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Robert Parker’s ‘Split Image’ at Oak Ridge Library

Susie Stooksbury

For more than  65 years, the Meth-odist Medical Center has been in the heart of our town. Established by the Army in 1943 to serve the health needs of a burgeoning city, Oak Ridge Hospital was literally saved in 1955 by Rep. Howard Baker Sr., who convinced Congress to reinstate funding for a new building.

Since then, it has grown into one of the area's best medical facilities. Kay Brookshire and Laura Wallace have written an enjoyable biography of MMC using tons of photos and first person accounts -- "The Heart of the Community: Methodist Medical Center 1943-2008" (362.110).

Before his recent untimely death, Robert B. Parker completed the 9th installment of his popular Jesse Stone series. "Split Image" (M) offers a bonus for fans with the reappearance of Sunny Randall who has come to Paradise to rescue young Cheryl DeMarco from a religious cult. While Sunny and Jesse get reacquainted, he begins an investigation into the murder of a local thug whose body is found in the trunk of a car.

The books behind two current critically acclaimed motion pictures are now available at the library. "Push," by Sapphire, follows the story of Precious Jones, a teenage, overweight African-American girl who has known little kindness in her short life. Now pregnant again by her father, Precious briefly finds joy at her new school. Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man" portrays homosexual George Falconer who is left adrift in a world that barely acknowledges his grief when his partner dies unexpectedly.

In 1905, an unknown clerk in the Swiss Patent Office rocked the scientific world with a paper he wrote introducing his theory of relativity. Now physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw have teamed up to walk us through the intricacies of Albert Einstein's theory and the wonders it has revealed in "Why Does e=mc2 (and Why We Should Care?)" (530.110).

Although he has been writing since the late '70s, Swedish novelist and playwright Henning Mankell has become more widely known through the television adaptations of his Kurt Wallander mysteries. "The Man from Beijing" is his latest book -- a stand-alone novel of revenge, which begins with a horrific massacre in the tiny village of Hesjovallen. The tragedy intrigues Judge Birgitta Roslin, whose mother's foster parents are among the victims. A similar crime in Nevada involving distant relations of the murdered townspeople sets Birgitta on a complex path -- across the world to China and into America's past.

Whether Jasper Fforde is stretching literary genres with the Thursday Next novels or punning his way through the Nursery Crime Division books, he enjoys writing stories that take place well outside the box. He begins a delightful new series with "Shades of Grey," set in a future time when a person's place in society is determined by his or her perception of particular colors. Reds are considered hopelessly lower class, although Eddie Russett hopes to elevate his status through his marriage to Constance Oxblood. Things go badly awry, though, when Eddie and his father move to East Carmine -- a town seething with political unrest among the working class called the Greys.

Other new titles:

Fiction -- "The Museum of Innocence," by Orhan Pamuk;

"Wild Child ... and Other Stories," by T. C. Boyle;

"Winter Garden," by Kristin Hannah;

"A Night too Dark" (M), by Dana Stabenow.

Non-fiction -- "Lunch in Paris: a Love Story with Recipes" (944.361), by Elizabeth Bard;

"Open: an Autobiography" (796.342), by Andre Agassi;

"The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2010" (641.597).
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