Library Notes for September 21, 2016
Today is: International Day of Peace is observed around the world each year on 21 September. Established in 1981 by unanimous United Nations resolution 36/37, the General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to “commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.” By United Nations
“Pam’s Pick” this week is: “First Star I See Tonight” by Susan Elizabeth Philips, this is the story of Piper Dove a feisty female detective. Her first case is to follow Cooper Graham a former Chicago star quarterback. The only problem he has spotted her and is not happy that she is following him. Neither one can stand to lose. So what will happen next?
New Fiction: “Puppet Master” by Dale Brown, “Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Scorched Earth” by George Galdorisi, “Sunday Kind of Love” by Dorothy Garlock, this book is also in large print, “The One Man” by Andrew Gross, “Any Minute Now” by Eric Van Lustbader, and Apprentice in Death” by J.D. Robb.
New Book Shot: “Let’s Play Make-Believe” by James Patterson.
New Christian Fiction: “The Selfless Act” by Wanda Brunstetter this is the sixth book in the Amish Millionaire series, and “Guide Me Home” by Kim Vogel Sawyer.
New Mysteries: “A Great Reckoning” by Louise Penny, and “Disappearing Nine Patch” by Arlene Sachitano, this is a Harriet Truman mystery.
New Non-fiction: “The 37th Parallel: the Secret Truth Behind America’s UFO Highway” by Ben Mezrich, “A Different Beautiful: Discovering and Celebrating Beauty in Places You Never Expected” by Courtney Westlake, “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe” by Heather MacDonald, “Wanda Brunstetter’s Amish Friends Harvest Cookbook” by Wanda Brunstetter, “It Happened on Broadway: an Oral History of the Great White Way” compiled by Myrna Katz and Harvey Frommer, “Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan” by Bill O’Reilly, and “In Trump We Trust” by Ann Coulter.
New Biographies: “Living with No Excuses: the Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier” by Noah Galloway and “Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J. D. Vance.
New Audio Book: “Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Enigma” by Eric Van Lustbader, “Killer Look” by Linda Fairstein, “Fly Away” by Kristin Hannah, and “By the Shores of Silver Lake” by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
New DVDs: “Eddie the Eagle,” “I Saw the Light,” and “The Angry Birds Movie.”
New TV Season: “The Brady Bunch” by season 1.
Happy Reading!
Pam Metts, Director