The James Logan Courier

Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.




From the publisher:
Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 13, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. World Without End. Ken Follett. Dutton, $35
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Playing for Pizza. John Grisham. Doubleday, $26.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
3. The Choice. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
4. Dark of the Moon. John Sandford. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 21
6. You've Been Warned. James Patterson & Howard Roughan. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 5
7. Bridge of Sighs. Richard Russo. Knopf, $26.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 3
8. Shoot Him If He Runs. Stuart Woods. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 3
9. Run. Ann Patchett. HarperCollins, $25.95
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 3
10. The Orc King. R.A. Salvatore. Wizards of the Coast, $27.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 3

By Vicente Marcelo, Courier Sports Writer

Following their successful season last year, the James Logan Wrestling Team will try to continue their success as they hold their first practice of the 2007/2008 season on November 5.

Last year the Colts went undefeated in league and took fourth in the North Coast Section. Colin Malcolm, Adrian Gomez and Ricky Streeter led the way.

LUNCH: Chicken Caesar Wrap, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Vegetarian with Bell Peppers, Mushrooms, Fresh tomato, and Olives

ACTIVITIES:
Saturday’s Haunted Homecoming Dance tickets are available at both lunches in Colt Court. Tickets are $8 w/ASB, $10 presale, and $12 at the door. Attire is semi-formal or costume with certain restrictions. Don’t wait, buy your tickets now!

Hope you are having fun with Spirit Week Dress-up Days! Tomorrow is Friday, which means you’ve got to wear your class color. Seniors wear black, Juniors white, Sophomores green, and Freshman yellow. Show spirit for the Homecoming Rally!

By Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Staff Writer

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I can’t be sure.”

These are the words of Meursault, the narrator in Albert Camus’s The Stranger. This novel takes place in Algiers, a city in Algeria located in Northern Africa.

The novel begins with the death of Meursault’s mother, which does not seem to affect Meursault in any way. In the first half of the book, Meursault builds his character through his absurd actions and feelings. Readers will realize that Meursault is completely apathetic toward his peers ,as well as life itself. His thoughts and actions portray him as an odd and uncharismatic individual compared to other characters in the novel, Bbut an unexpected event takes place which completely alters Meursault’s fate, as well as his overall attitude. He becomes a victim of his actions, leading him to trouble with the law.

By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Reviewer


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, illustrates the story of a boy who enjoys playing hooky, hunting for treasure, and participating in any type of reckless adventure. Tom Sawyer is an intelligent, witty, and attention seeking character; who manipulates situations in ways which favor him.

One day Tom Sawyer is disciplined by his aunt for getting into a fight, he is told to paint a fence as a punishment. This punishment would have potentially ruined his weekend, so to shirk the job he tricks his friends into painting the fence; he accomplishes this by pretending to enjoy the painting.

Read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, free from Project Gutenberg.

From wikipedia:
Sarah Josepha Hale (October 23, 1788 - April 30, 1879) was an American writer. She is well known as the author of the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Hale was born in Newport, New Hampshire to Captain Gordon Buell and Martha Whittlesay Buell. Early on in her life, she was educated by her mother and her brother Horatio who taught her what he had learned at Dartmouth, and later on, Hale was an autodidact. In 1813, she married David Hale, a lawyer and Freemason, with whom she had five children. In 1823, with the monetary support of her (then late) husband's Freemason lodge, she published a collection of her poems entitled The Genius of Oblivion.

Read Sarah Josepha Hale's book, "Flora's Interpreter: Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments," free from Google Books.