Page 2B-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, February 15, 1990
New Fiction At KM Library
Holt, Victoria. The Captive
(Doubleday, 1989).
In Rosetta Cronleigh's eigh-
teenth year, her happy, if unevent-
ful, London life is suddenly shat-
tered when her first ocean voyage
ends in a shipwreck off the African
coast. Only the quick thinking of a
mysterious young deckhand, Josh
Player, saved her and the debonair
Lucian Lorimer, from the merciless
rage of the sea. Adrift in a lifeboat,
the three are washed up on a de-
serted island. As Rosetta grows
closer to Josh, she learns his true
identity--and his seemingly hope-
less fate.
Jakes, John. California Gold
(Random House, 1989).
Sweeping from 1886 to 1921,
the novel explores the lore and the
legends of California, charts its
change from frontier to a modern
state, and chronicles as only Jakes
can the loves and battles of a host
of vivid characters. With page-
turning intensity, the author sweeps
up from the high Skierras and the
mansions and clubs of San
! ee Francisco society to Los Angeles
during the great land boom of the
. 1890's and Riverside in the heyday
of the millionaire citrus growers.
Combining impeccable research
and powerful storytelling
California Gold demonstrates once
again why John Jakes has been
called the people's author and the
godfather of the historical novel.
Here at last in one immense work
is California history enterwined
with California myth, capturing all
the glory and disillusionment of the
eternal drama, :
Kellerman, Jonathan. Silent
Partner (Bantam Books, 1989).
Romance is the last thing on
Alex Delaware's mind when he at-
tends a cocktail party for psycholo-
gy professor Paul Peter Kruse at
one of Los Angeles' most lavish es-
tates. Kellerman's psychologist-de-
tective Dr. Alex Deleware returns
in a spellbinder of childhood terror
and family secrets--a novel with
the intensity, of suspense, richness
of characterization, and shockingly
vivid portrayal of Southern
California decadence.
Keneally, Thomas. To Asmora
(Warner Books, 1989).
Africa - an awesomely beautiful
land, a continent where man's no-
blest and basest acts often happen
in the same breath--has drawn
Westerners to it for over two hun-
dred years. The outward reasons
for their going have changed, the
inner ones have not. And now one
of the most accomplished novelists
of our time has written a deeply
moving, starkly real tale of Africa,
of an alienated Western journalist
and his search for his soul across
Africa's war tormented Horn, and
of the proud Eritrean men and
women whose fierce struggle to
preserve their remarkable secrets
entitles them to justly claim their
land with their blood and for their
dreams,
King, Stephen. The Dark Half
(Viking, 1989).
When Thad Beaumont wakes to
the nightmare of George Stark, he
hears birds, thousands of them,
chirping and twittering at the same
time, and with their song come a
presentment full of meaning and
foreboding; the sparrow's are fly-
ing again. At the center of the
Rose Turner
nightmare is the devesting figure of
George Stark, Thad's dark half--
impossibly alone and relentlessly
on the loose-- a killing machine
that destroys everyone on the path
that leads to the man who created
him. Here is a tale of terror so real
and fascinating that Stephen King's
growing legion of fans will find
themselves squirming in their mas-
ter's heart-stopping, blood-curdling
grip--and loving every minute of it.
Lamott, Anne. All New People
(North Point Press, 1989).
With Generosity, Humor, and
Pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the
barrage of dislocating changes that
shook the sixties--divorce, drugs,
personal insecurity, nd new eco-
nomic realities. The loss that fol-
lows in the wake of these changes
is seen in the eye of one small girl,
Nancy Goodman, living in appar-
ent Eden of Marion County,
California. this is the painful, yet
exhilarating story of Nancy's pas-
sage our of childhood. This is the
author's boldest, funniest, most
moving book yet, and in it she
works special magic, transforming
failure into forgiveness, endowing
mankind with the power to change.
McCaffrey, Anne. The
Renegades Of Pern (Ballantine
Books, 1989).
As long as the people of Pern
could remember, the Holders had
protected them from Thread, the
deadly silver strands that fell from
the sky and ravaged the land. In
exchange for sanctuary in the huge
stone fortress, the people tithed to
the Lord Holders, who in turn sup-
ported the Weyra, whose dragons
were Pern's greatest weapon
against Thread. But not everyone
on Pern was part of the system of
mutual care and protection, partic-
ularly those who had been rendered
helpless as punishment for wrong-
doing. From the ranks of the crimi-
nals and the disaffected, rose a
band of renegades led by lady
Thella.
