HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987-09-21 Board of Library Trustees MinutesBoard of Library Trustees
Minutes of Meeting - September 21,1987
Children's Room - Reading Public Library - 8:00 p.m.
Present: Ms. Cherrie Dubois, chair; Mrs. Elia Dangelmaier; Mr. William
Diamond; Mr. Robert Fields; Dr. Christine Redford.
.Absent: Mrs. Carol Beckwith.
Ms. Dubois called the meeting to order at 8:15 p.m.
Statistical reports: The contribution of the children's summer reading
club to the circulation statistics was applauded. Ms. Flannery
reported that she will recommend purchase of an IBM PC-based
circulation back-up system when it is offered for sale.
Director's report: The resignation of Mark Nicholls, custodian, was noted.
The Department of Public Works will advertise to fill the
position. Ms. Flannery emphasized that although Muf Shaw has
switched to part-time, we have not lost any positions or hours.
Minutes: Mrs. Dangelmaier moved to accept the minutes as'written; Dr.
Redford seconded. The motion passed.
Communications: 1) Ms. Dubois read a letter from Edmund Smith in
appreciation of the handicapped railing. 2) MLTA is looking for
trustee liaisons, and help with the revision of the trustee
handbook. Mr..Diamond moved that the library pay for trustees to
join MLTA for a year on a trial basis. Mr. Fields seconded. The
motion passed. 3) MLA announced its second legislative day,
October 7. 4) $58.22 has been received as the final installment
of the Municipal Equalization Grant. 5) EMRLS annual meeting of
the advisory council will be held on October 28. Ms. Flannery
was designated the library's representative. 6) A letter was
received from Ms. Nancy Bederian regarding the Harry Kurchian
fund. Ms. Bederian was distressed that the money had been spent
primarily on large-print books rather than on books about the
Middle East as she had requested. Ms. Dubois suggested that
books purchased on the Middle East for the next year be
designated in Mr. Kurchian's name. Mr. Diamond offered to write
a letter to Ms. Bederian to see if he could resolve this problem.
7) The Garden Club asked for an advance of the $200.00
appropriated by the trustees for Christmas decorations. It was
decided that the club should advance the money and be reimbursed.
Unfinished business: 1) Ms. Flannery reported that it is against town
policy to pay for employees' comestibles; therefore, the town
will no longer pay for the spring water that is bought for the
staff's cooler. Ms. Dubois requested that Ms. Flannery check
with the staff to see if they would be willing to pay for it
themselves.
2) The Reading Women's Club has donated a filmstrip viewer in
memory of Gregory Giordano. The club has adopted a policy of
donating a book to the Children's Room whenever one of their
members has a baby.
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BOOK REVIEW
The cor ination of co peiling :rose And eclectic,, yet dramatic
accomplishments succeed in akin Pauli Murray's autobiography
ONa IN A WEARY THROAT- nothing less than inspiring. The list of
her athievemen` s almost defies credibility: writer, poet, civil
rights activist, lawyer, college professor, founder of the
National Organization for women (NOW), and Episcopal priest.
Born into an educated black family in Baltimore, sa Murray 's
early years were fraught with the pain of her mother's premature'
death and her father's subse xent.mental.iSlness. At age three
she went to live with her schoolteacher aunt, Pauline Fitzgerald
Dare in Durham, North Carolina where she was instilled with a
sense of pride and self worth that not even the Jig:. Crow South
could wrest f om her.
In 1938 she waged a highly publicized struggle to gain admittance
to the all white University of North Carolina. As a. .result of her
civil, rights work, she was recruited to Howard University' School
of haw where she became involved in a national campaign to raise
money on behalf ref` Oddll Waller, a sharecropper on death row in
Virginia and staged protests against segregated :punch counters in.
Washington, D.C. In addition to the discrimination she faced
because of her race, Murray also had to fight obstacles based on
gender. She was rejected for a position at award Taw School.
(`hough she had received a fellowship which would have virtually
assured the admission of a male applicant) because that venerable
institution on the Charles dial not admit women.. No even the
personal reco en a.fion of FDR could get her through; the ivy
cowered gates. k .
In 1946, she returned to New York where she practiced her
profession and published two books-. TA W LAWS € N RACE D
COLOR and Pty SHOPS'-. TFt STORI~ OF AN AMERICAN FAMI ` .
