News from the Library
from Sherrie Simmons, Library Director,
and Margaret Woodruff, Youth Services Librarian

Missing VHS – Baseball by Ken Burns
Volume 2 is missing from the nine-volume set. “Getting There: Sweet 16 and Licensed to Drive” was in place of Baseball: Something Like a War, 1910. If you are the owner of “Getting There,” please take a look for Baseball. We’re happy to trade.

Encore slideshow presentation
We have had many requests for a repeat presentation of “Being in Burkina Faso and Benin, Stories from West Africa: Why We Never Had to Ask, ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’ ” by Laurie Stavrand and Marc Pelletier. If you missed it the first time, please join us on Monday, August 18, at 7 p.m.

New Fiction
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, Anne Rice
City of Thieves, David Benioff
Comfort Food, Kate Jacobs
Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks
Dream: A Memoir, Harry Berenstein
Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus
Host: A Novel, Stephenie Meyer
Peace, Richard Bausch
Romanov Bride, Robert Alexander
Rules of Deception, Christopher Reich

New Nonfiction
Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler
Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side,
James Van Praagh

New Large Print
Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais
Killer View, Ridley Pearson
One of Those Malibu Nights, Elizabeth Adler
Tailspin, Catherine Coulter

Playaway is an easy-to-use audio book that is housed in one small unit. You supply the headphones, press a button and start listening immediately. Recently added titles include:
Darkness Falls, Kyle Mills
Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue, Bob Drury
Inside the Red Mansion, Oliver August
Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O’Nan
Lincoln’s Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shener
On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave, Daniel Hays

Book Review by Georgia Edwards, Circulation Librarian

The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
Author: Alexandra Fuller

Readers of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight will not be disappointed by this wonderful new offering from Alexandra Fuller. While doing investigative reports of the effect of the oil industry on the Western way of life, Fuller came across young Colton H. Bryant’s story, which she tells poignantly and simply.
Colton’s story begins in grade school, where he is a poor student and called “retard” by his peers. He survives this cruelty through the support of wonderful parents and his own unflagging optimism. Colton’s mantra from an early age was, “It’s mind over matter; if I don’t mind, then it don’t matter.” A true son of Wyoming, he loved nothing better than losing himself in fishing, camping under the stars or riding his horse.
Married in his early twenties, Colton eventually gained employment as a rough neck on a Wyoming oil rig. It is on this job that the real world came calling with its attendant fears and responsibilities.
Fuller tells the story of this Western “Forrest Gump” in also “telling of the land that grew him, where the great high plains meet the Rocky Mountains…” In doing both, she has shared with us the life of a young man whose simple innocence and love for his Wyoming roots cannot easily be forgotten.