Here's a sampling of new titles added to the Library collection this month:
On Meditation & Creativity: Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch. The film director and artist tells how Transcendental Meditation changed his life.
On Parenting: The Power of Play : How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Healthier Children by David Elkind.
On Arts Criticism: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. You may have read some of them in The New Yorker or The New York Review of Books.
On Politics:What a Party: My Life Among Democrats, Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists and Other Wild Animals by Terry McAuliffe.
On History:The Lost World of John Smithson: Science, Revolution and the Birth of the Smithsonian by Heather Ewing.
On Movie Music: Hitchcock's Music by Jack Sullivan.Have you ever considered how music in the movies enhances the story?
On Economics:Capitalism 3.0: a Guide To Reclaiming the Commons by Peter Barnes.
Biography:Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Fame and the Game by Jerry Rice. Did you see him on Dancing With the Stars?
Prefer Fiction? Alexander McCall Smith continues the Ladies #1 Detective Agency series with The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Jodi Picoult wrote her latest, Nineteen Minutes about a high school shooting. In The Testament of Gideon Mack, James Robertson has his atheistic, Scottish minister meet up with the devil. And, did you read John Updike's New Yorker review of Jane Smiley's latest? Ten Days in the Hills about ten people for ten days is modeled on the Decameron and is "roughly half talk and half sex" according to Updike.
If you look in the Library catalog and do not find what you want, please let me know. We will try to get it for you. As soon as a title is on order, you may place a reserve.