Mid-Holiday Four Pack

Fiction

Southernmost by Silas House. I know a guy named Silas, he is in 7th grade. Silas the author wore a blu eshirt for his author photo.

Family Trust by Kathy Wang. Guy with pancreatic cancer has relatives awaiting news on his estate. Wang wore a leather jacket for her author photo. I have to assume the material is leather. It could be a synthetic.

Non Fiction

Simple Cleaning Wisdom: 450 easy shortcuts for a fresh and tidy home by Good Housekeeping. Tip
#1: no children. Tip #2: no pets. Tip #3: don't live there.

Complete Crochet Course: the ultimate reference guide by Shannon and Jason Mullet-Bowlsby. That is a tough last name for me to type. These guys live in Seattle. I think this book will circ well.

Tony's Muscular Mermaid

NonFiction

Muscular Portfolios: the investing revolution for superior returns with lower risk by Brian Livingston. Page 22 says, "ETFs have lower expense ratios."

Fiction

The Enemy of My Enemy by W.E.B.Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Another post-WWI spy shoot'em up.

Tony's Wife by Adriana Trigiani. Big band singer adn his from the '40s onward.

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar.  Something about a dead mermaid in 1795.

The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash. Don't get excited, it's not about winter time in the Dakotas. Plot involves the son of famous TV host Buddy Winter who lives in the fancy schmancy Dakota Building in NYC.

Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. Fictionalization of Lale Sokolov who was assigned as the tattooist at Auschwitz. Damn.

Pandemic by Robin Cook. Doctor writes another doctor thriller.

DVD: Arrived

DVD

Mission: Impossible: Fallout starring Tom Cruise. Spies do spy stuff and fist fights and car chases and motorcycles and helicopters and stuff like that.

Some Minnesota Guy

Fiction

The Shadows We Hide by Allen Eskens. Young reporter in Minnesota learns that the man who may be his father is dead. He travels to Southern Minnesota, snoops, and finds the dead man was thoroughly despised.

I used to drive through Southern Minnesota a lot from 1989 to 1993. But, my route usually went up I-35, turned left at Owatonna, took highway 14 to Mankato, then took highway 169 north to St. Peter. The drive on 14 went through several small towns. I always kinda wanted to stop and visit the bars. I never did.

14 has since been updated and rerouted since 1993. At that time highway 14 went along Clear Lake into Waseca. The view was fantastic. The new road is to the south and is likely very bland. But, I suppose the trip is a lot faster without all those speed zones.

Here. Read This.

Fiction

The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch. Does she rise up and hand someone a sword? That'd be cool.

Lost Lake by Emily Littlejohn. Oh, is the lady from the entry up above?

Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts. Second book in a series called Chronicle of the One.

Audiobook on CD

Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe. 8CDs at 10 hours. Three kids in 1970 rural England worry about their newly divorced mother. Sword and lake content unknown.

Perfect Time Travel Game

Fiction

Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates. Future girl is sent back in time to Wainscotia, Wisconsin. WISCONSIN! WOO-HOO!

Audiobooks on CD

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. 15CDs at 19 hours. People at a health resort do things.

Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan. 9CDs at 11 hours. Bernie continues as a reluctant private investigator to the crooks of Los Angeles.

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz.  6CDs at 7.5 hours. A new James Bond novel. Featuring the beginning of Bond's career as a 00 agent.

Plastic and Paper

Musical Sounds Are Recorded With Microphones and Then Embedded Into Plastic Discs For Your Listening Pleasure

Call The Comet by Johnny Marr. Famous English guitarist plays guitar and sings songs of astronomy. Morrissey content unknown.

Traces by Steve Perry. Famous and formerly reclusive singer sings songs of pop.


Bohemian Rhapsody: the original soundtrack by [people]. People [either actors of the original performers, I don't know] sing songs about bicycles, Bohemians, and dirt eaters.

Fiction

She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore. I'm not sure what's going on here. People who have super powers and live as slaves. The dust cover says this is a "novel of profound depths".

Residue by Michael McGarrity. Part of the Kevin Kearney series set in New Mexico. I've not read any of these books in a while.

Here Are the Spine Labels

Fiction

A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza.
FIC
MIR.F
PFU

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Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
FIC
BRA.B
FALCONER
BK. 1

Target Alex Cross by James Patterson.
M
PAT.J
AC
BK.26

Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks.
FIC
FAU.S
PE

The Three Beths by Jeff Abbott.
FIC
ABB.J
TB

Love is Blind by William Boyd.
FIC
BOY.W
LB

Audiobooks on CD

Past Tense by Lee Child.
TCD
CHI.L
PT

DVD

When Calls The Heart: 5-Movie collection starring Erin Krakow, Daniel Lissing.
2231

Outlander: Season Three starring [none listed].
2230

Large Print

More Fiction. More Hard Case Crime. More Video.

Fiction

The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner. First reprint in 50 years of this novel. Detective duo of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam have to solve a theft and a murder.

His Promise: an Amish Christmas in Hart County by Shelley Shepard Gray. Is Christmas that biog a deal for the Amish. Are they kind of a year-round-religion group without big emphasis on certain religious days? Maybe they are more focused on Easter? I have no idea but the cover photo includes a Dachshund.

Death in Paris by Emilia Bernhard. I kinda like the cover and kinda don't like the cover. Let's skip the plot description and check out the author bio and photo. Author bio is one of those slightly vague but informative ones. The text lists the places she has lived, a couple jobs, and her cat's name.

The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem. No idea about the plot but I love the title.



The Man She Married by Cathy Lamb. Woman wonders about her husband's past and current activities. Lamb lives in Oregon.

Past Tense by Lee Child. Jack Reacher walks around. punches people, has sex with women police officers, so on, so forth. You'll read it anyway and you'll enjoy it.

DVD

Star Trek: Discovery: Season One starring [space people].  Space People do things in space on space ships and talk Space Talk.


Large Print

Half Self-Help, Half AutoBio, Half LARGE PRINT

NonFiction

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

LARGE PRINT

That New Obama Book (and other stuff)

Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama. Autiobio by Michelle Obama.

Fiction

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

I Givee Up  on Typunng Today

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

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

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

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

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

Large Print

Gischler For Your Ears

AudioBook on CD

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

Fiction? Non.

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

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

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

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

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

Cooking

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

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

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

All The Rest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fiction

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

DVD

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


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



And this one.

Grave Keeper's Freaks From The Hounds

Science Fiction

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

Mystery

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

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

Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

Moving Images For Your Television

DVD

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


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


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

Four Different

One 

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

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

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

Three

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

Four

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

Cut Dragon Vendetta Chronicle

DVD

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

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

Fiction

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

NonFiction

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

Won't You Shell the Library

Fiction

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

NonFiction

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

DVD

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

Large Print

Book I Was Waiting For

One I Want to Read

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

Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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