and in his effort to come to terms with his father’s strong political convictions, he embarks on a tireless quest for knowledge and moral integrity that will shape the rest of his life and writing career.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780062296313" target="_blank">Drinking and Dating: P.S. Social Media Is Ruining Romance</a> by Brandi Glanville<br />
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On the heels of her <em>New York Times</em> bestselling book <em>Drinking and Tweeting</em>, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville takes readers on a wild ride through her dating life in this highly-entertaining relationship book.<br />
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<em>Drinking and Dating</em> chronicles Glanville’s misadventures stumbling through today’s dating world. From social media blunders to bedroom escapades, Brandi withholds nothing. Each chapter is inspired by a relationship encounter she has had since her sensational divorce from actor Eddie Cibrian. Hilarious, surprising, vulnerable, and outspoken, Glanville’s unexpected take on dating after heartbreak – and life in general – is as unique as she is. Just like Brandi herself, <em>Drinking and Dating</em> is sexy, funny, and eyebrow-raising.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=ISBN5" target="_blank">Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes</a> by Svante Pääbo<br />
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What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?<br />
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<i>Neanderthal Man</i> tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal cousins. Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2010, Neanderthal Man describes the events, intrigues, failures, and triumphs of these scientifically rich years through the lens of the pioneer and inventor of the field of ancient DNA.<br />
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We learn that Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominid relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct. Drawing on genetic and fossil clues, Pääbo explores what is known about the origin of modern humans and their relationship to the Neanderthals and describes the fierce debate surrounding the nature of the two species interactions. His findings have not only redrawn our family tree, but recast the fundamentals of human history — the biological beginnings of fully modern Homo sapiens, the direct ancestors of all people alive today.<br />
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A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, <i>Neanderthal Man</i> offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-89569741647419296552014-03-20T15:34:00.006-04:002014-03-20T15:34:45.498-04:00New Adult Fiction - Mar. 20, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781451663327" target="_blank">Revolutionary</a> by Alex Myers<br />
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In 1782, during the final clashes of the Revolutionary War, one of our young nation’s most valiant and beloved soldiers was, secretly, a woman. <br />
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When Deborah Samson disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army, she wasn’t just fighting for America’s independence—she was fighting for her own. <i>Revolutionary</i>, Alex Myers’s richly imagined and meticulously researched debut novel, brings the true story of Deborah’s struggle against a rigid colonial society back to life—and with it the courage, hope, fear, and heartbreak that shaped her journey through a country’s violent birth. <br />
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After years as an indentured servant in a sleepy Massachusetts town, chafing under the oppressive norms of colonial America, Deborah can’t contain her discontent any longer. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to finally make her escape. Embracing the peril and promise of the unknown, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and, stealing clothes from a neighbor, rechristens herself Robert Shurtliff. It’s a desperate, dangerous, and complicated deception, and becomes only more so when, as Robert, she enlists in the Continental Army. <br />
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What follows is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind journey through an America torn apart by war: brutal winters and lethal battlefields, the trauma of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the joy of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. In his brilliant <i>Revolutionary</i>, Myers, who himself is a descendant of the historical Deborah, takes full advantage of this real-life heroine’s unique voice to celebrate the struggles for freedom, large and small, like never before.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780062240323" target="_blank">A Burnable Book</a> by Bruce Holsinger<br />
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London, 1385. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers--including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford--England's young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril, and the danger is only beginning. Songs are heard across London--catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the end of England's kings--and among the book's predictions is Richard's assassination. Only a few powerful men know that the cryptic lines derive from a "burnable book," a seditious work that threatens the stability of the realm. To find the manuscript, wily bureaucrat Geoffrey Chaucer turns to fellow poet John Gower, a professional trader in information with connections high and low. <br />
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Gower discovers that the book and incriminating evidence about its author have fallen into the unwitting hands of innocents, who will be drawn into a labyrinthine conspiracy that reaches from the king's court to London's slums and stews--and potentially implicates his own son. As the intrigue deepens, it becomes clear that Gower, a man with secrets of his own, may be the last hope to save a king from a terrible fate.<br />
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Medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger draws on his vast knowledge of the period to add colorful, authentic detail--on everything from poetry and bookbinding to court intrigues and brothels--to this highly entertaining and brilliantly constructed epic literary mystery that brings medieval England gloriously to life.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781250011664" target="_blank">City of Darkness and Light: A Molly Murphy Mystery</a> by Rhys Bowen<br />
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Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing she needs to protect their infant son Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light.<br />
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But upon arriving in Paris, nothing goes as planned. Sid and Gus seem to have vanished into thin air, and Molly's search to figure out what happened to them will lead her through all levels of Parisian society, from extravagant salons to the dingy cafes where starving artists linger over coffee and loud philosophical debates. And when in the course of her search she stumbles across a dead body, Molly, on her own in a foreign country, starts to wonder if she and Liam might be in even more danger in Paris than they had been at home.<br />
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As Impressionism gives way to Fauvism and Cubism, and the Dreyfus affair rocks France, Molly races through Paris to outsmart a killer in <i>City of Darkness and Light</i>, Rhys Bowen's most spectacular Molly Murphy novel yet.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781250015976" target="_blank">Raiders of the Nile: A Novel of the Ancient World</a> by Steven Saylor<br />
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In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus—a born-and-raised Roman citizen—is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity. But on the day Gordianus turns twenty-two, Bethesda is kidnapped by brigands who mistake her for a rich man’s mistress. If Gordianus is to find and save Bethesda, who has come to mean more to him than even he suspected, he must find the kidnappers before they realize their mistake and cut their losses. Using all the skills he learned from his father, Gordianus must track them down and convince them that he can offer something of enough value in exchange for Bethesda’s release.<br />
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As the streets of Alexandria slowly descend into chaos, and the citizenry begin to riot with rumors of an impending invasion by Ptolemy’s brother, Gordianus finds himself in the midst of a very bold and dangerous plot—the raiding and pillaging of the golden sarcophagus of Alexander the Great himself.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780316252003" target="_blank">Watching You</a> by Michael Robotham<br />
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Marnie Logan often feels like she's being watched: a warm breath on the back of her neck, or a shadow in the corner of her eye that vanishes when she turns her head.</div>
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She has reason to be frightened. Her husband Daniel has inexplicably vanished, and the police have no leads in the case. Without proof of death or evidence of foul play, she can't access his bank accounts or his life insurance. Depressed and increasingly desperate, she seeks the help of clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin. </div>
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O'Loughlin is concerned by Marnie's reluctance to talk about the past and anxious to uncover what Marnie is withholding that could help with her treatment. The breakthrough in Marnie's therapy and Daniel's disappearance arrives when Marnie shares with O'Loughlin her discovery of the Big Red Book, a collage of pictures, interviews, and anecdotes from Marnie's friends and relatives that Daniel had been compiling as part of a surprise birthday gift.</div>
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Daniel's explorations into Marnie's past led him to a shocking revelation on the eve of his disappearance: Anyone who has ever gotten close to Marnie has paid an exacting price. A cold-blooded killer is eliminating the people in Marnie's life, and now that O'Laughlin is a part of it, he is next in line.</div>
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781469272993" target="_blank">Rogue's Lady</a> by Robyn Carr; read by Justine Eyre<br />
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Born to a respected family, seventeen-year-old English beauty Vieve Donnelle always gets what she wants. But when word arrives that her father’s estate isn’t as wealthy as it appears, the noble heiress must rethink her betrothal to an impoverished aristocrat. Enter Captain Tyson Gervais, an infuriating colonial sea captain traveling to England for business in foreign trade. Despite high tensions between England and the colonies, Vieve can’t resist thinking about the dashing American merchant who elicits such conflicting reactions from her - making her feel both the sensual temptress and the childish fool in the same moment. Tyson never imagined he’d be dallying with a spoiled noble, but Vieve’s young, tempting curves seduce him against his better judgment. Though he knows a designing woman can wreak havoc, he aches for the chance to claim one as his own. Spanning two countries in the Georgian era, Rogue's Lady is a sexy tale of forbidden love that fans of romance will devour.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781482972924" target="_blank">Winter's Tale</a> by Mark Helprin; read by Oliver Wyman<br />
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New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights; its
life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest
house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in
winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like
mansion on the Upper West Side.<br />
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Though he thinks the house is empty, the
daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a
middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is
dying.<br />
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Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at
first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the
dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged
by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories
of American literature.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781482955965" target="_blank">The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew</a> by Alan Lightman; read by Bronson Pinchot<br />