After years of struggle on the racial from, s a Murray-joined
Betty riedan and others to form NOW an organization she hasped
could do for women what the NAACP was attempting to do for
blacks. Her many years of religious commitment and feminist:
struggle culminated in her ordination as one of the first women
(and the first black woman) Episcopal priests.
Fiction
nt:ho y~ Evelyn _ PLACE T l b Frank Arbuthnot, hnot rejecting
hi~background of wealth and privilege, becomes
w in the murderous game of Irish politics
. is betrayed by Marie, a beautiful terrorist
who is. insanely jealous of Frank's half-sister.
Auchain6lo s, Louis SKINNY ISLAND. A collection (f stories that
follows the fortunes of the ci lly secure and
the powerful as they try t cs e with the changes
sbap by the momentous events a growing
anxieties of recent decades.
'verger, Thomas BEING INVISIBLE. Plagued by his failures,
Fred Wagner becomes invisible 1 discovers
that his difficulties in life ,..__'e just beginning;
by the author of Little R :iaa
Cheever, Susan DOCTOR AND OMEN. Kati; Loomis, young, married
journalist, finds her world coming apart when
she falls i love with the powerful doctor who
is treating her mother for cancer; by the author
of Home Before Dark..
Copp el, Alfred SHOW ME A HERO. U.S. Army Major K.C. uary, his
friend Sergeant Louis Armstrong ro $ and film
roducler Harry Redding feign the reduction of
a World War II film at the Tunisian-Libyan
border in order to rescue the kidnapped U.S.
Ambassador.
Cornwall Q Bernard SIEGE. Pinned behind enemy lines with
ammunition low an gunpowder wet, Major Richard
Sharpe and his troops must hold a war-battered
fort against a legion of two thousand strong .
under General Calvert; by the author of hI 's
&L
W -a e.
ain
Dic s Phillip MARY AND_THE_ PI g. A young woman looking for
love and wa. r in asmall California town in the
fifties, is :aught in the society of sophisti-
cated men whose attemph to manipulate her life
ignite her stubborn survivalist spirit; by the
author of The Man i the i Castle.
Edgerton Clyde WALKING AC1RO SS EGYPT. The man of "Raney" takes
Tea ix side t houses and hearts of people
lining in the modern South by focusing on Ma.ttie
igsbee, a widow wishing for grandchildren, and
Wesley B: fi.e:ld, a foul-mouthed adolescent.
Ely, Scott STARLIGHT. As two so-1.di.ers, Jackson, a radiminan:
and Light, a sniper, reach the limits of physical
and psychological danger during the Vietnam War,
they find that they con no longer distinguish
hallucination from reality. A first novel
Fa.rsan, Dani.e l SW SDOWNE. In the nineteenth century, quire
Stowe and his family are forced to abandon their
elegant. Devon some for the uncertainty and dis-
comfort of Tasmania. and must struggler to build
a new life in a wild and beautiful land.
Gibbons, Kaye ELLEN FOSTER.. Eleven-year-old Ellen, Foster
reveals the obstacles she had to overcome in her
childhood, with an absence of self-pity and an
abundance of humor and. wisdom. first novel.
Gordon, Mary TUIPORARY SHELTER. The author of Final Pants
and e:n and AR a offers a collection of
twenty-one sta i.es, including 9 trio of inter-
related stories that deal with the Irish. i i.-
grant experience in the United States.
Hanson, Dirk THE INCURSION. When an unknown, unauthorized
genius electronically invades the world's
most secure computer system, all the 'evidence
points to the brilliant but innocent young
physicist Peter Cassidy; by the author of The
New ..chemists a
Hellerstevin,. David LOVING TOUCHES. The all-but-assured success Gf
Pete ooh---a Harvard graduate, first-year '
resident at a distinguished New York psychiatric
hospital, and husband to a. beautiful, ambitious
lawyer is jeopardized when they intoxicating
eline Waltier re-enters his life as a patient.
Eearon, Shelby FIVE HUNDRED SCORPIONS. A Virginian gentleman-
lawyer goes to Mexico with a group of female
anthropologists and is thrust into a world of
ambiguities, suspicions, deceptions and magical
transformations; by the author of A Small Town.
