My LINKcat AccountI know it is hard to believe, but on Monday, July 17th we shall arrive at the mid-point of summer. That is if you define summer as that period of time between Memorial Day and Labor Day. There are 98 days between those dates and July 17th is the 49th day. It is particularly hard to believe that there is still more than half of summer left, especially because we here at the library are already doing the countdown to the big Harry Potter Birthday party on July 31st. That is only 18 days away. Not only is July 31st Harry Potter’s birthday, it is also the end of the Summer Library Program. Eighteen days is still plenty of time to sign up, read some books, record them on your online record, and earn some dragon dollars. Those dollars can be spent in the library’s store or may be donated to one of three charities – the DeForest Area Needs Network, the Dane County Humane Society, or the DeForest Area Public Library Endowment--. I will personally convert those donated dragon dollars to “real” dollars So since you’re reading anyway, why not earn a few dragon dollars and either spend them on yourself (You know you deserve to treat yourself once in a while) or donate them to a charity. To tempt you to read hard during the next 18 days you will find a list of some of the new books that have arrived at the library recently. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
Through a glass, darkly : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the quest to solve the greatest mystery of all / by Stefan Bechtel & Laurence Stains. A chronicle of the Spiritualism era in America discusses how it was largely instigated by a grieving public in the aftermath of the Civil War and how it was supported by famous notables including Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
You don't have to say you love me : a memoir / by Sherman Alexie. The National Book Award-winning author of “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” presents a literary memoir of poems, essays and intimate family photos that reflect his complicated feelings about his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation with his siblings and alcoholic parents.
The coffee lover's diet : change your coffee, change your life / by Bob Arnot. The best-selling author of The Aztec Diet draws on counterintuitive new research to reveal the health potential of coffee, counseling readers on how to consume coffee strategically to enable specific benefits, including weight loss and resilience against disease.
New Fiction
Nighthawk : a novel from the NUMA Files / by Clive Cussler & Graham Brown. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly race to recover the fallen technology, which carries a secret payload of exotic matter capable of triggering an Armageddon-level catastrophe.
Price of duty / by Dale Brown. When Russia constructs its most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb and launches carefully plotted attacks on unsuspecting U.S. and European targets, Brad McLanahan and his Scion team arm themselves with the world's most advanced technological weaponry to prevent a full-scale cyber war.
Since we fell / by Dennis Lehane. Retreating from the world in the aftermath of a traumatizing reporting assignment, Rachel finds happiness with a raffish businessman before witnessing activities surrounding a conspiracy that tests the limits of her fragile psyche. By the best-selling author of “Mystic River”.
Some rise by sin : a novel / by Philip Caputo. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Longest Road presents the tale of an American missionary priest who arrives in a Mexican village under the thumb of a brutal drug cartel, where he bonds with locals beside a physical fellow expatriate before an overstep forces him to reevaluate his priorities.
Testimony / by Scott Turow. Assigned to investigate the unsolved disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp during the Bosnian War, a disillusioned American prosecutor navigates a host of suspects while uncovering disturbing alliances and betrayals. By the best-selling author of “Presumed Innocent”.
You will pay / by Lisa Jackson. Investigating remains found at a summer camp where a prank gone wrong led to the disappearances of two teens decades earlier, senior detective Lucas Dalton struggles with his father's ties to the case while meeting with five former counselors, including an erstwhile crush, to piece together what happened.
Gwendy's button box / by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar. A novel co-written by the #1 best-selling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams returns to the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, to take on a terrifying man in a trim, black suit, and a girl named Gwendy who was brave enough to talk to him.
The chalk artist : a novel / by Allegra Goodman. A disarming chalk artist who thinks nothing of erasing his dazzling work and an idealistic teacher who believes that things are meant to last forge an unlikely romance marked by her powerful father's virtual reality company and a brilliant but unstable student who is obsessed with video games. By the award-winning author of “The Cookbook Collector”.