DVDs
300 starring Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and David Wenham. 300 Spartans defend the Thermopylae pass and kill a bunch of invading Persians.
Disturbia starring Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer and Carrie-Anne Moss. A retelling of Hitchcock's Rear Window. Kale is under house arrest so he spends his time watching the neighbors and is convinced is neighbor is a killer. Shia is a guy, by the way, not a gal.
The Secret. The DVD version of the book: "You are holding in your hand a great secret of the universe. It has passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries...to reach you."
CDs
Dignity by Hillary Duff. Jacob the Page says, "This also has a DVD, so you can listen to the CD and watch the DVD at the same time." Yeah, okay Jacob.
Zeitgeist by The Smashing Pumpkins.
Fiction
The Follower by Jason Starr. Starr's thrillers are supposed to incredibly good. NYC single girl Katie has a stalker with their future together all planned out. "Combining his trademark razor-sharp storytelling talent, The Follower is JaPublish Postson Starr's most suspenseful novel yet."
Empress of Weehawken by Irene Dische. Grandmother Elisabeth Rother writes her memoirs. Skipping over her escape from the Holocaust she goes right to her wayward daughter and granddaughter who - horror - sleep on unironed sheets, refuse rhinoplasty, and become medical examiners rather than concert pianists.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Three AudioBooks and a Large Print
Large Print
Up Close and Personal by Fern Michaels. Sarabess Windsor is the last of the family line in Crestwood, SC. Unless she can find her runaway daughter, Trinity. Conceived as a bone marrow donor Trinity fled Crestwood fifteen years ago.
AudioBooks
Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot. Cabot's popularity grew with her Princess Diaries and Mediator series for young adults. Her newer novels like this one are aimed at adults. Main character Lizzie just moved to New York and her big mouth is getting her in trouble in her new and desperately needed job and at home with her live-in boyfriend Luke.
Straight From the Heart by Tami Hoag. Physical therapist Rebecca is still angry at baseball player Jace for dumping her seven years ago. When severely injured Jace is hospitalized and his treatment is assigned to Rebecca she thinks nothing will ever change between them.
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Three women in their early forties reunite for a sailing trip when one returns from overseas. All three have to battle their own frailties plus the rigors of piloting a sailing ship attacked by pirates.
Up Close and Personal by Fern Michaels. Sarabess Windsor is the last of the family line in Crestwood, SC. Unless she can find her runaway daughter, Trinity. Conceived as a bone marrow donor Trinity fled Crestwood fifteen years ago.
AudioBooks
Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot. Cabot's popularity grew with her Princess Diaries and Mediator series for young adults. Her newer novels like this one are aimed at adults. Main character Lizzie just moved to New York and her big mouth is getting her in trouble in her new and desperately needed job and at home with her live-in boyfriend Luke.
Straight From the Heart by Tami Hoag. Physical therapist Rebecca is still angry at baseball player Jace for dumping her seven years ago. When severely injured Jace is hospitalized and his treatment is assigned to Rebecca she thinks nothing will ever change between them.
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Three women in their early forties reunite for a sailing trip when one returns from overseas. All three have to battle their own frailties plus the rigors of piloting a sailing ship attacked by pirates.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Two New
NonFiction
One-Room Schools of Jefferson County by Johnson Creek Historical Society. Photos, descriptions, histories, and commentary by former students and teachers.
Fiction
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Wisconsin author Rothfuss' fantasy autobiography of Kvothe - notorious magician, accomplished thief, masterful musician, and infamous assassin.
One-Room Schools of Jefferson County by Johnson Creek Historical Society. Photos, descriptions, histories, and commentary by former students and teachers.
Fiction
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Wisconsin author Rothfuss' fantasy autobiography of Kvothe - notorious magician, accomplished thief, masterful musician, and infamous assassin.
Monday, August 06, 2007
A Sharpe DVD! (other stuff too)
DVD
Sharpe's Challenge starring Sean Bean. Whoa. Sean Bean is looking old. I don't recognize the storyline and the credits say "based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell" so I think this is a mix of the novels and the screenwriter's imagination. Anyway, Wellington sends Sharpe to India to investigate a local Maharajah's threat to British power.
Firehouse Dog starring Josh Hutcherson and some hairy dog with floppy ears. This is a kid's movie but that's okay. Hollywood's star acting dog Rex gets lost in an unfamiliar city. Rex is taken in by 12 year old Josh who's dad runs the local fire station. Hijinks ensue.
CDs
Daughtry by Daughtry. So, what's the deal with this guy? He was on American Idol of something? Well, his album has been selling real well.
Kirk Franklin Presents Songs for the Storm Volume One by Kirk Franklin. A compilation album from contemporary gospel star Franklin.
Fiction
These Boots Weren't Made for Walking by Melody Carlson. Chick-lit novel where career girl loses job, dumps cheating boyfriend and moves back to her ski-resort hometown and her divorced and dating mom.
The Dead Whisper On by T.L. Hines. Hines' Waking Lazarus has been checking out prety well so I bought this latest one. Seems like a sort of horror or suspense novel. Maybe both.
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman. "Persephone Hadley is six months pregnant with a mixed race baby...the baby's father, Callum, is dead. He was hanged for terrorism months ago...Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the death and thirsts for revenge." Shelved in the YA section.
Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson. Paxson continues Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series. A novelization of the story of Queen Boudica, raised as a druid and married to King Prasutagos who submits to Roman rule. When Prasutagos dies Boudica is abused by the Romans and leads a rebellion.
Devil's Labrynth by John Saul. After his father dies, grieving fifteen year old Ryan's mother sends him to St. Isaac's boarding school when his behavour is uncontrollable. Ryan arrives wehn St. Isaac's is in turmoil following aviolent death and a disappearance. A new priest arrives to perform secret a exorcism of the school. But, Ryan suspects that evil is being invited in, not pushed away.
