Spring in New Canaan: The daffodils are up, the forsythia's in bloom, and the April edition of Beyond the Best Seller List is available! So much good reading out there...sometimes it's hard to decide which titles to recommend. But the list is out and here are some suggestions:
Fiction: Mystery readers can catch up with Charlie Moon in James D. Doss's series. This latest installment is titled Snake Dreams. Charlie is a Native American rancher and sleuth. If you like your mysteries laced with humor this is a series to take a look at.
Jan Brogan has a new book featuring investigative reporter Hallie Ahern. This one is titled Teaser and it has Hallie investigating chat room predators.
The Manual of Detection by Jedidiah Berry is one of the most unusual mysteries I have ever read. It is a Kafkaesque tale of longtime clerk in a detective agency who is mysteriously promoted to detective-and then things become even more surreal.
On a lighter note, The Yummy Mummy by Polly Williams is a funny look at new motherhood, featuring a bewildered new mom who tries to keep up with the fashionable and waiflike other moms. It's a funny peek at the pressures put on women.
Those looking for a great longer read, City of Thieves by David Benioff will fill the bill. This is a novel based on the author's grandfather's tales of WWII in Russia.
For non-fiction, we are pleased to recommend: Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles by Richard Dowden. This book explains so much about the complex continent in a very readable style. The author does a fantastic job of telling the background about each country, and how it got to it's present state.
Are your kids learning more keyboarding and less penmanship at school? Kitty Burns Florey has written Script and Scribble: the rise and fall of handwriting, to tell the history of handwriting. Who remembers the Palmer Method?
Local interest: Philip Johnson: The Constancy of Change edited by Emmanuel Petit is a volume of eminent voices in architecture who write about Johnson's designs and intellect, along with admiration for his Glass House compound right here in New Canaan.
For How to's we are pleased to recommend Cooking Know How: how to be a better cook with hundreds of easy techniques, step-by-step photos and ideas for 500 great meals by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. It's a technique book, and a pretty big one at that , but it is full of useful information for the home cook. Even better than the book: the authors are coming to the Library on April 22. Be in the Lamb Room at 7:30PM for their presentation.
Keep reading, and keep telling us what treasures you found on our shelves!
Fiction: Mystery readers can catch up with Charlie Moon in James D. Doss's series. This latest installment is titled Snake Dreams. Charlie is a Native American rancher and sleuth. If you like your mysteries laced with humor this is a series to take a look at.
Jan Brogan has a new book featuring investigative reporter Hallie Ahern. This one is titled Teaser and it has Hallie investigating chat room predators.
The Manual of Detection by Jedidiah Berry is one of the most unusual mysteries I have ever read. It is a Kafkaesque tale of longtime clerk in a detective agency who is mysteriously promoted to detective-and then things become even more surreal.
On a lighter note, The Yummy Mummy by Polly Williams is a funny look at new motherhood, featuring a bewildered new mom who tries to keep up with the fashionable and waiflike other moms. It's a funny peek at the pressures put on women.
Those looking for a great longer read, City of Thieves by David Benioff will fill the bill. This is a novel based on the author's grandfather's tales of WWII in Russia.
For non-fiction, we are pleased to recommend: Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles by Richard Dowden. This book explains so much about the complex continent in a very readable style. The author does a fantastic job of telling the background about each country, and how it got to it's present state.
Are your kids learning more keyboarding and less penmanship at school? Kitty Burns Florey has written Script and Scribble: the rise and fall of handwriting, to tell the history of handwriting. Who remembers the Palmer Method?
Local interest: Philip Johnson: The Constancy of Change edited by Emmanuel Petit is a volume of eminent voices in architecture who write about Johnson's designs and intellect, along with admiration for his Glass House compound right here in New Canaan.
For How to's we are pleased to recommend Cooking Know How: how to be a better cook with hundreds of easy techniques, step-by-step photos and ideas for 500 great meals by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. It's a technique book, and a pretty big one at that , but it is full of useful information for the home cook. Even better than the book: the authors are coming to the Library on April 22. Be in the Lamb Room at 7:30PM for their presentation.
Keep reading, and keep telling us what treasures you found on our shelves!
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