{"id":942,"date":"2014-12-03T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=942"},"modified":"2014-11-30T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:29:21","slug":"whats-new-in-the-popular-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/whats-new-in-the-popular-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s New in the Popular Collection?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know Ames Library has a Popular Reading Collection? It\u2019s located right next to the Circulation Desk<\/a>\u00a0and has dozens of titles from which to choose. Grab one of these for some light weekend reading or just to take a break from all that scholarly work you\u2019ve been doing.<\/p>\n

Some of our recent additions to the collection include:<\/p>\n

New Popular Reading Titles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bones Never Lie<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Kathy Reichs<\/p>\n

Flesh and Blood<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Patricia Cornwell<\/p>\n

Gray Mountain<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 John Grisham<\/p>\n

Handsome Man’s De Luxe Cafe<\/em> \u2013 Alexander McCall Smith<\/p>\n

Leaving Time<\/em> \u2013 Jodi Picoult<\/p>\n

Mean Streak<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Sandra Brown<\/p>\n

Revival<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Stephen King<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon.com Review<\/a><\/h3>\n
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2014:<\/a><\/strong> How does Stephen King do it? In book after book, writing long (Under the Dome<\/i>,11\/22\/63<\/i>) or short (Joyland<\/i>) he manages, nearly always, to tell a compelling story that is both entertaining and somehow profound, or at least thoughtful. His latest, Revival<\/i>, is vintage King. It\u2019s the perfect mix of baby boomer nostalgia (think Stand By Me<\/i>) \u2013 this guy remembers the 60s with details you usually can only find in photographs \u2013 and good old American horror, the kind that was first elevated by suc\"revival\"h minor writers as, say, Poe and Hawthorne. The story here centers on a reverend who comes to a New England town, befriends and mentors a young boy, and then goes wild with grief when his family dies in an accident; he gives a blasphemous sermon and is, basically, run out of town. Cut to: a couple decades later, when the boy, now a junkie, meets up by chance with the disgraced clergyman, and they form another disturbing relationship. Reverend Jacobs, it turns out, was always more complicated than the stereotypical man of God \u2013 he is fascinated by electricity, by science \u2013 and pretty demonic, too. How he and Jamie\u00a0find and fight each other over their lifetimes is as shocking and inevitable as the explosive and, yes, horrorish, climax of the book. Never mind that King\u2019s prose can sometimes lapse into laughable clich\u00e9 \u2013 \u201clike water through a sieve\u201d? Really? \u2013 there is absolutely no better storyteller than Stephen King, who keeps us up at night, with fear and fascination and admiration. \u2013Sara Nelson<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Slow Regard of\u00a0Silent Things<\/em> \u2013 Patrick Rothfuss<\/p>\n

Wolf in Winter<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 John Connolly<\/p>\n

Yes Please<\/em>\u00a0– Amy Poehler<\/p>\n

New Kindle Titles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Astonish Me<\/em> \u2013 Maggie Shipstead<\/p>\n

Delancy: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage<\/em> \u2013 Molly Wizenberg<\/p>\n

Euphoria<\/em> \u2013 Lily King<\/p>\n

Kill Switch<\/em> \u2013 James Rollins<\/p>\n

Now I See You<\/em> \u2013 Nicole C. Kear<\/p>\n

Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra<\/em> \u2013 Helen Rappaport<\/p>\n

We Are Not Ourselves<\/em> \u2013 Matthew Thomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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