LIBRARY NEWS

Second Pagosa Reads! lecture on fire
takes place this evening

By Carole Howard and the library staff

The second lecture of this season’s Pagosa Reads! series takes place at 6 p.m. this evening when Durango Hotshot Clayton T. Yazzie will speak at the library.

Theme for this summer’s Pagosa Reads! events is fire, following up on the theme of water that launched the program last year. The two books for the current series are “The Seasons of Fire: Reflections on Fire in the West,” a non-fiction book by wildland firefighter David J. Strohmaier, who shares his views on the formative role that fire plays in human life; and the fictional “Firestorm” by Nevada Barr, an Anna Pigeon mystery set in Lassen Volcanic National Park after a firestorm. Multiple copies of these books are now available at the library.

This evening’s speaker, Clayton Yazzie, is lead crew for the San Juan Hot Shots, U.S. Forest Service. He is originally from Farmington, N.M. and has a bachelor of science in forestry from Northern Arizona University.

Pagosa Reads! is being planned by Gail Shepherd, with support from the Alpine Lakes Book Club. We hope you will join us this evening for Yazzie’s talk.

Notecards benefit library
Two different sets of lovely notecards featuring women reading are being sold now by Friends of the Library to raise funds for the library. Each box contains 20 notecards and envelopes with five copies of four different paintings at a cost of only $14.95. The artwork is beautiful, with contributions by famous painters like impressionist Mary Cassett. Another, by George Dunlop Leslie, shows a mother and daughter reading “ Alice in Wonderland.” The notecards are available at the library and at Home Again. They would make a very special gift for an important woman in your life – especially if she loves to read.

New fiction: historical sagas, marriage and mysteries
“Heyday” by Kurt Andersen is a coming-of-age novel set in New York in the middle of the 19 th Century when modern life is being born. Closer to home, “Crested Butte” by Marilyn Brown Oden tells of a young woman’s adventures after she steps off the first train into this mining town. “The Wife” by Meg Wolitzer looks at a marriage from the point of view of a wife who subjugated her own literary talents to support her husband’s career as a writer. “The Book of Air and Shadows” by Michael Gruber is about a lawyer in the center of a deadly conspiracy and a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. “For a Few Demons More” by Kim Harrison is about a serial killer in the Rachael Morgan supernatural series.

New large-print editions: mystery, history and romance
“The Old Wine Shades” by Martha Grimes is another in the ever-popular Richard Jury mystery series. “Burning Bright” by Tracy Chevalier is a novel about poet and artist William Blake by the author of “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” “A Wicked Gentleman” is a new romance by Jane Feather. “Sun Kissed” is a mystery in a rodeo setting by Catherine Anderson. “Whitethorn Woods” is the latest novel by best-selling author Maeve Binchy.

New non-fiction: Real-life heroes and a treasure hunt
“Touch the Top of the World” by Erik Weihenmayer is the story of a man who lost his sight and still has climbed four of the seven highest peaks on each of the continents. “Amelia Earhart: The Sky’s No Limit” by Lori Van Pelt is part of the American Heroes biography series.

“Sea Room” by Adam Nicolson is about life on an isolated island in The Hebrides. “ Dragon Sea” by Frank Pope is a true tale of treasure, archeology and greed during the search for sunken 15 th Century ceramics off the coast of Vietnam.

Thanks to our donors
Our thanks this week for books and materials to Martha Groulx, Mary Maturi, Brad Roon, Athena Raphael, Sarah Thelen, Janet Warden, Leona Merola, Jim Gavic, Annette Uehling, Barb Draper, Nancy Green, David Swindells and Jerome Baier.

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