Double Naked Plus a Kilt

Fiction

Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs.  Bodies, woods, laboratories, marriage proposal. Canadian content is unclear.

Scents and Sensibility by Spencer Quinn. According to the cover photo this is about dogs in Arizona. The summary on the dustcover says the same.

The Rumor by Elin Hildebrand. Don't we have this already? Nope, I guess I was thinking of the audiobook. Is Hildebrand from Milwaukee? I don't remember. Let's check...nope, she lives in Massachusetts.

Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith.

The Flicker Men by Ted Kosmatka. Scientist does something.  The summary is unclear.

Naked Greed by Stuart Woods. Your quarterly update.

Naked Eye by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.   Woman thinks serial killer was not executed and is out and about.

Large Print

NonFiction

Custom Crocheted Sweaters by Dora Ohrenstein. Kilt free with many nice photos and patterns.

Primates Avenue of Love

NonFiction

Primates of Park Avenue: a memoir by Wednesday Martin. I read a review that had snippets of an author interview. Martin moved into a high end NYC neighborhood. The local women were constantly jockeying and vying for social status and position. Martin used her anthropological training to analyze the people and figure how to insert herself into the pack.

Fiction

The Idea of Love by Patti Callahan Henry.  Widow sells her story to a screenwriter who needs a hit. Her story, and the screenplay, are not quite true.

New Items, Part Four

Fiction

Grey by E.L. James. The same stuff but told by the male character. Does this novel reflect the first Grey novel or the whole series? I'll wait for Bill Crider to read this novel and let the rest of us know.

NonFiction

Ubuntu Unleashed, 2015 by Matthew Helmke. How much of a computer guru does Helmke have to be to write something like this?

Casseroles by Sterling Publishing. No author or editor name on this.Seafood casserole? Sure, there is tuna, but also anchovies (page 59). Anchovies and sardines sound gross but the photos are fantastic.

Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, volume 17 by Jim Davis. Because children loooove Garfield.

New Items, Part Three

Fiction

Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos. I just read a review of this in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. The reviewer thought the book went on too long.

Those Girls by Chevy Stevens. Three sisters go on the run from an abusive dad, fall into trouble, change their names, trouble finds them 18 years later.

The Cherry Harvest by Lucy Sanna. Set during WWII in Door County, WI. No wonder it's gotten plenty of press in the Madison newspaper.

The Guest Cottage by Nancy Thayer. To-be-divorced woman rents a summer cottage. Things happen.

Code of Conduct by Brad Thor. A very bright yellow cover on this one. Page 187 says, "When he finished, the Old Man let out a long, low whistle."

The English Spy by Daniel Silva. Assassin hired to kill another assassin. Page 187, "He watched it turn into the road without a name."

New Items, Part Two

Audiobooks on CD

Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton. 5CDs at 6 hours. Sutton? I heard of that guy, he writes some of the Dead Man horror stories.

Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell. 9 CDs at 10 hours. Author wants to kill off a character readers love and the author is sick of.

Love May Fail by Matthew Quick.  10 CDs at 12 hours.  According to the author bio Mr. Quick lives in North Carolina. According to the descriptive summary this novel is about people doing things.

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith.  11 CDs at 12.5 hours.  This book is from 2008. I must have bought this on sale. The cover has a tie-in image for the forthcoming film version.

Fiction

Nemesis by Catherine Coulter.



Fateful Lightning by Jeff Shaara. 593 pages on General Sherman.

New Items, Part One

Fiction

Ideal: the novel and the play by Ayn Rand. Unpublished novel is not unpublished. Page 90 says, "A white cross flamed over the pulpit, on a black wall."

The Star of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson. I don't like the cover. Jackson was awarded the Maytag Fellowship at Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Fulbright sounds a lot better than Maytag. Maytag makes me think of the TV commercials. I have not idea what this book is about, you can read it and tell me. Jackson went to Cape Town with the Fulbright. I wonder if she met Roger Smith or Deon Meyer.

The Silenced by Heather Graham. So, this is a series? Krewe of Hunters? IF the FBI had as many special units as the novels pretend they'd need twice as many Agents.

Twice in a Lifetime by Dorothy Garlock.  Garlock lives in Clear Lake, Iowa. I'm trying to remember where that town sits. I'll look it up...okay, it's off I-35 by Mason City. Dillinger robbed a bank in Mason City.

Dinner with Buddha by Roland Merullo. There's a fat guy joke in that title but I cannot find it.

Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. A novel about manufacturing water jet cutters. Maybe. I don't know. The cover design makes this look like a computer thriller. The dustcover says it's a about drought and water battles in the future. I just read a random page and enjoyed what I saw.

The Man Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes. Her name is familiar, let's see what else she wrote...a whole bunch of books, none that I remember seeing before. I must be thinking of the Sammy Keyes childrens' series.

Let's See What We Have Here...

Well, Let Me Look...

Death of Dog Whisperer by Laurien Berenson.  Paperback mystery.

Cabin Fever: the sizzling secrets of a Virgin Airlines Flight Attendant by Mandy Smith. Page 234 says, "I should've headed to the nearest tube station after the meal."

The Dark Net: inside the digital underworld by Jamie Bartlett. Oooh, scary.  Page 155 says,"I had a market and a vendor."

A Tempered Faith: rediscovering hope in the ashes of loss by Jennifer Sands. Widow recovers from grief after 9/11.

Large Print

Another stack of books.

Mish-Mash of Books

Fiction

Black Rock by John McFetridge. Young cop in 1970 Montreal looks for a serial killer among the political and social upheaval. I think I picked this one out, it sure sounds like a book I would select. McFetridge has a mystery series set in Toronto. I always think of the Kids in the Hall opening when I think about Toronto



The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes.  Exploring... hidden... secrets... mysteriously  driven... tragic truth... shake her family to the core... impossible choice... inspired... atmospheric... poignant... determined... power.

Beneath the Bonfire by Nickolas Butler. The same guy who wrote Shotgun Lovesongs, which I never got around to reading. The cover is a kinda '70s style with yellow, red and orange colors. The dust jacket says Shotgun was an international bestseller. That's neat. I do have a shotgun but it's an old 16 gauge bolt action and I've never shot it.

Corrupted Memory by Ray Daniel. Guy finds a dead man on the front stoop. Dead Man looks like Guy's deceased father. Dead Man is a previously unknown half-brother to Guy. More things happen.

NonFiction

The Honored Society: a portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia by Petra Reski.  Should mafia be capitalized? I was griping to someone that this book has no photos at all. No mug shots, no surveillance shots, no courtroom scenes, no street scenes. No maps either. Page 173 says, "It was a classic Mafia marriage: Ninetta was from an old Corleone family, her brother was rising through the hierarchy. He had the honor of being murdered by his future brother-in-law."

