NEW BOOKS FOR ADULTS

Summer 2008
 

Fiction

The Air We Breathe, Andrea Barrett

The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie

Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, Anne Rice

City of Thieves, David Benioff

Comfort Food, Kate Jacobs

Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks

Dream: A Memoir, Harry Berenstein]

Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich

Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus

Host: A Novel, Stephenie Meyer

Peace, Richard Bausch

Romanov Bride, Robert Alexander

Rules of Deception, Christopher Reich

Sail, James Patterson

Nonfiction

 All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, David Giffels

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, Arthur Herman

The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Alexandra Fuller

The Monster of Florence: A True Story, Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Person Journey, Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

Are You There Vodka?  It’s Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler

Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side, James Van Praagh

Large Print

Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais

Killer View, Ridley Pearson

One of Those Malibu Nights, Elizabeth Adler

Tailspin, Catherine Coulter

Playaway is an easy-to-use audio book that is housed in one small unit. You supply the headphones, press a button, and start listening immediately.  Recently added titles:

Darkness Falls, Kyle Mills

Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue, Bob Drury

Inside the Red Mansion, Oliver August

Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O’Nan

Lincoln’s Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shener

On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave, Daniel Hays

Recently Added Audio Books on CD

Fiction             

The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani

The Burnt House, Faye Kellerman

The Innocent Man, John Grisham

The Last Juror, John Grisham

The Navigator, Clive Cussler

Next, Michael Crichton

Santa Fe Dead, Stuart Woods

Short Straw, Stuart Woods

T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton

You’ve Been Warned, James Patterson

Book Review by Georgia Edwards, Circulation Librarian

The legend of Colton H. Bryant

Author: Alexandra Fuller

            Readers of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight will not be disappointed by this wonderful new offering from Alexandra Fuller.   While doing investigative reports of the oil industry on the Western way of life, Fuller came across young Colton H. Bryant’s story, which she tells poignantly and simply.

            Colton’s story begins in grade school, where he is a poor student and called “retard” by his peers.  He survives this cruelty through the support of wonderful parents and his own unflagging optimism.  Colton’s mantra from an early age was, “It’s mind over matter; if I don’t mind, then it don’t matter.”  A true son of Wyoming, he loved nothing better than losing himself in fishing, camping under the stars or riding his horse.

            Married in his early twenties, Colton eventually gained employment as a rough neck on a Wyoming oil rig. It is on this job that the real world came calling with its attendant fears and responsibilities.

            Fuller tells the story of this Western “Forrest Gump” in also “telling of the land that grew him, where the great high plains meet the Rocky Mountains…”  In doing both, she has shared with us the life of a young man whose simple innocence and love for his Wyoming roots cannot easily be forgotten.