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August 30, 2005
NEW MYSTERIES--JUNE, JULY, AUGUST (Part 1)
There are many mysteries among the recently released fiction:
Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong (NEW ARM MYS)--reprint of the 1950 suspense novel made into the 1952 Marilyn Monroe/Richard Widmark movie Don't Bother to Knock; the last-minute sitter a couple finds for their 9-year-old daughter while at a hotel turns out to be a dangerous psychopath
The Perfect Paragon: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. Beaton (NEW BEA MYS)--Raisin Investigations takes on a case involving a jealous husband's suspicions of a possibly cheating wife (which turns into a murder case) and a case involving the death of a local teenager
Dead Romantic by Simon Brett (NEW BRE MYS)--a reprint of the 1985 novel of suspense; 30-ish language tutor Madeleine Severn is romantically interested in a colleague, Bernard Hopkins, but a jealous student, Paul Grigson, plans to foil their planned romantic getaway
The Rogues'Game by Milton T. Burton (NEW BUR MYS)--just after WWII, a stranger and his girlfriend come to a small Texas town for a high-stakes poker game, or an oil deal scam, or a robbery...or ?
North: A Novel by Frederick Busch (NEW BUS MYS)--sequel to 1997's Girls, protagonist "Jack" is asked to return to Upstate New York to search for a woman's missing nephew and must then face his own past
The Young Widow by Cassandra Chan (NEW CHA MYS)--Scotland Yard's DS Jack Gibbons and his wealthy friend, Phillip Bethancourt, team up to investigate the poisoning death of a businessman
Desert Summer by Michael Craft (NEW CRA MYS)--Theater Professor Claire Gray investigates the death of Felicia Yeats, wife of the founder of Desert Arts College, while presenting a summer workshop production of Rebecca
Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher (NEW DIS MYS)--Melbourne detective Hal Challis investigates threats to an aerial photographer
The Water Room by Christopher Fowler (NEW FOW MYS)--50-year police partners, Bryant and May, now part of "The Peculiar Crimes" unit in London, investigate the apparent drowning of a woman in a dry basement
The Late Bill Smith Andrew Garve (NEW GAR MYS)--reprint of 1971 suspense story about a man in the wrong place at the wrong time
Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle: [a mystery featuring Groucho Marx] by Ron Goulart (NEW GOU MYS)--it's 1940 and former LA Times crime reporter (now screenwriter) Frank Denby and the wise-cracking Groucho investigate the death of the star of what was to be Groucho's next movie
Hardcastle's Armistice by Graham Ison (NEW ISO MYS)--in 1918 London, DI Hardcastle and DS Marriott investigate the death of a prostitute and find one of the suspects may also be a blackmailer
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August 29, 2005
LABOR DAY CLOSINGS
The Library will be closed on Sunday, September 4, amd Monday, September 5, for the Labor Day Holiday. It will reopen on Tuesday, September 6, at the usual hour of 9 a.m.
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August 28, 2005
"LIVE HOMEWORK HELP" UPDATE
The connection to the new "Live Homework Help" is now also available directly from the Kids Korner: If You Are a...Kid section of the Library home page as well as from the "Homework Center" page.
This is a LIVE interaction with a subject specialist for students from grades 4-12 and beginning college. [Times shown on site are Eastern, so instead of 2-10 p.m., here it is 1-9 p.m. every day.]
