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New books in the Relax & Read Collection
June 30, 2006
Let the lawn mower stay in the garage and the weeds collect in the garden while you sit in the shade with a glass of lemonade and an interesting book. Here are just a few of our new Relax & Read selections:
Non-Fiction
The Search: How Google And Its Rivals Rewrote The Rules Of Business And Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle.
Jumping into the game long after Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos and others, Google offered a radical new approach to search, redefined the idea of viral marketing, survived the dot-com crash and pulled off the largest and most talked about initial public offering in the history of Silicon Valley.
American Theocracy: The Peril & Politics Of Radical Religion, Oil & Borrowed Money In The 21st Century by Kevin Phillips
The components of downfall from the ancient Romans to the British Empire has been caused by a combination of global overreach, militant religion, diminishing resources and ballooning debt. Phillips shows that our preoccupation with oil, clumsy military miscalculations and ruinous occupation of Iraq are contributing to a fatal surge of fundamentalism and evangelism that is occupying our domestic and foreign policies.
A Simple Act Of Murder: November 22, 1963 by Mark Fuhrman
The respected LAPD detective with a track record of solving some of the most puzzling crimes in history, takes an objective new look at the case of who shot JFK. Here he unveils a major clue that has been ignored for 40 years, overturning accepted theory of how the murder occurred.
Fiction
March by Geraldine Brooks
The 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction takes the father character from Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women and creates Mr. March's experiences in the Civil War. His experiences change his marriage and challenges his beliefs.
The Man Who Could Fly And Other Stories by Rudolfo Anaya
Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chicano literature, Anaya gathers together these stories for the first time. The collection spans 30 years of his writing and includes mystery, fantasy, humor and reality.
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Born & raised in the dormitory of a small women's college by 'the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization', Frederica needs some room to breathe. Set in 1978, things shake up considerably when the new dorm mom, a former Rockette who is prone to liberal political causes, takes over Frederica's imagination. Oh, by the way, the new dorm mom is also Frederica's father's ex-wife.
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