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Monday, December 30, 2013

Readers' Advisory

Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen (2011)


 
This is the first installment of the Department Q series, featuring the deeply flawed chief detective Carl Morck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself.  So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.

But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. His colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh, and redeem himself in the process. (Publisher)

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Readers' Advisory

The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt (2013)

 
 
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Aloneand abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. (Novelist)

Friday, December 6, 2013

Readers' Advisory

Farewell Nelson Mandela
Human Rights Activist
1918-2013
 


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African resistance leader who, after years of imprisonment for opposing apartheid, emerged to become the first president of a black-majority-ruled South Africa and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Readers' Advisory

David and Goliath (2013)
by Malcolm Gladwell


The best-selling author of Outliers uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty, the powerful and the dispossessed.