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Weeding

This is why we weed out old and obsolete items. How did I miss these?



Musical Interlude

Chrissie Hynde has a new tune.



Fashion Show

Dunedin Public Library in Dunedin, New Zealand had their annual fashion show a couple weeks ago.

Black Beetle Pope Printing Pain

Fiction

Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson.  Where did this come from?  It's the paperback from 2013.  Must have been a donation.  Short stories by guy who wrote Psychopath Test which went out 16 times and is NonFic.

The Black Beetle in 'No Way Out' by Francesco Francavilla.  Comic book novel that was recommended on a Friday issue of Unshelved.  The Black Beetle patrols Colt City in 1941 defending against mobsters and their paid for cops.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.  The cover says "YA novel" the flyleaf says, "Bookstore owner is the doldrums."

NonFiction

Woodland Knits: over 20 enchanting patterns by Stephanie Dosen.  Page 65 says, "Using US size (10mm) dpns, cast on 4 sts onto one dpn."

Teach Yourself Visually Android Phones and Tablets by Guy Hart-Davis.  Because computers are a pain.

3D Printing for Dummies by Kalani Kirk Hausman and Richard Horne.  Because computer operated printers are a pain.

Home Skills Wiring: fix your own lights, switches, receptacles, boxes, cables and more, Cindy Smargia Laun, Design Manager.  Because wiring repairs are a pain.

Trigonometry: a complete introduction by Hugh Neill, Chief Examiner.  Because trigonometry homework is a pain.

Calculus: a complete introduction by Hugh Neill, Chief Examiner.  Because calculus homework is a pain.

Not So Fast: parenting your teen through the dangers of driving by Tim Hollister.  Because expensive car repairs are a pain.

From 221B Baker Street to the Old Curiosity Shop: a guide to London's literary landmarks by Stephen Halliday.  Because getting lost in London is a pain.

Budget Bytes: over 199 easy, delicious recipes to slash your grocery bill in half by Beth Moncel.  Because being broke is a pain.

The Everything Job Interview Question Book: the best answers to the toughest interview questions by Dawn Rosenberg McKay.  Because bombing a job interview is a pain.

Color Essentials: crisp and vibrant quilts by Amanda Murphy.  Because dour colored quilts are a pain.

The Complete Fibromyalgia Health, Diet Guide and Cookbook by Drs. Louise S. McCrindle and Alison C. Bested.  Because pain is a pain.

Developing the Core edited by Jeffrey M. Willardson.  Because cable side bends are a pain.

A Call to Serve: Pope Francis and the Catholic future by Stefan von Kempis and Philip F. Lawler.  Because losing parishioners is a pain.

How to Prepare for the GED Test by Barron's.  Because low-paying jobs are a pain.

Your Quarterly Delivery of the Stuart Woods Book Club

Fiction

Carnal Curiosity by Stuart Woods.  Is it really Stuart Woods?  Is Woods cranking these things out or is he hiring ghosts?  I really do not know.  Answer me Internet!

Redeployment by Phil Kay.  I think this was discussed in the New York Times Book Review.  Or, maybe not.  Short stories dealing with service in Iraq during the war.

The Dealer and the Dead by Gerald Seymour.  Arms dealer to a Croatian village in 1992 never showed up with the arms.  The village was overrun and mostly slaughtered.  The surviving villagers have found the dealer's identity and are out for revenge.

Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline.  Fly leaf says relationship...urging...goes alone...deserted road...connection...bonding opportunity...tragedy...forced...plunges...crushing weight...ruin them all.

The Contractors by Harry Hunsicker.  Here is what I know about Hunsicker: 1) he lives in Dallas, 2) he has long hair.  This sounds like a good one.  A contractor for the DEA in Dallas intercepts a drug shipment and ends up holding a high-value witness.  He has to get the witness to Marfa, TX in spite of competition.

Night Diver by Elizabeth Lowell.  Lowell's "favorite activity is exploring the western United States to find the landscapes that speak to her soul and inspire her writing."  Oh boy...

Romance

Bitter Spirits by Jenn Bennett.  That's two Ns, two Ns and Two Ts.  A medium in the twenties helps a bootlegger with a hex.  That is an unclear sentence.  Does the bootlegger have a hex on him, or does the bootlegger want to hex someone else?  Couldn't I just rewrite that sentence and avoid the confusion? No.

Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare.  She wouldn't be romancing a Duke in Lake Mills.  Not unless she has no sense of smell, because the chicken manure farm south of town  is spreading manure this morning and everything smells awful.

Science Fiction

Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.  This title speaks to me.  It says, "There is a goblin and he is an emperor."

He Drank, and Saw the Spider by Alex Bledsoe.  This title speaks to me.  It says, "What?"  The fly leaf says, "P.I. novel with swords."  Bledsoe lives in Mount Horeb.  My family stops for breakfast there when driving to KS each summer. 

Psychology for LEGO Warlords

NonFiction

Psychology for Dummies by Adam Cash, PsyD.  Page 159 says, "Feeling phrenological?"

LEGO Minifigure Year by Year:a visual history edited by Helen Murray.  This is a kids book and very groovy. 

The Last Warlord: the life and legend of Dostum, the Afghan warrior who led US Special Forces to topple the Taliban regime by Brian Glyn Williams, PhD.  According to the photo section Dostum helped out during the initial invasion in 2001.  According to the author photo Williams has a beard.

Dirty Amish Chipmunks

DVD

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill.  Documentary on the greater war on terror.



Alvin and the Chipmunks: the squeakquel starring [voices].  Replacing a broken disc.


Fiction

Cavendon Hall by Barbara Taylor Bradford.  "Epic saga of intrigue and mystique set in Edwardian England."  Saga?  When I hear saga I think of Iceland.

And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass.  Flyleaf says: Richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father.

I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark.  Clark writes another novel that many people will purchase.

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue.  According to the flyleaf Donoghue has red hair and lives in Canada.  Canada is pretty big.  Good luck hunting her down to sign your personal copy.

The Last Bride by Beverly Lewis.  More Amish.  More romance.  More cover photos with a pretty girl wearing a hair cover.  You know, all these cover models wear make-up.  I presume the Amish don't truck with cosmetics.

Warriors by Ted Bell.  Looks like a shoot-em up spy thriller.  Let's see.  Or, let's not see.  You can be surprised.

Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr.  "An Anna Pigeon Novel."  Hey, Los Amigos Invisibles just came on.


Musical Interlude

Los Amigos Invisibles or, as I call them, Peruvian Disco Music from Space.



NonFiction

The Oxford Companion to World Mythology by David Leeming.  Oxford was running a sale.  Page 236 says Laokoon told the Trojans not to let in the wooden horse.  The Trojans should have listened.  But, Poseidon sent a couple snakes to kill Laokoon and his children and the Trojans figured that was a sign to ignore Laokoon.

Music and Mania

DVD

House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.  Dirtbag Congressman.


Music

20 by Kate Rusby.  I realized that our other Rusby CD of a folk singer singing folk songs has gone out a lot.


The Outsiders by Eric Church.  Country singers sings country-themed songs.


Pure Heroine by Lorde.  Kiwi teen singer sings songs of Kiwi life and longing.


Supermodel by Foster the People.  Californians sing rock music songs.

Legally Made-Up Stories

DVD

American Hustle starring [famous actors].  {Famous actor] pretends to be someone else with [other famous actor] and [three other famous actors] in [pretend 1970s].



Fiction

Blossom Street Brides by Debbie Macomber.  Macomber has short and 170 million books.

Killer Physique by G.A. McKevett.  McKevett is really Sonja Massie.

Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry.  Maberry is really Maberry and writes fine thrillers with lots of bad guys and good guys and sci-fi style adventure.  Maberry also spends a lot of time on Facebook.

Tempting Fate by Jane Green.  I first typed that as Fane Green.  Fane Green is actually Jane Green.  Jane Green has really white teeth and lives in Connecticut.

Death on Blackheath by Anne Perry.  Anne Perry is the same Anne Perry as usual but with another book called Death on Blackheath.  The internet says there are several "Blackheaths", including Blackheath Motor Inn in New South Wales.

Waking the Dead by Heather Graham.  Heather Graham is not Heather Graham but is instead Heather Graham.  Graham will attend ThrillerFest this July.  Maybe she'll stay at Blackheath Motor Inn next time she is in Australia.

NonFiction

The Legal Answer Book for Families by Emily Doskow and Marcia Stewart.  Doskow?  We have two other legal guides written by her.  Doskow works in Oakland.

Coffee Guy Writes a Book

Fiction

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler.  Four men in Wisconsin.  Butler's novel has gotten a lot of attention, my father even saw a review.  I read something in the Madison paper over the weekend about Butler formerly being a poetry writing coffee roaster.  That article was talking about this.

Missing You by Harlan Coben.  Some sort of conspiracy, murder, lost love novel. 

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi.  Woman marries guy.  They have dark skinned baby.  Guy was black passing as white in 1953.  Things happen.  Helen has long hair and is English.

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett.  Another Discworld novel with a steam engine.  Pratchett has a SciFiGuy beard.

Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer.  Steinhauer writes some fine spy thrillers.  This one is mainly set in Cairo.

NYPD RED 2 by James Patterson Literary Prodcuts, Amalgamated and Marshall Karp. 

Kill Fee by Owen Laukkanen.  Crime novel. With a name by Laukkanen I wonder if her spends all his spare time in a sauna.

NonFiction

Psychology: a very short introduction by Gillian Butler and Freda McManus.  Page 80 says, "Cases of extreme neglect have also been used to help understand the reversibility of early deprivation."

NonFiction and Cinema

DVD

Contracted starring [I don't know these people].  STD leads to horror.


Inside Llewyn Davis starring John Goodman.  Folk music leads to disaffection.


NonFiction

Climate: a very short introduction by Mark Maslin.  Climate leads to weather.

Italia: la guida Michelin, 2014.  Not properly reading the catalog leads to ordering an Italian language guide to Italy.  Dang it.

Audiobook on CD

What is Marketing and Sales?: vital tools to market, promote, and sell featuring Zig Ziglar, others.  Marketing leads to selling things for money.

Beer, Korea, Kennedy, Murder

NonFiction

Korea Reborn: a grateful nation honors war veterans for 60 years of growth.  Produced as a war and country history.  Page 49 says, "We were totally surrounded," Byers said, "and we didn't think we were getting out of there.  We just thought, 'Kill as many of them as we can because we're going to die anyway." being a Pfc., I didn't get to talk to commanders; we didn't know anything about the strategy of the war.  All I saw was my platoon sergeant, and he just said, 'Keep firing.'"

The Day Kennedy Died: 50 yars later LIFE remembers the man and the moment edited by Robert Sullivan.  Big honking coffee table book.

Oxford Companion to Beer edited by Garrett Oliver.  No entries for Tyranena Brewing. New Glarus is in here.  Lion Nathan in New Zealand is in here.  I really enjoyed Lion Red when I visited there.

Secret Life Secret Death by Genevieve Davis.  Secret family history and Chicago prostitution and organized crime.  See Below.

DVD

Secret Life Secret Death directed by Genevieve Davis.

A Box with a Martian Archer

DVD

Joan of Arc starring Leelee Sobieski, Powers Booth.  French girl leads an army.  Things do not end well.

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Bad Company starring Jeff Bridges.  I've seen this one.  1972 movie with teenage orphans becoming criminals in the 1860s.

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Death at a Funeral starring Peter Dinklage.  Things comically go wrong at a English funeral.


12 Years a Slave starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Micahel Fassbender.  I have not seen this yet.  Ejiofor was so good in Red Belt I thought the producers really hired a Jiu-Jitsu master from Brazil.

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Fiction

Power Play by Danielle Steel.

Stone Cold by C.J. Box. Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious rich man on a remote property.

Distortion by Terri Blackstock.  Woman's husband in murdered in front of her.  The killing may not have been random and her husband may have been a crook.

The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths.  Some murder thing in England.

Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer.  Archer's bio mentions his five years in the House of Commons and his nineteen years in the House of Lords.  Archer's bio does not mention the two years in prison for perjury.

The Martian by Andy Weir.  Guy is left on Mars.  I read a great review.

16.25 Inches of Large Print

Large Print

Fiction Pile -- HIVES ATTACK!

Fiction

Wrath of the Savage by Charles G. West.  Indians kidnap two women during a raid through several homesteads.  Army officer Bret Hollister sets out on their trail.

Graveyard of Memories by Barry Eisler.  John Rain in 1972 as he learns to become a murderer for hire.  I'll read this.

Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh.  Murder mystery in the rural Ozarks.  Teen girl looks to find out what happened to her murdered pal.  Looks pretty decent.

The Accident by Chris Pavone.  Some thriller about rich and famous people being revealed as goons. Author photo is in a restaurant.  Nina Subin took the photo.  According to Subin's website she takes a lot of author photos.  I've read books by only two of the ones listed on the site.  I've no idea who Ana Marie Cox is but she's good looking.

Runner by Patrick Lee.  We have two of these.  I hate when I order duplicates by mistake.  That's okay.  People will read the book.  Ex-soldier encoutners 12-year-old on the run from a secret government prison.  Lee's author photo is by Henry Stampfel.  Maybe Stampfel is this guy.

Thirty Girls by Susan Minot.  "Literary tour de force set against the haunting canvas of war-torn Africa."  30 teen girls kidnapped y Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.  Minot's author photo is black and white.  Not unlike The Hives.


Bread and Butter by Michelle Wildgen.  Three brothers have competing restaurants in a small town.  "A dazzling, brilliantly observed novel of food and siblings."  Wildgen has a professional portrait shot for her author photo - like the people above.  Wildgen attended Madison.  Most author bios list the writer's current hometown or state.  Wildgen's does not.  Since Wildgen does a ton of food writing I'm betting she secretly lives somewhere like Minot.  I presume the Northern Plains are not a hot bed of culinary activity and she has to hide this.

While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell.  The cover dsign says, "Vampires."  The dust cover says, "[Sleeping Beauty's maid]."  Blackwell's author photo is kinda small.  Heidi Jo Brady took the picture.  Hey, Heidi Jo Brady also took Gillian Flynn's headshot.  Brady must be the Chicago author photographer.

NonFiction

Frommer's Easy Guide to National Parks of the American West.  Yes, people still enjoy travel guides in print.  Page 136 gives a one star review to the Panamint Springs Resort by Death Valley.

Uganda Be Kidding Me by Chelsea handler.  Something about traveling.  many color photos on the inside including many dog photos.

Mathematically Thrilling Oscars

DVD

Abduction of Eden starring Beau Bridges.  This looks incredibly disturbing.  Girl hitches a ride and is imprisoned with other women as a sex slave in a ring run by a local policeman.



Dallas Buyer's Club starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto.  Guy illegally imports drugs for HIV/AIDS treatment.



Amy Schumer: mostly sex stuff by Amy Schumer.  Woman stands on stage and tells jokes.  People in audience laugh.  Good luck finding a clean audio clip.

