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Books

  • Putting party over country
    Reading this book is a little like quaffing a double espresso on an empty stomach – it’s a jolt. For this reader it was a welcome jolt. Others will find it less palatable. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J.
  • Baseball, intrigue blend on pre-WWII Japan trip
    From their foxholes on Cape Gloucester in the South Pacific, U.S. Marines fighting Japanese forces heard an unusual war cry from their enemies: “To hell with Babe Ruth!” It was March 1944.
  • Best-sellers
    Last week’s best-selling books, according to the Publishers Weekly:
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Library’s most popular

FICTION

1.

Explosive Eighteen” by Janet Evanovich

2.

The Litigators

by John Grisham

3.

The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

4.

Kill Alex Cross

by James Patterson

5.

The Best of Me

by Nicholas Sparks

6.

Zero Day

by David Baldacci

7.

The Christmas Wedding

by James Patterson,

Richard DiLallo

8.

Kill Me If You Can

by James Patterson,

Marshall Karp

9.

Bonnie

by Iris Johansen

10.

The Affair

by Lee Child

NON-FICTION

1.

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of his Trip to Heaven and Back

by Todd Burpo

2.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,

Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

3.

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

by Bill O’Reilly,

Martin Dugard

4.

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

by Jaycee Dugard

5.

Bossypants

by Tina Fey

6.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin

by Erik Larson

7. “

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

8.

Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope

by Jeffrey Zaslow, Mark Kelly and Gabrielle D. Giffords

9.

How I Got This Way

by Regis Philbin

10.

Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo

by Betty White