NonFiction Action Pack!

NonFiction

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covery. Replacement. KAPOW!

The Yankee Commandante: the untold story of courage, passion, and one American's fight to liberate Cuba by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss. Ohioan goes to fight with Castro, realizes Castro is a bad dude, things go bad.  ZOOM!

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future by Ashlee Vance.  BANG!

What If? serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe.If two immotal people were placed on opposite sides of an uninhabited Earthlike planet, how long would it take them to find each other?  WHAM!

The Road to Character by David Brooks. Pundit writes book.  ZOING!

Gumption: relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemaker by Nick Offerman. Guy with facial hair writes book.  BOOM!

Youth Basketball Drills: 160 drills for skill development by Burrall Paye and Patrick Paye. ZIP!

Thug Kitchen: eat like you give a fuck by Thug Kitchen LLC.  WHANG!

Some Music

Musicians Perform, The Performance is Recorded, The Recording is Transcribed Onto A Medium Composed of Plastic and Metal

Cover Story by The Verbs.  Singers sing songs of Dave Clark. With guitars.




Emmaar by Tinariwen. North African Tuareg's sing Malian songs. With Guitars.



To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar. Californian sings songs of Californians. He also has a bone to pick. With guitars.



Public Service Announcement

With guitars.

New Fiction - Photo Version

Fiction
















NonFiction

More Photos: painting and programs

Painting

Exterior painting started earlier this week. The front doors were removed from the frames to sand and scrape off several years worth of varnish and dirt.

















Read, Rhythm, and Rhyme Storytime 

This is an excellent storytime we are running every Wednesday through Summer Reading.

More Fiction and Another Lansdale Novel

Fiction

Extricate by Graham Wynd. Here's a unique one, I saw this online and ordered it up.Man falls for a woman and starts removing obstacles to her love, starting with his wife.

Charlie Martz and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard. Unpublished stories by the writer who passed away in 2013.

Country by Danielle Steel. Steel continues her reign. Widow starts on a new life.

The Ultimatum by Dick Wolf. TV producer Wolf's last novel did well. Here is a sequel.

Wildfire in His Arms by Johanna Lindsey. Romance novel cover but the male model has his shirt on. With a hat. And a horse. I cannot tell if the horse is wearing a hat.

The Truth According to Us by Anne Barrows.  Rich young woman forced into Writer's Project job in 1938. Sent to West Virginia to write a city history.

Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale.  Fictionalization of cowboy and shootist Nat Love. The library also owns Lansdale's Black Hat Jack: the true life adventures of Deadwood Dick, as told by his ownself which has short stories about Love.

The Defenders of Shannara: The Darkling Child by Terry Brooks. Thirty years ago I read the first Shannara books. There must be another 50-60 since then.

Second Street Station: a Mary Handley Mystery by Lawrence H. Levy. I like the cover. Late 19th Century woman detective in New York City. Levy wrote for television and credits include Saved By The Bell and Seinfeld. Yeesh, what a contrast.

Blueprints by Barbara Delinsky.  Family turmoil with work trouble, sudden death and new love.

The Fixer by Joseph Finder. Man renovating his father's house finds millions of dollars hidden in the walls.

NonFiction

Tales From the Blue Line by Rob Riley.  Riley has written a series of piece for Crimespree Magazine about his time with the Milwaukee Police Department from 1971 to 2001. This collects 29 of those stories. 

Summer Reading Program Events

Summer Reading Program

Some photos from Monday afternoon's game and LEGO time, and Tuesday's Lunch with a Hero with Chief of Police Patrick Matuszewski and Sgt. Troy Oestreich.

Game On!

Lunch With A Hero

One of My Favorite New Songs

 Fiction

Copenhagen Connection by Elizabeth Peters. Originally published in 1982. This new paperback has a really nice cover illustration.
 
Musicians Musicalize Music on Music Discs

Music In Exile by Songhoy Blues. Malian singers sing music in Benin and move to London. The story with these guys is that extremists in Mali banned music and the band hoofed it.  How the heck do you stop music? And why? Another great tune I heard while listening to BBC 6 Music.



Audiobook on CD

Black List by Brad Thor. 10CDs at 12 hours. Spy guy shoot'em up. This is from 2012 but was a donation and we don't already have it.

Large Print

A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor. Victorian London.

Second Sister by Marie Bostwick. White House politics.

Sea Garden by Marcia Willett. Painting in Devon.

Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham.  Central park and Brooklyn.

Lillian on Life by Alison Jean Lester. Attack robots in Arkansas.  Just kidding.

Large Print, Music, Older Film

Fiction

Concrete Angel by Patti Abbot. Manipulative mother starts using her toddler son as a criminal accessory. Her grown daughter decides to step in. Library Journal gave it starred review. "What about Kirkus's review?" you ask. "Let's not talk about Kirkus," I say, read the book for yourself.

DVD

The Driver starring Ryan O'Neal and Bruce Dern.  Getaway driver is pursued by police detective. I used to study Roger Ebert's annual film guides and read all his old reviews. Ebert praised The Driver so I watched it and I enjoyed it. Someone online - maybe author Anthony Neil Smith - linked to an article about the screenplay and that got me thinking that people would enjoy watching this one.



Musicians Play Music That is Recorded, Mixed Together, and Embedded on Super Thin Layers of Metal That Are Then Sandwiched Between Layers of Plastic

Postcards from Paradise by Ringo. Singer sings songs of being Ringo. The title reminds me of a Mark Knopfler song.





Only Me by Rhonda Vincent. Bluegrass musician sings songs of bluegrass. We have another album of hers that has circ'ed well.



Now That's What I call Music! 53 by various. Now that's what I call singers singing songs.


Now That's What I call Music! 54 by various. Now that's what I call more singers singing songs.



Large Print

A Deadly Web by Kay Hooper. A book about things.

The Daring Exploits of a Runaway Heiress by Victoria Alexander. A book about more things.

Blueprints by Barbara Delinksy. A book about more and more things.

Piranha by Clive Cussler. A book about more and more and more things.

Finders Keepers by Stephen King. A book about more and more and more and more things.

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. A book about more and more and more and more and more things.

Cuba Straits by Randy Wayne White. A book about more and more and more and more and more and more things.

What I Love About You by Rachel Gibson. A book about more and more and more and more and more and more and more things.

Finders Keepers, Judy Blume

Fiction

Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave. Woman hears "explosive" secret from fiance and heads to family vineyard. Explosive.