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In <em>The Accidental Universe</em>, physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores the
emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing
most intently on the human condition and the needs of humankind. Here, in a
collection of exhilarating essays, Lightman shows us our own universe from a
series of fascinating and diverse perspectives. He takes on the difficult
dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for
permanence and the impermanence of nature; the possibility that our universe is
simply an accident; the manner in which modern technology has divorced us from
enjoying a direct experience of the world; and our resistance to the view that
our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws alone. With
his customary passion, precision, lyricism and imagination, in <em>The Accidental
Universe</em> Alan Lightman leaves us with the suggestion - heady and humbling - that
what we see and understand of the world and ourselves is only a tiny piece of
the extraordinary, perhaps unfathomable whole.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781482958348" target="_blank">e. e. cummings: A Life</a> by Susan Cheever; read by Stefan Rudnicki<br />
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e. e. cummings' radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax resulted in his creation of a new, idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. And while there was critical disagreement about his work (Edmund Wilson called it ''hideous,'' while Malcolm Cowley called him ''unsurpassed in his field''), at the time of his death in 1962, at age sixty-seven, he was, after Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in the United States. <br />
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Now, in this new biography, Susan Cheever traces the development of the poet and his work. She takes us from cummings' seemingly idyllic childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through his years at Harvard (rooming with Dos Passos, befriending Malcolm Cowley and Lincoln Kirstein) where the radical verse of Ezra Pound lured the young writer away from the politeness of the traditional nature poem and towards a more adventurous, sexually conscious form. We follow cummings to Paris in 1917 and, finally, to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day, including Marianne Moore and Hart Crane. <br />
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Rich and illuminating, <em>e. e. cummings: A Life</em> is a revelation of the man and the poet, and a brilliant reassessment of the freighted path of his legacy.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781482956986" target="_blank">I Always Loved You: A Story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas</a> by Robin Oliveira; read by Mozhan Marno<br />
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A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas’s great romance from the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>My Name Is Mary Sutter...</i><br />
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The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary’s fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her sister Lydia is falling mysteriously ill, and worse, Mary is beginning to doubt herself. Then one evening a friend introduces her to Edgar Degas and her life changes forever. Years later she will learn that he had begged for the introduction, but in that moment their meeting seems a miracle. So begins the defining period of her life and the most tempestuous of relationships.<br />
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In <i>I Always Loved You</i>, Robin Oliveira brilliantly re-creates the irresistible world of Belle Époque Paris, writing with grace and uncommon insight into the passion and foibles of the human heart.</div>
Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-15712653852456150492014-02-27T17:02:00.000-05:002014-02-27T17:02:00.002-05:00New Children's Books - Feb. 27, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780823428663" target="_blank">Tugboat</a> by Michael Garland<br />
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A tugboat has many jobs, keeping it busy from morning 'til night. Despite their small size, tugboats perform important tasks. This early nonfiction book showcases these jobs and has a glossary at the back identifying different types of boats the tugboats help. <br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780823430482" target="_blank">Two Tough Crocs</a> by David Bedford<br />
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Sylvester and Arnold enjoy being big, tough crocodiles so when they finally meet they are about to fight until Betty, an enormous crocodile, comes hissing by to take over their swamp. <br />
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Ages 4-8.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-33872858040640644072014-02-26T11:12:00.004-05:002014-02-26T11:12:55.890-05:00New Adult Nonfiction - Feb. 26, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780872865990" target="_blank">Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance</a> by Heidi Boghosian<br />
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Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the <i>Guardian UK</i> and the <i>Washington Post</i>, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have made over the past seven years. In that same time, the NSA and the FBI have gained the ability to access emails, photos, audio and video chats, and additional content from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, YouTube, Skype, Apple, and others, allegedly in order to track foreign targets.<br />
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In <i>Spying on Democracy</i>, National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself. Boghosian reveals how technology is being used to categorize and monitor people based on their associations, their movements, their purchases, and their perceived political beliefs. She shows how corporations and government intelligence agencies mine data from sources as diverse as surveillance cameras and unmanned drones to iris scans and medical records, while combing websites, email, phone records and social media for resale to third parties, including U.S. intelligence agencies.<br />
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The ACLU's Michael German says of the examples shown in Boghosian's book, "this unrestrained spying is inevitably used to suppress the most essential tools of democracy: the press, political activists, civil rights advocates and conscientious insiders who blow the whistle on corporate malfeasance and government abuse." Boghosian adds, “If the trend is permitted to continue, we will soon live in a society where nothing is confidential, no information is really secure, and our civil liberties are under constant surveillance and control.” <i>Spying on Democracy</i> is a timely, invaluable, and accessible primer for anyone concerned with protecting privacy, freedom, and the U.S. Constitution.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781742233659" target="_blank">What the Frack?: Everything You Need to Know About Coal Seam Gas</a> by Paddy Manning<br />
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Australia’s new $50 billion industry—coal seam gas—carries unprecedented environmental risks, but it could be the path to energy salvation by being cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear energy, and a complement to renewables. While big oil and gas companies believe Australia could be the biggest liquid natural gas exporter in the world, farmers and environmentalists are united in their opposition to coal seam gas extraction from the nation's most fertile agricultural lands. Does interfering with thousands of coal seam gas wells poison food resources? Does coal seam gas really aid in tackling climate change? Where will they drill next? Visiting drill sites, boardrooms, pipelines, parliamentary offices, and farm gate protests, this book demonstrates how coal seam gas extraction may be one boom that is happening too fast.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781476753744" target="_blank">Newtown: an American Tragedy</a> by Matthew Lysiak<br />
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In the vein of Dave Cullen's <i>Columbine</i>, the first comprehensive account of the Sandy Hook tragedy--with exclusive new reporting that chronicles the horrific events of December 14, 2012, including new insight into the dark mind of gunman Adam Lanza.<br />
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Twenty-six people dead; twenty of them schoolchildren between the ages of six and seven. The world mourned the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012. Now, here is the startling, comprehensive look at this tragedy, and into the mind of the unstable killer, Adam Lanza. <br />
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Drawing on hundreds of interviews and a decade's worth of emails from Lanza's mother to close friends that chronicled his slow slide into mental illness, <i>Newtown </i>pieces together the perfect storm that led to this unspeakable act of violence that shattered so many lives.<br />
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<i>Newtown </i>explores the two central theories that have permeated the media since the attack: some claim Lanza suffered from severe mental illness, while others insist that, far from being a random act of insanity, this was a meticulously thought out, premeditated attack at least two years in the making by a violent video-gamer so obsessed with "glory kills" and researching mass murderers that he was willing to go to any length to attain the top score. Lanza's dark descent from a young boy with adjustment disorders to a calculating killer is interwoven with the Newtown massacre as it unfolded at the time, told from the points of view of eye witnesses, survivors, parents of victims, first responders, and Adam's relatives. A definitive account of a tragedy that shook a nation, <i>Newtown</i> features exclusive material including initial misinformation reported by the media and commentary on how this catastrophic event became a lightning rod for political agendas, much like Columbine did more than a decade ago.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781592408290" target="_blank">A Religion of One's Own: a Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World</a> by Thomas Moore<br />
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Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who’ve turned away from religious institutions—and others who have lived wholly without religion—hunger for more than what contemporary secular life has to offer but are reluctant to follow organized religion’s strict and often inflexible path to spirituality. In <i>A Religion of One’s Own</i>, bestselling author and former monk Thomas Moore explores the myriad possibilities of creating a personal spiritual style, either inside or outside formal religion.<br />
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Two decades ago, Moore’s <i>Care of the Soul</i> touched a chord with millions of readers yearning to integrate spirituality into their everyday lives. In <i>A Religion of One’s Own</i>, Moore expands on the topics he first explored shortly after leaving the monastery. He recounts the benefits of contemplative living that he learned during his twelve years as a monk but also the more original and imaginative spirituality that he later developed and embraced in his secular life. Here, he shares stories of others who are creating their own path: a former football player now on a spiritual quest with the Pueblo Indians, a friend who makes a meditative practice of floral arrangements, and a well-known classical pianist whose audiences sometimes describe having a mystical experience while listening to her performances. Moore weaves their experiences with the wisdom of philosophers, writers, and artists who have rejected materialism and infused their secular lives with transcendence.<br />
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At a time when so many feel disillusioned with or detached from organized religion yet long for a way to move beyond an exclusively materialistic, rational lifestyle, <i>A Religion of One’s Own</i> points the way to creating an amplified inner life and a world of greater purpose, meaning, and reflection.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780670025282" target="_blank">Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World : from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief</a> by Tom Zoellner<br />
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Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again.<br />
