Half Self-Help, Half AutoBio, Half LARGE PRINT

NonFiction

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis. "Wait, I did order that?" says Library Director. Page 105 says, "I call bull crap."

LARGE PRINT

That New Obama Book (and other stuff)

Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama. Autiobio by Michelle Obama.

Fiction

Look Alive Twenty-Five By Janet Evanovich. Another Stephanie Plum novel.

I Givee Up  on Typunng Today

Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci. FBI Agent investiagtes crime at Grand Canyon.

Nine Perfect Stravers by Liane Moriarty. A thriller. I think. Let me check... meh, I lost interest. Moriaruty lives in Australia. I wonder if she drives around for vacation. The Blu e mOuntaints look life a reagt place to visit.

Night of Miracles by Elixabeth Berg. Nigh of Miracles for LIbrary Director: 1. Children go to sleepon time. 2. I go to slep on time. 3. Stupid cats don't run around during the night. 4. I get to read of watch TV without being hassled. 5. I don;t pull a myscle doing deda lifts in teh basement.

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami. I have not idda what this is about but it looks interesting just because. That;s right, just becauste.

Speldnpor Before the dark by Margaret George. IS this teh George that writes the historical novels? Let me check... Yeah, same lady. Her author photo has her wearing blue and smiling. Oh, dang. I completely forgot she lvies next door in Madison. I presume she is too big a deal for us to affor dto have her visit here. That and being successfyul makes an nauthor mega-busy and scheduled. I wonder if George does mountain biking.

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Gischler For Your Ears

AudioBook on CD

No Good Deed by Victor Gischler. 7CDs for unknown hours. The bib record is incorrect. The bib says this is eight discs but there are only 7. You don't need to know the plot because this is a Gischler novel and always worth your time.

Fiction? Non.

Travel
Ireland: 2019 by DK Eyewitness. Page 91 says, "The oldest public library in Ireland was built in 1701 for the Archbishop of Dublin, Narcissus Marsh."

Washington, DC: 2019 by DK Eyewitness. Page 183 says, "Stony Man Peak is a pleasant 1.5-mile (2.5-km)  hike to rock ledges with spectacular views."

New York City: 2019 by DK Eyewitness. Page 166 says, "The High Line snaking through buildings on Manhattan's west side."

Birnbaum's Walt Disney World: 2019. Page 207 says, "Pay close attention to the flamingo pond on your left just after you enter elephant country."

The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2019 by Bob Sehlinger and Liliane J Opsomer with Len Testa. Page 139 says, "But for a few yeas now, con artists have been distributing fliers to hotel guests - they ask for your credit card number over the phone, but the pizza never arrives."

Cooking

Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, 17th Edition.  Page 314 says, "sliced".

Salt Fat Acid Heat: mastering the elements of good cooking by Samin Nosrat. Page 13 says, "Finally, remember to have fun!"

Simply Keto: a practival approach to health and weight loss by Suzanne Ryan. Page 76 says, "2 large egg yolks".

All The Rest

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis. What happens when a new government refuses to learn?

Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss. According to the dust cover Beschloss spent ten years  writing this. The extensive citations and source notes will appeal to the history majors like myself.

In My Father's House: a new view on how crime runs in the family by Fox Butterfield. When crime is the family trade.

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz. Collins loves the history of gangster Chicago and Eliot Ness. This looks like a neat book.

Live Work Work Work Die: a journey into the savage heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein.  Something something something.

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Killing the SS by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.

A Book, A Movie, A Movie, A Movie.

Fiction

The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White. All three authors live in different places. I wonder how often they met in person to strategize. Not often I suspect. Most everything could be done by trading drafts and talking on the phone. Would in-person meetings more likely devolve into screwing around as they drank coffee and talked about family, dogs, politics?

DVD

Hotel Artemis starring [famous actors]. Some sort of shoot'em up. I think. Here is a trailer.


Life of the Party starring [Actor famous for comedic performances]. Newly divorced housewife goes to college with daughter. This title reminds me of this song.



And this one.

Grave Keeper's Freaks From The Hounds

Science Fiction

Street Freaks by Terry Brooks. Teen hunted through mega-Los Angeles of the future.

