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	Conspirata Conspirata is a work of historical fiction set in Ancient Rome. A sequel to Harris’ novel Imperium, Conspirata continues the story of the life of the great orator and politician Cicero. The book begins in the year 63 B.C., when Cicero was elected consul of Rome.	05/10/2010

	Master of the Delta 'In the early 1950s, Jack Branch returns to his hometown of Lakeland to teach at the local high school as his father did before him. The Branchs are the aristocracy of this southern community and Jack has attended some of the finest private schools and universities. The Branchs see teaching as the noblesse oblige to the community that has been the family home for more than a hundred years. Jack is challenged by his unmotivated students and attempts to engage them by introducing a course on evil. He peppers his lectures with examples of horrid deeds from the past such as the shipwreck of the Medusa. '>	05/10/2010

	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin defied Jim Crow and refused her bus seat to a white woman, setting the stage for the Montgomery bus boycotts. But the black citizens of Montgomery were not yet ready for Claudette’s defiance. They were afraid of the consequences that her actions might bring to them, and did not see her as an appropriate representative of the black community. Instead of showing support, they mocked and shunned her.	05/10/2010

	Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road In a ten-month time span in 1997 and 1998, Neil Peart lost his 19-year-old daughter to a single-car accident and his wife to cancer. He was devastated. Peart is best-known as the drummer for the Canadian rock band Rush. He’s also their lyricist. Yet Ghost Rider, his chronicle of healing from his terrible losses, reveals talents barely hinted at in his music career.	05/10/2010

	Remarkable Creatures This is the story of an unusual friendship that developed between poor, uneducated Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster in early 1800s England, pre-Darwin. They shared a common passion of fossil-hunting and through trials and tribulations maintained a friendship for several decades. Mary Anning’s discoveries of fossilized skeletons of the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus rocked the scientific and religious worlds.	05/10/2010

	Asthma: The Biography Mark Jackson, Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, contributed a volume on asthma for Oxford University Press’s series Biographies of Disease. Asthma and allergies, as you may know, have been on a progressive trend afflicting more and more people since the beginning of the 20th century. Knowing this, I was interested to see what asthma was like in the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods of history. In addition, I wanted to know the latest theories explaining this increasing trend.	05/10/2010

	Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend If you’ve ever done genealogical (or historical) research and felt the intrigue and energy of peeling back layers of information to open windows on the past, this is a beautifully written description of the process. Ms. Gerzina embarked on a search to authenticate the story of Lucy Terry. Born a slave in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, Lucy Terry was reputed to have argued a case before the Supreme Court. How much of this story could be true?	05/10/2010

	The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Boy King: A Nonfiction Thriller by James Patterson and Martin Dugard I recently read, and thoroughly enjoyed, The Murder of King Tut . Like many others in the world, I have been fascinated by the story of Tut and his untimely death when he was only a teenager. Unlike some people, I have never been interested in reading tomes of history on this subject.	02/08/2010

	Going Bovine As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.	02/08/2010

	Christmas Stories I didn’t check out this story collection until after Christmas but reading it out of season did not lessen my enjoyment. Great writers from Charles Dickens to Richard Ford are represented in this collection.	02/08/2010

	A Change in Altitude Two newly-wed Americans, in their late 20s, find themselves in Africa in the late 70s, where Patrick, the husband and a medical doctor, is working a year in Kenya as part of his fellowship in equatorial medicine. An adventure, climbing Mount Kenya with two other couples, takes a deadly turn, and deeply affects the relationship between Margaret and Patrick.	02/08/2010

	The Broken Teaglass: A Novel Have you ever wondered what employees at a dictionary company do? I hadn’t but I found out anyway when I read The Broken Teaglass. The story is about Billy and Mona, two young editors working at the Samuelson Dictionary Company, who discover some puzzling citations in the word files.	02/08/2010

	Snow Angels Despite a plot that stretches the bounds of credulity, Snow Angels by James Thompson fields a solid first entry for a new police procedural series starring Inspector Kari Vaara. It’s kaamos, the darkest time of the year above the Arctic Circle in Finland, when Inspector Vaara is called to the scene of a brutal murder of B-movie star, Sufia Elmi, a beautiful black Somali immigrant.	02/08/2010

