One hundred six readers and parents attended the gala finale of the Crawfordsville District Public Library children's and teen's summer reading program on Saturday. The whole story is that the Friends of the Library workers fund the programs, prizes, and speakers. Their weekly work sorting books donated by the public create their large bookstore collection on the library's lower level. Then, their monthly "Second Saturday" sales (donations) provide those extra touches that make the reading programs special, encourage better reading habits, and help promote the other "school year" efforts by the library's Youth Services department. This is really beneficial recycling!
This column offers new fiction for summer reading. Alton Gansky's "Angel" is science fiction about an earthquake in Southern California that brings a stranger from a world far away to "complete our knowledge, to explain our beginnings, and to correct our spiritual errors." L. A. Banks' "The Wicked" is a vampire huntress legend in a complex world of good vs. evil. Brenda Joyce's "Dark Seduction" begins a new series called The Masters of Time, wherein a new warrior sweeps a beautiful bookseller back into his medieval time of hunters and hunted. Jodi Picoult's novel "Change of Heart" asks if you would give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? And would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish? "Finding Marie" by Susan Davis is a scary chase to locate a covert military wife who found a computer flash drive in her luggage just after her seatmate from Tokyo to San Francisco was murdered, and she must run for her life. "Damsels in Distress" by Joan Hess is a Claire Malloy story showing a volunteer whom no one knows helping with a Renaissance Fair and falling victim to arson, her body found burned in the wreckage of her rented home. Mary Burton's "I'm Watching You" tells about a serial killer taking lives because he's stalking a woman whose estranged husband is a detective. Richard Russo's "Bridge of Sighs" finds a long-married couple preparing for their once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy to reunite with a childhood friend; the goal is to untangle a history the husband is writing of his hometown and family. In "Breakfast with Buddha" by Roland Merullo two men of contrasting cultures drive across the country together through places the reader will recognize, with specific discussions stimulating each other's thinking. "Sister Teresa" by Barbara Mujica is a biographical novel about the woman who became Saint Teresa of Avila, highlighting the social aspects as well as the madness of the Spanish Inquisition. "The Last Chinese Chef" by Nicole Mones brings into focus a changing China, this time the hidden world of high culinary culture.. Charles Holdefer's "The Contractor" is the first novel to address the issue of American secret prisons in the war on terrorism, and it weaves a government interrogator's experiences into his personal life challenge. "Heroes: Saving Charlie" by Aury Wallington is a story by Joseph Loeb based on the TV series Heroes about ordinary individuals, united by an extraordinary bond, as each possesses a superhuman ability; together they must prevent the course of history from taking a terrifying turn. Catherine Anderson's "Morning Light" offers the first of her Harrigan family novels in which a woman is trying to ignore visions that predict the future, and is involved in a goal-reaching challenge. This book is written in large print.
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