NonFiction
Running With the Devil: The True Story of the ATF's Infiltration of the Hell's Angels by Kerrie Droban. I was living in Peoria, AZ in 2003 when there was a major bust of Hell's Angels members and club houses. The bust was possible through the infiltration the Angels' clubs by the ATF and Phoenix PD detectives.
Sharpe's Challenge starring Sean Bean. Whoa. Sean Bean is looking old. I don't recognize the storyline and the credits say "based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell" so I think this is a mix of the novels and the screenwriter's imagination. Anyway, Wellington sends Sharpe to India to investigate a local Maharajah's threat to British power.
Firehouse Dog starring Josh Hutcherson and some hairy dog with floppy ears. This is a kid's movie but that's okay. Hollywood's star acting dog Rex gets lost in an unfamiliar city. Rex is taken in by 12 year old Josh who's dad runs the local fire station. Hijinks ensue.
CDs
Daughtry by Daughtry. So, what's the deal with this guy? He was on American Idol of something? Well, his album has been selling real well.
Kirk Franklin Presents Songs for the Storm Volume One by Kirk Franklin. A compilation album from contemporary gospel star Franklin.
Fiction
These Boots Weren't Made for Walking by Melody Carlson. Chick-lit novel where career girl loses job, dumps cheating boyfriend and moves back to her ski-resort hometown and her divorced and dating mom.
The Dead Whisper On by T.L. Hines. Hines' Waking Lazarus has been checking out prety well so I bought this latest one. Seems like a sort of horror or suspense novel. Maybe both.
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman. "Persephone Hadley is six months pregnant with a mixed race baby...the baby's father, Callum, is dead. He was hanged for terrorism months ago...Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the death and thirsts for revenge." Shelved in the YA section.
Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson. Paxson continues Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series. A novelization of the story of Queen Boudica, raised as a druid and married to King Prasutagos who submits to Roman rule. When Prasutagos dies Boudica is abused by the Romans and leads a rebellion.
Devil's Labrynth by John Saul. After his father dies, grieving fifteen year old Ryan's mother sends him to St. Isaac's boarding school when his behavour is uncontrollable. Ryan arrives wehn St. Isaac's is in turmoil following aviolent death and a disappearance. A new priest arrives to perform secret a exorcism of the school. But, Ryan suspects that evil is being invited in, not pushed away.
NonFiction
Running With the Devil: The True Story of the ATF's Infiltration of the Hell's Angels by Kerrie Droban. I was living in Peoria, AZ in 2003 when there was a major bust of Hell's Angels members and club houses. The bust was possible through the infiltration the Angels' clubs by the ATF and Phoenix PD detectives.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Fiction
Mysteries
Innocence by David Hosp. Boston attorney Scott Finn takes on convicted El Salvadoran Vicente Salazar. Salazar wants a new trial after being convicted fifteen years ago for shooting an undercover cop. Finn uncovers a trail of corruption from Central America to Boston.
Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell. More of a suspense novel than a mystery, really. Nine years after her sister Heather found their stepfather drowned in the bath, Ismay and Heather live in the same house with their mother and aunt. When Heather has her first serious relationship Ismay's repressed memories of that drowning start to return.
Night Ferry by Michael Robotham. Robotham wrote Lost about an amnesiac London police detective - it was pretty good. In Night Ferry Ali Barba is on leave from injuries sustained during her police work. Ali gets an invitation from high school friend Cate to attend their reunion. Cate and her husband are run over and killed shortly after Cate's strange plea to Ali for help. Ali investigates and finds that obviously pregnant Cate was faking it, and that Cate may have been pregnant before and her infant taken.
Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith. Curious philosopher Isabel Dalhousie investigates a possible art forgery.
Fiction
Blaze by Richard Bachman (Stephen King). Since King wrote this under his pseudonym we did not have it automatically delivered to us upon publication. Well, here it is. Late but intact. Especially late since King wrote the novel in 1973 then found it and revised it a bit.
Justice Denied by J.A. Jance. I know Jance is really popular for several mystery/detective series. But, I heard her speak at a "liberrian" program at Burton Barr and she really annoyed me. This is one of her J.P. Beaumont books set in Seattle.
Thursday Next: first among sequels by Jasper Fforde. I've never read Fforde's novels. They are supposed to be humorous.
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell. Both novels in teh same volume. They are certainly not new but we did not have a copy of Animal Farm so I bought this.
What Matters Most by Luanne Rice. The cover has a picture of a lady wearing a straw hat and sitting on some oceanside rocks. Figure it out yourself.
My Summer of Southern Discomfort by Stephanie Gayle. Well reviewed chicklit. Big-time New York City lawyer Natalie heads to southern Georgia after a disastrous romance. Bored with her new job prosecuting small town crooks she has a new suitor with a nervous tic and a new capital case causing her heartburn.
Innocence by David Hosp. Boston attorney Scott Finn takes on convicted El Salvadoran Vicente Salazar. Salazar wants a new trial after being convicted fifteen years ago for shooting an undercover cop. Finn uncovers a trail of corruption from Central America to Boston.
Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell. More of a suspense novel than a mystery, really. Nine years after her sister Heather found their stepfather drowned in the bath, Ismay and Heather live in the same house with their mother and aunt. When Heather has her first serious relationship Ismay's repressed memories of that drowning start to return.
Night Ferry by Michael Robotham. Robotham wrote Lost about an amnesiac London police detective - it was pretty good. In Night Ferry Ali Barba is on leave from injuries sustained during her police work. Ali gets an invitation from high school friend Cate to attend their reunion. Cate and her husband are run over and killed shortly after Cate's strange plea to Ali for help. Ali investigates and finds that obviously pregnant Cate was faking it, and that Cate may have been pregnant before and her infant taken.
Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith. Curious philosopher Isabel Dalhousie investigates a possible art forgery.