	Greek Gods and Goddesses Are you familiar with all the Greek gods and goddesses from ancient Greek mythology? Did you check out the display easels during AP World Literature or did you refrain from paying attention in class? Well here’s a quiz to test your memory, can you name these 12 Greek gods and goddesses?	01/15/2010

	101 Great Children's Books to Share with Your Kids If you’re trying to get your children more interested in reading, there are tons of fun books out there that can be of assistance. The following is a list of 101 children’s books, and most of these stories are appropriate for middle grade readers (ages 9 to 12). Some are popular and some are lesser known.	01/15/2010

	Howling at New Moon After grabbing the attention of millions with Twilight, Stephenie Meyer responded with the sequel, New Moon. Reactions varied, but most prevalent among them were the complaints about not enough Edward. Some devoted fans had to literally force themselves to finish Book Two in The Twilight Saga.	01/15/2010

	The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 'Frankie, daughter of Senior an alum of Alabaster Prep, has heard story after story of the antics of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, a secret society only open to the male gender.	08/04/2009

	After Devon is scared. She is in Tacoma's Juvenile Detention Center and she can't quite remember why. She remembers that a few days before she was home alone, which she always is as her mom works two jobs with graveyard shifts.	08/04/2009

	Hunger Games Hunger Games is a cruel reality TV show, in which, 24 teens, chosen by lottery, fight each other to the death. The only rule: you can’t eat the dead, and the winner goes on to live a life of luxury and ease.	08/04/2009

	Catching Fire Catching Fire is the second book in a trilogy continuing the story of Katniss and as difficult to put down as Hunger Games. Katniss finds it difficult to adjust to life back home and the President of Panem believes the country’s unrest is her fault.	08/04/2009

	The Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation In 1780, in the throes of the American Revolution, Abigail Adams wrote in a letter to her son John Quincy Adams, “These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”	08/04/2009

	Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History Senna’s narrative is very much in the vein of Walls’ The Glass Castle or Bragg’s All Over But the Shoutin. It surpasses both for its examination, not only of Senna’s parents relationship, but for its exploration of identity today, yesterday and tomorrow.	08/04/2009

	Out Stealing Horses After the accidental death of his second wife, Trond Sander moves into a remote cabin on the eastern edge of Norway. He stubbornly plans to spend the rest of his life alone, without a telephone, without visitors.	08/04/2009

	Suite Scarlett Scarlett's family runs the once illustrious and now dilapidated Hopewell Hotel in New York City. On her fifteenth birthday, in the Martin family tradition, Scarlett is given a room in the hotel that will be her responsibility to manage and take care of the guests that stay there.	08/04/2009

	The Draining Lake The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason is an engaging and historically informative mystery that opens with a skeleton that is revealed by the receding waters of Lake Kleifarvatn near Hafnarfjordur in Iceland. Forensics determine the body has been in the lake since at least 1970 and that the cause of death was most likely the blow to head as indicated by the hole in the skull.	04/24/2009

	Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust For three months during the 1994 Rwandan holocaust the author and seven other women spent three months hiding in a bathroom the size of a small closet. Immaculee did not know if her family was living or dead as she crouched in silence so that killers would not hear her breathing beyond the wall. She lost one-third of her body weight.	04/24/2009

	Emma s Table: A novel After her release from prison for tax evasion, Emma Sutton, obviously modeled after Martha Stewart, finds herself disenchanted with the empire she had build from the ground up. The turning point comes at an auction, where Emma, in a moment of egotistical, cut-throat maneuvering purchases a table out from under a fellow bidder.	04/24/2009

	Company of Liars An ominous preface is forgotten as Maitland spins out her tale of motley travelers across a plague-ridden and rain-soaked England in 1348. Camelot, the disfigured relic-peddler unwittingly attracts a motley crew of individuals who seek protection from the plague and the outside world.	04/24/2009