Mystery

Deck The Hounds by David Rosenfelt. Dog loving lawyer ends up defending a homeless guy who he was helping out during Christmas.

The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton. Police inspector worried the serial killer she helped convict 30 years ago may be innocent.

Fiction

The Reckoning by John Grisham. I guess this is something to do with lawyers. Let me take a look... Yeah, in 1946 a war hero and local bigwig walks to church, shoots his best friend the pastor, and refuses to say anything.

Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale His Own Self. More greatness from Lansdale. I'm pretty sure I either read or heard the title story. Hey, dig it, this copy is signed by Lansdale.

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor. I'm not sure what this is about. I was going to go to one of the lighthouse's on the Southern End of Door County this past Spring but the place was closed. We did go by another one.

Elevation by Stephen King. Shocker of shockers! This novel is only 146 pages long.

Evergreen Tidings From the Baumgartners by Grethcen Anthony. Who was that Baumgartner was was a famous Olympic wrestler? Bruce? Let me check... Yep, his first name is Bruce.

Moving Images For Your Television

DVD

Super Troopers 2 starring [Actors playing fools]. Sequel to the cult classic about Vermont State Police who are not so... well... they could do better.


Sicario starring benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin. Another realpolitik look at international relations and commerce between Mexico and the United States.


This Is Us: the complete second season starring [actors]. The second season of a TV show I have never, ever seen. Never. EVER.

Four Different

One 

Desperate Measures by Stuart Woods. Yet another Stuart Woods novel.

Rhythmic Sounds Are Recorded In A Studio and Transferred Onto A Plastic Disc For Your Listening Pleasure

Kamikaze Air Unit 313 by Eminem.  Rappers raps songs of something or other.

Three

The Soul of America: the battle for our Better Angels by Jon Meacham. 9 CDs at 11 hours. Something about positive change over U.S. history. I think.

Four

The Geeky Chef Cook Book: real life recipes for your favorite fantasy foods by Cassandra Reader.  Was this a donation? Because we already had a copy.

Cut Dragon Vendetta Chronicle

DVD

Prime Cut starring Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek, Gene Hackman. The '70s classic with machine guns, shoot outs, chased by a combine, rural mobsters, city mobsters, and barbecue.

Dragon Inn starring Shangkuan Ling-fung. Ming dynasty adventure with innocent family of assassinated official protected by mysteriously arrived fighters.

Fiction

Vendetta by Iris Johansen. Is Johansen the author who poses with one of her dogs? Let's check... nope. It's the woman with blond hair who was my second guess.

NonFiction

Great Lakes Chronicle: essays on Coastal Wisconsin by [various authors]. A freebee the Wisconsin DNR or some other agency sent us. I thought it might circ. Articles going back to 2002.

Won't You Shell the Library

Fiction

Shell Game by Sara Paretsky. That is Sara not Sarah. A new V.I. Warshawski novel. Kansas content unknown. Wisconsin content unknown.

NonFiction

The Library Book by Susan Orlean. Orlean looks at the 1986 fire at Los Angeles Public Library and talks about libraries and library history in general. L.D. Fargo Public Library content unknown.

DVD

Won't You Be My Neighbor by Morgan Neville. Documentary of Fred Rogers and his television show. Wisconsin content unknown.

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Book I Was Waiting For

One I Want to Read

The Truth Itself by James Rayburn. Rayburn is the pen name of South African author Roger Smith. His Rayburn books are spy thrillers.

Fiction

Lace Maker's Secret by Kathleen Ernst. Another novel by Wisconsin author Ernst. Chloe Ellefson solves more historical mysteries and modern murder.

Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks. I will not read this.

When We Were Young by Karen Kingsbury. Modern romance promoted across Instagram and something something.

Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman. This book is physically small and page 38 says, "She'd do that."

November Road by Lou Berney. New Orleans mobster is on teh run from the mob after the JFK assassination. makes friends with woman and her young kids as he uses them for cover on his way West.

Laurentian Divide by Sarah Strong. "Laurentian" immediately reminds me of Oscar Peterson's Candiana Suite and the song Laurentide Waltz. I just ran across this CBC interview from 1979. Here is the song by itself.

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. Meh.

