tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26228430943757300042024-03-12T23:18:40.916-04:00Wellesley Free Library Staff ReadsLibrarians blog about their favorite books, movies, and music!Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.comBlogger313125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-78845699719311325292015-05-21T11:54:00.002-04:002015-05-21T12:04:44.531-04:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: The Spy's Son<a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b3209879"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Spy's Son: How CIA Officer Jim Nicholson Twice Betrayed Country and Kin for Russia</span></span></b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">riveting story of the Nicholsons, father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997, Nicholson became the highest ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But his duplicity didn't stop there. While behind the bars of a federal prison, the former mole systematically groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When asked to smuggle messages out of prison to Russian contacts, Nathan saw an opportunity to be heroic and to make his father proud. </span></span><br />
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Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-22182104336368882312012-07-10T10:58:00.001-04:002012-07-10T11:00:36.824-04:00Deb enjoyed The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (the audiobook)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jefferson Mays narration of Simon Mawer's family epic begins in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia. As the Landauer's build their dream house, political events unfold which threaten their home and their lives. Mays' voice reflects the tension of people whose homeland is about to be torn apart, whose fears include impending pogroms, work camps and Nazi occupation. The house, built as a "modern house adapted to the future rather than the past, to the openness of modern living" remains standing in stark contrast to unfolding world events.<br />
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-72662619179839844802012-07-06T11:59:00.000-04:002012-07-06T12:10:40.190-04:00Gifts of the Crow<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: ARIAL; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Suddenly a crow turns his head, caws softly,
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The woman, Lijana Holmes, smiles and calls him "Bela" as she offers him a
breakfast of eggs and meat, which she prepares daily. </span></span><span style="font-family: ARIAL; font-size: small;"> Five-and-a-half years ago we captured Bela
and affixed light plastic rings to his legs for identification. So
whenever he sees us, the old crow cocks his head, stares, takes flight
and swoops low--right at us--screaming a harsh call that we immediately
recognize as a bird scold. His family and neighbors hear the cry and
join in, flying toward Bela to support his attack, and soon they, too,
share his rage. The mobbing crows circle and scream above our heads just
as they would do to a predator. Bela's discriminating actions give us
remarkable and invaluable information, proving that crows can recognize
and remember human faces. We wonder when, or if, he will ever forget (or
forgive) us. The gifts of the crow are physical, metaphorical, and
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<i><span style="font-family: ARIAL; font-size: small;"> Although packed with the latest research this is far from a dry academic tome. Instead the authors use </span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>plenty of anecdotes which will keep you fascinated. You will be amazed at just how smart these social birds are. </i></span></span><br />
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It’s not often that I agree with the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. I, for one, would trust me a lot sooner than I would
trust the Academy to pick anything but Best Make-up. I can’t be lobbied and my
vote can’t be bought. I never have any friends or relatives up for nomination
and I have never taken a film course. So you can believe me when I say that <a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2886489" target="_blank">The King’s Speech</a> is a really good film. As you no doubt know, the movie is about
King George VI, his terrible stutter, his non-fawning speech coach and yes, his
big speech on the eve of World War II. Not an obviously attractive subject. (What,
no chase scenes?) See it for the acting,
a satisfying story and especially the interplay between King (Colin Firth) and “doctor”
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to “true,” <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2011/01/churchill_didnt_say_that.html" target="_blank">some history has been mangled</a> in the filmmaking process. </div>
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Whether you are hoping to take some nice family photos at the beach this summer with your new digital camera, are interested in learning advanced lighting details for your photographic subjects, or enjoy reading essays on photography, you may enjoy some of our newest books in this genre.<br />
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<a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2960011" target="_blank"><i style="color: red;"><b>Rethinking digital photography : making & using contemporary & traditional photo tools</b></i> </a>by John Neel.<br />
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<i style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2943066" style="color: red;" target="_blank">The life and death of buildings : on photography and time</a> </b></i>by Joel Smith<br />
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<i style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2958857" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Light essentials : a subject-centric</span> <span style="color: red;">approach to lighting for digital photography</span></a></b></i><i style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2958857" target="_blank"> </a></b></i>by Don Giannatti<br />
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<i style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2892770" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Composition : from snapshots to great shots</a> </b></i>by Laurie Excell<br />
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<i><b><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2871370" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Simply beautiful photographs</a> </b></i>by Annie Griffiths<br />
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-7543226499852400302012-06-22T15:12:00.001-04:002012-06-22T15:14:13.509-04:00Megan recommends: The Kissing List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2985411" target="_blank"><b>The Kissing List</b></a> by <b>Stephanie Reents</b><br />
