book talk for june 25 2024

Book Talk

Book Talk for June 25 2024

Dinner in Camelot: the night America's greatest scientists, writers, and scholars partied at the Kennedy White House
by Joseph Esposito

Account of a dinner on April 29, 1962, hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy for Nobel laureates, writers, scientists, historians, and artists. Discusses the historical context of the dinner, notable interactions, and the many repercussions in the years following the dinner. 2018.
DB91362

Music and imagination
by Aaron Copland

These six talks, originally delivered as the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, deal with the musical mind at work in its different capacities as listener, interpreter, and creator. Copland also discusses specific manifestations of musical mind in the music of other twentieth-century composers in Europe and the Americas.
DB32580

Little House in Brookfield
by Maria D Wilkes

"The story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin." -- Provided by publisher. For grades 3-6. 2007.
DB109118

Trunk music
by Michael Connelly

When a mob-connected Hollywood film producer is murdered, Detective Harry Bosch begins his investigation in Las Vegas. Along the trail, Bosch deals with an old flame, seedy cops, and the sordid underworld. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 1997.
BR22504 DB44802

All by myself, alone
by Mary Higgins Clark

A month after her soon-to-be husband is arrested for fraud, gems expert Celia Kilbride accepts a last-minute invitation to lecture aboard a cruise ship on its maiden voyage. But instead of enjoying the escape, Celia soon realizes that she is on board with a murderous thief. Willy and Alvirah Meehan help investigate. Bestseller. 2017.
DB88215

Out of Season
by Steven Havill

New Mexico. Sheriff Martin Holman and his brother-in-law, pilot Philip Camp, are killed when their plane crashes near the Mexican border. When Undersheriff Bill Gastner learns Philip was shot, he and Detective Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigate clues left on a roll of film. Some violence and some strong language. 1999.
DB60614

Mind Games
by Nora Roberts

A town like Alice
by Nevil Shute

A young Englishwoman, taken prisoner of war in Malaya by the Japanese, is befriended by an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who risks his life to help her. After the war she travels to Australia to repay her debt of gratitude and to begin a new life in the Australian outback. Original title, 'The legacy.'
DB17647

The Bone Yard a body farm novel
by Jefferson Bass

A Florida forensic analyst training with Dr. Bill Brockton at the Tennessee Body Farm asks Brockton to help prove her sister didn't commit suicide. After arriving in Florida, Brockton is drawn into a mystery involving two adolescent skulls discovered near a juvenile-detention facility. Some violence and some strong language. 2011.
DB78040

The yoga store murder: the shocking true account of the lululemon athletica killing
by Dan Morse

Washington Post reporter dissects the March 2011 murder of a young saleswoman by her coworker in an upscale yoga-apparel boutique in Bethesda, Maryland--a killing overheard but ignored by employees in the Apple Store next door. Violence and some strong language. 2013.
DB77925