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August 25, 2005
NEW FICTION--JUNE, JULY, AUGUST (Part 4)
More New Fiction, skipped the first time through:
The Dallancy Bequest by Tessa Barclay (NEW BAR)--Genealogist Laura Wainwright helps Canadian Neil Crandel in his search of family history
Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur (NEW BRO)--two Manhattan career girls, dissatisfied with the types of men found in New York City, set up a rural camp for city guys to learn to be alpha males
Three Can Keep a Secret by Judy Clemens (NEW CLE)--sequel to Till the Cows Come Home finds dairy farmer Stella Crown worrying about the veracity of her new hire, a Mennonite widow, who may or may not have killed her husband
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde (NEW FFO)--Det. Jack Spratt and his sergeant, Mary Mary, investigate the demise of Humpty Dumpty
Six Bad Things: A Novel by Charlie Huston (NEW HUS)--Sequel to Caught Stealing has wise-cracking Hank Thompson's cover blown (he managed to keep $4 million of Russian Mafia money) and on the run again, this time from Mexican smugglers, the FBI, and the police as well as Russian Mafia
Nadia's Song by Soheir Khashoggi (NEW KHA)--Covering 50 years of 20th century Egyptian history, this saga follows the life of Nadia, illegitimate child of an Englishman and an Egyptian servant girl, whio is raised in France and returns to Egypt after college
Rogue Warrior: Vengeance by Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice (NEW MAR)--this latest entry in the Rogue Warrior series has Marcinko and the ex-military personnel he uses in his security company testing Homeland Security while fending off personal enemies
Twilight by Katherine Mosby (NEW MOS)--wealthy 30-something Lavinia Gibbs arrives in pre-WWII Paris to find romance with a married man, but gets caught by the German Occupation
The Crazyladies of Pearl Street by Trevanian (NEW TRE)--poor Irish family survives in 1930's Albany, N.Y., surrounded by eccentric women
Mafia Summer by E. Duke Vincent (NEW VIN)--two teens--a young Sicilian punk and a scholarly Orthodox Jewish boy--get caught in the middle of a gang war in 1950's Hell's Kitchen
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August 23, 2005
FINAL MOVIE--SUMMER 2005
The last scheduled event for this Summer will be a screening of the Canadian-made Indie film, Wilby Wonderful--24 hours in the lives of the inhabitants of a small Nova Scotia island town. Full of scandal, suicide attempts, murder, festival planning, and "dark comedy", this movie was selected for both the 2004 Vancouver and Toronto Film Festivals and for the 2005 Palm Springs Film Festival. It will be shown in the Large Meeting Room on Monday, August 29, at 7 p.m.
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August 21, 2005
"WHAT'S NEW IN ADULT SERVICES"
Every month recently, a little 4-page pamphlet, called What's New in Adult Services, has been put out by the Adult Services Department. Written and designed by Nancy Broten-Munson, it usually highlights special events, acquisitions, collections, or interesting things connected to Adult Services. It can be found just outside the entrance to the Adult Services Department, on a display just to the left as you go through the door.
This month, there is a section with an annotated list of websites containing practical information on going Back to School for parents and students alike. Next, there is a section highlighting the Adult Basic Reading Collection with a list of recent acquisitions, including new titles in several series like Black Cat Reading & Training and Macmillan Guided Readers. The last section has a reminder about the ongoing CD Collection shifting and an explanation of the way the CDs are classified using the ANSCR scheme.
Look for a new pamphlet each month for Adult Services news and information in brief.
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August 20, 2005
NEW FICTION--JUNE, JULY, AUGUST (Part 3)
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia (NEW PLA)--An origami woman, war-going flower-seller gangs, saints in disguise, and a prophesying Baby Nostradamus populate this debut novel described as "cheeky", "playful", "macabre", "violent", and allegorical
That Anvil of Our Souls: A Novel of the Monitor and the Merrimack by David Poyer (NEW POY)--The third volume of the Civil War at Sea Saga presents a fictionalized account of the designing, building, and ultimate destruction of the two enemy ironclads
The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price (NEW PRI)--Art conservator, Mabry Price, forced by the 9/11 disaster to abandon his destroyed NYC apartment, returns to his childhood home in North Carolina to temporarily stay with his wheelchair-bound father, reconnecting with past loves and memories
Lie by Moonlight by Amanda Quick ((NEW QUI)--teacher Concordia Glade meets Private Investigator Ambrose Wells while rescuing her 4 teenaged charges from a remote castle; they hide out in Victorian London while attempting to discover who is behind the heinous plot to sell the girls
