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Howard County Library is having a Fall Festival Grab & Go Goody Bag Giveaway on Friday, Oct. 30 from 5 p.m to 6:30 p.m. Meet us out by the parking lot, come by with your best fall spirit or spooky Halloween costume and grab a goody bag to take home. Pick up a League of Women Voters Guide at the library, while supplies last. Also, don't miss out on the last Polititaco Tuesday event at the Howard College Library on Tuesday, Oct. 27 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Walk through the voting process and ask any voting questions, plus attendees can get a taco meal at the Howard College Cafeteria, and you can still enter for raffle prizes, winners will be announced later in the week. If you have any questions about Polititaco Tuesday give Howard College a call at 432-2645090.
This week's reviews include fiction titles in audiobook format.
At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science versus medicine in “Bloody Genius” (AUCD F SAN J) by John Sandford. Each carries its views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned yet confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate. As he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among this group of wildly impassioned, diametrically opposed zealots lurks a killer, and it will be up to Virgil to sort the murderer from the mere maniacs.
A century apart, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time in “The Titanic Secret” (AUCD F CUS C) by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue, from inside an antiquated submersible, in the waters off New York City. His reward is a document left behind a hundred years earlier by Bell, a document that re-opens a historical mystery. In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell, the chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer that riddle leads to a larger one centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Bell will find out how far he'll go to stop them.
In 1074 B.C., in “Journey of the Pharaohs” (AUCD F CUS C) by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown, vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. In the present day, a fishing trawler, along with its mysterious cargo, sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team? As they search for answers, the NUMA squad join the agents of the British MI5 to take on a wide-reaching international conspiracy. Their common enemy is the Bloodstone Group, a conglomerate of arms dealers and thieves attempting to steal ancient relics on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt and his team soon find themselves wrapped up in a treacherous treasure hunt as they race to find the lost Egyptian riches before they fall into the wrong hands.
When the CIA realizes the identities of three American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to rescue the agents in “Final Option” (AUCD F CUS C) by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison, and Scott Brick (Narrator). What seems a routine operation turns out to be a trap designed by Cabrillo's greatest enemy, a man driven by hate to seek the ultimate revenge. At the heart of the plot is a state-of-the-art ship that is identical to the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, and same ability to evade capture. The only thing it doesn't have is Cabrillo and his talented crew. But will they be enough to go up against the one ship that rivals their own? The crew of the Oregon must piece together a series of disturbing events, including the mysterious sinking of a nuclear attack submarine and the possible discovery of a World War I-era weapon that was thought to be lost in the jungles of Brazil, in the ultimate game of cat and mouse.
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler
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