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The Librarian Loves
The Art of Fielding
Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
December 22nd, 2011
’ve heard three people (two men and a woman) strongly recommend The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown & Co., $26) by Chad Harbach in just the last two days. Read more »
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Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
November 10th, 2011
Believe it or not, cola marketing executives have figured out how many bubbles they need to depict in print and on store displays to get you to crave their soft drink. Read more »
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
October 20th, 2011
Author Harold Goldberg provides a rollicking account of the history and development of this addictive cultural phenomenon. Read more »
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A Duty to the Dead is the first in a relatively new mystery series set during World War I
September 8th, 2011
Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. Read more »
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The title says it all: Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years
July 14th, 2011
The title of this insider’s view of Sarah Palin’s gubernatorial and vice-presidential campaigns says it all: Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years (Howard Books, 2011). Read more »
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Wench
June 30th, 2011
For an intriguing, eye-opening look at the cruelties and complexities of slave-era relationships between slave mistresses and their masters (and among the slave mistresses themselves), take a trip via Dolen Perkins-Valdez’ novel Wench (HarperCollins, 2010) to an Ohio resort that catered to these peculiar couples. Read more »
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Euphemania: Our Love Affair With Euphemisms
June 16th, 2011
Ralph Keyes’ Euphemania: Our Love Affair With Euphemisms (Little, Brown and Co., 2010) will delight anyone who loves words, their origins and the way that they reflect cultural intentions, subterfuges and biases. Read more »
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Not Buried Yet
21st novel in John Sandford’s Prey series is one of his strongest
May 26th, 2011
Buried Prey (Putnam Adult, $28) opens with the construction-site discovery of the bodies of two young girls, murdered 25 years earlier. Davenport was a rookie street cop then, eager to become a plainclothes detective. His instincts told him the schizophrenic homeless man charged with the crime was not the real perpetrator, but he had neither the experience nor the political leverage to make his case. Read more »
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
April 21st, 2011
I recently saw the movie The Young Victoria and wanted to know more about her early life. There are numerous biographies but I wanted something very readable, and I found it in Queen Victoria: A Personal History (Basic Books, 2000) by Christopher Hibbert. Read more »
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The Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American Dream — by Suze Orman
April 7th, 2011
I’ve always trusted Suze Orman’s financial planning advice. She’s sensible and realistic, and those qualities come through stronger than ever in her latest book, The Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American Dream (Spiegel & Grau, $26), which came out last month. The American Dream is over, she argues. Read more »