Fiction

The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.  Another thriller novel cover with boats and flames and explosions.

Black Horizon by James Grippando.  A massive oil spill in Cuban waters is heading north and the Cubans will fire on any ships coming to assist closing the leak.

Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh.  Walsh's author photo has her kneeling between rail road tracks.  I learned to stay away from railway tracks when I lived in Kansas.  The novel is a, "mesmerizing coming-of-age novel, with its sheen of near-magical realism."


A Circle of Wives by Alice LaPante.  "A searing and spellbinding psychological thriller of marital deception, revenge, and murder."  Let's apply that to real life, shall we?
Deception: "Yes, I put the dog out."
Revenge: I'm going to change the TV station.
Murder: "Aaah, spider!  Spider!  Kill the spider!"

NonFiction

Math Starters, 2nd Edition: 5- to 10-minute activities by Judith Muschla, et al. Page 201 SAYS, "(1) 60, 20, 100"

I Am Under the Weather, Here is a Photo

DVD

College French

NonFiction

Standout College Application: expert advice that takes you from LMO* to admit (*like many others) by Alison Cooper Chisolm and Anna Ivey.  Page 121 says, "Really Short Answer Tip #4: choose wide or choose deep."

France by Michelin Tyre Public Limited Company.  The Green Guide.  Page 92 says, "The 17C was an era of almost continuous warfare in Europe.  Military construction, to defend borders in particular, was both a heavy burden on the finances of the time, and source of pride."

No Relation

Fiction

Raiders of the Nile by Steven Saylor (no relation).  If I were a relation of Saylor (no relation) I would have advised against using that title.  An earlier Gordianus the Finder novel.  Saylor's (no relation) Gordianus series is very good. (No relation.)

The Chase by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg.  Evanovich and Goldberg's second novel with spies or assassins or something.  Goldberg found some extra copies at Costco of their first book, The Heist, if you'd like one.

Blackberry Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke.  The dust cover says Fluke is from Minnesota.  The internet says she was born in Swanville, MN.

Bark by Lorrie Moore.  Moore used to teach at UW and then skipped town for Vanderbilt University.  The dust jacket says " heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out loud - the hallmark of life in Lorrie-Moore-land."  Lorrie-Moore-land?  Really?

Death of a Policeman by M.C. Beaton.  "M.C. Beaton lives in a Cotswold cottage with her husband."  For all the books Beaton has sold she should just buy Cotswold.  I'm not sure what Cotswold is, though.  Is it a town?  A region?  I won't bother looking it up, either.

Kiss and Tell by Fern Michaels.  "There are over seventy-five million copies of her books in print."  That is a lot.  Maybe she should buy Cotswold instead.  She could buy-out Beaton.

Music with Neil Finn and Some Kid in His Bedroom

Musicians Play Instruments and Singers Sing Songs Into Microphones Which Are Used in Recording Studios That Process the Sounds Into Digital Files That are Physically Embedded Into Round Plastic Discs Called "Compact Discs"

Dizzy Heights by Neil Finn.  Kiwi singer sings songs.  Here are a few Finn played during a webcast.


Now That's What I Call Music 49 by [various].  Pop singers sing pop songs.

Big Pile Of Fiction I Do Not Have Time To List

Fiction

Arthurian Musical Interlude

Fiction

The Raven's Warrior by Vincent Pratchett.  Celt is wounded, captured, sold to slavers and sent to the Middle East.  Bought by a witch "a new root of Arhurian legend takes hold."  Pratchett's author photo is closely cropped and really, really tiny.  The photo measures 1" by 13/16".

Musical Interlude One

People in the '70s danced funny.



Musical Interlude Two

Neil Finn has a new album.  Our copy is not yet processed into a fancy-schmancy locking case.

According to Twitter and Facebook Laura Lippman Is A Big Deal

Fiction

After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman.  I follow a few writers on Twitter and Facebook and several of them have praised Lippman and were excited to get this novel.  Lippman has not updated her author photo in a while.

Cold Storage Alaska by John Straley.Straley's photo looks like a cropped snapshot.  Straley was the writer Laureate of Alaska in 2006.  Page 99 says, "Bob Gleason, using a walker, pushed his way up to Miles and jutted out a wobbly hand."  I have not heard the following video clip but it was posted 47 minutes ago and I'm embedding the sucker!



My Name is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner.  Your name is "resolute"?  What are you, a boat?  "A woman struggling to find herself during the tumultuous years preceding the American Revolution."

North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo.  The cover photo tells me, "Woman stands on old dock watching the fishing ships come in as she pines for her missing fisherman husband."  The inside cover says, "Fisherwoman is on boat that sinks, cares for boat captain's child and starts to wonder if sinking was an accident."

DVD

Elysium starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster.  Matt Damon pretends to live in the future.  Jodie Foster pretends to live in the future. They both pretend to live in the future.

Joe R. Lansdale? Again? Yes, Again.

Fiction 

The Ape Man's Brother by Joe R. Lansdal.  Tarzan and his ape brother are living a happy jungle life.  An expedition convinces them to go to New York where they have a great time until Tarzan does something embarassing in public.

DVD

The Internship starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. Two older guys lose their jobs and get internships at Google.


Riddick starring Vin Diesel.  Unpleasant antihero is unpleasant.



The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer.  Unpleasant men are not antiheroes.  They are murderers who not only escaped justice but are still feted.


Grieving the Sudden Death of a Loved One by Paracelte Press.  Dealing with despair.


Touring on Two Wheels with Dennis Gage.  Motorcycle tours in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Quebec and elsewhere.


Audiobooks on CD

Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston.  8.5 hours on 7 CDs.  Noir vampire if a NYC kinda-P.I. for other vampires.  Fun stuff.  No sparkling.

Stand-In Groom by Suzanne Brockmann.  6.75 hours on 6 CDs.  "But the rules of the erotic game they were playing were dangerously shifting with every touch, every glance."

Time Enough for Love by Suzanne Brockmann.   5.9 hours on 5 CDs. 

The Mission, The Men, and Me: lessons from a former Delta Force commander by Pete Blaber.  I liked that show The Unit.

NonFiction


Cook on a Shoestring by Sophie Wright.  Not to be confused to Sophie Littelfield who writes novels.  Wright was a cooking wunderkind in the UK.

Older Pop Music

Older Pop Tunes That Have Been Donated Within A Plastic Disc With A Center Hole

Machine by Smashing Pumpkins.  I figured it would circulate.

Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins.  I figured it would circulate.

Being There by Wilco.  I figured it would circulate.  Allmusic lilked this tune, I Got You (At the End of the Century).




Not to be confused with Split Enz's I Got You,




Or Pearl Jam's I Got You,




Or, Marilyn Manson's I Got You,



Or, [some guy playing bass guitar]'s I Got You,

Biggest Mish of Mash Ever

Fiction

Do or Die by Suzanne Brockmann.  The cover says: Some sort of shoot-em up with a muscle guy who lost his shirt but kept his gun.

Cell by Robin Cook.  The author's name says: medical thriller.  The cover illustration says: someone dropped their cell phone in the rain.

Mark of Evil by Tim Lahaye and Craig Parshall.  The cover illustration says: a satellite zaps the world into an integrated circuit.

NonFiction

Duty by Robert M. Gates.  The cover illustration says: yeah, I know the title can been turned into a elementary school joke.

Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia by Jason Loborik, et al. The cover says: Look at me, I'm Matt Smith and I use one gallon of products to make my hair up.

