Tag: Killers of the Flower Moon

Daily Digital & Print Suggested Reads: Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for today.

(Note: Click on the photo of the item you’d like to request or check out)

Our digital suggestion for today is the downloadable audio book:

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI written by David Grann & narrated by Will Patton:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“Disturbing and riveting…It will sear your soul.” —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed—many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating.

And our print book suggested read for the day is:

The Gift of Christmas Past by Cindy Woodsmall:

Arson wasn’t the only fire that ignited between them.

Promises shattered.

Lies spoken.

She was arrested.

He returned to the safety of his wealthy parents.

Almost ten years later, Hadley and Monroe are both specialists in the field of speech therapy. They meet again . . . thrown together to help a four-year-old-girl rendered mute after being rescued from a fire.

Years of secrets and anger beg to be set free as Hadley and Monroe try to push aside past hurts and find common ground in order to help the traumatized child and her family.

Can the love of Christmas past drift into the present, bringing healing and hope for all?

You can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!

Linda, SSCL

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Catching Up On New York Times Bestsellers

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, this list contains a selection of titles that have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller lists in the past month.

And our Catching Up On New York Times Bestsellers posting — will come out on the first of each month.

To find out more about a book, or to request it, click on the photo of the book you’re interested in which will re-direct you to the StarCat request page*

Fiction:

A Column of Fire by Ken Follett:

A Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille:

Enemy Of The State by Vince Flynn

(A Mitch Rapp Series Novel):

The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye by David Lagercrantz

(A Lisbeth Salander Novel):

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood:

Haunted by James Patterson and James O. Born

(A Detective Michael Bennett Thriller):

A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre:

Secrets In Death by J. D. Robb

(Lt. Eve Dallas Series):

To Be Where You Are by Jan Karon 

(Mitford Series) :

Wicked Deeds by Heather Graham 

(Krewe of Hunters Series):

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware:

Non-Fiction:

Astrophysics For People In A Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson:

Being Mortal: Medicine And What Matters In the End by Atul Gawande:

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls:

Giant of the Senate by Al Franken:

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance:

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann:

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder:

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur:

The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns:

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton:

Have a great day,

Linda, SSCL

*If you don’t have a library card you can get one at the library. Just bring a form of ID with your name and current address to the library, fill out a short form and presto — you’ll have a library card in less than five minutes!