Music of the Mill by Luis J. Rodriguez (NEW ROD)--The Salcido family and its generational relationship with an LA steel mill is presented in this gritty saga
Hide & Seek by Clare Sambrook (NEW SAM)--A 9 year old English boy narrates the affects on his family of the disappearance of his 4 year old brother during a field trip
The Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro (NEW SHA)--15 year old Henry Every drowns mysteriously, but leaves behind a 5-year diary and two confused and disassociated parents
Miracle by Danielle Steel (NEW STE)--three strangers (divorcee Maggie, widowed former CEO Quinn, and carpenter Jack) are brought together by a violent storm in San Francisco with life-changing results
Q & A: A Novel by Vikas Swarup (NEW SWA)--Impoverished Mumbai waiter, Ram Mohammad Thomas, wins Big Money on a quiz show, but is fraudulently jailed as a cheater and subsequently relates to his lawyer how his past life experiences were his real education and source of his correct answers
Wolf Rock by Peter Tonkin (NEW TON)--British captain of a SeaCat, Richard Mariner, rescues the crew of a ship wrecked on Wolf Rock during a storm in the English Channel, but discovers that the captain of the wrecked ship has disappeared mysteriously
The Season of Open Water by Dawn Clifton Tripp (NEW TRI)--Prohibition and rum-running impact a family in a coastal New England town just before the Stock Market Crash
Boss Lady by Omar Tyree (NEW TYR)--This sequel to For the Love of Money and Flyy Girl sends 16 year old Tracy Smith on a visit to her successful cousin in LA where she helps to develop the Flyy Girl clothing line and movie
Chain of Command by Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweizer (NEW WEI)--fanatical vice-president takes over and declares martial law when the President is assassinated and only the falsely-accused SS agent and his ex-girlfriend can save the country
Mad Girls in Love by Michael Lee West (NEW WES)--20 years of the lives of several Tennessee women are chronicled in this "heartwarming" sequel to Crazy Ladies
White: A Novel by Christopher Whitcomb (NEW WHI)--FBI agent Jeremy Waller investigates a series of terrorist attacks that seem to be the work of a coalition of Islamic and Fundamentalist Christians in this thriller, a sequel to Black
Canaan's Tongue by John Wray (NEW WRA)--fictionalized story of a real-life murderer/slave-trader/preacher/gang-leader and his gang during and after the Civil War
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August 18, 2005
AUGUST 22-28 HAPPENINGS
On Monday, August 22, Chinese "Masterbrewer" Cheuk Fong, will present a program about Tea--how to prepare tea, the benefits of tea, and the differences between the various kinds of tea (black, green, white, and herbal). It will be held in the Large Meeting Room at 7 p.m. Registration can be done at the Reception Desk.
An "Internet Basics" class will be given on Wednesday, August 24 at 11 a.m. Register at the Reception Desk.
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August 15, 2005
NEW FICTION--JUNE, JULY, AUGUST (Part 2)
More New Fiction released from June through August 1:
No Man's Land by G.M. Ford (NEW FOR)--True-crime writer, Frank Corso, goes to New Mexico to negotiate with a psychotic prisoner who has taken over a maximum security prison
The Holmes Factor by Brian Freemantle (NEW FRE)--Sebastian Holmes, Sherlock's son, goes to St. Petersburg in 1913 to check out the rumors that all is not as well as the British consulate reports state
Exact Revenge by Tim Green (NEW GRE)--Lawyer Raymond White experiences a modern-day version of the Count of Monte Cristo, escaping after 18 years in prison to get his revenge
The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison (NEW HAR)--three novellas about a Midwestern writer/poet reflecting on his career, three women and their relationships with an academic gigolo, and an alcoholic part-Indian loser who wants to keep his "fetal-alcohol-syndrome" child from being taken to a government-run home
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin (NEW HEL)--As a test of their ability to rule England, the Prince and Princess of Wales are parachuted, naked, into the wilds of New Jersey where they start their wacky transcontinental journey to become "real" people
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand (NEW HIL)--Adrienne Dealey gets a job as an assistant manager at a Nantucket restaurant and falls for one of the owners
The Stolen Heart by Lauren Kelly (NEW KEL)--After her father's death, Merilee Graf uncovers some secrets from the past involving her family and the disappearance 16 years earlier of one of her classmates
Making It Up As I Go Along by M. T. Lennon (NEW LEN)--pregnant heiress and former war correspondent, Saffron Roch, moves to California and gets caught up in the "Mommy Track"
