Footnotes on travels spark reading led vacations near and far
A feature urges linking travel plans with favorite authors and novels. It mentions Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rachel Field, Tony Hillerman, Richard Martin Stern, John J MacDonald, Mark Twain, Eugenia Price, and Frank Wilcox. Readers are shown how literary journeys illuminate real places from Florida to New England, Georgia to Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan Hayes
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Florida
Jan
Rawlings
Phyllis Bartley
New England
Maine
Rachel Field
House of Seven Gables
Walden’s Pond
London
Tony Hillerman
Richard Martin Stern
New Mexico
John J MacDonald
Travis McGee
Mark Twain
Mississippi
West
Lake Tahoe
New titles at library weekly picks
The Middletown Public Library adds 300 to 400 new titles monthly with staff recommending a selection each week. Fiction highlights include Aunt Pleasentine, The Five Minute Marriage, Fear Without Childbirth, The Magus, Katie, Chance Meetings, All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, Roman Magic, Red Snow, So Wondrous Free, Fear in a Handful of Dust, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, The Great Fear, Outdoor Power Equipment, The Shroud of Turin, Living Barns, They Call Me the Big E, Follow the Leaders, The Mind Stealers, Woman's Day Book of Baking, Matthew Brady and His World, How to Draw What You See, Aquarium Guide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Journal
Aunt Pleasantine
MacDougell
Aiken
Kampen the Magus
Fowles
Katie
Chute
Saroyan
Farris Roman
Fleetwood
Lange
Ives
Pantoja
Special Service
Liosa
Caute
Darack
Turin
Wilson
Burden
Hayes
Blackman
Matthew Brady
Kunhardt
DeRayna Aquarium
Kelly
Best selling paperbacks list from a 1980s catalog
A catalog style list of noted fiction and non fiction titles including The Lawless by Jakes, The Promise by Wood, Jaws 2 by Steel, Dragons of Eden by Esterhazy, The Bastard by Kagan, Splinter of Minds Eye by Jakes, Damien Omen II by Foster, Holocaust by Rather Green, The Camera Never Blinks, and many more. Appears as a bookstore or library listing with authors and title pairs.
Bloodline tops hardcover best sellers list
The week’s top hardcover sellers include Bloodline by Sheldon at number two, The Human Factor by Greene at one, The Holcroft Covenant by Ludlum at three, The Thorn Birds by McCullough at four, and Scruples by Krantz at five. Also in demand are The Complete Book of Running by Fixx, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries by Bombeck, My Mother My Self by Friday, Three Week Crash Makeover by Arper, and The Amityville Horror by Anson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheldon
Greene
Holcroft Covenant
Ludlum
THE
Thorn Birds
McCullough
Krantz
Fixx
Bombeck
Myself
Arper
Anson
Jogging fails to cut heart attack risk in pigs study
LA JOLLA Calif AP University of California researchers found that running 25 miles weekly did not lower pigs' heart attack risk. Pigs driven on treadmills at 20 percent of body weight showed circulation similar to sedentary pigs, prompting questions about jogging benefits for humans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Jolla
Calif
University of California
Max Sanders
Also Mentioned on This Page
St Augustine
Grand Canyon
Mono Lake
Twain
South
Eugenia Price
Georgia Sea Island
St Simons
Price
St. Simons
Ohio Canals
Frank Wilcox
Ohio
Joan Boring
Denker Wild IS
Heart
Corder
Dare
Wilde
Rather Holocaust
Green Coma
Cook Falconer
Cheever
Valentina
Michaels
McWhirter
MacDonald
Leigh
Riete
Gentle Fugitive
Layton Lancelot
Peres
Jong Oliver
Hayden
McAlpin’s
Playtex
Towne Mall
McAlpin
Kayser
DuPont
Mark
Towne
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