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From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic MagLev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship with trains. Zoellner examines both the mechanics of the rails and their engines and how they helped societies evolve. Not only do trains transport people and goods in an efficient manner, but they also reduce pollution and dependency upon oil. Zoellner also considers America's culture of ambivalence to mass transit, using the perpetually stalled line between Los Angeles and San Francisco as a case study in bureaucracy and public indifference. <i>Train</i> presents an entertaining history of railway travel around the world, while offering a serious and impassioned case for the future of train travel.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780393239492" target="_blank">Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting</a> edited by Ann Hood<br />
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Why does knitting occupy a place in the hearts of so many writers? What is so magical and transformative about yarn and needles? How does knitting help us get through life-changing events and inspire joy? In <em>Knitting Yarns</em>, Ann Hood has collected original essays by twenty-seven writers including Anita Shreve, Elizabeth Berg, Ann Patchett, and Barbara Kingsolver. <em>Knitting Yarns</em> tells stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped these writers to grow. Andre Dubus III tells how knitting a Christmas gift for his blind aunt helped him knit an understanding with his girlfriend. Kaylie Jones finds the woman who cared for her as a child by using knitting to heal old wounds. Sue Grafton writes about her passion for knitting. And knitting goddess Helen Bingham has created five original patterns for the anthology.<br />
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Poignant, funny, and moving, <em>Knitting Yarns</em> is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780815610267" target="_blank">The Photographed Cat: Picturing Human-Feline Ties, 1890-1940</a> by Arnold Arluke<br />
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With more than 130 illustrations, <em>The Photographed Cat</em> is both an archive and an analytical exploration of the close relationships between Americans and their cats during a period that is significant for photography and for modern understandings of animals as pets. This volume examines the cultural implications of feline companions while also celebrating the intimacy and joys of pets and family photographs. In seven thematic sections, Arluke and Rolfe engage with the collection of antique images as representations of real relationships and of ideal relationships, noting the cultural trends and tropes that occur throughout this increasingly popular practice. Whether as surrogate children, mascots, or companions to women, cats are part of modern American life and visual culture. <br />
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Entertaining, smart, and filled with a collector's trove of wonderful images, <em>The Photographed Cat</em> pays homage to the surprising range of relationships we have with cats and offers thoughtful consideration of the ways in which we represent them.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781606351680" target="_blank">Why Cows Need Names: and More Secrets of Amish Farms</a> by Randy James<br />
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<i>Why Cows Need Names</i> follows one young Amish family as they dream about and then struggle to establish a profitable and quintessentially American small farm. The story starts with Eli Gingerich's first timid phone call to author Randy James, the county agricultural agent in Ohio's Geauga Amish Settlement - the fourth-largest Amish settlement in the world - and traces the family's progress over the next five years. Through gentle dialogue and true stories, James captures the challenges of creating a simple business plan that will lead to the family's radiant success or dismal failure. As the narrative unfolds, readers get a rare glimpse into what it's like to work in the fields with draft horses; in the barn with cows, calves, children, and Chip the family dog; or to sit at the table talking with family and friends over a noontime meal. A picture emerges of how quietly living a shared goal and doing without during hard times can strengthen families and provide an appreciation for what is truly important in life. <br />
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In addition to the business aspects and day-to-day farm activities, James interweaves commentary on our complex relationships with animals. The stark differences in the way animals are treated and valued in agribusinesses versus on small family farms is a recurring theme, as is debunking the myth that bigger is always better in American agriculture. <br />
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Surrounded by a factory-farm world, the Gingerich family employs a business model that flatly rejects the dogma of economies of scale and instead focuses on the diversity, flexibility, and efficiency that only a small family farm can capture. <i>Why Cows Need Names</i> provides a partial roadmap, not only for other small farms but for the many thousands of family businesses that are created each year and largely ignored in our national psyche. It will appeal to anyone interested in business management, our food supply, animal welfare, and Amish family life.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780385350778" target="_blank">Levels of Life</a> by Julian Barnes<br />
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Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel <em>The Sense of an Ending</em>, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss—making <i>Levels of Life </i>an immediate classic on the subject of grief.<br />
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<i>Levels of Life</i> is a book about ballooning, photography, love and loss; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded Barnes the 2011 Booker Prize described him as “an unparalleled magus of the heart.” This book confirms that opinion. <br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780307379122" target="_blank">The News: a User's Manual</a> by Alain de Botton<br />
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What does the news do to our brains, our souls, and our views of one another?<br />
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We spend an inordinate amount of time checking on it. It molds how we view reality, we’re increasingly addicted to it on our luminous gadgets, we check it every morning when we wake up and every evening before we sleep — and yet the news has rarely been the focus of an accessible, serious, saleable, book-length study. Until now.<br />
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Mixing snippets of current news with philosophical reflections, <i>The News</i> will blend the timeless with the contemporary, and bring the wisdom of thousands of years of culture to bear on our contemporary obsessions and neuroses. There will be illustrations for this book — a shot of Emma Watson having an ice cream, a portrait of Jesus by Duccio (both were playing a similar role in their respective societies, the book will allege) — and examples of news stories will be drawn from across the world.<i></i><br />
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<i>The News</i> ranges across news categories—from politics to murders, from economics to celebrities, from the weather to paparazzi shows — in search of answers to the questions: “What do we want from this?” and “Is it doing us any good?” After <i>The News</i>, we’ll never look at a celebrity story, the report on a tropical storm, or the sex scandal of a politician in quite the same way again.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-25031097310196075052014-02-20T17:05:00.000-05:002014-02-20T17:05:04.031-05:00New Adult Fiction - Feb. 20, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781594487293" target="_blank">How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel</a> by Mohsin Hamid<br />
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The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, <em>How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia </em>steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia.” It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along.<br />
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<em>How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia </em>is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts. And it creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780810152304" target="_blank">Bogotá</a> by Alan Grostephan<br />
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In <em>Bogotá</em>, a taut, moving novel set in present-day Colombia, Wilfredo decides to uproot his family from their small town, where his ferry service on the river subjects him to the gruesome errands demanded by the local paramilitary. Moving in with relatives in a slum in Bogotá, the family tries desperately to achieve the smallest measure of comfort and hope in a world of almost total ruin, wracked by deprivation, fear, and ceaseless violence. Alan Grostephan depicts with startling immediacy an urban landscape of extreme harshness and oppressive instability. The tension between the desperate conditions surrounding his characters and their efforts to hold on to their humanity gives <em>Bogotá</em> a ferocious energy. As Wilfredo and his family fight to stay alive and stay together, their plight emerges as equally enraging and uplifting, constituting a portrait of a society always on the verge of disintegration.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781476702919" target="_blank">Mrs. Poe</a> by Lynn Cullen<br />
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Inspired by literature’s most haunting love triangle, award-winning author Lynn Cullen delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession... in this “intelligent, sexy, and utterly addictive” (M. J. Rose) new masterpiece of historical fiction. <br />
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1845: New York City is a sprawling warren of gaslit streets and crowded avenues, bustling with new immigrants and old money, optimism and opportunity, poverty and crime. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is all the rage—the success of which a struggling poet like Frances Osgood can only dream. As a mother trying to support two young children after her husband’s cruel betrayal, Frances jumps at the chance to meet the illustrious Mr. Poe at a small literary gathering, if only to help her fledgling career. Although not a great fan of Poe’s writing, she is nonetheless overwhelmed by his magnetic presence— and the surprising revelation that he admires <i>her</i> work. <br />
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What follows is a flirtation, then a seduction, then an illicit affair... and with each clandestine encounter, Frances finds herself falling slowly and inexorably under the spell of her mysterious, complicated lover. But when Edgar’s frail wife Virginia insists on befriending Frances as well, the relationship becomes as dark and twisted as one of Poe’s tales. And like those gothic heroines whose fates are forever sealed, Frances begins to fear that deceiving Mrs. Poe may be as impossible as cheating death itself....<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780727883445" target="_blank">Forest Ghost</a> by Graham Masterton<br />
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Modern-day America. Fifteen Boy Scouts and their seven adult leaders are found to have committed suicide in the forest of a scout reservation. One of the dead boys is a friend of Sparky Wallace, whose father Jack runs a Polish restaurant in Chicago. Drawn into investigating the suicides, Jack discovers a connection with his own grandfather, who killed himself in the Kampinos Forest in Poland when he was fighting the Nazis in World War II.<br />
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Together, Jack and Sparky travel to Poland to unlock the terrifying mystery of what really makes people panic in the forest. But before they can do so, they have to experience panic for themselves, and reach the very brink of madness.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781451693560" target="_blank">The Museum of Extraordinary Things</a> by Alice Hoffman<br />
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Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman’s <i>The Museum of Extraordinary Things</i> is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century.<br />
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Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson River. <br />
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The dashing photographer is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father’s Lower East Side Orthodox community and his job as a tailor’s apprentice. When Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the suspicious mystery behind a young woman’s disappearance and ignites the heart of Coralie. <br />