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Don't let the title of the book or its cover fool you. This book doesn't qualify as chick-lit. Rather, you're getting linked short stories by an author who is a former Rhodes Scholar. Yes, there's a single girl in the city theme, but it's more along the lines of HBO's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723816/" target="_blank">Girls</a> than <a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2103679" target="_blank">Sex and the City</a>. Reents is a talented writer.<br />
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mafWellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-72795983636984044592012-06-20T12:01:00.000-04:002012-06-20T12:01:48.451-04:00I loved listening to Diane Keaton's Then Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Diane Keaton's remarkable, insightful, stunningly written memoir about her mother and herself would be enough of a great read on its own. The audio version, narrated by Keaton, enhances and embellishes the story with the 'voice' of the author - at times funny, sad, desperate, confused, hopeful and brimming with love. We meet Diane's mother through Dorothy's journals, kept over a lifetime. We get a glimpse into the mother/daughter relationship, hear stories about the Keaton and Hall families and begin to understand how tremendous creative energy can be passed on from one generation to the next. Keaton also shares her sentiments about her own career, boyfriends, phobias and illnesses. <br />
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<strong><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2885311" target="_blank">Maine</a></strong> by <strong>J. Courtney Sullivan</strong><br />
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This is a great novel about four women from an Boston Irish Catholic family and their relation to the family's summer home in Maine. Alice, the matriarch, Kathleen, the daughter, Ann Marie, the daughter-in-law, and Maggie, the granddaughter are the four protagonists. Each has a story to tell in alternating chapters and ethnicity, tribalism and religious identity have strong influences on all of their lives. This book has lots of local color and reminded me of the novels of Alice McDermott. <br />
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mafWellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-33231317789838113892012-06-12T20:39:00.000-04:002012-06-12T20:39:01.727-04:00Rob Recommends The Columnist<br />
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<b>A novel in the form of a memoir of an extremely obnoxious
a##h##e.</b> I’m guessing it’s harder than we think: to have the narrator prove his arrogance in
almost every paragraph yet be oblivious to how his audience is judging him. And
this is what makes <a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2004749" target="_blank">The Columnist</a> a fun read—catching every self-serving
rationalization, every twist of a knife told as stroke of fortune and every
conceited deceit disguised as innocent miscommunication. And the story itself?
We follow the career of Brandon Sladder from novice (but self-inflated,
nevertheless) reporter to influential (yes, and still self-inflated) columnist
and opinion-maker. Along the way Sladder uses all who would befriend him—girlfriends,
editors, secretaries, prostitutes and sources—dumping them when they were no
longer needed. The author works real people into the plot, but never makes it
explicit just which (if any) big shot columnist Sladder is modeled on. (<a href="http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/theater/reviews/john-lithgow-in-the-columnist-at-friedman-theater.html" target="_blank">The play</a> based on the book does name <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alsop" target="_blank">Joseph Alsop</a> as the satirical target.) Those old enough to remember the heyday of the
Lippmans, Alsops, Restons, Pearsons of the last century will especially enjoy
this book.</div>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-48343235901704456062012-06-11T11:52:00.000-04:002012-06-11T11:56:16.669-04:00Are We Alone?<div style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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Intended for general readers, this volume on the history and
possibilities of astronomical and biochemical research examines the
study of super-earths, distant planets similar to earth that allow
scientists to study how earth may have been millennia ago. Sasselov
(astronomy, Harvard U.) explores the implications of these discoveries
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<i>Life of any kind has yet to be found anyplace except on the Earth. However, within the last few years astronomers have found over 3000 exoplanet candidates. In December the Kelper satalite teleoscope found two earth sized planets orbiting sun like stars. The planets were not in the sun's habitable zone. This book has the cutting edge information on the search for alien worlds. </i></div>
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-1560218846742777902012-05-31T16:05:00.003-04:002012-05-31T16:06:53.694-04:00City of Fortune<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: blue;"><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2943774" target="_blank">City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas </a></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i> by </i></span><span style="color: black;">Roger </span><span style="color: black;">Crowley</span></div>
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The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama,
intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of
Fortune is framed around two of the great collisions of world history:
the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminated in the sacking of
Constantinople and the carve-up of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, and the
Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503. Drawing on
firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and
diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious,
enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Crowley's narrative is a quick page turner for history lovers. He does a great job explaining the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">how Venice controlled the spice trade between Europe and Asia. A trade which put them at odds with the Mongols, Genoans, and Turks.</span></i><br />
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-54165367600718768462012-05-28T00:48:00.000-04:002012-05-28T01:11:41.401-04:00Sue Recommends The Innocent by David BaldacciDavid Baldacci is best known for his Camel Club Series featuring Oliver Stone, but fans should try out his newest book, <b><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2957211" style="color: #741b47;" target="_blank"><i></i></a><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2622843094375730004">The Innocent</a></i></b>. This standalone thriller<br />
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highlights an unnamed government agency that employs snipers, such as Will Robie, to perform sanctioned assassinations usually overseas but occasionally in the U.S.<br />
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The problem with Will Robie is that he has a moral center, a conscience, and has the ability to think for himself.
