The James Logan Courier

By Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Staff Writer

Set in the 1930s in Eatonville, an all black community located in Florida, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the touching story of a woman named Janie. Janie endures three marriages throughout her lifetime.

Through these marriages, Janie grows into a strong and independent woman, a woman who differs from the rest of the women in her society. Janie’s first marriage is thrust upon her, for she is helpless and does not have much say. She makes the decision to elope with a man who she feels she will be happy with. Yet this decision does not favor her in the long run. Her daring and loving nature helps her finally find her true love, her third husband. He is the man of her dreams, and she admits that, “Once upon a time… Ah never ‘spected nothin’…But [he] came ‘long and made sumthin’ outa me.”

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

The Foundling by D.M. Cornish
Country: Australia
Language: English
Genres: Horror, Fantasy
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication: 2006
Media type : Print (Hardback)
Pages: 433 pp
ISBN 0-399-24638-X

From monsterbloodtattoo.com:
Set in the world of the Half-Continent-a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols-the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people. Foundling begins the journey of Rossamund, a boy with a girl's name, who is just about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor. What starts as a simple journey is threatened by encounters with monsters-and people, who may be worse. Learning who to trust and who to fear is neither easy nor without its perils, and Rossamund must choose his path carefully.

Complete with appendices, maps, illustrations, and a glossary, Monster Blood Tattoo grabs readers from the first sentence and immerses them in an entirely original fantasy world with its own language and lore.

Denay Harris/Courier PhotoBy Denay Harris, Courier Staff Writer

On Tuesday night, the James Logan boys basketball teams, still in their pre-seasons, faced the Castro Valley Trojans. The games took place at Castro Valley High School

The boy’s varsity team played a good game after finding themselves down in the first quarter. The Colts came back in the third with the help of junior Salaimon Siddiq who made a shot right at the buzzer. Logan held this lead late into the third quarter, but the Castro Valley Trojans came out with the win, 60-58, a very close game.

By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Reviewer

A young sailor set to become captain one day, set to marry a beautiful fiancée, and set to lead a worry free life suddenly finds himself betrayed by his own friends. In The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, the main character, Edmund Dantes, is sent to prison for a crime he has not committed.

Accused of treason, Dantes spends over a decade in prison, around fourteen years. Charged at the ripe age of nineteen, he is still in prison when he is thirty three.

Then finally he finds a way to escape the horrid place known as the Chateau de if. The prison has changed Dantes in more ways than a normal man should change.

Read The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, free from Project Gutenberg.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 10, 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. Stone Cold. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $26.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Creation in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. Book of the Dead. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
4. Home to Holly Springs. Jan Karon. Viking, $26.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
5. Rhett Butler's People. Donald McCaig. St. Martin's, $27.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
6. Protect and Defend. Vince Flynn. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
7. Playing for Pizza. John Grisham. Doubleday, $26.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 7
8. The Chase. Clive Cussler. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 25
10. World Without End. Ken Follett. Dutton, $35
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 5