In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume.  Woman returns to New Jersey home in 1987 to commemorate 1952. "Blume imagines and weaves together...generations of families...disasters...vivid portrait...Elizabeth Taylor haircuts...A-bomb hysteria...young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy."




Finders Keepers by Stephen King. No tunes come to mind.


Cash Landing by James Grippando. Broke restauranteur in Miami teams with others to rob an armored car of $7.4 million. No tunes come to mind, but how about this?

Wisconsin Books

NonFiction

Blue Men and River Monsters: folklore of the North edited by John Zimm. Oral history culled from the WPA's work in Wisconsin that run from 1935 to 1937.  Watertown was know for it's geese, "Cooked noodles are every day crammed down their throats by their owners, a wooden pestle being used for this purpose."

The Heart of Things: a Midwestern almanac by John Hildebrand.  Guy from Northwestern Wisconsin writes about the "humor and drama in everyday life." Page 97 says, "Floating down the North Fork one summer with my daughter in the bow, we spotted what appeared to be a dead fish at the bottom of a rocky pool. It was a sleeping catfish, long as my arm, and as our canoe passed overhead it slowly tail-finned into deeper water. Late this afternoon when I reach the rocky pool, I'm a little disappointed to find the sleeping catfish isn't there."

Little Hawk and Lone Wolf: a memoir by Raymong C. Kaquatosh. Lonely nine-year-old Menominee boy befriends a timber wolf in the '30s. He grows up, goes to war, gets a job, and the wold is still around.

Putting Down Roots: gardening insights from Wisconsin's early settlers by Marcia C Carmichael. Gardening history with lots of pretty pictures from Old World Wisconsin.

Blaze Orange: whitetail deer hunting in Wisconsin by Travis Dewitz.  Photo book of hunting up north.

Perimeter: a contemporary portrait of Lake Michigan by Kevin J. Miyazaki.  Portraits of people who live and work around the lake with interspersed two-page photos of the water.

More Nonsensical Commentary

DVD

Blackhat starring Chris Hemsworth. There is an actor in here named, get this, Yorick van Wageningen. Michael Mann made this one. I like Mann's films but this computer hacker stuff just seems silly.



Interstellar starring [famous actors]. Someone the other day said they liked this. Did you ever watch the Los Angeles police show Mann did a few years ago? Robbery Homicide Division? That was a good program but only lasted for one season at ten episodes.



Outlander: season one, volume one starring [people]. Sold in two volumes so that you have to pay twice to get a full season.  This is unrelated to that awful swords and aliens film series.



Fifty Shades of Grey starring [other people]. Woman meets uber-rich guy who wears ties. Or something. I don't know, I never read those books.


Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley What's the big deal about Cumberbatch? I don't get it.



Wild starring Reese Witherspoon. Woman gets upset and goes hiking. I think that sounds like a decent plan. What I do not agree with is writing an entire book about a huge hike and not printing one stinking picture.

Movies I Missed Ordering

DVD. What can I say? I missed'em.

Unbroken starring Jack O'Connell. You ever seen that David Bowie POW movie, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence? I should try watching that again.

American Sniper starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. Is the baby prop as awful as commenters said?

Hunger Games Mockingjay, Part One starring Jennifer Lawrence, many others. Girl with arrows shoots arrows at people.

The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies starring Hobbits, Elves, Orcs, one dragon, one Dark Lord. Neil Finn did a tune for one of these things. The premiere was in Wellington. I just looked at a map and Wellington is on a small peninsula. Google Maps says it is a 12.5 hour drive from Dunedin. Oof. That's a long haul. Taking the train is a two day trip.

Audiobooks

Audiobooks on CD and Stuck in Plastic Travel Cases

Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich. 7 CDs at 7 hours. Characters do something and other things happen.

Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly. 6 CDs at 6.5 hours.  Doriem Kelly went to Michigan. That's a black mark.

The Grand Finale by Janet Evanovich.  5 CDs at 5 hours.  More people doing things.

Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews.  12 CDs at 15 hours. No disc count or time listed on the cover. I found that info in the catalog. I also found a brief plot description of "in an attempt to find themselves, three friends vacation at a beach house." Yeah, good luck with that.

Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson.  11 CDs at 13 hours. The Lusitania is most famous, of course, for being the passenger cruiser with an awful name.

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Directive by Eric Van Lustbader.  12 CDs at 14.5 hours.  Spies spy.

Large Print

Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton. Cover image has a woman covering her eyes.  Really? That's your best effor?

NonFiction

Entrepreneurship: create your own business with 25 projects by Alex Kahan. This is a kids book. I'll reclass this dude for the children's collection.

Good News, Another John Farrow Novel.

Fiction

The Storm Murders by John Farrow. Recently retired Montreal Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is called to a consult on double murder case. Fourth entry in a great series.

I read City of Ice when it came out in 1999 and thought it was great. Ice Lake was also good. I have no idea about River City because there was no darn U.S. release. I've not hunted long to find a used copy, the one I did see was quoted at $2,796.72. That seems a bit high.

More Fiction, Volume Two

Fiction

Off the Page by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer. Is this the daughter-mom duo? Let me check...yes, it is. The dual bio on back says van Leer is in college. I wonder if they timed the release so that she could do promotion during summer. Then again, they'd be doing promotion well before hand to prep the release, right? I ask because I don't actually know.

Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy.  This one sounds familiar.  Let me check...nope, I was mistaken. This is about hidden maps used for the Underground Railroad. Yes, as a child I did wonder how they built all those underground train tunnels, and where the engine smoke went to.

Patriot Threat by Steve Berry. I wonder where Berry lives. Let me check...the book does not say, I will not look it up. Ex-spy chases after stolen documents in Europe. 

Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf. Haruf sets another novel in small town Eastern Colorado.  Haruf died in 2014. Did someone finish this for him?  Let me see...it doesn't say. I presume he finished the book before he died.

Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker. Does this have one of those black-and-white author portraits that Barker's husband does? Let me see...Nope, it's a color photo and says "Courtesy of the author." Dang, I must have seen that B&W photo on an old book because there were lawsuit issues between those two in 2012.

What Burns Away by Melissa Falcon Field. I'm not sure what this is about. Sounds like some deeply depressed woman is self-destructive. I wonder where Field is from.  Let's see...Huh. She lives in Madison.  It also says she spends her summer in Maine. I went to Maine once.

NonFiction

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.  I always mix up McCullough with James M. McPherson. McPherson is 3 years younger at 78-years-old. Where does McClullough live? I do not know, let's see...McCullough lives in an underwater lair under the coast of Jamaica and he directs his minions using a radio transmitter hidden within a buoy.

