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What
Readers' Advisory staff have
read
and
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The
Ocean Between
Us by
Susan Wiggs
(fiction)
Married
for twenty years, Grace and Steve Bennett have a
perfect life. Steve is a career naval officer
soon to be a base commander in Washington
State. He
and Grace have three great kids now all in their
teens. They have traveled and lived in many
interesting places. Now, however, a midlife
marital crisis threatens all. Grace wants to
buy a house and have a permanent home and career,
but Steve doesn't understand her needs. He
thought everything was perfect "as is." So
now, as his next deployment is quickly
approaching, he and Grace are at odds. To
make matters worse, a secret from his past
surfaces and shocks both Grace and the
kids. They part with their relationship on
the brink and each have plenty of time to
reexamine their marriage,but a mishap on board
Steve's carrier quickly puts everything back in
focus at sea and at
home.
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Whiteout by
Ken Follett
(fiction)
Ex-police
woman Toni Gallo is now head of security at the
Oxenford Medical Research facility in
Scotland. She
has a good working relationship with CEO Stanley
Oxenford, although she hopes for a more
personal one. However, all is
threatened after a Christmas eve break-in at
the highly secured lab and vials of a deadly virus
are taken. The crime was masterminded by
Stanley's
son, Kit Oxenford, as a means of paying off his
enormous gambling debts. The onset of a
sudden blizzard frustrates all involved and the
actions centers in the Oxenford home now filled
with Stanley's
family, including Toni and Kit and his
accomplices. Phone lines are cut, cel phone
batteries die and the blizzard continues holding
everyone hostage with the deadly virus in their
midst. Toni escapes from the house and
desperately tries to take control, because she
knows the real crime yet to be revealed
is the purpose for which the stolen
virus will be
used.
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Deep
Freeze
by
Lisa Jackson (paperback
fiction)
Unable
to cope with the memories of her sister dying
during the production of her last film, star Jenna
Hughes relocates to Oregon with
her two daughters. While her remote ranch
provides her with solace, her teenager rebels
against the radical change in their
lives. Meanwhile, Sheriff Shane Carter
worries that a serial killer is murdering
women. The culprit apparently abducts his
victim, kills her and dips the corpse in hot wax
in order to replicate his beloved Jenna in a
variety of her film roles. Unbeknownst to the
sheriff or the actress, who receives scary fan
mail from him, this predator is Jenna's biggest
fan. Soon Jenna will learn first hand how
devoted her greatest fan is and how far he will go
to have Jenna all to himself.
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Adult Summer
Reading Program
CSI:
Schaumburg
Begins May
16 and runs through August
31
This summer,
Schaumburg
Township is the
scene of the crime for our Adult Summer Reading Program,
CSI:
Schaumburg. Each participant in the
reading program must read eight (8) titles by the end of
August. Everyone is eligible to participate in the
reading program and receive a gift for completing the
reading requirements, however, only STDL patrons
are eligible for the grand prize drawing at the
program’s end. Sign-up begins May 16 at the central
library Readers’ Advisory Desk or at the branch
libraries. For more information, call our Readers'
Advisory Desk at (847) 923-3189. Watch the RA Desk
for information on special “scene of the crime” programs
to be held throughout the summer (including our DNA
presentation listed below)!
DNA Resource
Specialist Kara
Stefanson
Wednesday,
June 22,
7 – 9
p.m.
Adult
Classroom
Whether
you’re a fan of mysteries or a fan of TV’s CSI or Forensic Files
series, come and hear DNA Resource Specialist Kara
Stefanson discuss the analysis of evidence from criminal
investigations. Please note: this
presentation may not be suitable for young
patrons.
"Gotta
Write" AuthorFest
Saturday,
June 25,
10 a.m.-5
p.m.
Rasmussen
Room
Organized by
local author Denise Fleischer, in the first year of what
we hope will be an annual event, authors from
Chicagoland and surrounding areas will lead panel
discussions on writing and publishing. As of this
writing, proposed panel discussions
include: Serving Up Mysteries, Current
Trends in Romance, How to be a Master Storyteller, Myths
About Publishing, Creating Complex
Characters as well readings by individual
authors. After each panel, copies of the authors'
works will be available for purchase and signing in the
Adult Classroom. Closer to the event, a more
detailed list of discussion topics and panel
participants will be available at the Readers' Advisory
Desk and branch libraries. For more information,
please call Susan Gibberman at (847) 923-3339 or check
out their web site at www.gottawritenetwork.com.
