BOOK NEWS
Ivan Doig to pick up Stegner award at CU
Acclaimed author Ivan Doig will receive the Wallace Stegner Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center for the American West during ceremonies Thursday at 7 p.m. at the school’s Wolf Law Building courtroom.
The center presents the Stegner award each year to someone who has “made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the American West through literature, art, history, lore or understanding of the West.” Previous winners include Terry Tempest Williams, John Nichols, Rudolfo Anaya and Vine Deloria Jr.
The event is free and will be followed by a book signing and reception. 303-492-4879 or | The Associated Press
Al Gore, Book 2
For those frightened by the tale of global warming in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and wondering what can be done, the former vice president has an answer: a sequel.
Gore is working on “The Path to Survival,” due as a paperback original on April 22, Earth Day. According to publisher Rodale Books, Gore will offer “a visionary blueprint.” | USA Today
FIRST LINE
The Art Thief
Noah Charney, $25
It was almost as if she were waiting, hanging there, in the painted darkness.
The small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana in Trastevere huddled in a corner of the warm Roman night. The streets were blue and motionless, illuminated only by the hushed light of a streetlamp from the square nearby.
Then there was a sound inside the church.
It was the faintest scream of metal on metal, barely perceptible in daylight, but now like a shriek of white against black. Then it stopped. The sound had been only momentary, but it echoed.
From out of the belly of the sealed church, a bird rose. A pigeon fluttered frantically along the shadowy chapel walls and swooped through the vaults and down the transept, carving a path blindly through the inky cavernous interior.
Then the alarm went off.”
MOST BORROWED LIBRARY BOOKS
Fiction
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5. 6th Target, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Nonfiction
1. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. The Total Money Makeover, by Dave Ramsey
3. The Lost Boy, by Dave Pelzer
4. 90 Minutes in Heaven, by Don Piper
5. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
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