More Fiction, Volume One

Fiction

Seveneves by Neal Stevenson. Some sort of SciFi thing. I've not read his other books.

Worm by Anthony Neil Smith. Newcomer to the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota runs into trouble. Of course he runs into trouble, it's a Smith novel.

Radiant Angel by Nelson DeMille. I think it would be funny if someone screwed up the title as Radian Angle and it went to print that way.

Double Down by Fern Michaels. One of her Sisterhood books. The same author photo with Michaels on a couch with her dogs. Michaels philanthropy is impressive.

Piranha by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Another Cussler novel, another cover with flames and boats.

The Jesus Cow by Michael Perry. Farmer has a cow bearing bearing the image of Jesus. Laughter ensues.

I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter.  Hunter writes about Jack The Ripper. I guess he won't add in his usual Remington .308 sniper rifle with it's 168 grain boat tail sniper hard as nails sniper GRRRRR! stuff.

Uprooted by Naomi Novik. This needs a "New" sticker. Hey! Novik is married to the great Charles Ardai, founder of Hard Case Crime!

NonFiction

Find the Good: unexpected life lessons from a small-town obituary writer by Heather Lende.  Page 47 says, "He decalred he wasn't going to hassle with any so-called inflatable suspenders."

Artful Canary Cats

Mysteries

Li'l Tom and the Pussyfoot Foot Detective Bureau: the case of the Parrots Desparecidos by Angela Crider Neary. Some sort of cat mystery, alligator presence is undetermined. I used to check out her blog that had photos of spots in the Bay Area. I cannot find that site but she has some on Facebook.


Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths. Norfolk England with a dead guy in a WWII era fighter plane.

Ming Tea Murder by Laura Childs.  Childs has three mystery series. Huh. She must have fans pestering her for more books because that's a lot of books to write.

Tail Gait by Rita Mae Brown. I refuse to list a cat as co-author. This cover has a silhouetted cat holding a cheer pom-pom. I kinda recall doing a silhouette art project in elementary school.

I Need A Coffee by Give Me A Minute.




Canary by Duane Swierczynski. I've always enjoyed Swizziricivxz's books. An Honors Student is forced into being confidential informant for the police and she runs into trouble. Everyone in Swizxixiccxz novels run into trouble.

NonFiction

Bound: over 20 artful handmade books by Erica Ekrem.  And yet this is a paperback. Page 85 says, "Draw the needle out through sewing station 5."

54 Discs of Talk

Audiobooks on CD

The Bridge by Robert Knott. 6 CDs at 7.5 hours. Robert B. Parker's characters Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch do something. I'm not sure what they do because the description on the cover is really vague.

Motive by Jonathan Kellerman.  9CDs at 11.5 hours. Some guys named Milo and Alex solve crimes.

Natural Born Heroes: how a daring band of misfits mastered the lost secrets of strength and endurance by Christopher McDougall. 11 CDs at 14 hours. Story about a resistance group on wartime Crete.

The Assassin by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. 9 CDs at 10.5 hours. A horse drawn fire wagon does something.

Last One Home by Debbie Macomber. 9 CDs at 10.5 hours. Sisters grow up, sisters fight, sisters reconcile.

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. 10 CDs at 12 hours. Reminds me of this:

Fiction Photo

Fiction

Large Print Photo

Large Print

International Edition

Norwegian Dude

Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by Per Petrterson.  Short stories in a tiny book that is 61mm high.  Page 57 says, "No one called him Fatso to his face."

Australian Woman

Whiskey and Charlie by Annabel Smith.  Two very different twins and one of them has bad accident. Uninjured twin wonders how he will get along without his brother. Page 242 says "And they're both full."

New Jersey Lady

Seeing Like A Rover: how robots, teams, and images craft knowledge of Mars by Janet Vertesi. Dustcover says: Every photo from Mars is "processed, manipulated, and interpreted - and that comes after team members negotiate with each other about what they should be taking photographs of in the first place. 

Turkish Gal

Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak.  12-year-old is an animal tamer in 1540 Istanbul. He apprentices with an architect. I think this one sounds interesting, but Page 424 says, "The entourage entered a cobbler's workshop."

Huh. Shafak's note says she wrote the novel in English and it was first published in Turkey. Was it published in English or Turkish? If in Turkish did Shafak do the translation?

California Woman

Butternut Summer by Mary McNear.  Girl home from college works for her mom and gets new boyfriend.  Page 412 says "Minneapolis...bank...is...like an albatross.:

Local Color

Local Color

Farmer's Market
Commons Park - across the street from the library - hosted the first Farmer's Market of the year on Wednesday. I took some photos with my fancy computer box telephone.

Dunedin, you might have candied popcorn down there.  Kettle corn is popcorn with a sugar coating. There was a guy - he was absent Wed. - who brings a trailer with a large copper cooking kettle and he'll mix in the sugar as the popcorn popped up.








There are always several cheese vendors.








Puzzle Table
Staff put this table in our magazine room and I declare that it was a good idea.





Donation check
Lake Mills Market sponsors a "Round Up" program every other month. The Round-Up allows customers to round their final bill up to the next dollar and that amount of change goes to a local organization. The Round Up earned $4,504.01 for the library's Summer Reading Program.

The lighting in this kinda makes it look like I and Mitch, store owner to the far right, are photoshopped in.


Little Free Library
Someone on north Main Street put up a Little Free Library. I guess this one is not an official Little Free Library since it is not on the organization's map. But, that map is missing at least one other one that was installed a couple years ago.

Fifteen Novels

Fiction

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison. I've not read one of her books.

Garden of Lies by Amanda Quick. No relation to Amanda Huggankiss.

Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell.   Cover is blue and yellow. I approve.

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy. Flournoy worked at the D.C. public library. According to the book bio. I don't know personally know her so I'll have to trust the bio.

Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight. I don't know her either.

Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose. Or her.

The Liar by Nora Roberts. Or her.

Memory Man by David Baldacci. Him either.

Bone Tree by Greg Iles. Never met him.

Early Warning by Jane Smiley. I don't even know what she looks like.

Perfect Match by Fern Michaels. For all I know she lives in a bunker under the Sonoran Desert.

Beauty's Kingdom by Anne Rice (writing as A.N. Roquelaure). Not her, either.

Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg. Nope.

Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottline. Hey! I think I- nope, never met her.

NonFic and Mystery

Adult NonFiction

H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald. This was a best seller in England. Woman's father dies and she tries to train a Goshawk. No photos.

A Curious Mind: the secret to a bigger life by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman. "Bigger life"? What the heck is that supposed to mean? Movie producer chats with "interesting and accomplished strangers."