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With its colorful crowds of bootleggers, heiresses, thugs, and idealists, New York itself becomes a riveting character as Hoffman weaves her trademark magic, romance, and masterful storytelling to unite Coralie and Eddie in a sizzling, tender, and moving story of young love in tumultuous times.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780307266385" target="_blank">Thirty Girls</a> by Susan Minot<br />
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Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving us razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young women confronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable ways. <br />
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With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africa's beauty and its horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant and ambitious novel yet.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780385681452" target="_blank">The Winter People</a> by Jennifer McMahon<br />
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West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who was found murdered in the field behind her house in 1908, a few short months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie, drove her mad. People say that Sara's ghost still walks after dark, and some leave offerings on their doorstep to keep her from entering their homes uninvited.<br /><br />Now, in the present day, Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they remain on the fringes, living off the land without internet or outside interference. But one morning Ruthie wakes up to find that Alice has disappeared without a trace. When she searches the house for clues, she is startled to find a secret compartment beneath the floorboards that contains two objects. One, a gun. And two, a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary.<br /><br />The story the diary tells is one of a mother skating on the edge of sanity, willing to do whatever she can to bring her daughter back even if it means dabbling in dark and dangerous territory. As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into the mystery of Sara's death, she discovers that she's not the only one looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-89094821474854459412014-02-11T10:02:00.003-05:002014-02-11T10:02:20.077-05:00New Adult Nonfiction - Feb. 11, 2014<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2z1secV_jA8/Uvo1kbUs_JI/AAAAAAAAAKY/0D3hS6KiAmo/s1600/Hidden+History+of+Roanoke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2z1secV_jA8/Uvo1kbUs_JI/AAAAAAAAAKY/0D3hS6KiAmo/s1600/Hidden+History+of+Roanoke.jpg" height="200" width="134" /></a>
<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781609499938" target="_blank">Hidden History of Roanoke: Star City Stories</a> by Nelson Harris<br />
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How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New York? These questions and many more are answered in this exciting volume of hidden stories and forgotten tales from the Star City. Discover why a Roanoker was found frozen in the North Atlantic and what Mother's Day crime and trial shocked the city in 1949. Meet the Black Cardinals, a semipro African-American baseball team that played in the 1930s and '40s, and find out how a fistfight at Shenandoah Life helped save the company. Author Nelson Harris delves into the annals of history to uncover these marvelous and mostly unknown stories of the Star City of the South.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781402793202" target="_blank">The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy: More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe</a> edited by Cornelia Dean; foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson<br />
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From the discovery of distant galaxies and black holes to the tiny interstices of the atom, here is the very best on physics and astronomy from the New York Times! The newspaper of record has always prided itself on its award-winning science coverage, and these 125 articles from its archives are the very best, covering more than a century of breakthroughs, setbacks, and mysteries. Selected by former science editor Cornelia Dean, they feature such esteemed and Pulitzer Prize-winning writers as Malcolm W. Browne on teleporting, antimatter atoms, and the physics of traffic jams; James Glanz on string theory; George Johnson on quantum physics; William L. Laurence on Bohr and Einstein; Dennis Overbye on the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson; Walter Sullivan on the colliding beam machine; and more.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781476753027" target="_blank">Proof of Heaven: a Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife</a> by Eben Alexander (deluxe edition with DVD)<br />
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Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people.
A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the “soul” is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real to the people having them, but in truth they are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.
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Then came the day when Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by an extremely rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion - and in essence makes us human - shut down completely. For seven days Alexander lay in a hospital bed in a deep coma. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander's eyes popped open. He had come back.
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Alexander's recovery is by all accounts a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780345532831" target="_blank">Glitter and Glue: a Memoir</a> by Kelly Corrigan<br />
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When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue.” This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom — with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism — would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly’s life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler’s checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting.
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But it didn’t turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That’s how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved in. And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother’s voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. Every day she spent with the Tanner kids was a day spent reconsidering her relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands like a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral.
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This is a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly it’s about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781612680651" target="_blank">Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money</a> by Robert T. Kiyosaki<br />
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In 1997, Robert's book <em>Rich Dad Poor Dad</em> stunned readers stating, "Your house is not an asset." As howls of protest went up around the world, the book went on to become an international bestseller and the #1 personal finance book of all time.
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<em>Rich Dad Poor Dad</em> is not a book on real estate. It is a book about the importance of financial education. <em>Rich Dad Poor Dad</em> was written to prepare you and your loved ones for the financial turbulence Robert's rich dad saw coming.
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In 2007, as homes declined in value or were lost to foreclosure, millions of homeowners painfully discovered the wisdom of words of Robert's rich dad. Today we are all aware that a home can be a liability. Today we know a home can go up or down in value. Today, we all know a person can lose money investing in the stock market. Today we all know our money can go down in value and that even savers can be losers.
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This is why financial intelligence is more important today than ever before. In a world of financial turbulence, your best asset is financial IQ.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780252078088" target="_blank">Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World</a> by Charles D. Thompson, Jr.<br />
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<i>Spirits of Just Men</i> tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the "moonshine capital of the world." Charles D. Thompson Jr. chronicles the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, which made national news and exposed the far-reaching and pervasive tendrils of Appalachia's local moonshine economy. Thompson, whose ancestors were involved in the area's moonshine trade and trial as well as local law enforcement, uses the event as a stepping-off point to explore Blue Ridge Mountain culture, economy, and political engagement in the 1930s. Drawing from extensive oral histories and local archival material, he illustrates how the moonshine trade was a rational and savvy choice for struggling farmers and community members during the Great Depression.<br />
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Local characters come alive through this richly colorful narrative, including the stories of Miss Ora Harrison, a key witness for the defense and an Episcopalian missionary to the region, and Elder Goode Hash, an itinerant Primitive Baptist preacher and juror in a related murder trial. Considering the complex interactions of religion, economics, local history, Appalachian culture, and immigration, Thompson's sensitive analysis examines the people and processes involved in turning a basic agricultural commodity into such a sought-after and essentially American spirit.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-80170005766376999062014-01-24T15:07:00.005-05:002014-01-24T15:07:59.331-05:00New Adult Fiction - Jan. 24, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781590516454" target="_blank">The Silence and the Roar</a> by Nihad Sirees<br />
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story follows a day in the life of Fathi Chin, an author banned from
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On this day, the entire country has mobilized to celebrate
the twenty-year anniversary of the reigning despot. The heat is
oppressive and loudspeakers blare as an endless, unbearably loud parade
takes over the streets. Desperate to get away from the noise and the
zombie-like masses, Fathi leaves his house to visit his mother, but en
route stops to help a student who is being beaten by the police. Fathi's
ID papers are confiscated and he is forced to return home and told to
report to the police station before night falls.<br />
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When Fathi turns himself in, he is led from one department to another in an ever-widening
bureaucratic labyrinth. His only weapon against the irrationality of
the government employees is his sense of irony. <i>The Silence and the Roar</i>
is a funny, sexy, scathing novel about the struggle of an individual
over tyranny. Tinged with a Kafkaesque sense of the absurd, it explores
what it means to be truly free in mind and body, despite the worst
efforts of the state to impose its will on its citizens.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780765335340" target="_blank">Vicious</a> by V. E. Schwab<br />
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Victor and Eli started out as college roommates - brilliant,
arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition
in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in
adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events
reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions,
someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis
moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.<br />
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Ten
years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his
old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature
obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate
every other super-powered person that he can find - aside from
his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with
terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss,
the archnemeses have set a course for revenge - but who will be
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781555976347" target="_blank">Percival Everett by Virgil Russell: A Novel</a> by Percival Everett<br />
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A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a
nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son
would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would
imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write?