Jong, Erica SEEENISSIMAb 'Jessica Pruitt, a popular Holly-
wood actress and aficionado of Shaeseare'p is
transRorted.to the sixteenth century where she
becomes the inspiration behind the great poet's
most enigmatic wor ; by the author of Rear of
Rye
Leland, Christopher MRS. RANDALL. In the peaceful southern torwn of
Fran svil.le, the life and, fate of Ganes Steven--
son is inextricably linked to his stepmothers a
woman who cannot escape her past; by the author
of Mean Time
McCoy, Maureen S€T R`IIME. When Jessamine Morrow, eighty-ficre,
elopes with a man from her retirement home,
she revitalizes the spirits of the Morrow women
who have agonized through the long illness and
death of James Morrow, cherished fathers husband
and son; by the author of Walking After Midnight
McMurtry, Larry TEXASVILLE. Jacy, the high school beauty, re-
turns to Thalia from a career as a Hollywood
star and changes the lives of her fellow towns-
people in this sequel to The Last Picture Show
by the author of Lonesome Dove,
Markstein, George SOUL HUNTERS m In the lethal game between
East and •6 st, a beautiful woman has a passion-p
a.tes deadly encounter with a Russian agent and
a professional assassin moves toward his
target on the struts of London.
sa ntF -4m F. MEMOIRS OF INVISIBLE MANa When a freak
accident leaves . stock analyst Nick Halloway
completely 'invisible, he As pursued by intel-
ligence agents, amasses a fortune, and battles
against desperate.l.onel.iness.
Tannebau , Robert
O LESSEE PLEA. When District Attorney Butch
Karp finally nails Mandeville Louis, a brilliant
criminal guilty of a series of ingeniously
plotted and despicable cruses, and Louis seeks
protedtion in a phony insanity plea, Karp vows
to see justice donee
Thu , Marian
WALKI G DISTANCE. A first novel about a woman
who learns loge and responsibility from a ter-
minally ill., wheelchair-bound n. Marian
Thug is a frequent "New Yorker" short story
Titr®
Villars, • Elizabeth
WARS O THE HEART. Set against the backdrop
of World War II, this is the powerful tale,
of three women left behind on the homefront.
Yourcex r, Marguerite
TWO LIVES AND A DREAM. The author of Memoirs
of Hadrian offers a collection of stories,
including en s. Obscure .nee, a tale about
Nathaniel, an amiable innocent who is shaped
by suffering and destiny.
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Mysteries
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Selected Non-Rction
Hyatt, Carole
t EN SMART PEOPLE PAIL
258.1
UNCIVIL RELIGION
291.9
Weatherford, Doris
FOREIGN FEMALE AND
305.488"
Lapping, Brian
APARTHEID
305.8
Brett, Guy
THROUGH OUR OWN EYES
306.47
McCarthy, Eugene
UP 'TIL NOW
324.2736
Smith,..Wayne S.
THE CLOSEST OF ENEMIES
327
MAD DOGS
327.62
STATE OF THE WORLD
330.9005
Ma.rples, David R~
CHERNOBYL AND NUCLEAR POWER IN
333.7924
THE USSR,
THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
342.73
THE TOWER COMMISSION REPORT
353.09
TESTING
363.196
THE MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS OF
363.3498
NUCLEAR WAR
Cohen, Marjorie A
THE TEEKAGER`s GUIDE TO STUDY,
370.1962
TRAVEL, AND ADVENTURE ABROAD
.Greene, Howard
SCALING THE IVY WALL-
378.1056
?"A.,ple, -Hobert K...
THE GENIUS OF CHINA
509-.51
Bruce, Robert V.
THE LAUNCHING OF MOIDER AMERICAN
509.73
SCIENCE, 1546®1876.
McAleer, Neil
THE MIND-BOGGLING UNIVERSE
523
McDonough, Thomas R
THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL
534.999
INTELLIGENCE
Cooley, Denton A
EAT SMART FOR A HEALTHY HEART
616.1205
COOKBOOK .