Fiction
Blaze by Richard Bachman (Stephen King). Since King wrote this under his pseudonym we did not have it automatically delivered to us upon publication. Well, here it is. Late but intact. Especially late since King wrote the novel in 1973 then found it and revised it a bit.
Justice Denied by J.A. Jance. I know Jance is really popular for several mystery/detective series. But, I heard her speak at a "liberrian" program at Burton Barr and she really annoyed me. This is one of her J.P. Beaumont books set in Seattle.
Thursday Next: first among sequels by Jasper Fforde. I've never read Fforde's novels. They are supposed to be humorous.
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell. Both novels in teh same volume. They are certainly not new but we did not have a copy of Animal Farm so I bought this.
What Matters Most by Luanne Rice. The cover has a picture of a lady wearing a straw hat and sitting on some oceanside rocks. Figure it out yourself.
My Summer of Southern Discomfort by Stephanie Gayle. Well reviewed chicklit. Big-time New York City lawyer Natalie heads to southern Georgia after a disastrous romance. Bored with her new job prosecuting small town crooks she has a new suitor with a nervous tic and a new capital case causing her heartburn.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
More Marvelous Media
CDs
Time on Earth by Crowded House. Yeah! Hot Dog! Neil Finn gets the band back together and they put out a new album. If you like this take a look at Crowded House's back catalog (we have a video collection on DVD), Neil's solo albums, and Tim Finn's solo albums (we have two).
Release the Stars by Rufus Wainwright. That Rufus is - as we say in the Saylor household - "kinda weird". Maybe it's because he is Canadian. Oh well, he has a good singing voice and puts together some neat-o albums. Here is a review. We have his sister Martha's album too; it's pretty good.
At My Age by Nick Lowe. The aging pub/punk/pop rocker's latest. You remember him don't you? There is Cruel to be Kind and So It Goes and I Knew the Bride.
DVD
Norbit starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, and Eddie Griffin. Norbit (Murphy) wants to pursue childhood love Kate but is pursued himself by Rasputia (Murphy in drag).
Audio Book
Spare Change by Robert B. Parker. Boston private eye Sunny Randall's retired policeman father Phil gets a message from the serial killer he chased thirty years ago he calls for Sunny's help.
Time on Earth by Crowded House. Yeah! Hot Dog! Neil Finn gets the band back together and they put out a new album. If you like this take a look at Crowded House's back catalog (we have a video collection on DVD), Neil's solo albums, and Tim Finn's solo albums (we have two).
Release the Stars by Rufus Wainwright. That Rufus is - as we say in the Saylor household - "kinda weird". Maybe it's because he is Canadian. Oh well, he has a good singing voice and puts together some neat-o albums. Here is a review. We have his sister Martha's album too; it's pretty good.
At My Age by Nick Lowe. The aging pub/punk/pop rocker's latest. You remember him don't you? There is Cruel to be Kind and So It Goes and I Knew the Bride.
DVD
Norbit starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, and Eddie Griffin. Norbit (Murphy) wants to pursue childhood love Kate but is pursued himself by Rasputia (Murphy in drag).
Audio Book
Spare Change by Robert B. Parker. Boston private eye Sunny Randall's retired policeman father Phil gets a message from the serial killer he chased thirty years ago he calls for Sunny's help.
New Inspirational Fiction, Some NonFiction and a Couple CDs
Fiction
Ghosts of Mary Prairie by Lisa Polisar. Fifteen year old Grady is following his friend Mikey's rules for Intitiation into Manhood by sleeping overnight on the baseball diamond of their small Oklahoma town. Everything is fine until he hears the violent screams of a girl being brutally beaten. Grady learns that he saw the ghost of Mary Prairie who was beaten to death years before and Grady spends his life to find the truth of her story.
Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas. A new paperback crime novel by Hard Case Crime. Detective John Blake investigates the suicide of a college student with a double life.
Inspirational Fiction
Sunrise by Karen Kingsbury. The first novel of Kingsbury's new Sunrise Series.
Jacob's List by Stephanie Grace Whitson. College student Jacob has a list of things to do before he settles down. Jacob's parents have only stayed together for him, but after seeing his list the need to guide and help him brings them back together.
Revealed and Remembered by Tamera Alexander. Boooks Two and Three of the Fountain Creek Chronicles.
NonFiction
Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K Brendtro.
Beader's Color Mixing Directory: 200 failsafe color schemes for beautiful beadwork by Sandra Wallace.
CDs
Icky Thump by The White Stripes.
Now That's What I Call Music! 24 by various artists. I don't think that I have heard any of these songs.
Ghosts of Mary Prairie by Lisa Polisar. Fifteen year old Grady is following his friend Mikey's rules for Intitiation into Manhood by sleeping overnight on the baseball diamond of their small Oklahoma town. Everything is fine until he hears the violent screams of a girl being brutally beaten. Grady learns that he saw the ghost of Mary Prairie who was beaten to death years before and Grady spends his life to find the truth of her story.
Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas. A new paperback crime novel by Hard Case Crime. Detective John Blake investigates the suicide of a college student with a double life.
Inspirational Fiction
Sunrise by Karen Kingsbury. The first novel of Kingsbury's new Sunrise Series.
Jacob's List by Stephanie Grace Whitson. College student Jacob has a list of things to do before he settles down. Jacob's parents have only stayed together for him, but after seeing his list the need to guide and help him brings them back together.
Revealed and Remembered by Tamera Alexander. Boooks Two and Three of the Fountain Creek Chronicles.
NonFiction
Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K Brendtro.
Beader's Color Mixing Directory: 200 failsafe color schemes for beautiful beadwork by Sandra Wallace.
CDs
Icky Thump by The White Stripes.
