Dick Estell continues reading from
Anything Goes
by Lucy Moore
The Overlook Press, N.Y., 2010
(since August 6)

In Anything Goes, author Lucy Moore interweaves the stories of compelling people (e.g. Sacco and Vanzetti) and momentous events (e.g. the Ku Klux Klan march in Washington, D.C.) that characterized the decade to prduce a gripping portait of the Jazz Age. She reveals that the Roaring Twenties were more than just "the years between the wars." They awere an epoch of passion and channge -- an age, she observes, not unlike our own.

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Beginning September 8
Elliot Allagash
by Simon Rich
Random House, NY, 2010

How great would it be if the richest kid on earth had taken you under his wing in the eighth grade, promising to make your wildest dreams come true?

In Simon Rich's first novel, Seymour Herson has his humdrum life turned upside down when he meets Elliot Allagash, the arrogant heir of America's largest fortune.

Elliot uses sabotage, fraud, and a shocking amount of money to transform Seymour into the most beloved boy in school. But what starts as an amusing experiment ends in a way that neither of them could have expected.

This is a novel about all of the incredible things that money can buy -- and one or two things that it can't.

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Beginning September 28
Deadliest Sea
by Kalee Thompson
William Morrow, NY, 2010

It was 2:30 a.m. on Easter morning on March 2008, when the fishing trawler "Alaska Ranger" began taking on water in the frigid Bering Sea, more than 100 miles from the closest land.

By 4:30 a.m., all 47 people on board had abandoned ship. More than half of the fishermen had failed to make it into a life raft.

Ultimatley, 42 of the 47 crew members were rescued -- 20 of them were individually airlifted from the freezing waters -- an unprecedented achievement in Coast Guard history.

Author Thompson recounts the tragic sinking of the trawler and the rescue mission -- of the most remarkable in maritime history.

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