The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Egg Roll with Rice
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookies, Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Today is Kick-Butt Day! Come check out Project Ride at lunch in front of the Pavilion for anti-smoking info and a car show.

All Powder Puff jerseys and ticket money must be turned in to Mrs. Kuhlmann in Room 476 NOW! Bills will be submitted tomorrow.

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


Charles Lindberg: A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Clarion Books (October 20, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0395633893
ISBN-13: 978-0395633892
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches

From houghtonmifflinbooks.com
Pilot Charles A. Lindbergh was one of the first Americans to be lionized by the news media. When LIndbergh made his nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927, radio and sound movies were just beginning to be popular, enabling people to learn of events almost as soon as they happened. Overnight, the 25-year-old Lindbergh, a man of modest means and education, was catapulted into the public limelight. He became the American hero whom everyone adored and thought could do no wrong. Lindbergh's popularity lasted little more than a decade. His ties to Nazi Germany and his outspoken isolationist views prior to World War II cost him the respect of many close friend and relatives, and of the general public as well. The story of Lindbergh's rise to fame and abrupt descent into disgrace is told here with frankness and understanding. The meticulously researched text and generous selection of archival photographs present a lively and rounded portrait of a man who earned his place in aviation history despite his faults.

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor


The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; Reprint edition (August 29, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802142818
ISBN-13: 978-0802142818

“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.”

Although The Inheritance of Loss has been viewed as a book about the gaping hole between the old world and the new world that swallows all who dare to toe the edges, and it has been thought to be about the consequences of colonialism and bridging the gap between it and the modern world, to me, it is a story of love and its many forms and consequences. I may just be a hopelessly romantic teenage girl overflowing with hormones that bring to light all things romantic in any situation, thus hiding the true themes of this novel from eyes blinded by estrogen, but I do truly believe that the gaping hole and the bridge are there only to bring a realistic sense to the real theme: love.

By Jessica Rosales and Dana Llarena, Courier Staff Writers

Erin Cross participates in a non-profit organization that promotes peace through multicultural friendship called Children’s International Summer Villages (CISV). CISV is a worldwide association that has been operating since 1951 and also has it’s own branch in San Francisco.

Founded by Dr. Doris Allen, CISV started off because of her concern for children that were left with nothing after WWII. 50 years later, this program has expanded to be part of more than 60 countries and has gotten more than 190,000 people to participate in the international activities, including Cross.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best sellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 17 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 NONFICTION
1. The Secret. Rhonda Byrne. Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 11
2. Women & Money. Suze Orman. Spiegel & Grau, $24.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
3. In an Instant. Lee & Bob Woodruff. Random House, $25.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
4. You: On a Diet. Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Free Press, $25
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 19
5. I Feel Bad About My Neck. Nora Ephron. Knopf, $19.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 32