British Paratrooper Versus Fallschirmajager: Mediterranean 1942-43 by David Greentree.  The cover says: Hey, just like Forgotten Weapons.

British Infantryman Versus Zulu Warrior: Anglo-Zulu War 1879 by Ian Knight.  The cover says: Hey, you remember that famous war movie about the African wars?  Not, not that one, the other one.

Decorate Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies with Kids by Autumn Carpenter.  The cover says: I'm filled with COLOR, COLOR, COLOR!

Writing Fantasy Heroes: powerful advice from the pros edited by Jason M. Waltz.  The cover says: Frank Frazetta would have a girl in here.

Audiobook on CD

Harbor Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh.  10.5 hours on 9 CDs.  The cover says: That's a big bridge.

Large Print and Two NonFic

Large Print

NonFiction

Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard.  One fateful day in 1996,upon discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn reaped a tiny proift of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard undertakes to save his family's farm... hilarious... livestock... colorful local characters... sustainable... career... mainstream... health... turn... this... tugs... page.

Parenting Your Powerful Child by Dr. Kevin Leman.  The kids on the cover is standing on a couch.  The kid's hair looks like a kid I know named Silas.  Except Silas has very blond hair and excellent manners.

Cremaster, Fitness, Westerns, Louis C.K.

DVD

The Order from Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3.  Years ago I read about Barney, probably in The New Yorker, and Barney's artwork.  Barney made several films that sounded fascinating but I doubt many museum in the country hosted a viewing.  The films sounded bizarre and fascinating.   

I would periodically search for DVD (and VHS copies more years back) copies of the film series but could not find any reasonably priced copies.  I did a search last week on Amazon.com and this came up for about $35.  Of course now, with the internet, you can watch the whole series online.  I'm behind the times, man.



Hilarious by Louis C.K.  I'm behind ordering this, too.  The copyright is 2011.  But, people will still enjoy watching.  I won't bother trying to find a profanity free video clip.

Sweetwater starring January Jones, Ed Harris.  Vengeance western.



Ain't Them Bodies Saints starring Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster.  Armed robber escapes from prison and goes to meet his family.  Western set in 1970s Texas.




Quick Fit with Andrea Metcalf.  30 5-minute workouts.



Escape Your Shape: 21-Day Body Makeover.  Exercises.




Audiobooks on CD

More extra copies I will not type in.

Havana Moves Italy

Fiction

Havana Lost by Libby Fischer Hellmann.  You may know Hellmann from bloggers Bill Crider, Bill Crider, and Bill Crider.  Or maybe you know her from 2:24.  This novel has revolutionary Cuba, a love affair, mobsters, and page 200 which says, "[blank]."

NonFiction

Monster Moves: adventures moving the world's biggest structures by Carlo Massarella.  Lighthouses, submarines, University of Virginia's Varsity Hall, and houses that are cut apart, moved and then reassembled.

Brass Instrument Manual by Simon Croft and Andy Taylor.  My kid plays tuba.  I was going to buy my own mouthpiece and have him teach me what he learns but I never got around to it.

Italy, 2014 by DK Eyewitness.  Another photo-filled, fun and fiery flying folio for '14.

Audiobooks on CD

These are also second copies, so I won't type them in.  I won't even take a photograph.

Englishmen Love Cars and Screwdrivers

DVD

Top Gear 19 featuring the Grouchy One, Captain Slow, the Short One.  Englishmen do silly things and drive fast.



Doctor Who: Lost in Time starring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton.  3 DVDs with 434 minutes of Dr. Who.  Never broadcast in the U.S., these episodes offer an enticing glimpse into 'lost' stories that have achieved legendary status.

Fiction, Rap and Soul

Music and Voices That Are Reproducible When Using the Correct Electronic Equipment

Black Panties by R. Kelly.  Oh, this looks trashy.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell by Five Finger Death Punch.  Wait a minute.  This might be metal not rap.  Let me check...yeah, it's a metal band.  But, I don't want to change the title of the blog post.


Fiction

Still Life With Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen.  The novel of this title does not imply excitement.

I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe.  Woman dresses as man to fight alongside her husband curing the Civil War.  McCabe kinda looks like one of my wife's friends.

The Wife, The Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon.  Fictionalization of a real-life New York judge who disappeared in 1930.    Lawhon's author bio says, "lives in the rolling hills outside Nashville, TN."  Does that mean she has a rural place?  Does that mean she has her own rifle range?  I wish I had my own gun range.

This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash.  I read a book with "mercy" in the title, Michael Ayoob's In Search of Mercy which is a mystery.  This is about kids, their deadbeat dad, a robbery, and someone trying to find the kids.  Cash has a beard.

Ripper by Isabel Allende.  A couple times each winter I'll grow a beard.  I get sick of the beard after a time and shave it off.  This is about strange murders in San Francisco.  Beard content is unknown.

Lydia's Party by Margaret Hawkins.  Cover image is an outdoor table and chairs set for dinner and photoshopped into a snow covered forest.  I keep intending to do another book talk out on Rock Lake but never get around to it.

Women's Interest

NonFiction

The Complete Book of Shoes by Marta Morales.

Money Saving Mom's Budget by Crystal Paine.  Slash your spending, pay down your debt, streamline your life, and save thousands a year.

The Dairy-Free Cookbook by Maggie Pannell.  Page 7 says, "Why is calcium so important?"

Hello, Wine: the most essential things you need to know about wine by Melanie Wagner.  Page 167 says, "• blue cheeses".

Haynes Sewing manual: the complete step-by-step guide to sewing skills by Laura Strutt.  "Choosing and using a sewing machine."  That would be the first thing for me to read.

Loudest Voice in the Room by Gabriel Sherman.  The recent biography of Roger Ailes that has been in the press.  I was slow in ordering the book.  Page 295 says, "O'Reilly was becoming an acute management challenge for Ailes."

Discs

DVD

Top Gear 20 starring [three goofballs and The Stig].



Fruitvale Station starring Micahel B. Jordan.  Story of guy who was shot in the Bay Area by policeman who really, really screwed up.


You're Next starring [actors].  People in house are attacked.




When Calls the Heart starring Maggie Grace, Stephen Amell.  Society lady takes teaching job on the prairie.  The Canadian prairie.



Lee Daniels' The Butler starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey.  I won't post the trailer because I'm sure you already heard of this one.

Audiobooks on CD

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. 21.75 hours on 18 CDs.  this must be a donation because this is not a new book.

Way of the Gun by Charles G. West.  8 hours on 7 CDs.  17-year-old cowboy joins the wrong herding crew in Montana.  Now the cowboy has to escape jail.

Hard Case Crime Exerts It's Power

Fiction

The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter.  Three separate novels written in different styles combined into one story.  Set in 1931, 1941 and 1951.  Brought to you by the Great and Mighty Publisher of Greatness Charles Ardai.

Large Print

Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich.

NonFiction

McGraw-Hills's ASVAB by ... ah, heck.  I'll take a photo.

New York, London, Paris

Fiction

The Wrong Quarry by Max Allan Collins.  Another excellent entry in Collins's Quarry series featuring hired killer Quarry.  Quarry follows another assassin to discover the intended victim and sell Quarry's own lethal services to solve the victim's impending doom.

Last Train to Paris by Michele Zackheim.  Young woman in 1935 travels to New York City and gets journalist job.  Then takes work in Europe followed by love affair and terror and "heart-wrenching decision."

NonFiction

New York City Restaurants: 2014 by Micheline Guides.  Page 133 says, "Those who wax poetic on the virtues of the perfect roast chicken need look no farther."

