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Crossville, TN  38555

Library News Article for July 23

Seeing is Believing! You don’t want to miss this one-time only performance. Join us for an uplifting experience like no other as Ignite! powered by Dancers Studio out of Knoxville performs tomorrow, Wednesday, July 24 at noon in the Cumberland Room at the Library.

Great New Books

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Mieville

A warrior who can't be killed and who doesn't understand why. A government agency studying him. Ancient powers who worship him and seek to destroy him. And an immortal deer-pig. A novel cowritten by beloved sf movie star Reeves and beloved sf author Miéville doesn't disappoint. It's stylistically daring, combining sf, fantasy, parascience, history, and action. It's violent, propulsive, and introspective, ultimately offering a philosophical exploration of identity and the meaning of mortality, chaos, and entropy. The Book of Elsewhere gets under your skin and into your mind and revels in a pervasive sense of mystery.

Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

At first glance, khipus (or quipus) look like messy strings with raggedy knots, but they are the material vestiges of a sophisticated Inca system of communication. In her first novel, Cornejo Villavicencio introduces brazen, smart Catalina, who is as tangled, textured, and cryptic as the khipus that thread throughout this tale. The year is 2010 when Catalina recounts her senior year at Harvard. The Dream Act has not yet passed, and her undocumented status is only one of the stressors she confronts. Another is the deportation order she discovers in the trash for her adored and contentious grandfather, the man who, along with her opinionated, feminist abuela, raised her in Queens after her parents died in Ecuador. Catalina is irreverent and often laugh-out-loud funny, but the dark strings of her khipu are never far from that bright surface (her thesis is about feminicide in Roberto Bolaño's 2666). She invokes cultural figures from Anzaldúa to JLo, Harurki Murakami, and Henry Kissinger. And she knows her own value, which she asserts at an Inca museum exhibit as part of a mordant rundown of the Spanish conquest: "Anyway, the gold was here now, just like khipu and just like me." Catalina demands her due from friends, lovers, professors, and familia in Cornejo Villavicencio's bravura formative years.

Calder Country by Janet Dailey

1920s, Blue Moon, Montana. The small cattle town is alight with the excitement of cars, telephones, and airplanes. But as new inventions and new roles for women collide with Prohibition and the rising battle between gangsters and the FBI, Blue Moon finds itself -- and some of its most infamous residents and powerful families -- at a crossroads, and in battles of their own, between hearts and minds . . . Heir to the Hollister Ranch on his mother's side, Mason Dollarhide is back home after a five-year prison sentence for smuggling bootleg liquor. Cynical and daring, he's already up to his old tricks, having his goods trafficked to him by plane. Until the pilot is injured in a crash and captured by federal agents. Ruby Weaver learned to fly from her smuggler father. To keep him out of prison, she agrees to take over his route and go undercover to help the Feds break up a bootlegging ring. Mason is only one part of that large operation, but he's the rugged, rebellious, and tantalizingly irreverent part that makes an impression. Against her better judgement, Ruby finds herself falling for him. . . While the fire between Ruby and Mason smolders, other star-crossed Blue Moon romances blaze, as old family rivalries between the Dollarhides and the Calders continue. But when tables unexpectedly turn, some dreams may go up in smoke.

Library Laugh I

I lost some weight last month…but now it found me again.

Stingy Schobel Says

Yes, you should wait until your dishwasher is totally full to run it. A dishwasher has no idea how much you’ve put inside it to clean, so it’ll use the same amount of water and energy it uses during a full cycle, and if you use pre-measured dishwashing tablets, it can actually create scratches on glassware, since there’s less to clean and too much detergent in the machine. The only exception is this: If your dishwasher offers a half-load option, use it. This option focuses on just one area of the dishwasher (upper or lower rack) and conserves energy and water.

Library Laugh II

Did you hear that the world tongue twister champion got arrested? They’re gonna give him a really tough sentence.

Libraries=Information

Do you have a bumper crop of lemons? Or did you use just the peel of a lemon to make drinks or for a recipe? Turns out you can save the rest of the lemon in the freezer. Just put the whole lemon in an airtight container and let it freeze solid. It’ll last for about four months. When you’re ready for fresh lemon juice, let the frozen lemon thaw out. It’ll be mushy, but the juice itself will be fine and taste like it's fresh-picked.

Beach Bongo Bonus

So what if I don’t know what “Armageddon” means? It’s not the end of the world.