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  • Readers Guide: Lindbergh kidnapping revisited in ‘Cemetery John’ at Library

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  • In 1936, Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s little boy. Even before his trial, the police suspected Hauptmann didn’t act alone but they were unable to prove it. Several years later, Eugene Zorn remembered having overheard a conversation between a man called “Bruno” and a German immigrant named John Knoll as they seemingly were plotting a kidnapping. Robert Zorn, Eugene’s son, picks up the lead with his intriguing book on “Cemetery John: the Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping” (364.154).
    Like all parents, Sara had high hopes and dreams for her son Jason. Her visions of an Ivy League education and a job in the halls of the nation’s capital, though, were changed after 9/11 and Jason chose, instead, to enter the military — specifically the Navy SEALS. Now it is May 2011. Jason’s unit has just completed a highly dangerous, secret mission in the Middle East from which he did not return. Not knowing if he is alive or dead, Sara waits for word. Lea Carpenter makes her riveting fiction debut with “Eleven Days.”
    As some people have become more and more disenchanted with mainstream medicine, they have turned to alternative therapies. Acupuncture, homeopathy, Chinese herbs, dietary supplements — these alternative, holistic treatments have gained tremendously in popularity despite the fact that none of them are regulated or have even been proven effective. Dr. Paul A. Offit, noted infectious disease expert, takes an eye-opening look at these therapies and the celebrities who promote them in “Do You Believe in Magic? the Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine” (615.500).
    A hot summer night in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn brings its own kind of boredom for two 15-year-old girls. June Giatto decides she wants to take a pink raft out into the bay and talks her best friend, Val Marino, into going with her. Only Val returns, washed up on shore nearly dead. Ivy Pochoda superbly reveals what follows as Val and the other residents of the lower middle class neighborhood struggle to make sense of June’s disappearance in “Visitation Street.”
    For Lucy, her husband Richard’s job loss and their subsequent move from London to a small apartment in Greenwich Village seems like the end of the world — until she realizes she really loves New York. Her new friends help to spice things up: Julia, who left her husband and kids after a breakdown; Christy, the trophy wife of a high power executive; and Robyn, who has been supporting her writer husband for years. This charmingly neurotic trio and Lucy are the delightful heart of Anne-Marie Casey’s fiction debut, “No One Could Have Guessed the Weather.”
    It’s hard to believe that “The Read-Aloud Handbook” (372.452) is now in its 7th edition. First published in 1979, Jim Trelease’s book has guided parents to the benefits and sheer joy of reading aloud with their children. This new edition updates and expands the lists of recommended titles for reading together and offers tips for helping kids get into sustained silent reading. Plus, Trelease looks at the pros and cons of ebooks and digital learning.
    Page 2 of 2 - Other new titles:
    Fiction — “Earth Afire,” by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston;
    “Sweet Salt Air,” by Barbara Delinsky;
    “A Treacherous Paradise,” by Henning Mankell;
    “Second Honeymoon,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan.
    Non-fiction — “Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe” (500.000), by Mario Livio;
    “Double Double: a Dual Memoir of Alcoholism” (921.000, by Martha Grimes and Ken Grimes.

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