Winners: A Novel by Eric B. Martin (NEW MAR)--chimney sweep Shane, married to an entreprenurial "dot-com-er", searches for a fellow pick-up basketball player who has disappeared and finds a different world in the slums of San Francisco
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (NEW MCCAL)--"vignettes" of Bohemian life in an Edinburgh boarding house
The Road to Esmeralda by Joy Nicholson (NEW NIC)--Californians Nick and Sarah escape the post-9/11 USA by traveling to Mexico and then to Esmeralda in the Yucatan, staying at a Swiss Chalet type hotel run by German expatriates, but can't escape corruption and drug runners
Turning Leaves by Pamela Oldfield (NEW OLD)--collection of "sketches" about working class men and women and life-changing moments
Glad News of the Natural World by T.R. Pearson (NEW PEA)--Sequel to A Short History of a Small Place, now grown-up Louis Benfield tries to make it in New York City
The Twins of TriBeCa by Rachel Pine (NEW PIN)--Roman-a-clef about a junior staffer, Karen Jacobs, who leaves CNN to work for a major New York based film company (like Miramax)
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August 13, 2005
NEW FICTION--JUNE, JULY, AUGUST (Part 1)
Some of the New Fiction added to the collection from June through the August 1:
Island of Saints: A Story of the One Principle that Frees the Human Spirit by Andy Andrews (NEW AND)--The author uncovers a box of WWII relics under a tree in his yard on a Gulf Coast island and discovers the story of a stranded U-Boat captain and a lonely, embittered widow who saves him
Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin (NEW ARV)--Nashville D.A., Tom Dennehy, may have sent the wrong man to Death Row and is now possibly a target of the "real" killer (or is it?) in this legal thriller
Three Day Road Joseph Boyden (NEW BOY)--Two Canadian Cree friends go to France in WWI as snipers, but lose their way and their friendship as the war drags on
Death Watch by Jack Cavanaugh and Jerry Kuiper (NEW CAV)--Los Angeles TV reporter, Sydney St. James discovers a new terrorist plot when people start receiving letters that say they will die (and they do die shortly thereafter); she is aided in her investigation by a renowned German broadcaster as well as her Evangelical Christian faith
Incendiary by Chris Cleave (NEW )--In a letter she writes to Osama Bin Laden, a London widow tells how her life has fallen apart after her husband and son were killed by a terrorist bomb at a soccer match
The Poet of Loch Ness by Brian Jay Corrigan (NEW COR)--The wife of a scholar researching Nessie discovers that their guide to the Loch is a long-lost sweetheart
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham (NEW CUN)--Ghosts, aliens, machines, Artificial Intelligence, and terrorists are found in three stories about Manhattan at different time periods, two set in the future
The Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto (NEW DEV)--An Alabama small-town family struggles with the effects of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's
Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey (NEW DIC)--Sensual story of a successful couple who return to the wife's backwoods home when her father dies and they get caught up in secrets, sex, and family disfunction
Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novel by Åke Edwardson; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson (NEW EDW)--Swedish police detective, Erik Winter, investigates a double murder in Gothenburg while coping with birth and death in his own family
The Loss of Leon Meed by Josh Emmons (NEW EMM)--54 year old Leon Meed appears and disappears in the lives of various residents of Eureka, California, affecting them in "crucial ways"
The Smoke Room by Earl Emerson (NEW EME)--Rookie Seattle firefighter, Jason Gum, gets involved with an older woman as an arsonist keeps him busy on the job and $12 million worth of stolen bearer bonds present a motive for betrayal by fellow firefighters
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August 11, 2005
AUGUST 15-AUGUST 21 HAPPENINGS
ADULT SERVICES:
On Monday, August 15, at 7 p.m. in the Large Meeting Room, Board Certified Gastroenterologist, Dr. Bernsen, will conduct a seminar on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Burning New Issues. If constant heartburn, sour stomach, and belching are making eating a painful experience, this seminar might have some information on getting relief. Register by calling 1-866-ALEXIAN (253-9426).
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August 05, 2005
AUGUST 8-14 HAPPENINGS
On Monday, August 8, the movie, The Aviator will be shown in the Large Meeting Room at 7 p.m. Starring Leonardo Dicaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese, the movie covers the early years in the life of famous recluse-millionaire, Howard Hughes.
On Thursday, August 11, there will be a class called Internet: Beyond the Basics" at 11:15 a.m. Register at the Reception Desk.
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August 04, 2005
NEW NON-FICTION--JULY (CONT.)