McMurtry, Larry. Some Can
Whistle (Simon and Schuster,
1989).
McMurtry's new book is a bril-
liant masterpiece, richly comic,
profoundly merry, totally real.
Danny Deck is now a successful
middle-aged Texan writer who has
made a fortune in the TV business
in LA and retired here to his quiet,
expensive and eccentric way of
life. Into the quiet existence comes
an unexpected telephone call from
T.R., the daughter he has never
seen, which changes Danny's life
and the lives of everyone around
him, including T.R., herself.
Michener, James A. Caribbean
(Random House, 1989).
The lush islands of the
Caribbean have always possessed a
special allure--as colonial treasure
in days gone by, as vacation re-
DENTAL HYGIENE PROGRAM AT NORTH SCHOOL-Dr.
Roger Miller shares with Mrs. Blanton's and Mrs. Crosby's first
graders at North School the importance of good dental health prac-
tices.
CONGRADULATIONS
Kim Hagans
On Making The
Dean's List
At N.C. State University
Love,
Mama, Bonnie, & Danny
treats today. Told in James
Michener's incomparable fashion,
here is a magnificent story of the
struggle for empire, and of politi-
cal, economic and racial currents in
one of the most beautiful and hotly
contested regions of the globe.
Through Michener's unequaled gift
of characterization, great historical
events are portrayed with stirring
human drama.
Mortimer, John The Narrowing
Stream (Viking, 1989).
A beautiful and touching story
about a middle-class marriage
whose shifts and changes, dreams
and fears, are sometimes only
vaguely understood or felt--and
scarcely ever spoken.
Momaday, N. Scott. The
Ancient Child (Doubleday, 1989).
Momaday shapes the Kiowas's
age old tale of how the boy turned
into a bear, into a timeless
American myth. The Ancient Child
juxtaposes Indian lore and Wild
West legend in a hypnotic, often
lyrical contemporary novel in
which time is seamless, imagina-
tive, unbounded. The author brings
together the primordial vision
quest and the immediacy of the
modern world with breath taking
effect. Here is a magical, wholly
unforgettable saga of one man's
tormented search for his identity.
Mosher, Howard Frank. A
Stranger In The Kingdom
(Doubleday, 1989).
Mosher's deeply engrossing sto-
ry of a community torn apart by
fear and prejudice, told from the
point of view of a sensitive young
boy, is certain to become a classic.
In the spring of 1952 Red Sox fans
in Kingdom County, Vermont,
were predicting a sweep to the
World Series, and Jo Kinnesan is
turning thirteen. But the idyllic
peacefulness of this quiet, compla-
cent community is shattered by the
brutal murder of a seventeen-year
old girl.
DAR ESSAY WINNERS-The six students
Frederick Hambright Chapter. Front row,
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» pictured, won history essay contests sponsored by Colonel
from left, are Molly Blanton, overall winner and District win-
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History Essay Winners |
Give Program At DAR
The six student winners in the
recent DAR-sponsored history es-
say contest in the schools gave the
program at Wednesday's meeting
of Colonel Frederick Hambright
Chapter at Weir Auditorium at
Mauney Memorial Library.
Presenting the program were
Molly Blantony'Bethware School
Sth grader; Katherine Ann Subler,
North School 5th grader; Felicia
Davis, 6th grader at Central; Brian
Mack Lefevers, 7th grader at
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Central; and Jada Denise Biddix,
8th grader at KM Junior High.
Regent Louise Roberts an-
nounced that Molly Blanton was
first place winner among 5th
graders of the system. Her entry
was sent to District II for competi-
tion and she also placed first in the
District.
Betty Masters, contest chairman,
presented the winners and took the
occasion to congratulate them for
their efforts.
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Mrs. Roberts presided at the
meeting which was attended by a
large number of visitors, including
parents and teachers of the honored
students.
Mrs. Mary McMackin led in the
opening rituals and Mrs. Hilda
Goforth read the President
General's Address.
Miss Blanton's prize-winning
entry now advances to state com-
petition.
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