In the stacks: Large-print books circulate at library
The focus this week is on large-print books, and, in addition to the great books listed below, look for new large print titles by these best-selling authors: Robert Parker, Fern Michaels, Dorothy Garlock, Catherine Coulter, Tom Clancy, Anne Perry and Jack Higgins, to name a few. To see a list of large print titles that have been added to the Juneau Public Library shelves in the past year, check out the "NEW!" tab at the top of the blue banner on our online catalog.
"The Devil wears Prada," by Lauren Weisberger. Andrea Sachs has landed the perfect job: assistant to Miranda Priestly, superstar editor of the top fashion magazine Runway. From the beginning, personalities and goals clash. Andrea's ultimate goal: a job with the New Yorker magazine. Miranda's goal: to cut her assistant down at every turn and drive her insane. Good thing Andrea only signed a one-year contract.
"Temporary Sanity," by Rose Connors. When Buck Hammond shoots and kills the pedophile who raped and murdered Hammond's 7-year old son, cameras are rolling - there's no chance of mistaken identity. If Marty Nickerson, Hammond's attorney, can't get Hammond to plead temporary insanity, how can she defend him? And then another case of vigilante justice lands on Marty's desk: an abused woman who is accused of murdering her abusive boyfriend. Can murder ever be right?
"The Center of Everything," by Laura Moriarty. Gifted Evelyn grows up with her very young and very single mother, Tina, and her severely disabled brother, Samuel, longing for a real life. Evelyn is a good girl, going to church with her grandmother and appropriately appalled at her mother's irresponsible behavior, but when it comes to her teenage years, she navigates them only with her mother's help, learning along the way that no one is all good, and luck isn't always bad.
"The Outside of August," by Joanna Hershon. Alice Green grows up with two parents, a brother, and a strange feeling of hollowness that she can't identify or understand. Charlotte, her mother, and Gus, her brother share an unexplained bond, as do her Charlotte and Alan, her father, but Alice is an outsider, untethered to her family. It isn't until Alice and Gus are adults that she comes to understand how fractured her family is beneath the surface.
"Ghost Riders," by Sharyn McCrumb. As a young boy, Rattler had an encounter with a Civil War era ghost, one of many who haunt the North Carolina mountains. Now, his hills are full of Civil War buffs, re-enacting battles that ended before they were born. But the hills are also filled with ghosts, and Rattler begins to doubt that the war ever ended.
"Waterloo Station," by Emily Grayson. When Maude Latham arrived in Great Britain in 1939 to study literature, she never expected that she'd meet the love of her life, much less that he'd be her married literature tutor. World War II interrupts their affair, Stephen joins the Royal Navy, and Maude awaits his return, working in a hospital. But years go by without Stephen, and Maude doesn't know what to think about herself, Stephen, or the love they shared.
"I am the Central Park Jogger," by Trisha Meili. In 1989, a young woman jogger was brutally beaten, raped, and left for dead in Central Park. The victim of a "wilding" - a group of teens looking for something to do - she was found barely alive, and more than five weeks went by before she came out of a coma. With the help of her family and friends, and great care from medical staff, she not only recovered, but healed. This is her story.
"The Crisis of Islam," by Bernard Lewis. Lewis, a Middle East historian, examines the key events leading up to today's violent clashes between militant Islamic groups and the Western world. Covering 13 centuries of history, Lewis outlines the historic roots of Islam and explores the resentments behind the acts of terrorism. Fascinating reading, helpful in putting current events into perspective.
"Seeking Enlightenment: Hat by Hat," by Nevada Barr. Best-selling mystery writer Barr turns her hand to memoir in this chronicle of her journey from atheism to religion. The process was slow: from a childhood suspicion that only the gullible went to church to her first steps inside an Episcopalian church at Christmas. The evolution of her beliefs took many years and the pain of a failed marriage. Now, she describes herself as still heathen, but no longer godless.
• If you'd like to place a hold on any of these titles, call the Juneau Public Library at 586-5249. If you have Internet access, your library card, and a PIN, you may place your own holds by going to our Web site (www.juneau.org/library) and looking at our catalog. Placing holds on items featured in In the Stacks is now even easier. The new columns are hyperlinked to the catalog: Simply look up the column, click on the title you want and you will be ready to place a hold.