Grafton Fans Will Like Muddled ‘X’ Here’S What’S New at the Yankton Community Library This Week: ADULT BOOKS “X” by Sue Grafton; © 2015, Putnam, and So Was Her Name
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Friday, 9.4.15 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net river city RIVER CITY: [email protected] PAGE 2B PRESS&DAKOTAN The Bookworms New At The Library Grafton Fans Will Like Muddled ‘X’ Here’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library this week: ADULT BOOKS “X” by Sue Grafton; © 2015, Putnam, and so was her name. It hadn’t been a big 403 pages job, but Kinsey wanted her money. • Bombs Away by Harry Turtledove; Fiction ——— The code Pete had fashioned was • The Color of Light by Emilie Richards; Fiction BY TERRI SCHLICHMEYER easily broken — Kinsey’s landlord, Henry, • Darkness the Color of Snow by Thomas Cobb; Fiction loved doing cryptograms — but the • Deceptions by Kelly Armstrong; Fiction The months spent with your ex are names it yielded didn’t make sense. How • Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford; Fiction better forgotten. could a woman long-dead be of any inter- • Gone Cold by Douglas Corleone; Fiction You don’t even like to think about est to anyone today? And how did Pete • In the Dark Places by Peter Robinson; Fiction them, in fact, and you rarely discuss end up with a few old pictures and a Bible • Jack Pine by William Hazelgrove; Fiction them. That’s all in the past now, and best from a lifetime ago? Better question: why • Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig; Fiction that it stay that way. Or is it? What if les- did someone else want them enough to • Last Words by Michael Koryta; Fiction sons learned from your ex back then can threaten Kinsey on her own turf? • Lavina by Mary Marcus; Fiction save the life of someone today? In the My very first thought while read- • Lawyer for the Dog by Lee Robinson; Fiction new book “X” by Sue Grafton, recovered ing “X” came to me long before I’d even • The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny; Fiction memorabilia leads to an eXtra disturbing reached the middle of the first chapter: • A Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd; Fiction discovery. there’s a lot of filler in this novel. Readers • The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton; Fiction Ruthie Wolinsky was at a total loss. — even those starting this series from • The Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe; Fiction Recently widowed when her husband here (and that’s OK, by the way) — don’t • The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory; Fic- was murdered under shady circumstanc- generally need a paragraph on the ingre- tion es, Ruthie was trying hard to clean up his dients in bread or on making coffee. I point this out because the whodunits • Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Into the Fire by Couch & paperwork and get rid of junk. She’d hired Gladorisi; Fiction someone for the latter, but the former was you’ll find in this latest installment from author Sue Grafton are classic Millhone, • The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James; Fic- trickier — made more so by the strange tion call from the IRS, asking for receipts from but the padding becomes a distraction after a while. I’m sure I’m not alone in • We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh; 15 years ago. Fiction Private investigator Kinsey Millhone thinking that those pages could have had once worked with Ruthie’s late hus- been more mystery and less mud to slog • Approaching the End of Life by Donna Schaper; band and though she was no fan of Pete through. Nonfiction Wolinsky, she adored Ruthie and agreed who hated unfinished messes. And then again, you’ve read Grafton’s • The Born Frees by Kimberly Burge; Nonfiction to help. As she waded through moldering What else could she do but complete other 24 books (A through W and short • Born Survivors by Wendy Holden; Nonfiction boxes in search of old receipts, Kinsey his case — especially since she’d been stories). Can you stand to miss this one, • For the Love by Jen Hatmaker; Nonfiction remembered that Pete had been secretive stiffed by a client who’d lied to her from the third-from-the-presumably-last? No • Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown; Nonfiction so she wasn’t surprised to find a hidden the start? The woman said her name was … really, you know you can’t. This is the • I’m Happy for You (Sort of…Not Really) by Kay Wills envelope and an odd code. Pete had Hallie Bettancourt and that she was look- book mystery fans have been waiting for, Wyma; Nonfiction obviously been working on a case that he ing for someone she’d put up for adoption and they may otherwise find “X” to be • Mess by Barry Yourgrau; Nonfiction wanted kept quiet; that intrigued Kinsey, years before. Bettancourt had paid in X-cellent. • Rethinking Narcissism