My LINKcat AccountWhat about that snow last Friday? Looks like Booky’s prediction for a prolonged winter is still holding true. I do find it interesting, having lived in the Midwest for all of my life and in south central Wisconsin for nearly 40 years, that there would be cancelation based on a forecast that had the snow ending early in the morning. Back in the day, I would drive to work in blizzards to make sure people could pick up books and movies to help them ride out the storm. Sure we might close early (It is a Wisconsinism that “I prefer to see the ditch I’m sliding in to.) but we waited to see if the hyped forecast was actually happening. Oh well, different times, different forecasts. Speaking of winter weather -- with the mounds of snow decorating the street corners and the birds huddling around the feeders – now is the perfect time to start thinking about gardening and planning what crops you will plant or what annuals you will be decorating with. There is probably no act filled with as much optimism and hope as pushing seeds into soil in tiny peat pots and watching those seeds sprout and turn towards the sun and drop their first leaves and start turning into a miniature-but-recognizable version of the plant you will be putting in your garden once spring and the chance of a freeze is past. Planting seeds is February is an act of faith; a belief that spring will come. You will find many books on gardening in the 635s. You will find a beautiful orange, red hibiscus flower on the plant across from the elevator on the 2nd floor. Below you will find many non-gardening books to enjoy.
New Non-Fiction
“Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill” by J. Taraborrelli. A portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss; and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, discusses their ambitions, status-seeking marriages, illicit liaisons and psychological profiles as based on interviews with close friends and family members. By the best-selling author of “After Camelot”.
“Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America” by Catherine Kerrison. A portrait of the divergent lives of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters shares insights into how in spite of privilege and education, his white daughters struggled with the realities of lives they were ill-prepared to manage, while the daughter he fathered with a slave did not achieve freedom until adulthood and endured a mysterious and highly ironic existence.
“Great at Work How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More” by Morten Hansen. The best-selling author of Great by Choice shares authoritative, practical advice on how to bolster individual performance, drawing on an in-depth study involving thousands of managers and employees to outline seven work practices for improving focus, scheduling and organization in accordance with the examples of inspiring high-achievers.
“Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Business and Influence – and How You Can, Too” by Gary Vaynerchuk. The New York Times best-selling author of Crush It! shares new lessons and inspiration drawn from dozens of entrepreneurs who rejected traditional corporate careers in favor of pursuing their dreams, in a guide that includes profiles of such notables as Andy Frisella, Jared Polin and others.
“Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House” by Joshua Zeitz. The author of Lincoln's Boys presents an analysis of the Johnson administration that reveals how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice, profiling major figures in the liberal reforms of the 1960s while warning readers of the consequences of dismantling at-risk programs ranging from Medicare to Head Start.
New Fiction
“The Infinite Future” by Tim Wirkus. An obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel writer and a Mormon historian embark on a search for a mystical, life-changing book about the true nature of the universe, and experience weird, out-of-this world paradigm shifts when they find it. By the award-winning author of “City of Brick and Shadow”.
“Eternal Life: A Novel” by Dara Horn. Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally—having hundreds of children and being stalked by an obsessed man—but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die. By the author of “The World to Come”.
“Dark in Death, No. 46 (Eve Dallas)” by J.D. Robb. When a young woman is brutally murdered while attending a screening of Psycho at Times Square, Eve Dallas is contacted by a writer of crime fiction who recognizes the case, and other recent killings, from storylines in her books. By the best-selling author of “Echoes in Death”.
“Death by Chocolate Cheesecake, No.1 (Death by Chocolate)” by Sarah Graves. Opening a waterfront bakery in a coastal Maine fishing village, Jake Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie, find their summer launch complicated by an unseasonal hurricane that strands her family away from home and renders her a suspect in the murder of a corrupt health inspector.
“The Graves a Fine and Private Place, No. 9 (Flavia de Luce)” by Alan Bradley. Joining her older sisters for a recuperative boating trip in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, 12-year-old Flavia de Luce discovers a body in the water near the church of a murderous vicar. By the co-author of “Ms. Holmes of Baker Street”.
“Lies that Comfort and Betray (Gilded Age Mysteries)” by Rosemary Simpson. Heiress Prudence MacKenzie and attorney Geoffrey Hunter wonder if Jack the Ripper has sailed across the pond when Prudence's maid and a string of other women wind up dead on the streets of Gilded Age New York City.
“The Pope of Palm Beach, No.21 (Serge Storms)” by Tim Dorsey. Venturing into the cozy Riviera Beach of their youths on a frenzied literary pilgrimage, Serge A. Storms and his perpetually baked sidekick, Coleman, investigate the stories of a popular local surfer and an eccentric hermit before uncovering secrets that draw the attention of a murderous band of villains. By a New York Times best-selling author.
“Still Me, No. 3 (Me Before You)” by JoJo Moyes. The irrepressible Louisa Clark from Me Before You and After You arrives in New York to start a new life and a long-distance relationship with Ambulance Sam while working for the super-wealthy Gopniks, a job that introduces her to New York high society and a secretive man who reminds her of her own past.