Now That's What I Call Music! 24 by various artists. I don't think that I have heard any of these songs.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Four Books
Non-Fiction
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. Maybe you heard about this. Four Navy SEALs are hiking in Afghanistan when they are spotted by the Taliban. After running and fighting for several hours only one sailor survives. For four days Luttrell fought off the enemy and crawled seven miles before a local village hid him from the Taliban.
Fiction
Critical by Robin Cook. Another medical drama/thriller.
Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter. Georgia Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver and his wife, Doctor Sara Linton, help out Detective Lena Adams with a murder investigation.
Burnt House by Faye Kellerman. "Decker and Lazarus are back!" is on the cover. LAPD Lieutenant investigates a commuter plane crash in Los Angeles with a missing stewardess and four extra bodies. Faye Kellerman wears less make-up than her husband Jonathan; that dude lays it on thick.
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. Maybe you heard about this. Four Navy SEALs are hiking in Afghanistan when they are spotted by the Taliban. After running and fighting for several hours only one sailor survives. For four days Luttrell fought off the enemy and crawled seven miles before a local village hid him from the Taliban.
Fiction
Critical by Robin Cook. Another medical drama/thriller.
Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter. Georgia Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver and his wife, Doctor Sara Linton, help out Detective Lena Adams with a murder investigation.
Burnt House by Faye Kellerman. "Decker and Lazarus are back!" is on the cover. LAPD Lieutenant investigates a commuter plane crash in Los Angeles with a missing stewardess and four extra bodies. Faye Kellerman wears less make-up than her husband Jonathan; that dude lays it on thick.
New DVDs
Making of Milwaukee. Three DVD version of the 5 hour production from Milwaukee Public Television. "Story of Milwaukee from the earliest days of Native Americans, through the tumult of the 1960s, to the city of the early 21st century."
Reno 911!: Miami the movie starring [the cast from the television show] Deputies from the Wahoe County Sheriff's Office visit Miami for the American Police Convention. Absent from the convention's hotel during a bio-terror attack, Lt. Dangle and the other deputies are the only law enforcement officers out of quarantine and in charge of public safety.
So Close starring [Chinese actresses you never heard of]. A Hong Kong action movie with female assassins. Recommended by the prolific Bill Crider.
Hard Boiled starring Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung and directed by John Woo. Just released on DVD Hard Boiled helped put Hong Kong action pictures into the mainstream. An undercover cop teams with another cop against a Hong Kong crime lord culminating in a massive shootout at a hospital.
Because I Said So starring Mandy Moore and Diane Keaton. A mother-daughter comedy between a controlling mom and her youngest daughter.
Reno 911!: Miami the movie starring [the cast from the television show] Deputies from the Wahoe County Sheriff's Office visit Miami for the American Police Convention. Absent from the convention's hotel during a bio-terror attack, Lt. Dangle and the other deputies are the only law enforcement officers out of quarantine and in charge of public safety.
So Close starring [Chinese actresses you never heard of]. A Hong Kong action movie with female assassins. Recommended by the prolific Bill Crider.
Hard Boiled starring Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung and directed by John Woo. Just released on DVD Hard Boiled helped put Hong Kong action pictures into the mainstream. An undercover cop teams with another cop against a Hong Kong crime lord culminating in a massive shootout at a hospital.
Because I Said So starring Mandy Moore and Diane Keaton. A mother-daughter comedy between a controlling mom and her youngest daughter.
Friday, July 27, 2007
NonFiction
NonFiction
Bomb Squad: a year inside the nation's most exclusive police unit by Richard Esposito and Ted Gersten. Two reporters for television program Nightline did a profile on the NYPD Bomb Squad and decided to do a book. A modern day and historical look at the Bomb Squad.
Armed and Dangerous: the hunt for one of America's most wanted criminals by William Queen. Queen worked for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms for 20 years. Queen previously wrote Under and Alone about his undercover investigation of a California biker gang. Queen's previous experiences as a hunter and Special Forces soldier make him the ideal cop to track down a notoriously violent narcotics trafficker in the San Bernardino mountains.
Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease. Body movement that explains and shows deceit signals, eye signals, personal space and territory, hand gestures, etc.
Bomb Squad: a year inside the nation's most exclusive police unit by Richard Esposito and Ted Gersten. Two reporters for television program Nightline did a profile on the NYPD Bomb Squad and decided to do a book. A modern day and historical look at the Bomb Squad.
Armed and Dangerous: the hunt for one of America's most wanted criminals by William Queen. Queen worked for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms for 20 years. Queen previously wrote Under and Alone about his undercover investigation of a California biker gang. Queen's previous experiences as a hunter and Special Forces soldier make him the ideal cop to track down a notoriously violent narcotics trafficker in the San Bernardino mountains.
Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease. Body movement that explains and shows deceit signals, eye signals, personal space and territory, hand gestures, etc.
Assorted Assortment
CD
Era Vulgaris by Queens of the Stone Age. We also have the Queens album Lullabies to Paralyze and Death by Sexy from bandleader Josh Homme's side project Eagles of Death Metal. Good stuff.
NonFiction
How to Start a Business in Wisconsin, 2nd Edition by Entrepeneur Press. Includes a CD-ROM with 198 forms and worksheets.
Large Print
Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard. Bailey's adult step-children are enraged when their father wills all his money to Bailey. Then Bailey's small plane crash lands in a forest and she must survive with the pilot, return to civilization, and find if the crash was really an 'accident'.
Meet Me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler. Some romance about Venice.
Audio Books
Don't forget the downloadable audiobooks from Overdrive at http://dbooks.wplc.info/
The Last Summer (of You & Me) by Ann Brashares. Two sisters, Riley and Alice, and a neighboring boy, Paul, grow up together during the summers on Fire Island. Now in their twenties a love triangle develops as Paul returns after three years away.
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Newlyweds on their honeymoon in 1962 England worry over the upcoming wedding night. Edward fears failure and Florence is disgusted by physical contact.