Missoula: rape and the justice system in a college town by Jon Krakauer. So, basically, a lot of towns and universities do a crap job of investigating and prosecuting rapes, and the victim gets slimed by public opinion. Krakauer shows this by writing about victims in Missoula, MT.

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies by David Fisher. "A fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know."


Mystery Writers of America Cookbook edited by Kate White. Really? Hey, let's check for my favorites...

• Bill Crider? No.
• Victor Gischler?  No.
• Anthony Neil Smith? No.
• Phillip Kerr? No.
• Stuart Neville? No.
• Megan Abbott? No.
• Mickey Spillane? No.
• Max Allan Collins? Yes.
• Jens Lapidus? No.
• Lee Goldberg? No.
• David Levien? No.
• Ed McBain? No.
• Lawrence Block? Nope.
• Steve Hockensmith? Nada.
• Lemony Snicket? Nix.

I give up.

Mysteries

Postman Always Purls Twice by Anne Canadeo.  One of those cozies with cats and knitting. 

Aunt Dimity and the Summer King by Nancy Atherton. I like the cover. Page 109 says, "Bess was...turned...entirely...but...idle gossip...revive...recall...children."

Falling in Love by Donna Leon.  Latest in the series with an Italian policeman.  Page 88 says, "Whipped...again...they appeared...speaking...in a children's game...he ignored."

Bittersweet by Susan Wittig Albert. Wittig? Is that German? I should look it up.  According to the bio Albert writes another series with her husband.  Also, according to the bio, Albert should be Dr. Albert.  Professor Albert? Well, maybe Professor is only used if the person is emeritus. I should look that up, too.

Gathering Prey by John Sandford. According to this bio Sandford moved to New Mexico.

Death Wears a Beauty Mask: and other stories by Mary Higgins Clark. Clark has been publishing since 1956. These stories span from 1958 to 2015. Mary Higgins Clark has never received the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

No New Books? Panic!

Panic


New Books

Our cataloger returns today. Be patient.

Nine Days Since the Last Post

And nothing new to write about.

Photos from our Altered Books Program.

Participants really liked this two night program.

Run For Your Lives, Gischler Has Returned.

Fiction

Sally of the Wasteland by Victor Gsichler and Tazio Bettin.  Post-apocalyptic action and humor.  Through the wonders of the internet I learned last week that Gischler had a warrant issued for his arrest. He was charged with not paying a traffic ticket. Gischler paid the ticket and has an online payment record. Okay, that can happen. What was surprising is when four, maybe more, people commented that they or a relative had the same thing happen and they were arrested and stuck in jail. Dang, that is not good.

Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo. 1963 Cuba and a woman tells about her time during the Third War of Independence from Spain.

Bunch of Large Print and Audiobooks with Two - That's Right 2! - Quarry Novels

Audiobooks on CD and Large Print

Yes, that picture is very blurry. No, I am not going to take another photo.



Quarry Novels

I've always enjoyed Max Allan Collins's Quarry novels. I'm listening to one of the Mike Hammer novels Mickey Spillane gave to Collins to finish up. I like it.

Just Found a Stack of Items In the Staff Workroom

Fiction - With unrelated commentary.


The Angel of Court Affair by Anne Perry. When it came out that Perry was one of the girls convicted of that infamous 1954 murder in New Zealand it also came out that the other teenager involved, Pauline Parker, now lived a short way away from Perry in England.

Blood on the Snow by Jo Nesbo. Anthony Neil Smith likes these Norwegian books. I'm not sure why I always remember this.

Miracle at August by James Patterson Amalgamated Writer Industries and Peter de Jonge. de Jonge is a cool name.

At The Water's Edge by Sara Gruen. Gruen? Did I read one of her books? Let me see... nope, she did that novel about elephants or something.

Children's Crusade by Ann Packer.  Back to Anne Perry: how do you reconcile yourself with your actions as a murderer.  Perry and Parker were in a obsessive relationship and, to me, could have been mentally ill. 70 years on both Perry and Parker must still be reminded most days of the killing.  Each time they see a grouchy teenager with a parent. Maybe Parker wishes she could talk to her mother once again.

The Dead Play On by Heather Graham. Do you think Perry and Parker have flashbacks?  Maybe a smell that generates a memory?  There must be plant and animal smells unique to NZ that are rarely found in England.

Sisters of Heart and Snow by Margaret Dilloway. There is a scent that immediately reminds me of frequent childhood visits to a family member's home in Dallas. I smell it every now and again. When I went to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico the cabin used to teach tying fly fishing flies was thick with that scent.

NonFiction - With More Commentary

Effortless Healing: 9 simple ways to sidestep illness, shed excess weight, and help your body fix itself by Dr. Joseph Mercola.  The dust jacket says Mercola is a passionate advocate... champion... visionary. How is Mercola pronounced? It makes me think of Meerkats and Coca-Cola.

Large Print - Even More Commentary

West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan.  I am a robot. Beep, beep, beep.

Wicked Ways by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush. Two people write one book.

Sometimes the Wolf by Urban Waite. Attacks at night with sharp, gnashing teeth. You'll defensively raise your arms but your efforts are in vain. You will be eaten alive.

The Trouble With J.J. by Tami Hoag. Is that he keeps leaving the lights on. His electric bill must be insane.

Emma, Gourmet Warlord

NonFiction

American Warlord: a true story by Johnny Dwyer. In 1991 Florida teenager Chucky lived with his mother and step-father outside Orlando. He received a call from his biological father, Charles Taylor, Liberian President. Chucky flew over to visit, joined his father's government, and started "committing crimes that stunned even his brutal father." When the Liberian government collapsed Chucky tried to come back to the U.S.

DVD

Jackie Chan 8 Film Collection: Battle Creek Brawl: City Hunter: Crime Story: Magnificent Bodyguards: Police Story: Police Story 2: Dragon Fist: The Protector. starring Jackie Chan.




Tusk starring Michael Parks Justin Long.  Some kind of horror movie about a walrus man in Canada.



Fiction

Emma by Alexander McCall Smith.  Modern telling of the old story.

Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter.  Historical thriller in 1837 India.  Bernard Cornwell says he liked it.

Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova. Genova? That's a familiar name.  I'm not sure why.

Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon. Spying and political intrigue in 1949 Berlin. I watched the film version of A Good German, it was a good flick.

The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle. The plot description on the dust cover uses the word inamorata. Really? I'll admit to sometimes trying to find the perfect word. But, really? Inamorata?

Killer Gourmet by G.A. McKevett.  Mystery novel with food.

Hot Pursuit by Stuart Woods. Another one.

Compulsion by Allison Brennan. Reporter investigates accused killer.