Gabriel, Richard A
NO MORE HEROES'
616.85
Billi g, Nathan
TO BE OLDS ' AND SAD
.618.97
Sweeney, Daniel
DEMYSTIFYING CO1,1PACT DISCS
621.3593
Douglas, William L
HILLSIDE GARDENING
635
THE R I F* GUIDE TO ENCOURAGING
649.55
'.."YOUNG RE1ADERS
Sa alin, Nancy
LOVING YOUR CHILD IS NOT ENOUGH
649.64
TERENCE CONRAN' S HOME FURNISHINGS
346.9
Hopper, Edward
EDWARD TOPPER
759.13
Coward., Jack
HENRI MATISSE
359.4
TISSE
Balliett, WHitney
AMERICAN MUSICIANS
785.42
Brown, Peter H.
OSQA.R DEAREST'
791.43
Holzel., Tom
FIRST OIL EVEREST
796.522
AMERICAN SHORT STORY MASTERPIECES
813.01
AMERICAN HUMOR
517.009
James, Henry
HE COMPLETE NOTEBOOKS OF HENRY
818.403
JAMES
Sept a, George
WITNESS TO A CENTURY
909.82
Fischer, Theddore
CHI[S RT TRAVEL
910.202
THE MAP CATALOG
912.0294
O'Hanlon, Redmond
INTO THE HEART OF BORNEO
915.98
Cahill, Rick
BORDER TOWNS OF THE SOUTHWEST
917,9
Bowman, Alan K
EGYPT AFTER THE PHARAOHS 332
B.C.-
932.02
A.D. 642
Corbisbley, Mike:
THE ROB. WORLD
937
LINES OF BATTLE
940.5481
O'Brien, Edna
VANISHING'IRELAND
941.5052
Davis, Peter
WHERE IS NICARAGUA?
972.8505
Orlean, Susan
RED SOX AND BLUEFISH
974
Selected r
Levin,, Phyllis L
ABIGAIL ADAMS
B
ADAMS
Alvarez, Luis W
ALVAREZ
B
ALVAREZ
Thomson, David
WARREN BEATTY AND DESERT EYES
B
BEATTY
Francis, Claude
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
B
BEAUVOIR
Davis, Bette
THIS 'N THAT
B
DAVIS
Katz, Robert
LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH.
B
FASSBINDER•
Gies, Miep
ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED
B
FRANK
Faber, Doris
MAHATMA GANDHI
B
GANDHI
'Spada, James
GRACE
B
GRACE, Princess
of Monaco
Greene, Bob
BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL
B
GREENE
Butson, Thomas G
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
B
GORBACHEV
Fraser, Flora
EMMA, LADY HAMILTON.
B
HAMILTON
Ion.esco,_ Eugene
HUGOLIAD
B
HUGO
Ireland, J01.1
LIFE WISH
IRELAND
Perri
A NOT ENTIRELY BENIGN PROCEDURE
E
ROSS
McCarthy, Mary
HOW I CREW
E
MCCARTHY
Morley, Sheridan
THE OTHER SIDS,, CR THE MOON
B
IV EN
Ambrose, Stephen E
NIXON
E
IXC
Kyle, Benjamin
UlAkK L- DAEI.
ADA I
Rainer, J. Kenyon
FIRST O INTO -H
B
RAINE'R.
ardema , D. B.
RAYBURN
RAYBURN
Mien, Maury
JACKIE ROBINSO
RO ISON..
Horowitz, Joseph
UNDERSTANDING TOSC INN
TCSCANI I
Vanderbilt, Gloria
BLACK KFICHT, WHITE KNIGHT
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V ERBILT
Selected AV Materials
RECORDS
Mendelssohn, Ea thoZ
CONCERTO I E MINOR, FOR VI
OLIN AND ORCHESTRA
Reich, Stage
SEXTET
The C' Kanes
HE O g DES
Watson, Roc
RIDING THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN
Torme, Mel
110-11, TORME - ROE cCONNELL AND
THE BOSS BRASS
Voi..ie-nweid :r, Andreas
WHITE WINDS
Ashman, Howard
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Ronsta t, Linda.
"FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS
COMPACT DISCS
Bolling, Claude
Chopin, Frederic
Rodrigo, Joaquin
CONCERTO C CLASSIC GUITAR JAZZ PIANO
WALTZES
CO CI RTO DE ARANJUEZ
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DANCING AROUND THEMAYPOLF,
After a Frencb eighteentb-century tapestry
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1986-87 i,6 THE ART OF THE BOOK yea, in Reading'
may 13
AN.EVENING AT THE POPS, Joan the library on its annual
7:00 pm
bus trip to the Boston Pops, this evening featuring
John Williams as conductor. Pre-registration is re-
quired. Registration is limited, so come to the
library now to save your-7p4acel
May 14,
SPEED READING with I Victor Sanborn of Sanborn Associates.
May 21,
Pre-registration is required for this popular course.
May 28,
Call the library at 944-0840 to register and for details.
June 4
Fee will be charged.
7:00 pm
May,�O
FRANCE IN SLIDES, by Arthur Knapp of Reading will present
9:30 am
an auto tour to the most beautiful areas of France:
Normandy, Brittany, Bordeauy,,Loire Valley, and many
others. A Senior Coffee Hour Program.
May 25
The Library is CLOSED for MEMORIAL DAY.
May 26-30
BRING IN YOUR BOOKS for the upcoming (June 6) Friends of
the Library Book Sale. Books may be paperback or hard-
cover, in good condition and clean. Books may be dropped
off at the library.
WANTED: A VOLUNTEER to help out in Technical Services.' Scintillating
company and charming surroundings will be yours for four hours each
week while you assist us with such tasks as preparing periodicals
for circulation,,s ' orting and distributing incoming mail and various
miscellaneous projects that arise from" time to time. Contact Muf
Shaw at the library, 944-0840 if you are interested.
on view
art of
ART OF THE ROOK. Funny thing.. BOOKS and illustrations will be on
exhibit from May 15th in the first floor display case and on the
downstairs wall, during'this year of "The Art of the Book".,' a Joint
venture of the Reading Public Schools, - students from grades K ®12 have
produced books from conception to finished product. Some of their
completed works will ,include books ty0eset end printed utilizing current
technology- :jade available to the,High School by Compugraphico Hand -
made books will also be featured with exampIles of ,traditional W6stern
and Oriental bindings.
in preparation for author /illustrator visits to the schools,
students-often tried their -hand at illustrating the visitors' works.
Many of these delightful pieces will hang downstairs along the wall
in the nor, - fiction area.
The Art of the Book is funded in part by a_ grant from the
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, a state agency.
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Zelazny,Roger. Blood Of Amber.
- Roger,Zelazny's Tatest_novel, Blood Of Amber, is either the seventh
book in an e1ght part series, or part two of a trilogy. If that sounds
confusing, try reading the book without first reading some of Zelazny's
previous work.
Roger Zaelzny is famed for his five part Amber series. Amber is
a magical fantasy land ruled by a.large and powerful family. 'The first
five books are * about one errant son, Corwin. Blood Of Amber is part
two of a new trilogy concerned with Merlin, Corwi'nls son. You don't
really have to read the first five Amber books to follow the plot of
Blood Of Amber, but I do recommend' that you read 1,rumk� Doom, this
trilogy's opening book.
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Well, now that we've waded through the preliminaries, let's get
down to the actual story. Blood Of *Amber, in fact the entire Amber
series, are the suspensp and intrigue adventure stories of the science
fiction genre. In this story, someone As trying to kill our hero, Merlin
once a year on his birthday.. On a more giving note, someone is also
saving Merlin's life on,each of the aforementioned occasions. Both
of these characters are mysteries to both the reader and Merlin. The
attempted murderer starts out to be Merlin's best-friend, Luke, but
when Luke has a change of heart, his mother takes over. Merlin's unknown
benefactor is my vote for the most interesting character.in the book.
She is a being who inhabits various people's bodies at different times.
Her true identity remains a mystery, yet Merlin-encounters her in a
variety of forms.-
What intrigues use about the book 1s the very concept. In Zelazny's
Amber-ruled universes there are an infinite number of realities that
make up reality. These realities are called shadows, of which the earth
is but one of many.r The members-of Amber's royal family, a fascinating if typical royal family if ever'there was ones travel from shadow to
shadow as we would shove. from city to city.
Our hero, Merlin is interesting in himself due to his heritage.