The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos. Austin and Zavala get involved in the search for the Navigator statue stolen from Baghdad years ago.
Era Vulgaris by Queens of the Stone Age. We also have the Queens album Lullabies to Paralyze and Death by Sexy from bandleader Josh Homme's side project Eagles of Death Metal. Good stuff.
NonFiction
How to Start a Business in Wisconsin, 2nd Edition by Entrepeneur Press. Includes a CD-ROM with 198 forms and worksheets.
Large Print
Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard. Bailey's adult step-children are enraged when their father wills all his money to Bailey. Then Bailey's small plane crash lands in a forest and she must survive with the pilot, return to civilization, and find if the crash was really an 'accident'.
Meet Me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler. Some romance about Venice.
Audio Books
Don't forget the downloadable audiobooks from Overdrive at http://dbooks.wplc.info/
The Last Summer (of You & Me) by Ann Brashares. Two sisters, Riley and Alice, and a neighboring boy, Paul, grow up together during the summers on Fire Island. Now in their twenties a love triangle develops as Paul returns after three years away.
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Newlyweds on their honeymoon in 1962 England worry over the upcoming wedding night. Edward fears failure and Florence is disgusted by physical contact.
The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos. Austin and Zavala get involved in the search for the Navigator statue stolen from Baghdad years ago.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
One New DVD. Just One.
Deadwood: The Complete Third Season. The twelve episodes of the HBO series. I've never seen any of these but we have all three seasons on DVD. I know the series characters curse a lot and the show is set in Deadwood, South Dakota during the gold rush there.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
DVDs and a Music CD by some garage-rock Swedes
DVDs
Twin Peaks the Second Season starring Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick, Sherilynn Fenn. Season two with cast interviews and comments from episode directors.
Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Elias Koteas, Michael Pena. Film version of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger is asked to help prevent a sniper assassination of the President. After Swagger is framed for the attempted assassination he's on the run and after those responsible.
Black Snake Moan starring Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake. Ricci plays a superslut held captive by Jackson in an attempt to reform her.
Jesse Stone: Night Passage starring Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis. Network movie based on Robert B. Parker's novel Night Passage. Heavy drinker Jesse Stone lost his homicide detective job with the LAPD but gets hired as the new Police Chief in small-town Massachusetts. When investigating a domestic violence case Stone gets on the trail of a money launderer. Great acting by Selleck in a fish-out-of-water picture.
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise starring Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth. Stone continues to drink too much and fight crime in small town Paradise, MA. A dead teenage girl is found in a lake and Stone finds connections to the Boston mob.
Music and Lyrics starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Hugh Grant gets older and older and is paired with a 'younger' actress to appeal to a new demographic. Grant pretends to be a washed up pop star who enlists the help of his gardener to write a song for a current pop star.
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits and Bits starring a bunch of kids from the '70s. This is shelved downstairs in the children's section but may be of more interest for people from 38 to 50 years old.
CD
Nomadic Dementia: The Best of the First 25 Years by the Nomads. Another selection through the help of Little Steven. Garage rock revivalists The Nomads are from outside Stockholm and got started together in 1980.
Twin Peaks the Second Season starring Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick, Sherilynn Fenn. Season two with cast interviews and comments from episode directors.
Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Elias Koteas, Michael Pena. Film version of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger is asked to help prevent a sniper assassination of the President. After Swagger is framed for the attempted assassination he's on the run and after those responsible.
Black Snake Moan starring Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake. Ricci plays a superslut held captive by Jackson in an attempt to reform her.
Jesse Stone: Night Passage starring Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis. Network movie based on Robert B. Parker's novel Night Passage. Heavy drinker Jesse Stone lost his homicide detective job with the LAPD but gets hired as the new Police Chief in small-town Massachusetts. When investigating a domestic violence case Stone gets on the trail of a money launderer. Great acting by Selleck in a fish-out-of-water picture.
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise starring Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth. Stone continues to drink too much and fight crime in small town Paradise, MA. A dead teenage girl is found in a lake and Stone finds connections to the Boston mob.
Music and Lyrics starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Hugh Grant gets older and older and is paired with a 'younger' actress to appeal to a new demographic. Grant pretends to be a washed up pop star who enlists the help of his gardener to write a song for a current pop star.
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits and Bits starring a bunch of kids from the '70s. This is shelved downstairs in the children's section but may be of more interest for people from 38 to 50 years old.
CD
Nomadic Dementia: The Best of the First 25 Years by the Nomads. Another selection through the help of Little Steven. Garage rock revivalists The Nomads are from outside Stockholm and got started together in 1980.
Friday, July 13, 2007
DVDs
Meatballs starring Bill Murray and Chris Makepeace. Bill Murrary is the Head Camp Counselor at North Star summer camp. This is the so-called "Special Edition" of Meatballs with some extra features added in. This is a great movie even without all the extra 'stuff'.
Ghost Rider starring Nicholas Cage, some Girl-of-a-the-moment, Peter Fonda and - Hey! - Donal Logue! That guy is great! Anyway, Cage sells his soul to the devil and has to moonlight as a fiery corpse who chases down evil souls to send to Hell. Bill Crider liked it, said it was goofy fun.
Children of Men starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. It's 2027 and no children have been born in 18 years. Clive is asked by a former girlfriend to escort to safety the only pregnant woman in the world.
Tegan and Sara: "It's not fun. Don't do it!" Starring Tegan and Sara. back when I used to listen to CBC3 I heard a couple tunes by the two melodic sisters Tegan and Sara. So I bought their So Jealous album for the Library. Then I bought this DVD for the Library. Then the DVD sat for several months until we could find a catalogue record for it. Here it is: a concert film, a few videos and making the album So Jealous.