Big 150.5 Hour Pile of Audiobooks

Audiobooks on CD

A vendor had a big sale so I bought a bunch of audiobooks.

Target Lancer by Max Allan Collins. 7 CDs at 8.5 hours. Collins's Nathan Heller gets involved in another big historical event. Good mysteries set within actual events. Heller gets involved in the Kennedy assassination.

Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen.  10 CDs at 12 hours. Some sort of mystery with people.

Kiss Her Goodbye by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. 7 CDs at 8.5 hours.  Another collaboration between Spillane's unfinished manuscripts and Allan's finishing fingers.  Mike Hammer finds trouble and causes more trouble.

Standup Guy by Stuart Woods.  6 CDs by 7.5 hours.  Another Woods mystery. You know the drill.


Taking Eve by Iris Johansen. 9 CDs at 10 hours. One of those Eve novels by Johansen.

Hunting Eve by Iris Johansen. 9 CDs at 11 hours.  Another one of those Eve novels by Johansen.

Capitol Murder by Phillip Margolin.  8 CDs at 9.5 hours.  A PI and an attorney are in a thriller novel.

The Forgotten by David Baldacci.  12 CDs at 12.5 hours.  Super cop investigates his aunt's murderin Florida.


The Innocents by David Baldacci.  10 CDs at 12.5 hours.  Hitman on the run takes in a 14-year-old runaway as they both run from bad guys.

The Hit by David Baldacci. 10 CDs at 12 hours. The same hitman does something else with other hitman who is a hitwoman.

Total Control by David Baldacci. 14 CDs at 17 hours. Thriller with a woman involved in search for her missing husband.

Back Fire by Catherine Coulter. 10 CDs at 11.5 hours.  FBI investigates trial with a shot judge and a distracted prosecutor.

Sleight of Hand by Phillip Margolin.  7 CDs at 8 hours. Some guy is a attorney, con man, and hired killer.

After Dark by Phillip Margolin.  9 CDs by 10 hours.  Judge gets killed, prosecutor is prosecuted, defense attorney defends.

Rejoice! A new David Levien novel.

Fiction

Signature Kill by David Levien. Former Police Officer Frank Behr solves more crimes in Indianapolis.

Tortured Souls: the legend of Primordium by Clive Barker. Reprint of 2001 novella by Barker.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver. Stories by the famed short story writer. Was this a donation? It is certainly not a new book.

NonFiction

Helping Your Anxious Child, second edition by Ronald M. Rapee, Ph.D., et al.  10 percent of children have excessive fears and worries - phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder - that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood.

My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease by Claudia Black.  Discussing alcoholism with young children.

An Elephant in the Living Room by Jill M. Hastings, M.S. and Marion H. Typpo, Ph.D. Like the above, how children of alcoholics live with the situation.

Large Print

The Stranger by Harlan Coben.

Patriot Threat by Steve Berry.

Chasing Sunsets by Karen Kingsbury.

House Broken by Sonja Yoera.

Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell.

Falling From Horses by Molly Gloss.

First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen.

The Rose Effect by Graeme Simision.

Part Two: Bullet Rebellion Love Song

Fiction

The Bullet by Mary Louise Kelly.  Woman goes to doctor appointment for wrist pain and they find a bullet in her neck. Woman was adopted as a child after she was wounded and her parents murdered.

Cavendon Women by Barbara Taylor Bradford. I have a lot of trouble typing the author's name.

Some is Watching by Joy Field-. I think that says Joy Fielding. But, There is a label covering up part of the name I don't want to check the cover.

Love Letters by Beverly Lewis.

The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson.  At least I think it is Cynthia. Her name is also covered by a spine label.

Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce.Cover image is a woman on a beach.

Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber. That is a long title.

Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik. I like the cover.

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson. Cover is similar to Dark Rooms.

The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell.

The Precious One by Marisa de los Santos. The cover makes this look like a YA novel. Aquamarine cover with just the title words in a typewriter font.

Part One: Coben's Murder Dreams

Fiction

The Stranger by Harlan Coben. Bill Crider linked to an interview with Coben. COben doesn't work at home because he gets distracted by house and home issues.  He'll go to the grocery store coffee shop.

Murder on the Champ De Mars by Cara Black.  Another murder in Paris. Page 54 says, "A pang hit her." Sweet! the end papers have city maps.

The Edge of Dreams by Rhys Bowen. Rhys is a guy's name, right? Let me check...nope. Rhys is a woman.  Hey, Bowen was been awarded an Edgar, and Anthony, and a Agatha award. That means Bowen's books are a big deal.

Life or Death by Michael Robotham. I like this guy's novels but have not read one in a while.

The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons. I like this guy's novels, too. Another historical novel mixing real people with characters.

Non Fiction

Understanding Your Cat or Kitten by H. Ellen Whiteley, DVM. One of the cats living in my house, Vampire Fang, has been hassling the dog, Petra. I think the cat is jealous that Petra gets to go outside. Vampire Fang will hover by the back door and bolt outside if you are not watching. My wife and I will holler at the children, "Don't let the cat out!"

Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Son: the Don Rosa Library Vol. 1. Republished comics in a nice big hardcover. Page 62 says, "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

Large Print

Cold Betrayal by JA Jance. Same as the regular print with BIG LETTERS.

One Book. Several Photos. A video.

NonFiction

102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum by Cathy Duffy.  Nice cover.

Photographs

The outside wall of the stage in Library Hall was stenciled by Jill Kessenich who donated her time and expertise to the project. Jill also designed the library remodel.



Outdoor ice skating rink in Commons Park the night of February 18, 2015. There was a cold front, temp was -9 Fahrenheit. That's -22 Celsius, Dunedin.





I do not recall if I posted this video of February's Knickerbocker Ice Festival. The weather was perfect. Cold enough for ice and snow but warm enough, and no wind, to be comfortable outside.

Quarterly Issue by James Patterson

Fiction

Endangered by C.J. Box.  Joe Pickett solves crime in WY or MT. I'm note sure. You'll have to check the setting yourself. Maybe ND? I hear Box is a good dude.

Cold Betrayal by J.A. Jance. Some sort of mystery.

NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson Amalgamated Writing Services and Marshall Karp.  Karp is an uncommon name. Karp sounds like the name of a P.I. in a novel, good thing Karp writes P.I. novels.

A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear.  Judging by the photo this is a wartime novel set on Gibraltar.

Last One Home by Debbie Macomber.  The cover photo says "Expensive gazebo I never use." The graphic artist says, "I'm gonna add some lanterns to this sucker. And here is another. And another. And another. Aw, heck, why stop now?"

The Assassin by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. No matter where a Cussler novel is set the cover will be covered in flames.