Let's simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming
to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy can't
distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphy's
troubled dreams, Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These
narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home, each
building on the other until they crest in a wild, outlandish excursion
of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a
running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the
truthfulness of each story. Because, after all, what narrator can we
ever trust?<br />
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Not only is <i>Percival Everett by Virgil Russell</i> a powerful,
compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an
ingenious culmination of Everett's recurring preoccupations. All of his
prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical inquiries, his
investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful
book. Percival Everett has never been more cunning, more brilliant and
subversive, than he is in this, his most important and elusive novel to
date.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780778314394" target="_blank">A Spear of Summer Grass</a> by Deanna Raybourn<br />
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Paris, 1923 - The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah
Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her
latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch.
Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savannah manor
house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling,
sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute
expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. As
mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent
pleasures of society. <br />
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Against the frivolity of her peers, Ryder
White stands in sharp contrast. As foreign to Delilah as Africa, Ryder
becomes her guide to the complex beauty of this unknown world. Giraffes,
buffalo, lions and elephants roam the shores of Lake Wanyama amid
swirls of red dust. Here, life is lush and teeming - yet fleeting and
often cheap. Amidst the wonders - and dangers - of Africa, Delilah
awakes to a land out of all proportion: extremes of heat, darkness,
beauty and joy that cut to her very heart. Only when this sacred place
is profaned by bloodshed does Delilah discover what is truly worth
fighting for - and what she can no longer live without.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780804168786" target="_blank">Middle C</a> by William H. Gass<br />
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It begins in Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland. In London with his family for the duration of the war, he disappears under mysterious circumstances. The family is relocated to a small town in Ohio, where Joseph Skizzen grows up, becomes a decent amateur piano player, in part to cope with the abandonment of his father, and creates as well a fantasy self — a professor with a fantasy goal: to establish the Inhumanity Museum... as Skizzen alternately feels wrongly accused (of what?) and is transported by his music. Skizzen is able to accept guilt for crimes against humanity and is protected by a secret self that remains sinless.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780143123231" target="_blank">The Silent Wife</a> by A. S. A. Harrison<br />
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A chilling psychological thriller about a marriage, a way of life, and
how far one woman will go to keep what is rightfully hers.<br />
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Jodi and
Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including
the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in
Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward
the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes
denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides
to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating
voices, <i>The Silent Wife </i>is about a marriage in the throes of
dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be
made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent
of <i>Gone Girl</i> and <i>These Things Hidden</i>, <i>The Silent Wife</i> ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780062195432" target="_blank">Fear in the Sunlight</a> by Nicola Upson<br />
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Nicola Upson blends biography and fiction, excitement and menace, and a touch of Alfred Hitchcock in <em>Fear in the Sunlight</em>, a mystery starring real-life writer Josephine Tey.<br />
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Summer,
1936: Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of
Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his
wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel, <em>A Shilling for Candles</em>,
and Alfred Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the
holiday party entertained - and expose their deepest fears. But
things get out of hand when one of Hollywood's leading actresses is
brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following
day, fear and suspicion take over in a setting where
nothing - and no one - is quite what it seems.<br />
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Based
in part on the life of Josephine Tey, one of the most popular,
best-loved crime writers of the Golden Age, Nicola Upson's <em>Fear in the Sunlight</em>
features legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock as a prominent
character - and features the classic suspense and psychological
tension that fans of Hitchcock films love.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-29356418810259559192014-01-16T11:44:00.005-05:002014-01-16T11:44:57.308-05:00New Adult Nonfiction - Jan. 16, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780062082428" target="_blank">The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age</a> by Catherine Steiner-Adair<br />
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<em>Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? </em><br />
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<em>What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? </em><br />
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<em>Should you be your child's Facebook friend?</em><br />
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As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online around the clock—everyday life is undergoing a massive transformation. Easy availability to the Internet and social media has erased the boundaries that protect children from the unsavory aspects of adult life. Parents often feel they are losing a meaningful connection with their children. Children are feeling lonely and alienated. The digital world is here to stay, but what are families losing with technology's gain?<br />
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As renowned clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair explains, families are in crisis around this issue, and even more so than they realize. Not only do chronic tech distractions have deep and lasting effects, but children desperately need parents to provide what tech cannot: close, significant interactions with the adults in their lives. Drawing on real-life stories from her clinical work with children and parents, and her consulting work with educators and experts across the country, Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater under-standing, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution unfolding in their living rooms.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781455513925" target="_blank">Daniel: My French Cuisine</a> by Daniel Boulud and Sylvie Bigar<br />
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Daniel Boulud, one of America's most respected and successful chefs, delivers a definitive, yet personal, cookbook on his love of French food. From coming of age as a young chef to adapting French cuisine to American ingredients and tastes, he reveals how he expresses his culinary artistry at Restaurant Daniel. <br />
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With more than 75 signature recipes, plus an additional 12 recipes Boulud prepares at home for his friends on more casual occasions, DANIEL is a welcome addition to the art of French cooking. Included in the cookbook are diverse and informative essays on such essential subjects as bread and cheese (bien sûr), and, by Bill Buford, a thorough and humorous look at the preparation of 10 iconic French dishes, from Pot au Feu Royale to Duck à la Presse. <br />
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With more than 120 gorgeous photographs capturing the essence of Boulud's cuisine and the spirit of restaurant Daniel, as well as a glimpse into Boulud's home kitchen, DANIEL is a must-have for sophisticated foodies everywhere.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780743265157" target="_blank">The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency</a> by James Tobin<br />
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With a searching new analysis of primary sources, National Book Critics Circle Award winner James Tobin reveals how FDR's fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II. When polio paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt at thirty-nine, people wept to think that the young man of golden promise must live out his days as a helpless invalid. He never again walked on his own. But in just over a decade, he had regained his strength and seized the presidency. This was the most remarkable comeback in the history of American politics. And, as author James Tobin shows, it was the pivot of Roosevelt's life--the triumphant struggle that tempered and revealed his true character. With enormous ambition, canny resourcefulness, and sheer grit, FDR willed himself back into contention and turned personal disaster to his political advantage. Tobin's dramatic account of Roosevelt's ordeal and victory offers central insights into the forging of one of our greatest presidents.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780804139571" target="_blank">Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life & Other Musings</a> by Ron Burgundy<br />
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Anything his English counterpart Alan Partridge can do, Ron Burgundy can do with more capital letters. The world-reknowned (albeit fictional) news anchor has published his own autobiography. <br />
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"Ron Burgundy is known to all as the lead anchorman of San Diego’s award-winning Action 4 News Team and anchor of the first 24-hour news channel, GNN (Global News Network), but few know the real man behind the news desk. In 'LET ME OFF AT THE TOP!' he will share never-before-told stories of his childhood and the events that led him to choose a career in the news business. He will offer a rare glimpse behind the camera into the real life of a man many consider to be our greatest living news anchor. In his own words, he will share personal anecdotes about the women in his life, about his dog, Baxter, and his legendary news team. Along the way, he’ll also give sage advice on a variety of topics that matter most to him. The long wait is over. Ron Burgundy pulls no punches in this widely anticipated, fully authorized tell-all autobiography." -From empireonline.com.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780345535283" target="_blank">My Brief History</a> by Stephen Hawking<br />
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<em>My Brief History</em> recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.<br />
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Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece <i>A Brief History of Time</i>—one of the iconic books of the twentieth century. Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, <i>My Brief History</i> opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking’s personal cosmos.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781615190676" target="_blank">The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level</a> by Jessica Wapner<br />
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Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a
microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had
no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern cancer
research—the Philadelphia chromosome. This book charts not only that landmark
discovery, but also—for the first time, all in one place—the full sequence of
scientific and medical discoveries that brought about the first-ever successful
treatment of a lethal cancer at the genetic level.<br />
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The significance of
this mutant chromosome would take more than three decades to unravel; in 1990,
it was recognized as the sole cause of a deadly blood cancer, chronic myeloid
leukemia, or CML. This dramatic discovery launched a race involving doctors and
researchers around the world, who recognized that in principle it might be
possible to target CML at its genetic source.<br />
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Science journalist Jessica
Wapner brings extensive original reporting to this book, including interviews
with more than thirty-five people with a direct role in this story. Wapner
reconstructs more than forty years of crucial breakthroughs, clearly explains
the science behind them, and pays tribute to the dozens of researchers, doctors,
and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future
to the more than 70,000 people worldwide who are diagnosed with CML each year.
