MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
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Summer is waning quickly. Remember that the library
will be closed from Monday, August 26th - Monday, September
2nd for the Labor Day holiday. This hiatus will give the staff
a well-deserved mini-vacation. The library will re-open on Tuesday,
September 3rd at 10 a.m.
There are several new books to report this week. Danielle
Steele's Sunset in St. Tropez heads the list. In this one, three
pairs of friends in their 50s and 60s decide to spend a month
together in the south of France, but before the trip, tragedy
strikes two of the couples. How the vacation turns out makes
for a good read for Steele fans. Faye Kellerman's Stone Kiss
finds L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker, answering a call
for help from his half-brother, Jonathan, when Jonathan's brother-in-law,
Ephraim, is found murdered and Ephraim's 15-year-old niece, Shaynda,
who was supposed to be with him, is missing. With little help
from any expected sources, Decker persists in his hunt for answers.
Margaret Marie's No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper
provides strategies for people who may be stuck in situations
of domestic violence, and shows readers how to "overcome
your circumstances…not let your circumstances overcome you."
Philip Ball's Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
examines some of the tools and materials that chemists have
added to the color palette over the centuries and explains what
science has taught us about vision, the nature of light, and
the physical and cultural factors that condition our perceptions
of color. The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets
Who Teach edited by Robin Behn and Chase Twichell gives more
than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with a thorough
explanation of how each exercise is supposed to help the poet
and the titles of recommended poems that should illustrate to
the novice poet an excellent example particular poetic elements
in action.
For our 9-12 year old readers, Betty Ren Wright's The Ghost
Comes Calling is a good ghost story. When his dad buys a tumbledown,
lakeside cottage, Chad Weldon isn't surprised to learn of the
cottage's reputation as being haunted by its former owner. The
real surprise comes as Chad and his friend Jeannie unravel the
truth and lay the ghost to rest. Also for this age group is
Jan Slepain's Back to Before, in which Linny and Hilary find
themselves transported back in time to before their troubles
began, and realize that changing the past is not easy and they
must try to return to the present or relive the worst year of
their lives.
Many thanks to Moors Myers for the donation of several wonderful
books to the library. Running Scared by Elizabeth Lowell is
a spellbinding romantic suspense novel of intrigue, passion,
and danger centered around Rarities Unlimited, an exclusive Las
Vegas appraisal house. Kathleen Reich's Fatal Voyage finds forensic
anthropologist Temperance Brennan fired and in big trouble when
she investigates a plane crash only to discover some of the bodies
had no connection with the disaster. Eleanor Roosevelt As I
Knew Her by Mollie Somerville, an aide and friend to the First
Lady, chronicles a decade with the Roosevelts and focuses on
the woman whose compassion and generosity reshaped the world.
Elliott Hester's Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tale of
Sex, Rage and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet is a collection of hilarious
essays that zero in on bad trips, in-flight fighting, intolerable
co-workers and airline procedures, broken airplanes, bad layovers
and sex on airplanes (aka the "Mile High Club").
As you enjoy the final weeks of summer, come into the library,
sign out a good book, video, magazine or CD and relax before
the routine and business of fall begins.
Send comments to Morrisville
Public Library
August 30, 2002