A real live author is coming to Luverne! Carolyn Fisher will be visiting the Rock County Community Library at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 5. Ms. Fisher is the author and illustrator of "A Twisted Tale" and has illustrated three other children’s books: "Fifty-Five Grandmas and a Llama," "The Best Friends‚ Handbook," and "Two Old Potatoes and Me." Carolyn has also done illustrating for Disney and Time Magazine. Join us for this special presentation that will appeal to both children and adults. Books may be available for purchase and can be autographed after the presentation. This author program is sponsored by SW/WC Service Coop and the Friends of the Rock County Library. Join us for unique opportunity. The new spring books are coming in every day and I am frantically cataloging to get them out on the shelves. You might like to try the new title by best-selling author Jodi Picoult, "My Sister’s Keeper." Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate — a life and a role that she has never challenged ... until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister — and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. Also new on the shelf is "Sullivan’s Law" by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg. Carolyn Sullivan arrives at her office at the Ventura County Probation Department. She has a paper due for law school and two high-energy kids who need to be in different places at the same time. Her boss is on the war path before she even has a chance to grab a cup of coffee. But Carolyn’s day is about to get a lot worse. The top brass assigns her a sensitive case that’s sure to have everyone breathing down her neck, supervising convicted killer, Daniel Metroix. More than 23 years ago, the son of the police chief was pushed into the path on an oncoming car, and Metroix went to prison for the boy’s murder. To this day he claims he’s innocent. Carolyn dives into the case, but someone doesn’t want Carolyn to discover the truth; someone who knows where she lives; someone who will strike at the heart of every mother’s worst fear in order to silence her for good. New on the non-fiction shelf is "Three Weeks With My Brother," by Nicholas Sparks. In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 37 and 38 respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. As Nicholas and Micah travel the globe, the intimate story of their family unfolds in the details of the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world, the Sparks brothers band together to heal, to remember, and to learn to live life to the fullest.