Below the Tree Line by Susan Oleksiw. Oleksiw has a couple other mystery series, this book as the start of a new series.

Photos


Library Exterior


Friday Story Time




Artwork at Lake Mills Elementary School includes an image of the library.

One Two Three

One

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. This came out in 2003. Maybe it was a donation. Or a book club novel.

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver. Kingsolver has some loyal readers. She also has a National Humanities Medal. Think she ever wears it? Heading out to the local coffee shop, wants some adornment but not to walk back to the bedroom, pulls the medal out of the shadow case on the wall, goes for an Americano.

Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison. Warning: whiskey is not an alternative to water.

The Man Who Came Uptown by George Pelecanos. Pelecanos has written some very good crime novels. Let's check the dust cover description... Guy reads a lot in prison until a sudden legal release and a tough transition to regular life.

USA National Parks: the complete guide to all 59 parks by Becky Lomax. Did Lomax visit each park? If so that is impressive.

Two

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton. Author photo has Morton outside in a jacket. Bio says she lives in London and Australia.

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird. I have no clue where Bird lives. The novel is a bout a freed slave who joins the US Army during the Civil War and then disguises herself as a man to join the cavalry after the war.

Leave No Trace by Mindy Mehia. I like the cover. Meija lives in the Twin Cities and went to Hamline University for grad school. I don't have anything against Hamline but I do have rude words about other MIAC schools. Go Gusties! (Her undergrad is not listed.)

The Caregiver by Samuel Park. I don't like this cover very much. Park lives in - Hokey Smokes! The guy died of stomach cancer when he was only 41. Jeez, that is a bummer to read.

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan. This looks to be the third novel in Kwan's series about rich people. I listened to some of Crazy Rich Asians and it had an interesting start but either the book did not click with me or maybe the narrator or audio levels were off because I never finished the novel.

Three

A Vineyard Christmas by Jean Stone. Martha's Vineyard... rented cottage... Chappaquiddick... deep snow... baby girl... keep her... keeping a secret... truly matter.

Catching Christmas by Terri Blackstock. Overworked young lawyer. Ill grandmother. Cab driver who used to be big time chef. Matchmaking.

The Witch Elm by Tana French. You know French has hit BIG TIME STATUS when her name is much larger than any of other text on the cover.

War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell. 11th book on the Saxon series. Page 189 says, "Father Lucus's puzzlement at the question was obvious, but he answered anyway."

Under My Skin by Lisa Unger. Page 163 says, "I'll be here." Unger lives near Tampa, Florida. I think Tampa was not in the latest hurricane path.

Mysterious and LARGE Words

Mysteries

Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareen Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Whitehouse. I can never remember how to spell Jabar. Second novel by Jabbar and Waterhouse about Sherlock's brother.

A Borrowing of Bones of Paula Munier. Something about a woman and her bomb-sniffing dog. Munier lives in New England. How many states are considered New England. I'd count Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Heck you should count parts of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as well. That's a lot of people and a lot of square mileage. Munier has a pet Newfoundland Dog. Woof.

Twelve Dogs of Christmas by David Rosenfelt. Rosenfelt is the guy who owns about 20 Golden Retrievers. Let's check the book cover... No. I was wrong. He has 27 dogs. Heck, that's not weird at all. Nope. not one bit weird to have 27 dogs running around. Perfectly normal. Nothing to see here, move along.

Wrecked: an IQ novel by Joe Ide. I really like the cover design. Ide lives in Santa Monica. The book designer is Kapo Ng and Ng lives in New York.

Holy Ghost by John Sandford. Someone was asking about this novel last week and I had trouble pulling it up in the catalog. Sandford lives in Minnesota. You know who else lives in Minnesota? Anthony Neil Smith. Sandford's books are available everywhere and in every format. We have Smith's print work but not all his digital titles are available in the Wisconsin Digital Library.

Ambush by James O. Born and James Patterson Literary Industries Amalgamated. I read one of Born's Florida set novels. Born's novel was pretty decent but I've not yet gotten to his other books.

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More books filled with words

Fiction

Christmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke.  Author bio says Fluke grew up in a rural Minnesota town. I feel like I should look that up. I wonder if she ever met John Sandford. Or Anthony Neil Smith.