Let's Go London Oxford and Cambridge by Beatrice Franklin and William Locke.  "The student travel guide."  I presume that means lots of coverage of bars and cheap hotels.  Page 123 says, "Lodging options in Cambridge are notoriously bad.  There are few affordable rooms near the town center, and overpriced, occasionally sketchy bed and breakfasts fill the area to the north and south of town."

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Standup Guy by Stuart Woods.

River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz.

The Death Trade by Jack Higgins.

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.

Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner.

Munich

Jan-Philipp Jhumpa Connelly

Fiction

A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker.  International best-seller by a German dude.

Audiobooks on CD

The Gods of Guilt by Michaell Connelly.  12 hours on 10 CDs. Another Mickey Haller novel.  I enjoy this series.

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri.  13 hours on 11 CDs.  Two brothers in 1960s India. 

Yikes! That's a Big Pile Of NonFic.

NonFiction

The Sh!t No One Tells You by Dawn Dais.  "A guide to surviving your baby's first year."

Calm Mama Happy Baby by Derek O'Neill and Jennifer Waldburger.  "Practical tools for choosing calm over stress no matter what is happening with your child."

Taste of Home Slow Cooker Cookbook: 431 hot and hearty classics by editor in chief by Catherine Cassidy.  Recipes to make food.

Successful Social Media Marketing In A Week by Nick Smith.  Page 79 says. "MediaPost states that 83 per cent of Pinterest users are female."

Outdoor Adventure Manual: essential Scouting skills for the great outdoors by Chris James.  Page 25 says, "Deciduous of coniferous?"  Page 99 says, "Wild Boar."

Take One Pot: super simple recipes to cook in one pot by Georgina Fuggle.  More food cooking directions.

Experimenting with Babies by Shaun Gallagher.  "50 amazing science projects you can perform on your kid."  Meh.

American Whiskey and Bourbon & Rye by Clay Risen.  Woo- Hoo!

Dog Shaming by Pascale Lemire.

ACT 367 in Just 7 Steps by Maria Filsinger and Shaan Patel.  Study.  Test.  Hope for best.

Everythign Kids' Learning Activity Book by Amanda Morin.  Page 77 is Grocery Store Scavenger Hunts.  Sounds like a bad idea.

Talk With Your Kids by Micahel Parker, M.Ed.  "Conversations about ethics and 103 other things that really matter."

Cozy Knits: 50 fast and easy projects from top designers by Tanis Gray.

Timelines of Science: ultimate visual guide to discoveries that shaped the world editor-in-chief Professor Robert Winston.

Another Lansdale? Another Abbott? An Oates?

Made Up Stories

Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Stories by Joe R. Lansdale, Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, other people I have never read.  Because we don't already have shelf fulls of those first three.

Perfect by Rachel Joyce.  This cover reminds me of The Bell Jar.  Not sure what the story is about.  Something about a 11-year-old suddenly seeing adult realities. Or something. Joyce is English.

The Dead and Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley.  This title reminds me of one of Lee Goldberg's Monk novels that is partially set in the Parisian catacombs.  I was reading one of the 39 Clues novels aloud to Boy #2 and they went into the catacombs as well.  I've never been to Paris but was in the Frankfurt airport for a couple hours.  Yeah, I know it is a different country.

Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates.  Is Oates so experience and skilled she barely even revises anymore? She writes so much I wonder if all that experience has things falling right together.  Or, when she does end up in stuck she can quickly surmount the problem.  I've been intending to read her book on boxing.

Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan.  Another historical novel by Horan who hit it big with Loving Frank.  This has Robert Louis Stevenson as a main character.  I listened to Kidnapped a few years ago.  That is a good tale.

Worthy Brown's Daughter by Phillip Margolin.  I don't think I've read any of this guy's novels.  None of the titles are familiar.  Margolin's glasses frames do not surround his lenses.

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Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich.  I just read a blog post today by someone attended a book talk by Reich and did not enjoy the talk at all.

Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield.  I think this is kinda sci-fi/fantasy/horror.  Or, maybe not.

Charles Manson Had A Son?

NonFiction

Manson: the life and times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn.  Yep, Charles Manson, Jr. committed suicide in 1993.  "Even though he called himself Charles White, taking the last name of his mother's second husband, Charles Jr. was well aware of his real father's identity.  It apparently troubled him greatly."

Parenting Your Powerful Child: bringing an end to the everyday battles by Dr. Kevin Leman.  Page 181 says, "Conner was ecstatic."

Real Estate Handbook, eighth edition by Jakc P. Friedman, PhD. MAI, CPA, CRE, ASA, et al.  "COvers virtually every aspect of buying and selling, understanding mortgages, analyzing real estate investment opportunities" and so on.

Annie Bell's Baking Bible by Annie Bell.  Page 87 has a photo of coffee.  I'm out of coffee.  I should make a coffee run.

Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: the essential reference guide by John Grant.  This is a really neat book.  724 pages of film descriptions ending with Zyzzyx Rd from 2005. 

Splash Retrospective: 20 years of contemporary watercolor excellence edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf.  Neat collection of watercolors.  Very neat.

I Don't Want to Type Today

NonFiction

Fiction

Large Print

One, Two, One, Five

Audiobook on CD

Death of Santini by Pat Conroy.  Conroy writes about his father being a major jerk and then coming coming to a "rapprochement."

Fiction

A Darker Shade of Sweden edited and translated by Joan-Henri Holmberg.  Swedish short stories.

Bird Skinner by Alice Greenway.  1973 and drunken WWII vet in Maine has daughter of war buddy from the Solomon Islands campaign staying with him for the summer.

Large Print

No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rengell.  I've read great things about Rendell's novels.

Hostage by Kay Hooper.  Gun on the cover looks like a CZ-75.  Hard to tell with the weird photoshopping.

Morning Glory by Sarah Jio.  This cover looks real familiar.

A Sensible Christmas by Sherryl Woods.  This should have been here in October.  I'm not sure Christmas novels check-out in January.

Seven Deadlies by Gigi Levange.  "A cautionary tale."  Our regular print copy has never checked out.  Dang, I thought it sounded like a neat idea with a teen girl paid to babysit irresponsible rich teens.

Death of the Black-haired Girl by Robert Stone.  I really dislike hyphenated words.  Married college professor decides to quit relationship with student.  Trouble ensues.  Our regular print copy has gone out once.

NonFiction

Terra Maxima: the records of humankind edited by Wolfgang Kunth.  Bog book with big pictures of big things.

Shooter's Knives

NonFiction

The Breastfeeding Bible by Dr. Penny Stanway.  I was so sure we had recently bought a book on breastfeeding.  We did add one a year ago but I thought it was more recently purchased.  Dang, this is the sixth edition. 

Ask A Science Teacher: 250 answers to questions you've always had about how everyday stuff really works by Larry Scheckel.  I'm going to take this home for Boy #1. Page 13 says, " In 1900, Austrian doctor Karl Landsreiner found a basis for classifying human blood into four groups."

Dad's Expecting Too! by Harlan Cohen.  "Advice, tips and stories about the surprises, questions and joys ahead."  Oh, really.  Like how the kids stand on your head when you're in bed trying to sleep?

Freedom from Toxic Relationships by Avril Carruthers.  Avril is from Australia.  Where Australians live.  "A guide to leaving painful, destructive relationships behind - both at home and at work."

Pregnancy: the beginner's guide by Dorling Kindersly, Limited.  Dang, we're all about pregnancy books today.  Page 229 has a woman eating a bowl of fruit.