by Dr. Craig Malkin; Nonfiction cash, but the $100 bills were counterfeit • Saban: The Making of a Coach by Monte Burke; Nonfiction • Scraps by Vera Vandenbosch; Nonfiction Schrag To Speak At Majestic Bluffs Art Forms • Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristin Green; Nonfiction Life in a small town has its unique charms, and Phyllis • Team Genius by Karlgaard & Malone; Nonfiction Schrag will explore them during her entertaining presenta- tion, “Baseball, Preachers and Funerals.” Schrag, independent Summer Arts ADULT AUDIO BOOKS scholar from Sioux Falls, will speak at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, in • Friction by Sandra Brown; Fiction the Gathering Place at Avera Majestic Bluffs. • The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon; Fiction “Baseball, Preachers and Funerals” is a presentation in a • Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber; Fiction storytelling format and provides a humorous yet poignant look • Who do You Love by Jennifer Weiner; Fiction at small-town life. Its setting is a place where all the town kids Festival Was were needed to have their own “World Series,” preachers had YOUNG ADULT BOOKS an impact on children’s development, and funerals were simply • A Little in Love by Susan E. Fletcher; Fiction a part of life. Lessons gleaned from baseball, preachers and • 13 Days of Midnight by Leo Hunt; Fiction funerals present a child’s perspective of life in a small town. Great Success • Weightless by Sarah Bannan; Fiction The presentation is free and open to the public. BY JULIE J. AMSBERRY Yankton Area Arts houses two This program at Avera Majestic Bluffs was made possible by • It’s the Student Not the College by Kristin M. White; the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Yankton Area Arts art groups throughout the Nonfiction Endowment for the Humanities. year who each have items on ——— The 31st Summer Arts Fes- display: the River City Area Did you know that you can reserve an item from home? tival was once again Woodcarvers and the Staff will then notify you as soon as the item is available. a successful week- Connecting Artists. Kaylor Opry Slated For Sept. 4 end at Riverside We also hold various KAYLOR -- The Germans from Russia Heritage Society will Park! The weather classes and events host another “Kaylor Opry” program on Friday, Sept. 4, at was beautiful and throughout the Fall Square Dance Festival 7 p.m. at the Society’s Heritage Hall on north Main Street in the artists were year including Kids downtown Kaylor. busy! Congratula- Studio Art Classes, Set For Hermosa Sept. 11-12 The Opry is a program of old time country and gospel tions to our Best of the Summer Concert HERMOSA — The South 114th Street. music performed by local musicians. Show winners: in Series, Summer Arts There is no charge, but a freewill offering is taken for the Fine Crafts, Barn- Dakota State Square Folk and On Saturday, Sept. 12, there Festival, Crimson Round Dance Association, will be a Plus Dance beginning potluck refreshments which are served at intermission. wood Trays from Door, Tour of Homes, For more information or to be on the program, you may Omaha, Nebraska, is sponsoring the Fall State at 9:30 a.m. with Bear Miller Meridian en Blanc, Square Dance Festival in Her- calling. The Spring Festival call 605-212-9011. and in Fine Arts, Julie Kids Art Fest and RBrooks Designs mosa Sept. 11-12. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. community art pro- will be hosted by the Southern 12. The South Dakota Square from Britton, South AMSBERRY jects … all of which Dakota. Both were Hills Promenaders Square Dance Association callers do Hay Country Jamboree at Gayville Sept. 5 are represented in Dance Club. The theme of the calling for the afternoon. GAYVILLE -- Gayville Hall presents it monthly musical variety new artists to the this fun, interactive festival this year! the festival is “Play Me Some Hank Prasnicki, Big Stone, will show, The Hay Country Jamboree,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, exhibit! #ArtHappensHere Mountain Music in Hermosa.” be the afternoon Master of in Gayville. Honorable Mention in Fine Crafts was Oxbow Natural is on exhibit at GAR Hall The Summer Festival activi- Ceremonies, and Fugier will be Jamboree regulars, including banjo player and funnyman through Oct. 6. ties will begin with a Trail-In the round dance cuer. There Dan Kilbride and Iowa’s ”Singing Farmer” Ervin Pickhinke, will Landscapes from Bellwood, Nebraska, and in Fine Arts, YAA was honored to Dance Friday evening, Sept. will be business sessions be joined by award-winning cowboy poet Ed Nesselhuf, who will take part in Graffiti Night & 11, with Bear Miller, Denver, before the 7:30 p.m. Grand share some of his verses and emcee, and the popular Yankton Cedarosa Studios from Mission Hill! The festival, however, Downtown River Walk Tour calling and Lurita Fugier, Her- March.