Forgiveness 4 You by Ann Bauer. The cover says Bauer wrote The Forever Marriage.  I never heard of that book but will look it up in out catalog. Yeah, we don't have it but copies are available from other libraries.

Mrs. Grant and Madame Julie by Jennifer Chiaverini. Another Civil War era novel, I suppose.  Yeah, kinda. Grant's wife owned a woman who was also her "best friend". Yeah, well...

World Gone By by Dennis Lehane.  Crime and mobsters in 1943 Miami.

Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.  Big name literary guy's latest novel.  Ooh, dig the map on the end papers.

NonFiction

Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. More non fiction by the popular Larson.  Sweet, more maps in the end papers.

Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: committee study of the Central Intelligence Agency's detention and interrogation program by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. 

Big Words

Large Print

Makin' Miracles by Lin Stepp.

Searching for Grace Kelly by Michael Callahan. Found her.

Marriage Charmer by Linda Lael Miller.

Shocking Secret of a Guest at the Wedding by Victoria Alexander.

Dead Heat by Allison Brennan.

The Assassin by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.

Mightier Than The Sword by Jeffrey Archer.

3D Printer Workshop

3D Printing: You Path to World Domination

Hey, Dunedin, is 3D printing a popular library thing in NZ? The printers get a lot of "gee whiz, that's amazing!" attention. The printer is very neat but children then need to learn how to use computer software packages to create the items.

I explained how the printer works and is set-up. We used a mobile computer lab to show the simple online design resources at tinkercad.com and design some objects.

La La La

Singers Sing Songs, Microphones Help Record, Factories Press Plastic

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 by [various musicians). Singers sing soundtrack singles.


The Man Upstairs by Robyn Hitchcock.

Extreme Whiplash, Girl

DVD

WWE Extreme Rules starring [big dudes].  Big dudes jump around, do athletic stuff, and gets smooshed.


Gone Girl starring Ben Affleck, I still have not read the book. I read Flynn's other two books and really enjoyed the Kansas one, Dark Places. That's a movie now, too, except it was filmed in Louisiana.


Whiplash starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons. Drummer has a mean teacher. Drummer?

Romance from Lorelei James

Fiction

Saddled and Spurred by Lorelei James. Lorelei James is the same as Lori Armstrong but with sex and romance.  James's novels always check out well. I chatted with Armstrong at the Bouchercon conference in St. Louis. I'm not sure if she is still writing mysteries and thrillers, she had publisher trouble a couple years ago.

EDIT: Yeah, Armstrong still writes her Judy Collins mystery series and published a novella last year. Her Mercy Gunderson mysteries did well here. Trio link.

I Heard One of These Guys on the Radio

Fiction

A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott. Not this lady.

Empire by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard. Not them.

Revenant by Kat Richardson. Not her. But, her books do well here and she attended Murder and Mayhem in Muskego/Milwaukee a couple times.

Descent by Tim Johnston. Not this guy.

A Murder of Magpies by Judith Flanders. Not her. Nice cover though.

The Murder Man by Tony Parsons. This guy. I heard this guy on the radio. You can listen yourself, if you like.

NonFiction and Regulars

NonFiction

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan and illustrated by John Rocco.  Greek myths as told by Riordan's Percy Jackson character.

Reads Well With Others by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes.  Collection of the daily comic strip, Unshelved. Like this: 

Yoga for Runners by Christine Felstead.  Page 69 says, This imbalance creates a torquing action in the knee, which pulls the kneecap and twists it to the side so the patella no longer tracks as it should; over time this crates pain and wears down the cartilage around the knee.

Fiction

Prodigal Son by Danielle Steel.

In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels.

Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke.

Hush by Laura Lippman.

Mightier Than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer.

J.D. Rhoades Will Be Happy

Fiction

Devil's Dust by J.D. Rhoades. When Rhoades isn't posting on Facebook he is lawyering. When he's not lawyering he's writing novels. When he's writing novels he's writing this from page 215, "If I go in there,' Keller said, 'What Are you going to do?"

Easy Death by Daniel Boyd. I read this book and enjoyed it. Bill Crider read it too.  Armed robbers in 1951 Ohio battle a blizzard.

Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King. Dreaming of spies, or spies who are dreaming?  Let's see what page 57 has to say about it, His search left Holmes, as one might expect, unconvinced. Well, that clears up nothing.

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. A popular book group book. So, I bought a copy.

The Walking Dead, Volume 22: a new beginning by Robert Kirkman.  I have not watched the show past the first few episodes of season two.

You Could Be Home By Now by Tracy Manaster.  I think this is about a miscarriage. The dustcover is unclear.  Page 191 says, It should have been.

NonFiction

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and John Holdren. Replacing an older edition. This yellow cover will not age well.

The Homeschooling Handbook by Lorilee Lippincott. Another replacement of an old edition.

No-Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.  I think I ordered this off an online recommendation. Or not.

Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. An older book but Ramsey's advice is popular.

Body Sculpting Bible for Women: workout journal by James Villepigue and Hugo Rivera. This series has been going for over a decade and is still popular. The women's versions check out more than the men's so I bought this one.I should have skipped buying this since it is designed as a journal for a single user to record their progress. Over half the pages are blank forms.

Oops, Missed One

Fiction

If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie.  I feel bad about missing this book in my last post. I go on record with my deepest apologies to Mr. Christie. It is well know that he is not only a great author but a great man.

• It's no surprise that Mr. Christie is often referred to as "the greatest living writer in that house over there."  
• Mr. Christie's touch has been documented as a possible cure for Poison Oak.
• A casual glance by Mr. Christie can turn a sad dog happy.
• Mr. Christie climbed Mount Everest without oxygen and while wearing shorts.
• The first time Mr Christie took a airplane ride the pilot was incapacitated by illness and Mr. Christie was asked to land the plane. Mr. Christie did so using only his left hand.
• When the local tow truck was unavailable Mr. Christie's neighbor called on Mr. Christie for help. Mr. Christie arrived riding an incumbent bicycle, hooked the bike to his neighbor's broken down F450, and towed the truck 5.5 miles into town. 

Oops. Large Print? Where did this come from?

The Sixteenth of June by Maya Lang. Well.  I guess Ms. Lang is a nice lady.

More Marine Music

A Laser Can Decode The Digital Information On These Thin Discs

Be Glad Then, America by The President's Own U.S. Marine Band. Marines play music and sing songs. The Band sends out free CDs. The CD performances are neat but does not include these dudes in a parking lot.



The Joshua Tree by U2. Donated disc definitely due to circ'. Irishman sings songs of rock'n'roll.