Chief among them is researcher and oncologist Dr. Brian Druker, whose dedication
to his patients fueled his quest to do everything within his power to save
them.<br />
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<em>The Philadelphia Chromosome</em> helps us to fully understand
and appreciate just how pathbreaking, hard-won, and consequential are the
achievements it recounts—and to understand the principles behind much of today’s
most important cancer research, as doctors and scientists race to uncover and
treat the genetic roots of a wide range of cancers.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-85253189052893099182014-01-15T12:34:00.002-05:002014-01-15T12:34:39.512-05:00New Young Adult Fiction - Jan. 15, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780316222709" target="_blank">Reality Boy</a> by A.S. King<br />
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Gerald Faust started feeling angry even before his mother invited a reality TV crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he's still haunted by his rage-filled youth--which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle--and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. No one cares that Gerald has tried to learn to control himself; they're all just waiting for him to snap. And he's starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that...until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780802736048" target="_blank">Going Rogue</a> by Robin Benway<br />
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Being permanently based in a local New York City high school as an undercover operative has its moments, good <em>and</em> bad, for 16-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver. Pros: More quality time with her former mark-turned-boyfriend Jesse Oliver and insanely cool best friend, Roux. Getting to spend quality time with her semi-retired and international spy honorary uncle, Angelo. Cons: High school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. But when Maggie's parents are falsely accused of stealing priceless gold coins, Maggie uses her safecracking skills to try and clear their names. Too bad it only serves to put her and everyone she loves in danger. Maggie and her "new team" flee to Paris where they must come up with a plan to defeat their former allies.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780439842976" target="_blank">Battle Magic</a> by Tamora Pierce<br />
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On their way to the first Circle temple in Gyongxi, mages Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy pay a visit to the emperor's summer palace. Although treated like royalty when they first arrive, the mages soon discover that the emperor plans to invade Gyongxi, posing a fatal threat to the home temple of the Living Circle religion. Accompanied by one of the emperor's prize captives, the three mages rush to Gyongxi to warn its citizens of the impending attack. With the imperials hot on their trail, Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy must quickly help the country prepare for battle. But even with the help of new allies, will their combined forces be enough to fight the imperial army and win the war?<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781423171027" target="_blank">These Broken Stars</a> by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner<br />
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It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other's arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever? Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won't be the same people who landed on it.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780062006165" target="_blank">Across a Star-Swept Sea</a> by Diana Peterfreund<br />
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Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction--the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars--is a distant memory. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly. The revolutionaries' weapon is a drug that damages their enemies' brains, and the only hope is rescue by a mysterious spy known as the Wild Poppy. On the neighboring island of Albion, no one suspects that the Wild Poppy is actually famously frivolous aristocrat Persis Blake. The teenager uses her shallow, socialite trappings to hide her true purpose: her gossipy flutternotes are encrypted plans, her pampered sea mink is genetically engineered for spying, and her well-publicized new romance with handsome Galatean medic Justen Helo... is her most dangerous mission ever. Though Persis is falling for Justen, she can't risk showing him her true self, especially once she learns he's hiding far more than simply his disenchantment with his country's revolution and his undeniable attraction to the silly socialite he's pretending to love. His darkest secret could plunge both islands into a new dark age, and Persis realizes that when it comes to Justen Helo, she's not only risking her heart, she's risking the world she's sworn to protect.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-5643651329959511382014-01-09T11:37:00.000-05:002014-01-09T11:37:09.694-05:00New Adult Fiction - Jan. 9, 2014<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DelsbSJ6F98/Us7NkLgnX9I/AAAAAAAAAGA/58PUzbYqFkg/s1600/The+Explanation+for+Everything.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DelsbSJ6F98/Us7NkLgnX9I/AAAAAAAAAGA/58PUzbYqFkg/s1600/The+Explanation+for+Everything.jpg" height="200" width="132" /></a>
<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780374173180" target="_blank">The Explanation for Everything</a> by Lauren Grodstein<br />
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For college biology professor Andy Waite, Darwinian evolution is the explanation for everything. But the unpredictable force of a charismatic evangelical student—a young woman determined to prove the existence of intelligent design—threatens to undermine more than just his faith in science. <br />
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As she did in the bestselling novel <i>A Friend of the Family</i>, author Lauren Grodstein has written a taut, provocative morality tale centered on one of the most polarizing issues of our time. As she dissects the permeable line between faith and doubt, she creates a fiercely intelligent story about the lies we tell ourselves, the deceptions we sustain with others, and how violated boundaries—between students and teachers, believers and nonbelievers—can have devastating consequences.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781609451448" target="_blank">Dark Times in the City</a> by Gene Kerrigan<br />
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Danny Callaghan is having a quiet drink in a Dublin pub when two men with guns walk in. They're here to take care of a minor problem—petty criminal Walter Bennett. On impulse, Callaghan intervenes to save Walter's life. Soon, his own survival is in question. With a troubled past and an uncertain future, Danny finds himself drawn into a vicious scheme of revenge. Dark Times in the City depicts an edgy city where affluence and cocaine fuel a ruthless gang culture, and a man's fleeting impulse may cost the lives of those who matter most to him. <br />
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Kerrigan's new novel is his finest yet; a CWA Gold Dagger Crime Novel finalist, it's gripping from start to finish, powerful, original and impossible to put down.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780374173180" target="_blank">The House of Journalists</a> by Tim Finch<br />
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<i>Welcome to the House of Journalists. Who are you and what is your story?</i>
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These are the questions that confront newcomers to the House of Journalists, the internationally renowned refuge for writers in exile at the center of this haunting Orwellian novel. Home to a select group of fellows, the House is located in a fashionable London terrace. But just how stable is this hallowed institution? Julian Snowman, the obsessive founder and chair, sees the threat of dissolution at every turn. Perhaps this explains why petty rules and restrictions abide: men live in one wing, women in the other; smoking is restricted to the central courtyard; tea is optional, but everyone attends.
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As the fellows strive to remake their lives, they are urged to share their tales. Epic and intimate by turns, these stories—of courage, tragedy, and shame—become a mesmerizing chorus of voices in search of home. Among the fellows are Mustapha, who yearns for the family he tore himself from when he resisted a coup; Agnes, a photojournalist implicated in a brutal civil war; Sonny, a slight figure with don’t-mess-with-me hair, who describes a harrowing escape across continents; Edson, who perilously confides his story to his writing mentor; and Mr. Stan, who draws on the noxious cigarettes of his home island, despite having been tortured there.
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Only one man manages to guard his past: the mysterious new fellow AA, whose secrecy ratchets up Julian’s paranoia. Julian suspects that AA is conspiring with a celebrated visiting writer to bring down the House. In fact, AA is planning something else entirely.
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A world as beguiling as it is disturbing, Tim Finch’s <i>The House of Journalists</i> is a novel of heartbreak, humanity, and wit, and announces the arrival of a striking new voice in fiction.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781616952129" target="_blank">Evil and the Mask</a> by Fuminori Nakamura<br />
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When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. "I created you to be a cancer on the world," his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to dedicate to causing misery in a world that cannot be controlled or saved. From this point on, Fumihiro will be specially educated to learn to create as much destruction and unhappiness in the world around him as a single person can. Between his education in hedonism and his family's resources, Fumihiro's life is one without repercussions. Every door is open to him, for he need obey no laws and may live out any fantasy he might have, no matter how many people are hurt in the process. But as his education progresses, Fumihiro begins to question his father's mandate, and starts to resist.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780143122418" target="_blank">Necessary Errors</a> by Caleb Crain<br />
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It’s October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He’s arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia’s revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense of possibility. As the men and women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another, no one turns out to be quite the same as the idea Jacob has of them — including Jacob himself.