London's Secrets: Museums and Galleries by Robbi Atilgan and David Hampshire.  Couldn't you just throw a rock in the and see whatever historic place it lands on?  Probably, but the rock will not provide neat little reviews and photos.

Paris: 2014 by Eyewitness Travel.  Great travel guides. 

Crash and Burn by Artie Lange.  The latest autobio update by the comedian.  I assume he discusses his breakdown and suicide attempt. 

Financially Fearless by Alexa Von Tobbel, CFP.  Financial planning exercises to have a "realistic financial game plan tailored to your priorities, your dreams, and your lifestyle."

The Kick-Ass Writer by Chuck Wendig.  I cannot recall why I bought this.  I think I read a recommendation online.  No author photo but there is an index.

Defensive Revolver Fundamentals by Grant Cunningham.  According to the many photos Cunningham likes Ruger revolvers.

Extreme Bricks: spectacular, record-breaking, and astounding Lego projects from around the world by Sarah Herman.  The have that Lego house build by James May from Top Gear.  I watched that show.

Knives: 2014, 34th Edition edited by Joe Kertzman.  Woo-hoo!  These are great.  Page 125 says, "Geometric lines dominate the overall look of the CPM-154 frame-lock flipper folder, working off an Ikoma Korth Bearing System and sporting a titanium handle, pivot screws, spacers, thumb stud and pocket clip."

Shooter's Bible, 105th Edition by Skyhorse Publishing.  The CZ section does not list my PCR.  The webpage does.  Or, you could buy a Krieghoff shotgun for only $20,000.  Zoinks.

Two Rivers and a Crocodile

Fiction

Dead To Me by Cath Staincliffe.  Manchester UK detectives investigate murder of a teen girl.  Difficult to tell from the author photo if Staincliffe has red or brown hair.  The photo is kinda small, what's up with that?  Why post the author photo and make it super tiny?  Not like the inside back dustcover is filled with other information.  Staincliffe lives in Manchester.


Hazardous Duty by W.E.B.Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.  Another shoot'em up by the writing duo.  Page 209 says, "Castillo then turned to the women taking sun in lounge chairs beside the swimming pool."

River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz.  The inside covers have big, color photos of a vineyard.  Romance and mystery.

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol.  Paris woman's wife runs off with mistress to start crocodile farm in Africa.  Her wealthy, bored sister gets a publishing contract and asks her to write the novel.

Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah.  I just saw this cover somewhere else.  Beah wrote A Long Way Gone which was a big deal.  Beah's author photo on the back cover looks like a J. Crew catalog excerpt.

The Wind is Not A River by Brian Payton.  Journalist has fight with wife, goes to Aleutians to report on teh Japanese invasion, his plane is shot down, he has to survive while his wife worries.  Paytton lives in Vancouver and has greying hair.  His grey hair stays straight, I suppose he doesn't need haircuts as often as I.

Stack of Books on My Desk

Fiction

A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith.  Dang.  I don't think I ever heard about this, "The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons' graves in France."

Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini.  Daughter of Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury was a political and social rival of Mary Todd Lincoln.

Delivering Death by Julie Kramer.  Kramer lives in White Bear Lake.  White Bear Lake is named from an Indian Romeo and Juliet style tale with an attacking white bear.  Rowr!

Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell.  Did Cornwall write another novel about Englishmen killing Frenchmen?  Let's take a look... Nope, he's still doing Vikings versus Englishmen.  I cannot tell if this is a new story or continues a series.  Read it and let me know.

Death Trade by Jack Higgins.  Higgins "lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands".  The summer's there look fantastic.

Standup Guy by Stuart Woods.  These are ghostwritten, right?  There is a new one every four months or so.

Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow.  I did not like Homer & Langley but thought The Waterworks was fantastic.  I tried listening to The March but the audio file was corrupted and I did not finish the book.  Billy Bathgate was good.

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton.  I kinda missed the boat on this one because the novel came out further back in 2013.  But, Catton won the 2013 Booker Prize. Catton is from New Zealand.  New Zealand is relatively small so maybe regular blog reader Dunedin has met her.

Hollow City: the second novel of Miss Peregrine's peculiar children by Ransom Riggs.  Ransom uses old photos, or photos made to look old, or photoshopped photos and incorporates them into his story.  I watched a program on BookTV once about how dead children were often photographed and posed for families' to have an image of the kid.  I just searched the BookTV website and could not find the dang program.

First Love by James Patterson and Emily Raymond.  Cover has a picture of two people standing in water and locking lips.  Patterson cranks out novels all the time but I give the guy big credit for naming his co-authors and not hiding them behind a curtain.

Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.  According to a the sticker on teh cover this is part of "Oprah's Book Club 2.0".  Oh, yeah, Secret Life of Bees, I knew she wrote a big name novel. Kidd lives in Florida and has short hair.

Florida Stuff

NonFiction

Universal Orlando: 2014 by Kelly Monaghan and Seth Kubersky.  Harry Potter, The Simpsons, other tie-ins.  Photo page XVI says "Elephants frolic in the lobby courtyard."  Page 253 says "Specialty cocktails are in the $15 to $16 range."  Wow, comics books must pay better than everyone thinks, eh Victor Gischler?

Secrets of Walt Disney World by Dinah Williams.  Page 167 says, "The uniform coat room holds all the retired character costumes.  Sneak in via Tunnel #45-B and bring nose plugs."

I Made That Up by Slow Day.  Page 34 says, "35 minutes until I go home."

Fearless, Evil Genius Bastard's Furniture

NonFiction

Shooter's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship by Peter Lessler.  Guess who did not put an index in his book?  This guy.  Page 157 says, "This is quite an interesting topic, one probably worthy of its own book."

Real Mom Kitchen, 2nd Edition by Laura Powell.  Page 114 says, "6 flour tortillas."

Cheap Bastard's Guide to Seattle by David Volk.  There is a section for beer but not coffee.  My brother lives in Seattle.

Building Classic Arts and Crafts Furniture by Michael Crow.  "Shop drawings for 33 traditional Charles Limbert projects."  I check circulation numbers and DIY furniture building books check-out pretty well.

Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius by Donald Norris.  Raspberry Pi are little $40 computers you can buy and program to destroy the world.  Or, maybe just take over the Tri-State area.

Fearless Performance Reviews by Jeffrey and Linda Russell.  My feet are freezing.  I should bring some slippers or loafers to work.  My feet sweat when walking to work and then get cold when I get here.

52 Prepper Projects: a project a week to help you prepare for the unpredictable by David Nash.  Planning for the apocalypse.

Paleo Magazine Reader's Favorite Cookbook edited by Paleo Magazine.  Recipes.  Photos.

No Excuses: how you can turn any workplace into a great one by Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell.  Page 125 says, "What to do next."

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 6th Edition edited by George S. Cuhaj.  Phenning. Schilling. Kreuzer.  Rupee.  Abbasi.  Liretta.  Lirazza.  Kopek.

NonFiction Extravaganza: Digital Shoestring

NonFiction

Knock'em Dead: 2014 by Martin Yate.  "The ultimate job search guide."

Ceramic Tile by Cool Springs Press.  "How to install ceramic tile for your floors, walls, backsplashes, and countertops."

The Can't Cook Book by Jessica Seinfeld.  "100+ recipes for the absolutely terrified!"  Page 28 says, "Onion: How-to."

Woven to Wear by Marilyn Murphy.  "17 thoughtful designs with simple shapes." The model on page 106 seems very happy to be wearing her "Wabi Sabi Jacket".

The Loyal Union Sampler from "Elm Creek Quilts" by Jennifer Chiaverini.  A whole bunch of quilt designs.

The Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening: everything you need to know by Samantha Johnson and Daniel Johnson.  An FFA guide.  The others both live in Northern Wisconsin and, judging by the author photos, may be brother and sister.  Samanthan Johnson has Holland Lop rabbits.  Lop, lop, lop.

Quick and Easy Baby Knits: 21 Cute Comfy Projects by Sarah E. White.  They better be quick and easy if you expect someone with a baby to do the project.

Family Cookbook by Caroline Betherton.  A big book with "over 700 recipes" and lots of color photos.Pge 407 says, "Beat in the vanilla."

Taste of Home: home style cooking by Editor-in-Chief Catherine Cassidy.  Page 303 says, "Pickled Green Beans."  Seriously?

Digital Photography Masterclass by Tom Ang.  I could read this three times and doubt it will help me.  For example:

500 Quilt Blocks by Lynne Goldsworthy and Kerry Green.   A compact book with 288 pages.

Europe on a Shoestring written and edited by Tom Masters, et al.  Page 587 says, "Temple Bar, Dublin's 'party district', is almost always packed with raucous stag (bachelor) and hen (bachelorette) parties, scantily clad girls, and loud guys from Ohio wearing Guinness T-shirts.'

Insider's Guide to Chicago by Elisa Drake.  Page 198 says [something about architecture I won't bother to type.]

Off the Beaten Path: Michigan revised and updated by Jackie Sheckler Finch.  Page 202 says [something about Luce County.]

South America on a Shoestring written and researched by Regis StLouis, et al.Page 357 says, "Crime does exist in Olinda."  Bil Crider seems to have a lot of Peru related posts.

India written and researched by Sarina Singh.  My dad was invited to some math conference in India and they paid his way.  He said it was kind of a weird conference.  Something that was organized and put on to boost the university of institution by saying, "Hey, look at us, we have big-name weirdos - er, I mean mathematicians - coming all the way to India to see us because we are so great."

Warman's U.S. Coin and Currency Filed Guide: 5th Edition by Arlyn G. Siber.  Money.

Compost of Steel

DVD

Man of Steel starring Henry Cavill, CGI Flying, Amy Adams, CGI Flames, Kevin Costner, CGI destruction.  Amy Adams pretends to be someone else.  Superman destroys Gotham to save it.  Overly dramatic trailer with a CGI Russell Crowe.


NonFiction

Easy Compost edited by Niall Dunne.  When I think about gardening topics I don't think about Brooklyn.  This was done by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.  Page 64 shows a lady emptying garbage into an indoor composting bin.

3D PIlates Guitar

NonFiction

Guitar Theory for Dummies by Desi Serna.  Music books can be hit and miss but guitar topics tends to circ'.  Video demos are online, which is neat since DVDs and CDs are a drag to physically process with the book.

Spruce: a step-by-step guide to upholstery and design by Amanda Brown.  Make your own furniture.Lots of photos.  My couch really needs to be recovered.  We have not found any recommended upholsterers.  Project 4 is "three-seater tune-up" for couches.  Heck, I don't even have a sewing machine.

Ultimate One-Pot Cookbook by Jenni Fleetwood.  Because these cookbooks are popular.

Women's Health Big Book of Pilates: essential guide to total-body fitness by Brooke Siler.  Using resistance bands, steps, balls, and hand weights while wearing really tight clothes.

iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c: the fast and easy way to learn by Guy Hart-Davis.  A fat chance in heck I'll buy one of these.

3D Printing by Terence O'Neill and Josh Williams.  I'm thinking of buying one for the library.  I want to write up a proposal to ask local engineering and manufacturing firms if they would like to help cover the cost.

Makerspaces by Samantha Roslund and Emily Puckett Rodgers.  The hip and now thing for libraries to join.  Before this was Twitter and Facebook.  Before that was YouTube.  Before that was web pages.  Before that was VHS.  Before that was filmstrips.  Before that was microfilm.  Before that was papyrus. 

Human Body: Investigating an unexplained death by Andrew Solway.  Forensic medicine.

A World After: super-plague by Anne Rooney.  How it could or would happen.  Infection spreading, hospitals overwhelmed, vaccinations not forthcoming, riots, mad dogs, blood in the streets, religious fervor, looted liquor stores, feral cats, manic squirrels, everyone out of batteries.

Comic Book Fiction

Star Wars: lost Tribe of the Sith by John Jackson Miller.  The planet Kesh is home to the lost Sith tribe.  Female Sith do not like loose clothing.

Half-Off All Fines Today

Lansdale, The Dead Man, and Me

Musicians Play Music That is Recorded by Computer, the Music is Electronically Processed and Then Inscribed With Digital Designs Onto a Thin Metal Disc Sandwiched Between Plastic Layers

Restless by Kasey Lansdale.  Singers sings songs of country.  "Another Lansdale?" you say.  "Yeah," I say.  "Why not? We've got all of His Ownself's recent books.  We even have a movie his son did."  Here is Lansdale in Italy.  Lansdales, apparently, are big in Italy.



Fiction

The Dead Man: volume 6: Colder Than Hell: Evil to Burn: Streets of Blood by Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin, Anthony Neil Smith, Lisa Klink, and Barry Napier.  Latest print editions of the e-book originals.  Klink wrote an earlier Dead Man novella, Slaves to Evil.  I read that hoping it would stink and I could write Klink goes clunk.  But, the story was good, so I didn't.  Smith has a story in here that I've put off reading because I think the e-book stuff is a hassle.

Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon.  This is actually a kid's book.  But I already incorporated the book title into into the blog post title and I don't want to change anything.  Girl thinks a gator-man killed someone.


Wait a minute... Lansdale? Dead Man? Gator-man? This is like some weird Bill Crider sneak attack.

Two Musics, Two Nonfics

Melodies and Voices Purposefully Blended Together and Then Recorded

Wildewoman by Lucius.  Two girl singers sing songs of pop.  I think they might be hipsters.  They live in Brooklyn.  I cannot recall how I came to order this.  When looking them up I found a brief radio interview.


I Will Be Me by Dave Davies.  Guitarist plays songs and sings lyrics. I presume this song is about how he razored his amp to change the sound.



NonFiction

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: what everyone needs to know by P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman.  "Provide[s] the kind of wasy-to-read yet deeply informative resource book that has been missing on this crucial issue of 21st century life."

Hydrofracking: what everyone needs to know by Alex Prud'homme.  My cousin started a drilling services company and does a lot of work with hydrofracturing operations.  He was mentioning how the method is only worthwhile because oil and gas prices are high.  He said that about 1.5 years ago though, maybe extraction costs are down.

Musical Interlude Extra

I got to thinking about The Kinks.


One Davies sister moved to Australia.  They missed her.



I had thought David Watts was  joke about a guy dating another sister.  I just read a different story that was a pal of the band.  Heck if I know the truth, the sources are murky.



Last one.

Music Old and New

Voices and Sounds Created for Harmony, Recorded on Computers, Transferred into a Thin Data Disc Sandwiched into Plastic

Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Soundtrack with Coldplay, National, etc.  Song singers not mood music.


Frozen: Soundtrack by Kristen Bell, other cast members.  Singers sing songs from flick and mood music included.


The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground.  Weird people sing songs from long ago (1967) and far away (New York).


Shangri-La by Jake Bugg.  English singer sings songs, plays guitar, gets famous.


Prism by Katy Perry.  Singer sings songs of pop and pretends to roar.

Horror and Religion

DVD

Now You See Me starring [big names].  Magicians steal stuff and give it away.


The Family starring [more big names].  Mafia family moves to France and causes trouble.