Here are some more books released on Friday, July 29:
Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How It Will Rise Again by Bruce Abramson (NEW 303.4833 ABR)--lawyer Abramson discusses the causes of the "Dot.Com" bubble collapse and how intellectual property rights and the "open source" movement will revitalize the industry
Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio by Jack W. Mitchell (NEW 384.54 MIT)--a look at the development of National Public Radio (NPR) by one of its pioneers and at some of NPR's notable programs, i.e. All things Considered
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb (NEW 422 WAJ)--a frank look at the history of forbidden words, including swearing and blasphemy, from all over the world
Dying For a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease by Murray Waldman & Marjorie Lamb (NEW 614.5983 WAL)--Canadian coroner Waldman theorizes that the current explosion of Alzheimer cases is due to the way meat is processed today and, specifically, to the "prions", infectious agents, present in modern meat
The Elements of Murder by John Emsley (NEW 615.9 EMS)--arsenic, lead, mercury, antimony, and thallium are all poisons used to commit murder; chemist Emsley shows how they work as poisons and some of the famous murderers who used them
Perfect Phrases for the Perfect Interview by Carole Martin (NEW 650.14 MAR)--suggested answers to typical interview questions, preparation exercises and resources, words to avoid, and how to impress the interviewer are covered by Martin, a professional interview coach
Maran Illustrated Knitting & Crocheting by the MaranGraphics Development Group (NEW 746.43 MAR)--excellent close-up photographs showing basic techniques from casting on to cable stitches; some patterns for basic items like scarves and sweaters
Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents by Nicholas Ganz; edited by Tristan Manco (NEW 751.73 GAN)--beautifully photographed record (plus some biographical information on the artists) OF "urban art" from all over the world
Guns over the Champlain Valley: A Guide to Historic Sites and Battlefields by Howard Coffin, Will Curtis, and Jane Curtis (NEW 974.754 COF)--travel guide to battleground sites from the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812, along the Champlain Valley corridor in New England
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August 03, 2005
NEW NON-FICTION--JULY
Here is a list of some the new non-fiction just released at the Elk Grove Village Library on Friday, July 29:
The Whispering of Ghosts: Trauma and Resilience by Boris Cyrulnik ; translated by Susan Fairfield (NEW 155.24 CYR)--neuropsychiatrist Cyrulnik discusses the impact of childhood "distress", deprivation, and trauma on future adult lives as well as ways to lessen or eliminate their effects
The Secret History of Lucifer: The Ancient Path to Knowledge and the Real Da Vinci Code by Lynn Picknett (NEW 235.47 PIC)--a look at the evolution of perception of the fallen archangel through history, from angel to devil--or was he?
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha by Stephen T. Asma (NEW 294.34 ASM)--anecdotal account of the author's adventure as a visiting professor in Cambodia, examining Bhuddism as practiced in the South East part of Asia
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch (NEW 306.4 EKI)--a history of how Western Civilization coped with darkness at night prior to the proliferation of artificial light
The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation by Greg LeRoy (NEW 336.207 LER)--founder of "Good Jobs First", LeRoy discloses how corporations, subsidized by community governments, renege on their promises of jobs and revenue, leaving communities in worse shape than before
Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner by Frederick Zugibe and David L. Carroll (NEW 616.0759 ZUG)--Rockford County, New York, ME for 35 years, Dr. Zugibe presents 10 of his more complex cases and how he solved them
A Few Good Eggs: Two Chicks Dish on Overcoming the Insanity of Infertility by Julie Vargo and Maureen Regan (NEW 618.178 VAR)--comprehensive guide to managing and overcoming infertility by two authors who have "been there"
Cooking to Hook Up: The Bachelor's Date-Night Cookbook by Ann Marie Michaels and Drew Campbell (NEW 641.5612 MIC)--menus and recipes to please and impress different types of ladies (i.e., Academic and Career); includes shopping lists, timetables and presentation suggestions
Low-Carb, Slow & Easy by Frances Towner Giedt (NEW 641.5638 GIE)--slow-cooker recipes from appetizers to desserts, with nutritional analyses, food exchanges, and special recipes for those with diabetes and heart problems
200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes: Healthy Dinners That Are Ready When You Are! by Dana Carpender (NEW 641.5884 CAR)--popular media presence, author, and columnist Carpender presents low-carb recipes that take advantage of the convenience of the revitalized slow-cooker
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August 02, 2005
COMPUTER CLASSES ON AUGUST 3 & 4
On Wednesday, August 3, there will be a class on using Microsoft Word 2000 at 10:30 p.m.
On Thursday, August 4, there will be a class on Organizing Your Hard drive--create files; rename, move, and copy files and folders; search for lost files--all using Windows XP.
Register for these classes at the Reception Desk.
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