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<i>Necessary Errors</i> is the long-awaited first novel from literary critic and journalist Caleb Crain. Shimmering and expansive, Crain’s prose richly captures the turbulent feelings and discoveries of youth as it stretches toward adulthood — the chance encounters that grow into lasting, unforgettable experiences and the surprises of our first ventures into a foreign world — and the treasure of living in Prague during an era of historic change.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780670026524" target="_blank">The Collini Case</a> by Ferdinand von Schirach<br />
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A bestseller in Germany since its 2011 release—with rights sold in seventeen countries—<i>The Collini Case</i> combines the classic courtroom procedural with modern European history in a legal thriller worthy of John Grisham and Scott Turow.
Fabrizio Collini is recently retired. He’s a quiet, unassuming man with no indications that he’s capable of hurting anyone. And yet he brutally murders a prominent industrialist in one of Berlin’s most exclusive hotels.
Collini ends up in the charge of Caspar Leinen, a rookie defense lawyer eager to launch his career with a not-guilty verdict. Complications soon arise when Collini admits to the murder but refuses to give his motive, much less speak to anyone. As Leinen searches for clues he discovers a personal connection to the victim and unearths a terrible truth at the heart of Germany’s legal system that stretches back to World War II. But how much is he willing to sacrifice to expose the truth?<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780802120663" target="_blank">Wash</a> by Margaret Wrinkle<br />
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Margaret Wrinkle's luminous, affecting debut novel is the impassioned story of two men and a woman joined by slave breeding in early-nineteenth-century Tennessee. Written as an accusation, a revelation, and a prayer, <i>Wash</i> challenges contemporary assumptions as it transcends time, revealing anew this explosive shard of national history.
Richardson, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran, responds to the pressures of debt and westward expansion by setting Washington, a young man he owns, to work as his breeding sire. As Wash gets drawn into a power struggle with Richardson, he fights to hold onto his West African spiritual legacy. Despair and disease lead him to a potent enslaved healer named Pallas. While their delicate love unfolds, she inspires Wash to forge a new understanding of his heritage and his place in it. As these three lives intertwine, the stories they tell allow them to find solace and mastery. <br />
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By turns haunting, tender, and redemptive, this boundary-crossing novel carries the reader from the heart of whiteness into the center of ancestral African spirituality until these two contrasting ways of seeing shimmer together. Questioning differences of blood and belief, erasing the line between the living and dead, <i>Wash</i> offers new insights into current racial dilemmas.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781400069439" target="_blank">Enon</a> by Paul Harding<br />
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Hailed as “a masterpiece” (NPR), <i>Tinkers</i>, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut, is a modern classic. The Dallas Morning News observed that “like Faulkner, Harding never shies away from describing what seems impossible to put into words.” Here, in <i>Enon</i>, Harding follows a year in the life of Charlie Crosby as he tries to come to terms with a shattering personal tragedy. Grandson of George Crosby (the protagonist of <i>Tinkers</i>), Charlie inhabits the same dynamic landscape of New England, its seasons mirroring his turbulent emotional odyssey. Along the way, Charlie’s encounters are brought to life by his wit, his insights into history, and his yearning to understand the big questions. A stunning mosaic of human experience, <i>Enon</i> affirms Paul Harding as one of the most gifted and profound writers of his generation.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-66026649222885221262014-01-02T12:08:00.001-05:002014-01-02T12:08:19.582-05:00New Adult Nonfiction - Jan. 2, 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781250047908" target="_blank">Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey: the Official Backstage Pass to the Set, the Actors and the Drama</a> by Emma Rowley<br />
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Gain unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to <i>Downton Abbey</i> in this official Season 4 tie-in book, complete with never-before-seen photos giving fans insight into the making of the runaway hit. Expertly crafted with generous inside knowledge and facts, this book will delve into the inspiration behind the details seen on screen, the choice of locations, the music and much more. Step inside the props cupboard or the hair and make-up truck and catch a glimpse of the secret backstage world. In-depth interviews and exclusive photos give insight into the actors’ experiences on set as well as the celebrated creative team behind the award-winning drama. Straight from the director’s chair, this is the inside track on all aspects of the making of the show.</div>
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781594204814" target="_blank">The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting</a> by Alan Greenspan<br />
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Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, Alan Greenspan embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better. Economic risk is a fact of life in every realm, from home to business to government at all levels. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we make wagers on the future virtually every day, one way or another. Very often, however, we're steering by out-of-date maps, when we're not driven by factors entirely beyond our conscious control. <br />
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<i>The Map and the Territory</i> is nothing less than an effort to update our forecasting conceptual grid. It integrates the history of economic prediction, the new work of behavioral economists, and the fruits of the author's own remarkable career to offer a thrillingly lucid and empirically based grounding in what we can know about economic forecasting and what we can't.The book explores how culture is and isn't destiny and probes what we can predict about the world's biggest looming challenges, from debt and the reform of the welfare state to natural disasters in an age of global warming. <br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781440568169" target="_blank">The Everything Guide to the Introvert Edge: Maximize the Advantages of Being an Introvert-- at Home and at Work</a> by Arnie Kozak<br />
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Discover your introvert power!<br />
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Society is finally beginning to recognize the true value of introverts--their observational skills, creativity, and strong focus. If you prefer solitary activities and intimate gatherings to lively outside stimulation, <i>The Everything Guide to the Introvert Edge</i> will show you how to harness the power of your disposition and use it to conquer any situation. You don't need to become an outgoing extrovert to be successful. This essential guide will help you change the way you look at yourself and use your personality to win.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780670023394" target="_blank">A History of the World in 12 Maps</a> by Jerry Brotton<br />
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A fascinating look at twelve maps — from Ancient Greece to Google Earth — and how they changed our world.<br />
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In this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of history's most influential maps, from stone tablet to vibrant computer screen. Starting with Ptolemy, “father of modern geography,” and ending with satellite cartography, <i>A History of the World in 12 Maps</i> brings maps from classical Greece, Renaissance Europe, and the Islamic and Buddhist worlds to life and reveals their influence on how we — literally — look at our present world.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780345806765" target="_blank">The Distancers: an American Memoir</a> by Lee Sandlin<br />
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In <i>The Distancers</i>, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth-century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride—of successes, failures, and above all endurance—leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic. Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, <i>The Distancers</i> is a beautiful and stark Midwestern drama, about a time and place long since vanished, where the author learned the value of family and the art of keeping one's distance.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781426211560" target="_blank">The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight</a> by Winston Groom<br />
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Written by gifted storyteller Winston Groom (author of <i>Forrest Gump</i>), <i>The Aviators</i> tells the saga of three extraordinary aviators--Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle--and how they redefined heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-50463859585545768762013-12-27T12:47:00.000-05:002013-12-27T12:47:01.164-05:00New Adult Fiction - Dec. 27, 2013 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781250028020" target="_blank">The New Countess</a> by Fay Weldon (Book 3 in the <em>Habits of the House</em> trilogy)<br />
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By the bestselling novelist and award-winning writer of the pilot episode of the original <em>Upstairs Downstairs</em>. England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months away. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. And Mrs. O'Brien is visiting from America and causing trouble. Meanwhile, the Dilbernes' niece, Adela, is back and stirring up hysteria in the servants' hall by claiming the house is cursed. The royal visit is imperiled, but so are the Dilberne finances once more. His Lordship is under tremendous stress, and the pecking order will soon be upset as everything at Dilberne Court changes. <br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780755386475" target="_blank">The Hunters</a> by Chris Kuzneski<br />
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The hunters - an ex-military leader, a historian, a computer whiz, a weapons expert and a thief, financed by a billionaire philanthropist - are tasked with finding the world's most legendary treasures. The mission: recover a vast Romanian treasure that was stolen by the Russians nearly a century ago. With a haul valued at over $3.5 billion, everyone wants to claim the vast treasure, but its location has remained a mystery... until now. Can the hunters succeed where all others have failed?<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780816521104" target="_blank">With Blood in Their Eyes</a> by Thomas Cobb<br />
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On February 10, 1918, John Power woke to the sound of bells and horses’ hooves. He was sharing a cabin near the family mine with his brother Tom and their father Jeff; hired man Tom Sisson was also nearby. Then gunfire erupted, and so began the day when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff’s Department in the bloodiest shootout in Arizona history. Now Thomas Cobb, author of <i>Crazy Heart</i> and <i>Shavetail</i>, has taken up the story in this powerful and meticulously researched nonfiction novel. <br />
