Posted by Beth on Thursday, Jan 30, 2014
January is almost over, but does knowing we have at least 7 more weeks of winter make you want learn to hibernate? Does watching yet another snowstorm blow through give you the winter blues? ICPL has the cure!
Check out the new Arm Chair Travel display on the 2nd floor. You'll find all sorts of great travel guides guaranteed to make forget about the snow:
Pocket Phuket, 3rd edition. A guide to the island province off the south western coast of Thailand. Phuket, along with much of the Western coast of Thailand was seriously damaged by the December 2004 Tsunami, and the government and people of Thailand have made a fantastic recovery. This guide, with wonderful pictures and maps, also has lots of lists. Lists of places to visit, things to see, places to eat and places to stay. Just flipping through its pages will get you lost in this amazing country.
Lonely Planet - Australia, 16th ed. It's hard to cover an entire country in one book, but the Lonely Planet people have created a great introductory guide to travel in Australia. From places to visit, sights to see and things to do the Lonely Planet guides are fun to read. This guide will have you wanting to find koalas or kookaburras in their natural habitat, hiking through the Blue Mountains National Park, or just laying on the sand at Bondi Beach.
Moon Handbook: Tahiti If you've ever wanted to run away to the French Polynesian islands, this guidebook is for you. With beautiful maps and lists of things to see, places to go as well as where to eat and where to stay, this book will have you dreaming about mountains and rainforests and black sand beaches.
Stop by the display or the Non Fiction collections for more travel guides in print or on DVD.
About the Author
Title: Program Librarian
Where you'll see me in the library: I work at the Information Desk, the Help Desk and in the Digital Media Lab during Drop-in Tech Help. I teach some of the Genealogy workshops and I'll be at most of the Library Events & Programs for adults too, so I'm pretty much everywhere.
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This first book in what I hope is a very long series of crime/detective fiction by author Joe Ide. I started with the print copy and was grabbed quickly by the story. However there is a lot of East LA dialect in this book that slowed me down, so I checked out a copy of the e-aduio and I'm so glad I did. Actor Sullivan Jones brought the characters to life in ways my imagination couldn't. After listening to a few chapters the characters are firmly in my brain and I hear their voices when I read the text. Isaiah Quintabe (IQ) is my new favorite private investigator. He sees things other people miss. Things that aren't where they're supposed to be, or shouldn't be where they are, or things that just don't make sense. Author Joe Ide masterfully weaves together two stories - Isaiah's own rough teenage years and the current case he's been hired to solve - to introduce us to a great new character in detective fiction. The second book in the series is "Righteous" and the third "Wrecked" is due out in October 2018. -Beth