The Library Log

As the days become shorter, the evenings provide more time for reading.

The Dublin Public Library has an outstanding selection of books, movies, eBooks, audios. Curbside service and a new combination locker for pickup is available.

Looking at general reading patterns, 46% of readers prefer non-fiction compared to 35% of fiction consumers. Those who claim to enjoy both genres equally make up the other 17%.

Age and gender have influence in what type of material is favored.

The library has a great collection of new nonfiction for patrons. Biographies and memoirs are among the most popular.

In The Stacks

“Action Park: Fast Times

Wild Rides and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park”

By Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen

Mulvihill’s father was the idiosyncratic founder and Andy tells the candid history of the legendary park. Rising through the ranks of ride tester, chief lifeguard, and finally helping run this playground, his account is funny, moving, and sad as he tries to understand his father’s dream of becoming the New Jersey version of Disneyland.

This book was recommended by one of our library’s most avid readers. “This is possibly the funniest book I have ever read,” was her explanation. Evidently this was a place with no limits on fun or danger and a testament to the 1980s “anything goes” era. Looking for something off-road? This is it.

“Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II”

By Robert Matzen

The world knows Hepburn through her Hollywood fame and role as UNICEF ambassador, but little has been shared about the five years of her life under Nazi Occupation in the Netherlands.

Her father was a Nazi agent, her uncle brutally executed, she worked as a doctor’s assistant for the Dutch Resistance. New interviews with people who know her in the war, wartime diaries and classified Dutch archives reveal another facet to this beloved star.

“The House of Kennedy”

By James Patterson

The Kennedy and James Patterson—what a combination. Patterson has collected revealing and intriguing accounts of this most iconic American family.

Covering decades and generations, Patterson brings to light the charm, the curse, the familiar and the unknown. He feeds the insatiable hunger of readers to learn more about this charismatic and tragic family.

“D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II”

By Sarah Rose

Recently declassified files, diaries and oral histories tell the story of three of these heroic women. A young mother, a levelheaded aristocrat, and a streetwise organizer play vital roles.

In 1942 the Allies were losing. Churchill created a secret agency and needed people “to set Europe ablaze!” Thirty-nine women answered that call. Of those, half got caught and a third did not make it home.

We are now learning what a critical role women played in the Allied victory.

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