Grappling with themes of loyalty, masculinity, technology, and honor, this sweeping saga reveals the passion and brutality of frontier life in Arizona a hundred years ago. Richly authentic and beautifully written, <i>With Blood in Their Eyes</i> breathes dramatic new life into this nearly forgotten episode of the American West.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780670025077" target="_blank">Return to Oakpine</a> by Ron Carlson<br />
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From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo. In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world. In high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999 - because he is dying. With Carlson’s characteristic grace, we learn what has become of these friends and the different directions of their lives. Craig and Frank never left; Mason, a top lawyer in Denver, is back in town to fix up and sell his parents’ house. Now that they are reunited, getting the band back together might be the most important thing they can do.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780857898654" target="_blank">The Magus of Hay</a> by Phil Rickman<br />
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A man's body is found below a waterfall. It looks like suicide or an accidental drowning—until DI Frannie Bliss enters the dead man's home. What he finds there sends him to Merrily Watkins, the Diocese of Hereford's official advisor on the paranormal. It's been nearly 40 years since Hay was declared an independent state by its self-styled king—a development seen at the time as a joke, a publicity scam. But behind this pastiche a dark design was taking shape, creating a hidden history of murder and ritual-magic, the relics of which are only now becoming horribly visible. It's a situation that will take Merrily Watkins—alone for the first time in years—to the edge of madness.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781434764942" target="_blank">The Mulligans of Mt. Jefferson</a> by Don Reid<br />
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In a small Virginia town, Cal, Harlan and Buddy grow up and get into -- and out of -- all the trouble that boys manage to think up. A local restaurateur, "Uncle" Vic, calls them the Mulligans, because they always seem to find a way through a thicket of trouble -- family problems, girls, college, war service -- to success. On an early morning in 1959, police lieutenant Buddy receives a startling phone call: Harlan has been shot in a break-in. Together, Cal and Buddy begin to unravel what might have happened to Harlan, uncovering more questions than answers -- and they begin to wonder what secrets lie beneath years of friendship. After a lifetime of pulling through scrapes together, are the Mulligans out of second chances?Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-20434671409231571772013-12-19T10:16:00.003-05:002013-12-19T10:16:26.918-05:00New Adult Nonfiction - Dec. 19, 2013 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781770411401" target="_blank">A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic</a><br />
by Caseen Gaines<br />
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The definitive guide to everything fans want to know about <i>A Christmas Story</i> shares the inside story behind the film’s production, release, and unlikely ascent to the top of popular culture. From Jean Shepherd’s original radio broadcasts to Bob Clark’s 1983 sleeper hit film and beyond, <i>A Christmas Story</i> has become a beloved Yuletide tradition over the last three decades. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of its theatrical release, this is the untold story of the making of the film, and what happened afterwards. Complete with rare and previously unreleased photographs, now fans of the movie and film buffs alike can lean all they didn’t know about the timeless classic.</div>
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780307886811" target="_blank">Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing</a><br />
by Anya von Bremzen<br />
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"I don’t think there’s ever been a book quite like this; I couldn’t put it down. Warm, smart and completely engaging, this food-forward journey through Soviet history could only have been written by someone who was there. Part memoir, part cookbook, part social history, this gripping account of Anya von Bremzen’s relationship with the country she fled as a young girl is also an unsentimental, but deeply loving tribute to her mother. Unique and remarkable, this is a book you won't forget." <cite>Ruth Reichl, author of Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples </cite><br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781591846000" target="_blank">The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain</a> by James Fallon<br />
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<em>The Psychopath Inside</em> tells the fascinating story of Fallon’s reaction to the discovery that he has the brain of a psychopath. While researching serial murderers, he uncovered a distinct neurological pattern in their brain scans that helped explain their cold and violent behavior. A few months later he learned that he was descended from a family with a long line of murderers which confirmed that Fallon’s own brain pattern wasn’t a fluke.<br />
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As a scientist convinced that humans are shaped by their genetics, Fallon set out to reconcile the truth about his brain with everything he knew about the mind, behavior, and the influence of nature vs. nurture on our personalities. How could he, a successful scientist and a happy family man with no history of violence, be a psychopath? How much did his biology influence his behavior? Was he capable of some of the gruesome atrocities perpetrated by the serial killers he had studied?</div>
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Combining his personal experience with scientific analysis, Fallon shares his journey and the discoveries that ultimately led him to understand that, despite everything science can teach us, humans are even more complex than we can imagine.</div>
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780306821684" target="_blank">27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse</a><br />
by Howard Sounes<br />
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Imagine a club that people are dying to get into -- literally! Sounes examines
the lives of six musicians and singers who died at the age of 27, plus other
music industry figures who died at that age, to discover what -- apart from
coincidence -- this phenomenon signifies. He discovers a common story of excess,
madness, and self-destruction. <br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781934351048" target="_blank">Hollywood Costume</a> edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis<br />
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Featuring the most beloved costume designs from the past 100 years of Hollywood films, <i>Hollywood Costume </i>celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer’s contribution to the telling of the cinematic story. Published in conjunction with an exhibition launched at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London that the <i>New York Times </i>called “extraordinary,” the book showcases the talents of renowned designers such as Adrian, Edith Head, and Sandy Powell, among many others, whose work spans the silent era to the Golden Age of Hollywood to the present day. With memorable wardrobe classics from <i>The Tramp</i>, <i>Ben-Hur</i>, <i>Cleopatra</i>, <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>, <i>Gone with the Wind</i>, <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i>, <i>Ocean’s Eleven</i>, <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>, <i>Avatar</i>, and many more, <i>Hollywood Costume </i>is the ultimate volume for fashionistas and film lovers alike.
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780670025510" target="_blank">Eminent Hipsters</a> by Donald Fagen<br />
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"Since the popular music group Steely Dan produced its last album in 2003, founding member Fagen has been keeping busy performing in occasional reunion tours and channeling his celebrated, lyric-generating talents into penning crafty and incisive essays. In his first collection of these distinctively droll and erudite pieces, Fagen covers a wide range of topics, from boyhood memories to musical criticism. The eminent hipsters referred to in the title are Fagen’s early idols, such radio personalities as Jean Shepherd, best known for narrating A Christmas Story, and late-night jazz DJ Mort Fega, the cool uncle you always wished you’d had. 'Class of ‘69' recounts his momentous years at New York’s Bard College, where he met Steely Dan cofounder Walter Becker, and 'With the Dukes of September' excerpts his journal notes from a recent musical tour he took with fellow music legends Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald. While Steely Dan devotees will, of course, revel in Fagan’s barb-edged observations, any observer of popular culture will find his essays informative and trenchantly amusing." <em>Carl Hays in Booklist</em>Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818681926454179972.post-79033018923964056382013-12-17T15:48:00.000-05:002013-12-19T09:10:58.906-05:00New Children's Books - Dec. 17, 2013<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780811878692" target="_blank">Little Red Writing</a> by Joan Holub<br />
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Acclaimed writer Joan Holub and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet team up in this hilarious and exuberant retelling of <em>Little Red Riding Hood</em>, in which a brave, little red pencil finds her way through the many perils of writing a story, faces a ravenous pencil sharpener (the Wolf 3000)... and saves the day.<br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9780399165337" target="_blank">Friends</a> by Eric Carle<br />
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From the creator of the all-time classic <em>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</em> comes a sweetly resonant story about the power of friendship. When a best friend moves away, it can be painful for the child who is left behind. But the spunky boy in this upbeat story makes up his mind to find his missing playmate. Young readers will cheer on the boy as he braves currents, climbs mountains, and dashes through rain before, finally, reuniting with his friend. <br />
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<a href="http://rvl.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=9781452106991" target="_blank">Ivy + Bean take the case</a> by Annie Barrows<br />
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Watch out, you diabolical masterminds! There's a new detective on Pancake Court: Bean! She laughs at danger! She solves even the most mysterious mysteries! What? There aren't any mysteries? Then Bean and her assistant, Ivy, will make some!<br />
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In this tenth installment of Ivy + Bean stories, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator after watching a movie about a detective on the television --and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.Salem Public Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642455262184067769noreply@blogger.com0