Librarian’s Pick of the Week: “No Man’s Land” by G.M. Ford. Be warned: this book is not for
sissies! Ford’s thrillers are always fast and furious, with their share of grisly deaths and bloody
incidents, but this one tops them all. Arizona’s Meza Azul Penitentiary, up to now, has held a
prisoner named Timothy Driver, who was a Navy submarine commander before he came home to
find his wife with another man. Driver killed both of them in a jealous fury, and has been since
confined to a small cell, lighted and observed 24 hours a day. When he breaks out with a killer
named Kehoe, his first act is to demand to see Frank Corso, and if it doesn’t happen quickly, he’ll
kill one hostage every six hours until it does. Corso isn’t interested in meeting the man he once
wrote a book about again, but he can’t help himself. Once inside the prison, Corso finds himself
escaping with Driver and Kehoe inside an oil tanker (!), and the chase is on. Definitely not for the
faint-hearted, but a trip and a half for everyone else.

Also new and recommended: Companioning the dying: a soulful guide for caregivers” by Greg Yoder;“Being Self-Employed” by HolmesCrouch; “St, Patrick of Ireland” by Philip Freeman; “The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes” by Theodora Lau; “How to Photograph the Paranormal” by Leonore Sweet; “Eddie Rickenbacker: an American Hero in the Twentieth Century” by W. David Lewis; “Blender Baby Food” by Nicole Young; “America’s Complete Diabetes Cookbook” by Katherine Younker; and Downhtown: My Manhattan” by Pete Hamill.

For young children: “The Cat Came Back” by Fred Penner; Don’t BeSilly, Mrs. Millie!” by Judy Cox; “The First Day of Winter” by Denise Fleming; “Nora’s Arl” by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock; “A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa” by Jonathan London; “Baby Sea Otter” by Betty Tatham and “How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?” by Jane Yolen. For Young Adults: “Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator” by Jennifer Allison; “The Big Nothing” by Adrian Fogelin; “Not the End of the World” by Geraldine McCaughrean; “Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie” by David Lubar; “Marie, Dancing” by Carolyn Meyer’ and “Pulling Princes” by Tyne O’Connell.
If and when it snows this season, the Library may close if conditions become dangerous. Please call the Library first before you visit if the weather is bad; if you get our answering machine, it means the Library is closed.