Library Notes for April 4, 2018
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou, from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Today is Maya Angelou’s birthday!
Pam’s Pick this week is: “Alternate Side” by Anna Quindlen, this is a story of what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a woman at a moment of reckoning. Nora thought she had it all until she came home from her run to discover that a terrible incident had shaken the neighborhood.
New Fiction: “Enchanted Islands” by Allison Amend, “The Disappeared” by C.J. Box, “The Night Trade” by Barry Eisler, “Every Note Played” by Lisa Genova, “The Third Victim” by Phillip Margolin, and “Red Alert” by James Patterson.
New Christian Fiction: “Phoebe’s Light” by Suzanne Woods Fisher, this is the first book in the Nantucket Legacy series, and “In Places Hidden” by Tracie Peterson this is the first book in the Golden Gate Secrets series, this book is also in large print.
New Mysteries: “The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover’ by Susan Wittig Albert this is the seventh book in the Darling Dahlias series, and “Duel to the Death” by J.A. Jance.
New Biography: “Where There’s Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up” by Elizabeth Smart.
New Non-fiction: “Box of Butterflies: Discovering the Unexpected Blessings all Around Us” by Roma Downey, “A Spy in Canaan: How the FBE Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement” by Marc Perrusquia, “The Small Business Start-Up Kit: a Step-by-Step Legal Guide” by Peri Parkroo, “I’ll be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer” by Michelle McNamara, “Straw Bale Solutions: Creative Tips for Growing Vegetables in Bales at Home, in Community Gardens, and Around the World” by Joel Karsten, “How Food Works: the Facts Visually Explained,” and “Talk Southern to Me: Stories & Sayings to Accent Your Life” by Julia Fowler.
New Audio Books: “The Escape Artist” by Brad Meltzer, “The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover” by Susan Wittig Albert, and “Jackie, Janet & Lee” by J. Randy Taraborrelli.
New DVDs: “Daddy’s Home 2,” “Murder on the Orient Express,” and “Ferdinand.”
New TV Season: “Blue Bloods” season 2.
Upcoming event: April 30 at 6:00 in the basement of the library: Kentucky Humanities presents Eddie Price as Jockey Roscoe Tarleton Goose a Kentucky Derby Winner, 1913. The odds were set at 91:1, the longest odds of a Derby winner, a record that stands today.
Happy Reading!
Pam Metts, Director