Please note that panel topics and participants are
subject to change.
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Author Profile:
Stephen
Booth |
 A
newspaper and magazine journalist for more
than 25 years, Stephen Booth was born in the
English Pennine mill town of Burnley. He was
brought up on the coast at Blackpool, where
he began his career in journalism by editing his school
magazine, and wrote his first novel at the age of
12.
After
graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Birmingham Polytechnic (now the University of Central
England), he worked as a newspaper reporter, covering
sports for a paper in Cheshire as well as working night
shifts as a sub-editor for the Daily Express and
The Guardian.
He later worked for other local papers in
Yorkshire,
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and he was at one time
Production Editor of the Farming Guardian
magazine. Booth supplemented his day job with
freelance writing, beginning with rugby reports for
national newspapers and local radio stations. He
published a variety of articles and photographs in
numerous journals and in July 1999, won a £5000 prize
for his first mystery novel, The Only Dead Thing
(as yet unpublished).
Stephen's
first published novel, Black Dog, was
named by the 'London Evening Standard' as one of the
best six crime novels of 2000 - the only book on their
list that was written by a British author. It went on to
win the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel and was
nominated for an Anthony Award for Best First Mystery
Novel. In addition to publication in the USA,
translations have been published in eight languages, and
TV and film options have been sold. His second
novel, Dancing with
the Virgins, was nominated for the UK's top
crime writing award, the Macallan Gold Dagger, and went
on to win Stephen a Barry Award for the second year
running.
His
books are set in the beautiful and atmospheric
Derbyshire Peak District and feature two young police
detectives, DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry. In 2003, Ben
Cooper was a finalist for the Sherlock Award for the
Best Detective created by a British author, thanks to
his exploits in the third book of the series, Blood on the
Tongue. That same year, Stephen won the
CWA's Dagger in the Library Award, presented to the
author whose books have given readers most
pleasure. A fourth title, Blind to the
Bones, was published in 2003, and his most
recent release is One Last
Breath.
Stephen gave up journalism in
2001 to write crime novels full time. He and his
wife live in a former Georgian dower house near Retford,
Nottinghamshire. They have three goats and three
cats. Check out Stephen's web site at: www.stephen-booth.com.
MAIN
DISPLAYS
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April |
On the
High Seas |
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May |
Mother
Russia |
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June |
World
of Forensics and Serial
Killers |
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July |
American
and English
Cozies |
MINI
DISPLAYS
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April
1 - 15 |
Coming
to America |
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April
16 - 30 |
Paranormal |
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May 1
- 15 |
Mothers
and Daughters |
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May 16
- 31 |
Down
on the Farm |
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June 1
- 15 |
Windy
City Reads |
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June
16 - 30 |
Here
Comes the Bride |
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July 1
- 15 |
Laughing
Out Loud |
STAFF
PICKS TABLE
This
table includes an assortment of titles read and enjoyed
by library staff from the various fiction collections
(general fiction, mystery, science fiction) within the
department.
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The
following is a list of upcoming theatrical
releases based on novels, now playing or coming
soon to a movie theatre near
you: |
Be
Cool by Elmore
Leonard
Hostage by Robert
Crais
Sahara by Clive
Cussler
The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas
Adams
The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann
Brahares
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DID
YOU KNOW....? (A bit of trivia with a
literary
bent) |
The New York
Public Library's original landmark building at Fifth
Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan was built on the
site of the old Croton Reservoir. Some stones were
used to construct the library's original foundation and
can now be seen from the lower levels of the South Court
building.
The
only 15 letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable."
The
Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
every year because when it was built, engineers failed
to take into account the weight of all the books that
would occupy the building.
Sherlock
Holmes never said
"Elementary, my dear Watson."
The
Guinness Book of Records holds the
record for being the book most often stolen from public
libraries.
The name
"Wendy" was invented for the book Peter Pan - there
was never a recorded Wendy before that
time.
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