John Prine by John Prine. Singers sings songs of country. The Library Page wrote the title of this 1971 album as Atlantic. Is Atlantic Records still around? Let me check...yep, they publish that Ed Sheeran guy.



The Complete Blind Willie Johnson by Blind Willie Johnson.  Bluesman sings songs of sorrow. Two CDs and the booklet has a neat essay.



Noble Beast by Andrew Bird. Multi-instrumentalist plays music and sings songs. Another older album but it'll get used.

Tall English Guy and Lemony Snicket's Assistant/Spokesman

Fiction

Run by Andrew Grant.  Thriller with computer expert fired and harassed and figuring out why. I spoke on camera with Grant's wife Tasha Alexander (we have her books, too) at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego. That interview was part of the Great Video Debacle of 2011 where both of my cameras either screwed up or I was unable to transfer the data to my computer. Stupid computers.

Sweetland by Michael Crummey. I like the cover. Crummey is a Newfie.  (I'll hold the jokes.) The book sounds good. A rural holdout on a island off Newfoundland is being pressured to leave so everyone on the island can get a government payment to vacate the island.

We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler. Lemony Snicket's spokesman writes another novel. Something about pirates in modern San Francisco bay. Maybe they'll attack that Google barge. Unknown status of orphans in the plot.

Uncle Janice by Matt Burgess.  This one sounds good. Whoever wrote the copy on the dustcover sold me on the book. 24-year-old NYPD Officer is one month from finishing an 18-month narcotics undercover assignment that would earn her an automatic promotion.

Twelve Days by Alex Berenson. This guy's books do well. Wait a minute. Maybe Alex is a woman's name. Let me check...nope, it's a dude.

A Pleasure and A Calling by Phil Hogan. I'm not sure about the cover. I kinda like the photo but kinda don't like it.




Funny Girl by Nick Hornby.  1964 English beauty contest winner wants to be a commedianne, not a model. I think commedianne should be spelled with two M's so I'm keeping it that way. Plus an extra D, commeddianne. And four E's commeediannee.

The Light Keeper's Legacy by Kathleen Ernst. Ernst writes American Girl novels and spoke here in 2013. The room was packed!

I'm Kinda Busy, Just A List

Musical Data on Digital Disc

Black Messiah by D'Angelo and the Vanguard. Famed soul singer sings soulfully.

Crosby, Stills and Nash by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Singers sing songs on their first album.

Legend: the best of Bob Marley and the Wailers by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Jamaican singers sing with Jamaican accents.

Foreign Affairs by Tom Waites. Old album by singer gargling gravel.

The Ultimate Collection by Freddie King. Guitarist plucks guitar strings. Dig the 1970s hair.



Rarities: 1971-2003 by The Rolling Stones.  English guys sing under distributed songs.

DVD

Nightcrawler starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Bill Paxton. Creepy guy films crime scenes to sell to TV stations and Bill Paxton makes the movie interesting.

Large Print. With Commentary!

Large Print

Life is Sweet by Elizabeth Bass.  "Three years ago, Becca Hudson threw a dart at a map, hit Leesburg, Virginia and deiced it was the perfect place to start over."  So, if her dart hit five inches to the right she would have bought a boat and anchored in the Atlantic?

Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag.  My cold cold heart pumps the black blood of evil.

Rose Gold by Walter Mosley.  Easy Rawlins has to rescue a Patty Hearst-like kidnap victim. I believe the Patty Hearst brainwashing theory.

Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb. Obsessing what? Decay? Putrifaction?

Crash and Burn by Lisa Gardner. I've been watching the U.S. TV version of The Killing. There is a scene where the dead girl's family is casket shopping and the funeral director mentions a burial vault. What's the point of a vault anyway? Groundwater worries? Grave robbing?

As Close as Sisters by Colleen Faulkner.  I have it on good authority* that Colleen Faulkner is sometimes called "Coll". (* my imagination.)

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron. I'll skip that tour.

The Betrayed by Heather Graham. Something my dog thinks every day she does not get a walk.

Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde. Like when you ask a horse how old it is and it stomps it's foot.

A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin.  Otherwise known as "A Map of Political Actions"

The Look of Love by Sarah Jio. Something my dog gives when she does go on a walk.

Rizzoli & Isles Die Again by Tess Gerritsen. Because when the television show is doing well you have to tie-in the two titles.

In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins. That could mean anything. I've had really boring and tedious dreams.

NonFiction

Artisan Bread: 100 years of techniques and tips by Keith Cohen. I like bread.

Big Fiction Pile,One Paperback, Musical Interlude

Paperback 

By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates.  Woman visits the Outer Banks, lands a librarian job, solves a theft and murder.

Fiction

My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh.  M.O.? Moe?

Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. "Short fictions and disturbances" says the cover.

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. Hannah has written 22 novels. That is a lot of books. Do you think she has boxes of leftovers stashed in her basement. Some writers get extra copies for free, some have to buy their own.

Motive by Jonathan Kellerman.  Big, bright colors on this cover. I think this guy did the cover.

Crash and Burn by Lisa Gardner.  Gardner does two books a year and her author photo has some back lighting making it look kinda dramatic.  Philbrick Photography did the author photo.  A photo of Gardner is included in the photographer's sample work on his webpage.

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.  The cover has a picture of a spool of blue thread.

Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb. Page 268 says Center mass...removed...hair...cap...watched murder.

Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger. Unger writes a lot of books. I have not yet read one. Unger lives in Florida.

Death of a Liar by M.C. Beaton.  Page 30 says, "At police headquarters in Strathbane, Jimmy ordered all the material from Liz's cottage to be brought to them in an interview room, because, as he said, if they had it all out in the detectives' room, Blair would shove his face in."

Musical Interlude

This Finn Brothers song came up on shuffle. I had not heard it in a while.

Knickerbocker Secrets

Fiction

The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy by Julia Quinn. Sir Richard has a month to find a wife.

Knickerbocker

The Knickerbocker is in it's fifth year, or so. There is a trivia contest, snow golf, ice skating, ice cream eating and snowman making contests, candlelight snowshoeing, and more. Here is a portion of Saturday's events.

Starred Up Driver is a Coffee Slave

DVD

The Retrieval starring [actors I never heard of]. A 13-year-old slave boy works for bounty hunters who look for fugitive slaves in 1864. The boy is told to gain the fugitives' trust and lead them to the bounty hunters.


Big Driver starring Maria Bello and Joan Jett.  Joan Jett?! Cool.


Starred Up starring Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn.  Violent teen convict ends up in same prison as his father.


Coffee Town starring Glen Howerton, Josh Broban. Dead beat who hangs out at coffee shop all day tries to stop the store from being sold.