Is his job assignment to kill a suspected terrorist (who turns out to be a mother with 2 small children AND an FBI agent) a political ploy that is connected with the murder of the parents of a 14 year old gifted student who has been in and out of foster homes? Can Will remain objective or will his sympathy for this new orphan threaten his and her lives and draw him further into a side of Washington that you and I do not even want to think exists?<br />
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If this is your introduction to David Baldacci, you will enjoy a fully thought out plot with lots of twists and turns and then be looking up his other books to continue your enjoyment. I, for one, hope that Will Robie will become the main character in more of the author's stories. SHWellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-72557145781660746832012-05-22T17:41:00.001-04:002012-05-22T17:41:19.489-04:00Rob Recommends Listening to Richistan<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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My family listened to <a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2879690" target="_blank">Richistan</a>, by Robert Frank, on a
recent car trip to New Jersey. Frank is a Wall Street Journal reporter who got
himself assigned to cover the super-wealthy beat in America. He spent a year
traveling the country, observing, studying and interviewing the very wealthiest
Americans. The author came to believe that the best way to understand this
group of millionaires is to see them as inhabiting a separate country. To help
the rest of us understand this nation’s culture and people, Frank wrote this
book, Richistan: a Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of
the New Rich. Richistan is a fascinating and funny glimpse into a world most of
us could never imagine. It’s a world of $700,000 watches, 300 foot yachts,
millionaire support groups, $25,000 a plate charity dinners and residents who
don’t know how many cars they own. In one particularly interesting chapter,
Frank takes us through butler training at Butler Boot Camp. The rigors of the
training course say more about those doing the employing (“principals”) than
about the trainees themselves. (FYI, the top graduates of elite butler schools
earn $75-120,000 per year.) Throughout, Frank accomplishes the nearly
impossible feat of neither fawning over nor disparaging the citizens of
Richistan. See what you think…</div>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-1372233821788799512012-05-19T12:32:00.002-04:002012-05-31T10:27:04.327-04:00Deb enjoyed Bill Cunningham - New York<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you enjoy the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" style="color: red;" target="_blank">New York Times</a> Style section, you are surely familiar with Bill Cunningham's work. As the pre-eminent chronicler of fashion trends and high society events, Cunningham's photography has graced the pages of the Times for decades. An official selection at the 2010 Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival, filmmaker Richard Press documents Cunningham's bohemian lifestyle, in stark contrast to the flamboyance of many of his subjects. A man of the street, Cunningham's bicycle is his only mode of transportation, in all weather, capturing life in the city. Well known as one of the most important people in New York fashion, his 'On the Street' column documents eclectic, individual looks worn by everyday New Yorkers. Check out this film and watch an artist at work.Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-16812723626357043662012-05-18T14:38:00.000-04:002012-05-18T14:52:23.252-04:00This Mighty Scourge<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2738063" target="_blank">This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War </a></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><i> by </i></span><span style="color: black;">James M. </span><span style="color: black;">McPherson </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> </span>The Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about the Civil War. Topics include the Lost Cause Mystique, Peace Negotiations, Myths of the confederacy and Jesse James.<br />
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<i>McPherson's essays ask; Why did the war come?, What were each sides objectives? How did each side try to obtain those objectives? How good was the leadership of both sides? What was the impact of the war on those who lived through it?</i> <i>A very interesting and thought provoking read.</i><br />
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<a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2907282" target="_blank"><b>The Call</b></a> by <b>Yannick Murphy</b><br />
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I really liked this short novel with an alternative style. Told in the form of notes in a journal, the story concerns the life of a veterinarian and his family in rural New England. The veterinarian's son is injured in a hunting accident and the family has to deal with the aftermath of that. A quirky book that is a celebration of the simple joys and daily rhythms of family life. <br />
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mafWellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-24962305684112664052012-05-10T15:36:00.000-04:002012-05-10T15:40:45.434-04:00<span style="font-size: large;">Peggy Recommends Two Upbeat Films; <i>Romantics Anonymous</i> and <i>The Women on the Sixth Floor</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">No time or money to take in Paris this springtime? Pick one or both of these delightful and feel-good DVDs and be in France instantly courtesy of your remote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> In <i><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2971259" target="_blank">Romantics Anonymous</a>,</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Jean-Rene and Angelique
