Dick Estell continues reading from
Last Night in Twisted River
by John Irving
Random House,N.Y., 2009
(since February 18)

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear -- in the dark of the night -- attacking her with an iron skillet.

Both the son and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County to Boston to southern Vermont to Toronto, pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.

This is a story that spans five decades,and is John Irving's 12th novel.

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Beginning April 23
Standing By
by Alison Buckholtz
Penguin Group, NY 2009

Standing By is a moving account of her family's experiences during her husband's seven-month leave deployment on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.

Author Buckholtz speaks honestly about the culture shock she experienced as she made the transition into the role of military wife. This is an intimate and timely portrait of one of tens of thousands of families who now wait patiently for their service member to return home safely.

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