Ghost Rider starring Nicholas Cage, some Girl-of-a-the-moment, Peter Fonda and - Hey! - Donal Logue! That guy is great! Anyway, Cage sells his soul to the devil and has to moonlight as a fiery corpse who chases down evil souls to send to Hell. Bill Crider liked it, said it was goofy fun.
Children of Men starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. It's 2027 and no children have been born in 18 years. Clive is asked by a former girlfriend to escort to safety the only pregnant woman in the world.
Tegan and Sara: "It's not fun. Don't do it!" Starring Tegan and Sara. back when I used to listen to CBC3 I heard a couple tunes by the two melodic sisters Tegan and Sara. So I bought their So Jealous album for the Library. Then I bought this DVD for the Library. Then the DVD sat for several months until we could find a catalogue record for it. Here it is: a concert film, a few videos and making the album So Jealous.
A new Gun Book! (and some other stuff)
Non Fiction
Gun: a visual history. This is a DK publication which means the photography and graphic design are excellent. Wheellocks, flintlocks, percussion caps, pinfires, machine guns, etc.
Learn to Draw in a Weekend by Richard Taylor. Step-by-step exercises using basic geometric shapes show you how to get started or improve your drawing ability.
101 Great Things to Do with Your Digital Camera by Simon Joinson. "Fascinating, useful, inventive and original ways to make the most of your digital camera."
Hiking With Kids: taking those first steps with young hikers, 2nd Edition by Robin Tawney Nichols. Learn how to select the correct gear, fun activities on the trail, trail etiquette and safety and first aid.
Fiction
Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke. Dave Robicheaux gets deployed from Iberia Parish to patrol New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina hits. New Orleans is reduced to a medieval society with no power grid and no legal authorities. Amidst the devastation and turmoil Dave is after a serial rapist and a dangerous vigilante.
AudioBooks
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje.A father and two teen daughters work their California farm with a male farmhand. After a violent episode, the characters are followed along as they try and leave peacefully.
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child. Jack Reacher has been 'off the grid' fro ten years no. He has no license, back account, telephone and no address. When a former Army colleague is able to find him, Reacher hears that his former Army investigative team is being killed off.
Crashing Through: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see by Robert Kurson, Blinded when three years old Mike May was already greatly successfull professionally and socially. When he hears of a stem cell treatment that may renew his sight he tries it out.
The Not So Big Life by Sarah Susanka. Susanka's bestselling Not So Big House books revealed a living philosophy through architecture. Now, Susanka directly addresses the "less is truly more" way of living.
Gun: a visual history. This is a DK publication which means the photography and graphic design are excellent. Wheellocks, flintlocks, percussion caps, pinfires, machine guns, etc.
Learn to Draw in a Weekend by Richard Taylor. Step-by-step exercises using basic geometric shapes show you how to get started or improve your drawing ability.
101 Great Things to Do with Your Digital Camera by Simon Joinson. "Fascinating, useful, inventive and original ways to make the most of your digital camera."
Hiking With Kids: taking those first steps with young hikers, 2nd Edition by Robin Tawney Nichols. Learn how to select the correct gear, fun activities on the trail, trail etiquette and safety and first aid.
Fiction
Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke. Dave Robicheaux gets deployed from Iberia Parish to patrol New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina hits. New Orleans is reduced to a medieval society with no power grid and no legal authorities. Amidst the devastation and turmoil Dave is after a serial rapist and a dangerous vigilante.
AudioBooks
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje.A father and two teen daughters work their California farm with a male farmhand. After a violent episode, the characters are followed along as they try and leave peacefully.
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child. Jack Reacher has been 'off the grid' fro ten years no. He has no license, back account, telephone and no address. When a former Army colleague is able to find him, Reacher hears that his former Army investigative team is being killed off.
Crashing Through: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see by Robert Kurson, Blinded when three years old Mike May was already greatly successfull professionally and socially. When he hears of a stem cell treatment that may renew his sight he tries it out.
The Not So Big Life by Sarah Susanka. Susanka's bestselling Not So Big House books revealed a living philosophy through architecture. Now, Susanka directly addresses the "less is truly more" way of living.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
DVD
Letters from Iwo Jima starring Ken Watanabe and a bunch of other Japanese actors. The Battle of Iwo Jima from the enemies' perspective.
New Books? Hoo-ray! Hoo-rah! Hoo-roo!
Fiction
Hose Monkey by Tony Spinosa. Joe lost his NYPD job to corruption, his family to divorce and his brother to 9/11. During the days Joe works as a "hose monkey' delivering heating oil to homes on Long Island. When a retarded employee of his company is murdered Joe decides to investigate.
Tender Mercies and Blessing in Disguise by Lauraine Snelling. Two inspirational, romance novels with stories set among the inhabitants of Blessing, North Dakota. In Blessing, heartbroken Augusta leaves Norway for America and her relatives. While those relatives await her at the Blessing depot, Augusta boards the wrong train and meets Kane....who is waiting for his mail-order Norwegian bride. The model for the cover is real good lookin'. In Tender Mary is visiting her brother Zeb in Blessing. Mary assists at the schoolhouse and strikes up ore than a friendship with bachelor Pastor John.
The Reliance by M.L. Tyndall. Captain Edmund's wife is missing and presumed dead. Edmund drowns himself in rum and joins up with the pirate Collier. But, Charlisse is alive and held captive by the pirate Kent. Aarrgghh.
Non Fiction
Long Distance Cyclists' handbook, 2nd Edition by Simon Doughty. All the preparation and equipment needed to successfully complete a thirty-mile charity ride or the 3,000 Race Across America.
Perfect Phrases for Negotiating Salary and Job Offers by Matthew and Nanette DeLuca. Ask for and earn the money you deserve.
Starting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates by Chris Ward. Instruction for both improving and expert players.
Animal Tracking Basics by Jon Young and Tiffany Morgan. Good tracking involves more than tracks and scat. This teaches awareness of the animal's food, travel and resting spots.