Nothing Left to Fear starring Anne Heche and Clancy Brown.Family moves to small town Stull, Kansas and horror happens.  Did they really film this in Kansas?  I doubt it, let me check.  Nope, according to credits on IMDB they filmed in Louisiana.


Doctor Who, Series seven: Part Two starring [English].  Part One must be around here somewhere.


Fast and Furious 6 starring [same guys as before].  I watched the one set in Brazil and it was fun driving and smashing and crashing and tough-guy-talk.


One Direction This is Us starring [English kids].  Boy group gets filmed doing boy group things.


Our Town starring Paul Newman. others.  Stage production of the play.


Persuasion starring [English].  1995 BBC Films dramatization of the Jane Austin novel.  I never read the book.  I've never seen any of the movies.  I do like the Tim Finn song with the same title.  Good luck finding a YouTube clip with good audio.


NonFiction

Marijuana Legalization: what everyone needs to know by Jonathan P. Caulkins, et al.  "Provides readers with a non-partisan primer covering everything from the risks and benefits of using marijuana to the current laws, to the open scientific questions."

Understanding the Book of Mormon: a reader's guide by Grant Hardy.  Page 324 says, " Let me try to clarify what I am claiming here and elsewhere in the chapter."

What everyone needs to know about Islam: answers to frequently asked questions, from one of America's leading experts by John L. Esposito.  Page 36 says, "Muslims celebrate two great Islamic holidays."

Audiobook on CD

Cross my Heart by James Patterson.  9.5 hours on 8 CDs.  Something about a policeman and murderers.  This says Patterson lives in Florida. 

Erotic Eric's End

DVD

At World's End starring [Limeys]. Guys go on pub crawl.  Meet aliens.


Hangover, Part III starring [same people as last time].  Man, I never thought the first one was all that great.  Except for Heather Graham.


Dead in Tombstone starring Danny Trejo, Anthony Michael Hall, Mickey Rourke.  B-movie schlock that people like Bill Crider and Joe Bob Briggs live for.


We're the Millers starring [famous gal from Friends].  Guy has smuggle drugs in from Mexico.  Guy hires people to be his fake family.


Fiction

Behind the Plaid: an erotic novel by Eliza Knight.  I scanned through for the good parts but did not find them.

Eric of Aztalan by Ralph Milne Farley.  Five facsimile reprints from pulp magazines of the '30s. The Milney pen-name was by Roger Sherman Hoar.  The title story is from the January, 1939 issue of Golden Fleece.  Someone in town saw this, bought it, and gave it to the library.

Audiobooks on CD

A Mist of Prophecies by Steven Saylor.  9.5 hours on 8 CDs.  Saylor (no relation) continues his series about ancient Rome.

Murder as a Second Marriage by Joan Hess. 10 hours on 8 CDs.  Woman is asked by her husband to help in murder investigation.

Double Image by David Morrell.  15.75 hours on 13 CDs.  Photographer...memories... mystery... starlet... collide... eerily... life... killer..hell...identities...revenge...courage...gun.


Audiobooks on CD with Made-up Plots

Castles by Julie Garwood.  12.33 hours on 11 CDs.  Alesandra knew that...hasty marriage...could protect her from...a wildfire.


Nightmare Range by Martin Limon.  13 hours on 11 CDs. Young...detective...assigned cases...with...best behavior...crime.

Twilight Zone: radio dramas: volume 16 by [various].  4 hours on 3 CDs.  Experience... dramatized...celebrities.

Tenth Witness by Leonard Rosen.  9 hours on 8 CDs.  Engineering...in...1978...on a ship...developed by...Interpol.

Thorne by Lisa Jackson.  6.1666 hours on 5 CDs.  Family ranch...hospital...passion...affects...happy ending?

Happy Marriage Divorce

NonFiction

Stop Fighting Over the Kids: resolving day-to-day custody conflict in divorce situations by Mike Mastracci.  I rarely buy books from email solicitations.  I bought this after reading positive reviews.

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett.  "[Marriage as metaphor] Patchett has devoted her life to the people and ideals she loves the most."  Author photo has her in bookstore digging through boxes.

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a child, an elder, and the light from an ancient sky by Kent Nerburn.   Did I order this?  I have no idea what this is. 

A Reader's Book of Days: true tales from the lives and works of writers for every day of the year by Tom Nissley.  I ordered this, too?  No idea about this either.  Let me look... Snoopy wrote to Miss Helen Sweetstory on April 9, 1971.  In 2008, Will Heinrich said about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, "To call the dialogue wooden would be an insult to longbows and violins.  An yet, I had no trouble finishing the book - on the contrary, I raced through it, even while I disliked it, and myself for reading it."

Death of Santini: the story of a father and his son by pat Conroy.  If you read the book or saw the movie you know Conroy's fahter was a jerk-and-a-half.  Conroy's dad did not mind the result, he traveled with Conroy to book signings and was happy to sign autographs.  Here is something I just learned from the book, Pat Conroy has had some awful haircuts over the past 40 years.

Kaplan GED: 2014.  Brand spanking new study guide. 

Large Print

Command Authority by Tom Clancy.

Dust by Patricia Cornwell.

Innocence by Dean Koontz.

Literary Fiction Sex Demon

Fiction

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride.  McBride is wearing a hat for his author photo.  His bio says he graduated from Oberlin.  My brother toured there on a college trip and I went along.  I did not like the place.

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang.  Bestselling South Korean short novel about a chicken who leaves the farm to lay an egg in the forest. 

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford.  "Nice cover design" says Gerard.  "I live in Montana." says Mr. Ford's bio.

Brown Dog by Jim Harrison.  Not to be confused with Black Dog.


Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips. Phillips's bio says she has won a lot of awards.  Novel about a journalist in 1931 who works to help convict a murdering con man.

Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione.  Half-breed demon...assassin...earn freedom...on last kill...earthbound angel...handsome adversary...eternal chastity...passion...duty and desire.

The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten.  Lady comes home to find her mother murdered, her daughter missing, and a dead man clutching a Luger pistol.

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon.  Futuristic fantasy.  We own a lot of books with "bone" in the title.
Rag and Bone
Goliath Bone
Charlie Bone
Bone
Bone Bed
Winter's Bone
Rust and Bone
Give the Dog a Bone
Bone Vault

Jewelweed by David Rhodes.Wisconsin guy writes novel set in Wisconsin where it was this cold at 10:15 AM this morning.



Last Telegram by Liz Trenow.   Something about World War Two.

Death of the Black Haired Girl by Robert Stone.  Gerard says, "Married college professor ends affair with student."  Stone says, "Don't pull my beard."

Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson.  Gerard says, "Single mom falls for a guy who helps her during a robbery."  Joshilyn says, "No, s-h-i-l-y-n."

Margot by Jillian Cantor.  1959 and Anne Frank's older sister, Margot, survived Bergen-Belsen and lives unknown in Philadelphia.  Cantor's online bio says she loves coffee.  Good.

Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd.  Some sort of cozy mystery with a survivor of the Battle of Waterloo returning to his village in England.

Lies You Wanted to Hear by James Whitfield Thomson.  "Explores the way good people talk themselves into doing seemingly unthinkable things."  Thomson wrote his dissertation on Raymond Chandler and then writes literary fiction?  C'mon, man.

The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly.  Bootleggers in Mississippi.

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2013 edition edited by Rick Horton.  These are popular.

Heritage of Darkness by Kathleen Ernst.  Ernst did two programs at our library this past Spring.  The American Girl themed program (Ernst writes those books, too) drew a massive crowd.