fall in love </span><span style="font-size: small;">drawn
together through a shared </span><span style="font-size: small;">passion for chocolate but neither is able to </span><span style="font-size: small;">express how they feel. Sadly, their
crippling shyness is driving them apart. But eventually, they manage to
overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true
feelings. The <i>Huffington Post</i> called this "one of France's best new films."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> In <a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2975701" target="_blank"><i>The Women on the Sixth Floor</i></a> it's Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house ultimately transforms everyone's life. PM</span></div>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-89340119309904971552012-05-08T20:38:00.000-04:002012-05-08T20:38:05.600-04:00Rob Recommends the documentary There But for Fortune<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I will admit it hadn’t occurred to me to mention <a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2911994">There But for Fortune</a> here in Staff Reads. But I happened across a list of top movies for
2011 and there it was (with a rottentomatoes.com rating by critics of 100%
positive).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film documents the life
and work of Phil Ochs—the protest singer form the 1960s and 70s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>There But for Fortune</b> breaks no new ground in
movie-making, but does a very nice job of placing Ochs in the storm of
counter-cultural/anti-war protest that seemed to envelop the decade. With
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had assumed that
the film’s appeal for me had to do with my having grown up listening to his
songs. Plus his family and mine criss-crossed in a couple of minor ways in New
York. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was with some surprise that I read the
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In addition to the movie, the Library owns seven <a href="http://library.minlib.net/search%7ES39?/aochs+phil/aochs+phil/1%2C2%2C12%2CB/exact&FF=aochs+phil&1%2C11%2C" target="_blank">CDs byOchs</a>.</div>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-75851209489471747092012-05-05T12:32:00.000-04:002012-05-05T12:34:57.673-04:00Sue Recommends The Technologists by Matthew Pearl<style>
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Give <a href="https://library.minlib.net/record=b2945676"><i style="color: purple;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TheTechnologists</b></i></a>, an historical suspense novel written by Matthew Pearl, a
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If you have any interest in
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He researched the MIT's first class's student journals and other histories of Boston and MIT to paint a picture of life in Boston in the 1860s. The suspicion that Professor Rogers and his students provoked because they chose to take science past the theory and apply it to make a better world may seemed to be where Harvard and MIT differed and the friction began between the two schools. </div>
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I listened to the <a href="https://library.minlib.net/record=b2952959"><b style="color: purple;">Book on CD</b></a> and found that it was difficult to shut it off and I kept reaching for the next disc to keep the story going. All I can say is try it, you will certainly like it!</div>
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SH</div>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-73138027917295266642012-05-03T13:56:00.000-04:002012-05-04T14:03:40.904-04:00Deb suggests listening to Elizabeth and Hazel : Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When Elizabeth Eckford tried to enter the newly desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 as part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine">Little Rock Nine</a>, she was unaware that photographers would capture her image along with Hazel Bryan, her white tormentor. The photos of the 15 year old girls would come to symbolize the highly charged Civil Rights struggle for school integration. Award-winning narrator <a href="http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/gvpages/A1554.shtml">Carrington MacDuffie's </a>stellar performance combines perfect timing with her subtle southern softening of the language. Margolick chronicles the girls' tumultous lives into adulthood including their reunion and reconciliation many years later.Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-59498562199602822492012-04-26T11:08:00.002-04:002012-04-26T11:15:35.222-04:00What ifs of American History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2187899">What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been </a></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i> edited by </i>Robert </span><span style="color: black;">Cowley</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> </span>An all-American collection of essays on the pivotal moments in our nation's history by award-winning historians, the third in the bestselling series. The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. The essays are chock-full of provocative ideas; they are as accessible to the general reader as they are to the scholar; and they are the perfect gift for the dedicated history buff on anyone's list. In this new collection of never-before-published essays, our brightest historians speculate about some of America's more intriguing crossroads.<br />