Where Amber, represented by Merlin's dad, comprise the principle forces
of Order, Merlin's mother, an unknown, belongs to the royal family in
charge of the Courts of Chaos. Historically, Order and Chaos are opposing
forces. It is fescinating'to view these two opposing heritages alive
and unified in Merlin. Zelazny paints the two forces as strikingly
similair yet vastly different as well.
Blood of Amber moves of t a fairly rapid pace so as to keep the
reader 1-nterested,and cantains enough.mystery to keep us involved.
Plots, counterplots and subplots intertwine to form the book's minor
drawback; sometimes it gets too confusing
Still,
entertaining book. Just make re ,you � it is an enjoyable,
su
read Trumps Of Doom first.,
Michael Colford,
Amis, Kingsley THE OLD DEVILS. In South Wales, eight people
resisting the perils of old age find their
deeply intertwined past catching up with thus
as successful poet Alun Weaver and his wife
Rhiannon return and history repeats itself
to deliver.a rude.awakening.
Apple, Max THE PROPHETEERS. The acclaimed author of Free
A ern q_presents a brilliant satire involving as
struggle for land in central Florida between
three commercial giants: Wait Disney, Howard
Johnson, and Margery Post.
Borden, G. F.. EASTER DAY, 1941. Making their way across the
Libyan Desert in an underpowered tank in °April,
1941, a crew led by a mysterious soldier named
Peter is left to fight alone against an enemy
whose identity and strength are unknown.
Brookner, ANita THE MISALLIANCE. When Blanche's husband Bertie
leaves her for a capricious, childishly demand -
ing,computer expert named Mousie, Blanche
blames her situation on her own misguided sense
of stability, gentility, and fair play, so
after her divorce, she sets out to cultivate a,
more voluble, petulant nature. A memorable
portrait of a single woman with a spit and means
to step forward and grasp what previously
eluded her.
Carter, Angela' SAINTS AND STRANGERS. A collection of eight
short stories. by Angela Carter° who, according
to one reviewer., is "the poet of the short
stagy". In the words of the Puritan settlers
of Massachusetts, saints and strangers are
those who would colonize the New World. And
in this collection they focus is on the New
World of fact and imagina.tiom.,
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Coburn, Andrew LOVE NEST. In her brief stay in Andover, Massa-
chusetts, the charm and beauty of .a young and
alluring prostitute touches the lives of many
of the town's leading citizens, Including Sergeant
Sonny Dawson, the Investigator of her murder.
Gethers, Peter
Harris, Marilyn
GETTING BLUE. Alex Justin, a virtuous journeyman
baseball player in the twilight of his pro career,
must deal with t' he he cruelties of fate and returns
to his dreams and to his first summer in the minor
leagues; by the author of The Dandy.
'AMERICAN EDEN. Mary Eden Stanhope, descendant of
a noble and romantic English family, finds her
love for her husband tested in-this novel that.
traces the history of the post-Civil War South..
Kabel., A. M. THE ADVERSARY., When archaeologist Charles Winter-
ton discovers the last will and testament of Saint
Peter, he finds himself embroiled in a lethal
struggle to publish the document and faces a show
down with Father Paolozzi, the murderous agent
of the Vatican, who wants the document destroyed.
A first novel.
Naipaul, V. S. THE ENIGAA OF ARRIVAL.' A writer, born in Trinidad
but living now in a cottage on a dilapidated Ed-
wardian estate in Salisbury, England, chronicles
the.journey that brpught him there and records
his impressionis of the state of England and the
process of becoming a writer.,
Narayan, R. K. TALKATIVE MM. Talkative Man,.a young journalist
struggling to establish a reputation, pieces
together a portrait-of the mysterious Dr. Rann--
who makes himself TM's extended houseguest and
claims to be researchin'q a project for the United.
Nations--and,his effects:on the Malgudi people.
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THE DEFECTOR. Soviet physicist Plotr Asanor, har-
boring the secret of his own theoretical design
for a sonar surveillance device that will neutral-
Vac hss, +Andrew -_ _ SIRE A. Andrew Vachss' hew thriller returns us
to the seamy underworld of New Yor.k:City and
brings us back the ex- cons /scam artist /private eye
known as Burke--one of the most powerful characters
in contemporary detective fictions.
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ANY MAN's DEATt4
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