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Dane County Senior Readers
May/June 2009
- Evelyn Simmerman Reviews
- Shirley Kevil Reviews
- Materials by Pamela Wright
- Madison Community Foundation Grant
Large Print Non-Fiction Will Expand
Thanks to a very generous grant awarded by the Madison Community Foundation, Dane County will expand the number of large print non-fiction titles over the next three years. Purchasing has already begun and new titles can be accessed through a list available hereEvelyn Simmermon of Stoughton Reviews: Harold by Catherine Cookson
This book is the third in a series.
This is the third book about Maisie Leviston, who was a very plain-looking person with a deformed arm. She had a disastrous first marriage to Sickles that ended in divorce. Her second marriage was a beautiful time in her life until her beloved Nardy died.
Harold, the young grandson of their housekeeper became very much a part of Maisie’s life. She was pleased when she was allowed to adopt him. A neighboring couple who cared for Harold when Maisie needed help turned out to be thieves. The story becomes involved when Maisie tries to recover her losses. She is abducted, thrown over a cliff and unbelievably rescued.
A good share of this book is of Maisie’s long hospitalization and recovery. This gave her much time to look back at her life and the men who loved her.
Her mother’s former husband, George, loved her dearly and was always there when she needed him. Her Doctor, Mike, who she visited every week when she needed a shoulder to cry on, was a devoted friend. Nardy, who came to her at the lowest period of her life was a loving husband. Nardy’s best friend, Tommy, dearly loved Maisie and eventually talked her into marriage. And of course, Harold, the child of her heart, loved her without reservation and made her life complete. For an unattractive child who felt no one would ever love her, she was special to many.
Shirley Kevil of Sun Prairie Reviews:Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
The cat is a mountain lion in the Southwestern wilderness in Texas. This is a story of love, lust, blackmail and murder.
Anna Pigeon is a Park Ranger with a horse named Gideon who she sometimes rides on the mountain trails. At home she has a pet cat named Piedmont.
Every spring and fall the Rangers search the trails of the Guadalupe Mountains to keep track of the cougars in the park.
When hiking in the canyon, Anna discovered the body of Sheila Drury, the Dog Canyon Ranger, who had recently died. El Paso, Texas is two hours away , so she called the District Ranger and helpers to bring the body down the mountain. Mountain Lions are blamed for the death, so one was shot and killed.
The park is open to the public so there is an office building with interesting people who work there; each one has an interesting job and story to tell.
They sent out a search party to find Craig who had claimed he saw space aliens. Anna didn’t believe the lion killed the woman, so she tried to find evidence to save more lions from being killed.
Had there been a murder? Had mysterious clues appeared? There could be some explanation. Why did Anna see such evil when no one else could?
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Materials
by Pamela Wright of Sun Prairie
Bits of twig
wisps of straw
a tangled mass of string—
Resourceful birds
appropriate
and build the nests of spring!
May 1992
by
Pamela Wright, Sun Prairie
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