Jan 28, 2013
Here are the books that the local newspapers covered in Sunday's papers!
The Pioneer Press [1] featured Kinsey and Me [2] by Sue Grafton--a collection of short stories, mostly about Kinsey Milhone. Also included was an excellent rundown of the new Club Book [3] season.
Club Book alert! Ramsey County Library is proud to be launching the season at the Maplewood Library on February 5th (7:00 pm) with Pam Houston, award-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted [4] and Cowboys Are My Weakness [5], among many others.
In the Star Tribune Books [6] section, featured titles included:
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters [7] by Sophie Ratcliffe
Daughters Who Walk This Path by Yejide Kilanko - A debut novel about two women in Nigeria
The Way of [8] the Dog [8] by Sam Savage - a novel about an aging, embittered intellectual
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures [9] by Edward Ball - a gripping tale of photographer Edward Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford
Mad Girl's Love Song by Andrew Wilson - Biography of the young Sylvia Plath
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster [10] by Jonathan M. Katz - Nonfiction about Haiti and the devastation after the earthquake
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration [11] by David Roberts - True story of a pre-WWI expedition to Antarctica
Happy requesting and reading!
- Newspapers [12]