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Sue is our resident ‘bird person’. If you know the colors or the sound or the place you saw a bird, I’ll bet Sue can tell you its name and all about the birds’ habits and habitats. Sue is also our resident ‘mystery reader’. Actually, Sue is an avid reader who just enjoys trying to figure out “who done it”. It’s a secret, so don’t tell anyone, but Sue played the flute in an orchestra and once sang at Carnegie Hall.

 

 

 

I Know Here (Hardcover)

By Laurel Croza, Matt James
$15.16
ISBN-13: 9780888999238
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Groundwood Books, 2/2010
A little girl and her family have been living in a remote area of Saskatchewan while her father works on a dam project.One day she finds out the project is done and they will be moving to Toronto at the end of the school year.The little girl doesn't know Toronto; she knows HERE.She knows her friends and neighbors, where the fox lives, where the wolves howl, the creek, the trees, but she doesn't know Toronto.How will she keep her memories of HERE alive when she leaves?With the help of her teacher, she comes up with a way.This book was such a delightful surprise and would be a great book for a child who is experiencing change in their life, most especially a move.James' illustrations will pull you into the little girl's world as she lists the things she knows.I really liked this book!  Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (Hardcover)

By Philip Connors
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9780061859366
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Published: Ecco, 4/2011
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First-time author Connors has written a vivid accounting of his time as a fire lookout in a very remote section of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.A bartender in Manhattan during most of the year, come the start of fire season Connor is back at his post at his lookout, escaping the madness and crush of people in NYC for the peace and solitude of the wilderness with just his dog, Alice, for company.Connors moves us through his season, from his arrival in April to his bittersweet leave taking in August.He chronicles his days, the people he encounters in this remote spot (mostly hikers passing through), as well as the history of fire fighting in the US and the role lookouts have played.  There aren't many left these days, what with all the technological advances that will someday make them obsolete.Connors writing is poetic, moving, and filled with the wonder he experiences working in such a place.  You feel as if you are there with him.It is introspective and thought-provoking - a really remarkable book.

The Crossing Places (Paperback)

By Elly Griffiths
$11.96
ISBN-13: 9780547386065
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mariner Books, 9/2010
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I chanced upon this author due to a review/comment made by Louise Penny, one of my favorite mystery writers, about Griffiths' 2nd book.I thought if Louise Penny liked her I'd give her a try!  I quite liked this quiet, unassuming mystery.Dr. Ruth Galloway is a forensic archeologist at a small college in Norfolk, England.She lives alone with her two cats at the edge of a remote salt marsh, a marsh filled with relics of the Iron Age.When the bones of a child are unearthed near her home, she is called upon by the local constabulary to determine if they are modern or ancient.  Some 10 years prior, a young girl had gone missing in the same area.Do the bones belong to the missing Lucy?  The plot thickens as Iron Age relics and modern-day evils intertwine.I found this a very evocative book.  The salt marsh is a wild, haunting place, and a great setting for a mystery.  I also liked how human Dr. Galloway is; slightly overweight, smart, funny, but also, as one reviewer put it, slightly unsure of herself.  Louise Penny was right.Now on to the next one in the series!

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Paperback)

By Ben Macintyre
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9780307453280
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Broadway, 4/2011
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This slice of WWII history is one of the most incredible tales of deception and intrigue I've ever read. It's 1943 and the British are planning an invasion of Sicily. The Germans have a presence, mostly in terms of intelligence gatherers (i.e., spies) in that part of the world and the British need a plan, a bit of slight of hand, to make them look elsewhere. The plan that MI5 and British Naval Intelligence come up with involves a dead body and planted papers that SOMEhow have to wash ashore, be found by the Germans and the papers and the plans believed. The details involved, the myriad personnel involved (including Ian Fleming of 007 fame), was just amazing! They invented a life out of whole cloth for the dead man whose body they commandeered. You couldn't do what they did today, what with the kinds of fact checking you can do now. But nearly on sheer guts and determination alone they manage to pull it off. Some of the details of this remarkable episode in the annals of WWII came to light after the war and a couple of movies made about it ("The Man Without a Face" being one). A really fascinating bit of history.

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American Hist (Paperback)

By S. C. Gwynne
$12.80
ISBN-13: 9781416591061
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Published: Scribner, 5/2011
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When two different customers told me this was the best book they had ever read, I was definitely intrigued. After reading it I knew why. This is a complex, fascinatingly detailed history of a very powerful Indian tribe, the Comanches, and the 40 year war waged by the US, the Mexicans and other tribes to defeat them. Such stellar horsemen and fearless warriors were they that the Texas Rangers were created just to try to defeat them. Interwoven with the complex native history is that of early settlers to the Great Plains and Texas, including the Parker family. Nine year-old Cynthia Anne was kidnapped and raised by the Comanches, becoming a much beloved member of the band she lived with, and mother to Quanah Parker, that last great Comanche chief. I was in awe of Gwynne's meticulous research, richly presented here: the intricate threads of history woven together, leading the reader along towards the inevitable conclusion, the retaking of Cynthia Anne Parker and "taming" of the Comanches. So much US history I was totally unaware of and it was not without a great deal of sadness to be reminded yet again of how the Indians of all tribes were treated and forced to assimilate, and what cultures were lost to the ages. An epic history of the SW and a powerful piece of writing not to be missed.
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