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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
Dugard, Martin
An engrossing account of the journey that Henry Morgan Stanley undertakes to locate the missing British explorer, David Livingstone. The African landscape is vividly portrayed, along with fascinating but often gruesome details of the amazing hardships and violence encountered along the way, including tribal conflicts and the slave trade. While providing well-researched historical context, the book is essentially a suspense story and a great adventure.
[Adult Nonfiction Book ]
Sharon M., Web Services
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That Mad Ache
Sagan, Francoise
Douglas Hofstadter has lovingly translated Sagan's bittersweet story of a doomed love affair. The bonus here is Hofstadter's essay on "the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation", Translator, Trader, which is the flip side of the book.
[Adult Fiction Book SAGAN]
Kay D., Maple Grove Library
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
Hubbell, Sue
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small farm in the Ozarks. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared for. An uplifting, marvelous book about a woman finding her way in middle age.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 508.7788 H]
Mary B., Ridgedale Library
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
Von Drehle, Dave
Set against the background of the struggles of Italian and Jewish immigrants, corrupt city politics, and the rise of the fashion industry, "Triangle" is the story of the fire that broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911. A gripping, page-turning tale relating the horror of the disaster with little graphic detail.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 974.71 V]
Jennifer L., Ridgedale Library
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Eye of the Storm
Ringo, John
A fun addition to the Aldenata Universe series, this book certainly targets amateurs of military science fiction. A previously unknown group of extraterrestrial races are about to attack earth and its allies; Mike O'Neal must get the industrial and military infrastructures ready to fight the invaders. This book sets things up in a suspenseful way and the next book will get into the crux of the action.
[Adult Fiction Book RINGO]
Lorenzo T., System & Network Services
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Run
Patchett, Ann
"Run" has the incantatory style of Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto." It is a novel about mothers, their children, and the fathers that love them set during a Boston blizzard. It begins with an accident and encompasses all that Boston is famous for -- Harvard, the Irish, racism, Roman Catholicism, politics, education in forty-eight hours in a family's life.
[Adult Fiction Book PATCHET PATCHETT]
Maureen M.S., Edina Library
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Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
Barra, Allen
In this comprehensive and incredibly engaging biography, each of Berra's baseball highlights (10 American League Pennants, 8 World Series Championships and 3 Most Valuable Player awards) is meticulously described. From his childhood growing up in St Louis, Missouri's Italian neighborhood to his postplayer roles as a manager and coach Barra covers it all and what we embrace throughout is a great athlete and a good guy.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 921 B4493]
Jennifer L., Ridgedale Library
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Sizwe's Test
Steinberg, Jonny
In this beautiful and extremely well-researched title, Steinberg tells the story of Sizwe Magadla, an educated and successful South African, who refuses to be tested for HIV despite knowing he is at risk for the disease. Through Magadla, you are really able to gain insight into the fear, stigma and confusion that exists around HIV/AIDS throughout South Africa and the World.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 362.19697 S]
Dillon Y., Brookdale Library
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Once Upon a Town
Greene, Bob
From Christmas 1941 to the end of World War II, the town of North Platte, Nebraska, transformed its railroad depot into a canteen where soldiers could enjoy food, music and a friendly face on their way through town. The canteen was staffed and funded entirely by town volunteers 6 days a week, 24 hours a day. This wonderful book is based on the reminiscences of both soldiers' and townspeople's experiences and showed how one town honored its "brave and dedicated sons."
[Adult Nonfiction Book 978.2 G]
Lynn M., Osseo Library
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Enger, Leif
A cracking good adventure tale, full of winking outlaws and relentless villains. In 1915, an aging bank robber is trying to right his past by making amends to the woman he left behind forty years earlier, and a struggling novelist joins him in this quest.
[Adult Fiction Book ENGER]
Mary B., Ridgedale Library
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