Michigan Breweries by Paul Ruschmann and Maryanne Nasiatka. A guide to the state's 66 regional breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs. An actual reason to visit that lousy, godforsaken state. Go Illini! Go Badgers!
Mastering Skeet: fundamental shooting techniques for hitting the target in championship form by King Heiple. Control your vision and prevent flinching, best leads for each station, shooters' perception of the skeets' flight. Heck, I don't even a shotgun anymore. Well... I do have a 16 gauge, bolt action Marlin. But, I don't trust it.
Hose Monkey by Tony Spinosa. Joe lost his NYPD job to corruption, his family to divorce and his brother to 9/11. During the days Joe works as a "hose monkey' delivering heating oil to homes on Long Island. When a retarded employee of his company is murdered Joe decides to investigate.
Tender Mercies and Blessing in Disguise by Lauraine Snelling. Two inspirational, romance novels with stories set among the inhabitants of Blessing, North Dakota. In Blessing, heartbroken Augusta leaves Norway for America and her relatives. While those relatives await her at the Blessing depot, Augusta boards the wrong train and meets Kane....who is waiting for his mail-order Norwegian bride. The model for the cover is real good lookin'. In Tender Mary is visiting her brother Zeb in Blessing. Mary assists at the schoolhouse and strikes up ore than a friendship with bachelor Pastor John.
The Reliance by M.L. Tyndall. Captain Edmund's wife is missing and presumed dead. Edmund drowns himself in rum and joins up with the pirate Collier. But, Charlisse is alive and held captive by the pirate Kent. Aarrgghh.
Non Fiction
Long Distance Cyclists' handbook, 2nd Edition by Simon Doughty. All the preparation and equipment needed to successfully complete a thirty-mile charity ride or the 3,000 Race Across America.
Perfect Phrases for Negotiating Salary and Job Offers by Matthew and Nanette DeLuca. Ask for and earn the money you deserve.
Starting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates by Chris Ward. Instruction for both improving and expert players.
Animal Tracking Basics by Jon Young and Tiffany Morgan. Good tracking involves more than tracks and scat. This teaches awareness of the animal's food, travel and resting spots.
Michigan Breweries by Paul Ruschmann and Maryanne Nasiatka. A guide to the state's 66 regional breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs. An actual reason to visit that lousy, godforsaken state. Go Illini! Go Badgers!
Mastering Skeet: fundamental shooting techniques for hitting the target in championship form by King Heiple. Control your vision and prevent flinching, best leads for each station, shooters' perception of the skeets' flight. Heck, I don't even a shotgun anymore. Well... I do have a 16 gauge, bolt action Marlin. But, I don't trust it.
Friday, July 06, 2007
More More More
Fiction
The Ever-Running Man by Marcia Muller. Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down a bomber attacking their offices. Narrowly avoiding a bombing herself Sharon has to delve into the security company's, and her husband's, past corruption.
Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader. Jason Bourne goes looking his only friend, Martin Lindros, who disappeared investigating terrorists in Africa. Bourne decides to dismantle the terrorist organization himself as they try to collect material and technology for a nuclear bomb.
Non Fiction
101 Best U.S. Wedding Destinations: top destinations for every style and budget by Kathryn Gabriel Loving. Let's see...Florida, New Mexico, Hawaii, Wisconsin, New Jersey. New Jersey!? New Jersey and not New Hampshire? Wait, maybe it was Vermont I got married in. Oh well, same thing.
Critical Perspectives on World Climate edited by Katy Human. Essays and articles are grouped into four categories: 1. The (Pre)History of Climate Change, 2. Role of Vegetation and Methane in Climate Change, 3. Present and Near-Future Effects of Global Warming, 4. Ongoing Debate over Climate Change
World Energy Crisis by Stuart A. Kallen. From the Compact Research series.
Primary Source Accounts of World War I edited by Glenn Scherer and Marty Fletcher.
The Ever-Running Man by Marcia Muller. Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down a bomber attacking their offices. Narrowly avoiding a bombing herself Sharon has to delve into the security company's, and her husband's, past corruption.
Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader. Jason Bourne goes looking his only friend, Martin Lindros, who disappeared investigating terrorists in Africa. Bourne decides to dismantle the terrorist organization himself as they try to collect material and technology for a nuclear bomb.
Non Fiction
101 Best U.S. Wedding Destinations: top destinations for every style and budget by Kathryn Gabriel Loving. Let's see...Florida, New Mexico, Hawaii, Wisconsin, New Jersey. New Jersey!? New Jersey and not New Hampshire? Wait, maybe it was Vermont I got married in. Oh well, same thing.
Critical Perspectives on World Climate edited by Katy Human. Essays and articles are grouped into four categories: 1. The (Pre)History of Climate Change, 2. Role of Vegetation and Methane in Climate Change, 3. Present and Near-Future Effects of Global Warming, 4. Ongoing Debate over Climate Change
World Energy Crisis by Stuart A. Kallen. From the Compact Research series.
Primary Source Accounts of World War I edited by Glenn Scherer and Marty Fletcher.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
New and Nifty Novels
Fiction
High Noon by Nora Roberts. A hardcover by Roberts. Police hostage negotiator Phoebe has a new suitor and a personal threat from a mysterious assailant.
The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Patterson continues his early retirement with another co-authored book. Lauren is out for revenge after her husband cheated on her. When Lauren does the same she witnesses a horrific crime but fears exposure if she comes forward as a witness.
Large Print
Something More by Janet Dailey. Luke McCallister and the descendant of a outlaw hunt for the outlaws buried gold in Wyoming.
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin. I got this novel as a freebie during the ALA Annual Convention in Washington D.C. after attending a breakfast by the publisher's parent corporation, Thomson. Thomson is a large company and was hosting several breakfasts to demo and promote their products.
