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New Relax & Read Books
March 7, 2007
Midterms? Taxes? Cabin fever? Calm that stress by reading one of the new Relax & Read books.
Fiction
The View From Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro
Munro invites us into her personal life with this set of fictional accounts of her family history, written with the sensitivity and skill we have always enjoyed from this exceptional author.
Next by Michael Crichton
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps and Crichton takes advantage of them in this story exposing the problems with our government's handling of gene patents and laws governing human tissue. Are you ready to meet a human whose DNA is mixed with that of a chimps?
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
If you are a fan of The Silence of the Lambs, you may have been wondering how Hannibal Lecter was driven to his evil ways. Well, here is a book of answers for you.
Non-Fiction
For The Love Of A Dog by Patricia McConnell
Do you listen to Calling All Pets on Wisconsin Public Radio? If so, you know that McConnell really knows what dogs are all about. This book explores the emotions of dogs and how to identify & understand them. She's even included a gallery of doggy portraits that show you how they look when they're scared, happy, mad, etc.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
After 5 years of painstaking research conducted on-site all over the Middle East, Europe and America, Wright takes us through the events leading up to 9/11 by telling the story of 4 pivotal men and their role in the event.
Schott's Almanac by Ben Schott
This is not the Farmer's Almanac in a different jacket. Schott has completely reorganized the year into fifteen chapters brimming with facts and tidbits.
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