August 16, 2005

potpourri

The 2nd or 3rd definition of potpourri is usually something like "miscellaneous collection" and one can get desperate for alternate words for "diversity". So here is a potpourri of somewhat recent books.

792.93 THOMSON The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood (the business of making movies)
629.892 MALONE Ultimate Robot (from Fritz Lang's Maria to GoBots)
813.54 LE GUIN The Wave in the Mind: talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination (essays)
781.64 SANTORO Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock and Country Music

Painful to read but fascinating:
974.71 DWYER 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

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Posted by library at August 16, 2005 04:41 PM
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