The Dead Ringer by M.C. Beaton. I thought M.C. Beaton was a pen name. Maybe not. This is the umpteenth mystery featuring Agatha Raisin.

Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber. Christmas romance set in Alaska. Cover painting includes three puppies. Woof. Woof-woof.

An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris. The cover is just plain silly. Slim woman in sleeveless shirt and cowboy hat is wearing a fancy gunfighter belt and holsters and doing a gratuitous pistol pose. Lightning strikes in the rural background.

Winters in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand. Cover is a white sand beach and swimsuited woman in a ig straw hat. But, what if someone's paradise is a blizzard?

NonFiction

Aunt Laura's Attic: short biographies of famous people you never heard of by Lahna Anhalt.

Take a look. It's inside a book.

Fiction

Blood Communion: a tale of Prince Lestat: the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I remember when the the film version of Interview With A Vampire came out in 1994 and a bunch of people at the movie theater were dressed up. That movie was not all that great.

A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult. Picoult sure sells a lot of books. She writes a lot of books, too. The inside cover lists 25 novels. Picoult lives in New Hampshire. I wonder if she has met Archer Mayor over in Vermont. Wait, did I get married in Vermont or New Hampshire? They are basically the same thing. I think it was New Hampshire.

Rise of the Mystics by Ted Dekker. Something about prophecies, ancient seals, quests, world in darkness. I wonder if anyone has written a fantasy novel about "ancient seals" and the characters discover they are animal seals.

Virgil Wander by Leif Enger. Enger wrote Peace Like A River. I never read that book.

Woods By Wausua

A Book. A Movie. An Instructional DVD.

Fiction

Red War by Kyle Mills. Mills continues to write stories about Mitch Rapp who kills people or something. Is he a super spy? I'm not certain. I knida want to see the movie version but have not gotten to it yet.

DVD

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom starring [actors]. Set three years after the last movie. I never watched that one either. Oh, Hey! Ted Levine is in this. Sweet. Bryce Dallas Howard played herself in Arrested Development and was insulting her real-life sister who also played herself. I really enjoyed that scene.


Instructional DVD

make Ready to Survive: shelter, fire, water by Dave Canterbury. "Canterbury reviews your survival kit resources including making a fire, fire bed and lays, three stages of fuel, primitive fire resources, water collection, boiling water, clothing, shelters and more."

Bunch of Discs With Sounds

Audiobooks on CD

Three Women And A Dude

Fiction

A Willing Murder by Jude Deveraux. I was not aware Deveraux also wrote mysteries. Deveraux is very difficult for me to type. I am going to try and slowly touch type her name. Deverauz. Decerauz. Deveraus.

Echoes of Evil by Heather Graham. Graham's author photo is the one where she has super fancy looking hair. Graham attended the Murder and Mayhem in Milwaukee event last year. Or maybe the year before. I hope to attend that this year.

Transcription by Kate Atkinson. Atkinson's first novel came out in 1996? Ddang. I am waaaay behind on reading her books.

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DVD

Ocean's 8 starring [many famous actresses]. A bunch of people plan to rob jewels at the Met Gala. I'm pretty certain I never heard of the Met Gala until I read news articles about the event a couple months ago. Here is a trailer or something. I was reading something by a guy who said the movie is fantastic.

Two regulars. Two... well not exactly irregulars, but not as frequent.

Fiction

Dark Tide Rising by Anne Perry. More Victorian era mystery with the Monk family who deal with the ransom kidnapping of a wealthy woman and his betrayal by one of his own men.

Spy Master by Brad Thor. An international spy thriller and terrorists and secret plots.

Locksmith's Daughter by Karen Brooks. Disgraced woman is recruited by the Queen's spymaster for spying and code breaking and other things I am not sure about because I quit reading the description. I did like what I read though.

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The Guilty Dead by P.J. Tracy. Minnesota murder mystery makes Minneapolis masses mourn. P.J. Tracy was the psueudonym for a mother-daughter writing team. P.J., the mother, passed away in 2016. Tracy, the daughter, still writes the series. Tracy went to St. Olaf but I promise not to make any jokes about Olies. After all, she surely would have attended Gustavus is she were able. Right? At least she did not go to Carleton.