I followed the directions on my invitation for the Sunday morning Large Print discussion at the Renaissance Hotel. I arrived a half hour late at Ballroom B and immediately scoped out the coffee. The tables were already filled and were formed in a big U, with the presenter running a database demonstration from inside the formation, so I found an empty chair along the wall.
After sitting down I figured I may as well get something to eat and walked over to the buffet. I ended up filling my plate and, spying an empty seat, took a spot at a table. As I was eating the presenter talks about business databases and the corporate information contained within.
"Okay," I figure, "the large print portion of the program must be next."
Ten minutes later the presenter finishes and the meeting ends. A salesman comes over to meet me and I find out I'm in the wrong ballroom. Thomson switched ballrooms at the last moment and with my late arrival no one was no host at the entryway to let me know. So, I walk to the room next door, scope out the coffee and have a seat. Afterwards we were told to grab a copy of any titles sitting on display and I took this one.
So, enjoy the novel, but no free coffee for you.
High Noon by Nora Roberts. A hardcover by Roberts. Police hostage negotiator Phoebe has a new suitor and a personal threat from a mysterious assailant.
The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Patterson continues his early retirement with another co-authored book. Lauren is out for revenge after her husband cheated on her. When Lauren does the same she witnesses a horrific crime but fears exposure if she comes forward as a witness.
Large Print
Something More by Janet Dailey. Luke McCallister and the descendant of a outlaw hunt for the outlaws buried gold in Wyoming.
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin. I got this novel as a freebie during the ALA Annual Convention in Washington D.C. after attending a breakfast by the publisher's parent corporation, Thomson. Thomson is a large company and was hosting several breakfasts to demo and promote their products.
I followed the directions on my invitation for the Sunday morning Large Print discussion at the Renaissance Hotel. I arrived a half hour late at Ballroom B and immediately scoped out the coffee. The tables were already filled and were formed in a big U, with the presenter running a database demonstration from inside the formation, so I found an empty chair along the wall.
After sitting down I figured I may as well get something to eat and walked over to the buffet. I ended up filling my plate and, spying an empty seat, took a spot at a table. As I was eating the presenter talks about business databases and the corporate information contained within.
"Okay," I figure, "the large print portion of the program must be next."
Ten minutes later the presenter finishes and the meeting ends. A salesman comes over to meet me and I find out I'm in the wrong ballroom. Thomson switched ballrooms at the last moment and with my late arrival no one was no host at the entryway to let me know. So, I walk to the room next door, scope out the coffee and have a seat. Afterwards we were told to grab a copy of any titles sitting on display and I took this one.
So, enjoy the novel, but no free coffee for you.
NonFiction Variety Pack
Monkeys and Apes
Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg. One of the best books of the year! Full color portraits of monkeys and apes by celebrity photographer Greenberg. With Rhesus Macaque, Yellow Baboon, Bonnet Macaque, Orangutan, Mandrill, Gibbon, and others. Oh, yeah!
Entertainment
Singing Cowboys by Douglas Green. Biographies and profiles of well-known and little-known film and television singing cowboys. Written by Douglas B. Green a.k.a Ranger Doug from Riders in the Sky. Includes a music CD with music by Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, Ken Maynard and others.
24: Behind the Scenes by Jon Cassar. A photo and production history of the television series 24. With coverage of past and present characters, actors, and crew. The included DVD has interviews and a photo gallery.
Hobbies
The Joy of Digital Photography by Jeff Wignall. "Remember when taking pictures was fun and having a camera was inspirational? Those days are back!"
Digital Photography Beyond the camera: expert Photoshop and digital know-how for top-quality images and prints by Ian Farrell.
Java Demystified: a self-teaching guide by Jim Keogh. A do-it-yourself Java guide.
New Ideas for Today's Crochet by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss. A variety of women's designs with tops, dresses, and even bikinis.
Crocheted Wire Jewelry: Innovative Designs and Projects by Leading Artists by Arline M. Fisch. "By crocheting with wire, which is as easy to work with as yarn, you can make lacy structures that hold their form while retaining a great deal of flexibility."
Cooking
Mr. Food Diabetic Dinners in a Dash: more than 150 fast and fabulous guilt-free recipes by Art Ginsburg. Fast and easy to make recipes published by the American Diabetes Association.
Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg. One of the best books of the year! Full color portraits of monkeys and apes by celebrity photographer Greenberg. With Rhesus Macaque, Yellow Baboon, Bonnet Macaque, Orangutan, Mandrill, Gibbon, and others. Oh, yeah!
Entertainment
Singing Cowboys by Douglas Green. Biographies and profiles of well-known and little-known film and television singing cowboys. Written by Douglas B. Green a.k.a Ranger Doug from Riders in the Sky. Includes a music CD with music by Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, Ken Maynard and others.
24: Behind the Scenes by Jon Cassar. A photo and production history of the television series 24. With coverage of past and present characters, actors, and crew. The included DVD has interviews and a photo gallery.
Hobbies
The Joy of Digital Photography by Jeff Wignall. "Remember when taking pictures was fun and having a camera was inspirational? Those days are back!"
Digital Photography Beyond the camera: expert Photoshop and digital know-how for top-quality images and prints by Ian Farrell.
Java Demystified: a self-teaching guide by Jim Keogh. A do-it-yourself Java guide.
New Ideas for Today's Crochet by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss. A variety of women's designs with tops, dresses, and even bikinis.
Crocheted Wire Jewelry: Innovative Designs and Projects by Leading Artists by Arline M. Fisch. "By crocheting with wire, which is as easy to work with as yarn, you can make lacy structures that hold their form while retaining a great deal of flexibility."
Cooking
Mr. Food Diabetic Dinners in a Dash: more than 150 fast and fabulous guilt-free recipes by Art Ginsburg. Fast and easy to make recipes published by the American Diabetes Association.
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