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<i>Each historian examines a pivotal event, then considers the ramifications had the event come out differently. Contributor's include;David McCullough,James M. McPherson,Tom Wicker and Robert Dallek. Some of my favorites are </i><b>Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth</b><i> by Jay Winik and </i><b>The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust</b><i> by Robert L. O'Connell.</i><br />
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-35459809013239982512012-04-18T18:16:00.011-04:002012-04-18T19:37:09.194-04:00First Great Triumph<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AYXz7bsn_HE/T49PPRHy3GI/AAAAAAAADyc/w5ji1KRhg-4/s1600/First%2BGreat%2BTriumph.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AYXz7bsn_HE/T49PPRHy3GI/AAAAAAAADyc/w5ji1KRhg-4/s320/First%2BGreat%2BTriumph.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732887974378658914" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2108967"><span style="font-size:+1;color:black;">First Great Triumph : How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power </span></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b2108967"> </a><br /> <span style="color:black;"><i> by </i></span><span style="color:black;">Warren Zimmermann<br /><br /><br /></span>"We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement."--<span style="font-weight: bold;">Theodore Roosevelt, 1904</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the United States became an imperial nation within five short years a century ago (1898-1903), exploding onto the international scene with the conquest of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, and (indirectly) Panama. How did the nation become a player in world politics so suddenly? What inspired the move toward imperialism in the first place? Read and find out.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The authors center the story on five men Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred T. Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, and Elihu Root. These five friends pushed for the U.S. to be involved in international affairs at a time when their elders remembered or fought in the Civil War and knew how awful war could be.<br /><br />TB<br /></span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-27466634473061890662012-04-14T11:10:00.006-04:002012-04-14T11:33:37.398-04:00To Win a Nuclear War<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqR9_yEGMqw/T4mVW7imwKI/AAAAAAAADyE/JPNHVefSRIk/s1600/Win%2BNuclear%2BWar.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqR9_yEGMqw/T4mVW7imwKI/AAAAAAAADyE/JPNHVefSRIk/s320/Win%2BNuclear%2BWar.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5731276221978165410" border="0" /></a><a href="http://library.minlib.net/record=b1674557"><span style="font-size:130%;color:black;"><b>To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans</b> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></a><br /> <span style="color:black;"><i> by </i>Michio </span><span style="color:black;">Kaku</span><span style="color:black;"> and </span><span style="color:black;">Daniel</span><span style="color:black;"> Axelrod, </span><span style="font-style: italic;color:black;" >Introduction by</span><span style="font-style: italic;color:black;" > Ramsey </span><span style="font-style: italic;color:black;" >Clark<br /><br /></span>The authors show that the U.S. nuclear policy of nuclear deterrence has been nothing but political spin. The real policy has been one of threatening the use of nuclear weapons. The book uses unclassified documents to show the evolution of the pentagons nuclear strategy and efforts to integrate nuclear weapons into war fighting doctrine.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">What this book shows is how President Eisenhower and the military chiefs debated the possibility of a first strike against the U.S.S.R. in 1952. Amazing that the decision was made all behind closed walls and that Eisenhower kept us out of a nuclear war.</span><br /><br />TBWellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622843094375730004.post-72766033064747169772012-04-11T20:14:00.004-04:002012-04-11T20:38:37.793-04:00Mike Suggests Guy Delisle<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7k5vkRo5HC4/T4YeqMvo53I/AAAAAAAADx0/Df3AcUE-kX0/s1600/delisle.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7k5vkRo5HC4/T4YeqMvo53I/AAAAAAAADx0/Df3AcUE-kX0/s320/delisle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730301286199912306" border="0" /></a>Being a librarian means that I'm in danger of contracting a type of book malaise, because I'm constantly inundated with pre-publication information and I never can seem to get a handle on the torrent of books that I come across daily. That malaise was overcome today when I realized that one of my favorite graphic novelists, and a fantastic travel writer to boot, is going to be releasing his newest on April 24th. <a href="http://library.minlib.net/search%7ES39/?searchtype=a&searcharg=delisle%2C+guy&searchscope=39&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=Xguy+delisle%26SORT%3DD">Guy Delisle</a> has written and illustrated insightful travelogues that focus on societies traditionally closed to Westerners, largely because he worked in these countries as an animation supervisor or traveled with his wife (who works at an NGO). Delving into societies and the cultures of Burma, China, and North Korea, Delisle's graphic novels provide us with a perspective of an everyman struggling to understand and make himself understood in these societies while displaying the humanity, inherent in the cultures, that's being perverted by totalitarian cultures. This makes it all the more interesting that this round he's focusing on Jerusalem, which is rife with topics for him to explore. To top it all off <a href="http://www.harvard.com/event/guy_delisle">he'll be at the Harvard Book Store on the 25th</a>, and I'm sure it'll be a treat for all who go.Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746442351982397017noreply@blogger.com0