	Silent in the Grave This debut novel from Deanna Reybourn begins a series of Victorian mystery/romances featuring the Lady Julia Grey. Lady Grey comes from an extended family of rebellious and quirky characters, but she herself has chosen a life of complete respectability. After her husband's untimely death, everything she thought she knew about him–and about herself–begins to unravel. The mysterious Nicholas Brisbane and Julia's feelings for him only add to the complexity she faces.	04/24/2009

	Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex If you’ve ever been curious about how to scientifically study one of the most morally sensitive subjects of all time and only be mostly mature about it, this one is for you.	04/24/2009

	America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life Author Denizet-Lewis follows the lives of eight addicts who battle a variety of addictions ranging from alcohol/drug abuse, overeating, sex/pornography, gambling, and shoplifting.	04/24/2009

	Special Topics in Calamity Physics Pessle's first novel provides modern literary noir as an intelligent high school girl comes of age. Anything but adolescent, this novel of academia offers mystery, adventure, clever characterization, and an infinite array of "novel" adjectives, metaphors, and puns.	04/24/2009

	White Teeth Book Review by Kasey Riley provided by the Johnson County Library	01/12/2009

	Hattie Big Sky Book Review by Mary Lofstrom provided by the Johnson County Library	01/01/2009

	Garden Spells Book Review by Terri Bostic provided by the Johnson County Library	01/01/2009

	The Writers Place Poetry Reading Series The Writers Place and Johnson County Library have held a poetry reading on the third Tuesday of each month.	01/01/2009

	Seeking Whom He May Devour: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Investigates Book Review by Susan Bogart provided by the Johnson County Library	01/01/2009

	The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade Book Review by Linda Riehle provided by the Johnson County Library	01/01/2009

	Little Brother Book Review by Terri Bostic provided by the Johnson County Library	01/01/2009

	The Wordy Shipmates Book Review by Becky Carleton provided by the Johnson County Library	01/01/2009

	Classic Love Stories What makes a book a classic? The term classic is usually applied to a piece of literature that by common consent has achieved a recognized superior status in literary history. Johnson County Library	01/01/2009

	Aunt Dimity Goes West Book Review by Linda King	11/18/2008

	Review of Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Book review by Becky Carleton, Johnson County Library	11/18/2008

	The Shadow of the Wind Book review by Cindy Guyler	11/18/2008

	Luncheon of the Boating Party Book review by Donna Lauffer	11/18/2008

	One Hundred Years of Solitude Book review by Kasey Riley	11/18/2008

	Sharp Teeth Book review by Dennis Ross	11/18/2008

	MY Fellow Americans Book review by Helen Hokanson	11/18/2008

	How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better Book review by Cyndi Chappell	11/18/2008

	Action Adventure: Featured Genre Insight into the Action Adventure Genre by Brian Oertel	11/18/2008

	True Crime: Featured Genre True Crime is a nonfiction genre characterized by the fact it is based on a real crime, real people and usually involves murder. True crime can be fictionalized or historically based, produced quickly or reflectively depending on the subject or author and the fever of public interest. It generally focuses on the crime or the criminal and what makes him tick. It may delve into political assassination or the death of a celebrity.	11/18/2008

	Magdalen Nabb: Featured Author Magdalen Nabb, an English writer of Italian mysteries set in Florence, died in August of 2007 of a stroke at the age of 60, doing what she loved, riding horses. Nabb, an émigré from England in 1975 following her divorce, came to Florence with her young son, not speaking Italian, and went to work as a potter in the town of Montelupo Fiorentino, where she met the model for her Marshal Guarnaccia, a member of the Carabinieri, the police force of Italy, crying into his soup.	11/18/2008

	Review of Nancy Pickard: Featured Author 'And thus begins the chapter titled Wavering from Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott’s book on the writing process. Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: the Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment was born of an exercise Pickard used at a Writer’s Retreat in San Diego to replace the worn out presentation she usually gave at speaking engagements. It was a huge hit which grew into a retreat, and eventually into Seven Steps.'>	11/18/2008

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