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On the New Book Shelf in the Library Call Number:  PS 3558 .E476 Z63 2011 Just One Catch:  a biography of Joseph Heller By Tracy Daugherty Publisher's Description:  In time for the 50th anniversary of Catch-22, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book), illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of Joseph Heller. Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII (his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air). Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire. His life was filled with women and romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships—he counted Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Carl ...

On the New book shelf in the Library's lobby Call Number:  HV 6692.M33 H46 2011 The Wizard of Lies:  Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust By Diana B. Henriques Publisher's Description:   The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself.  Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades. Many have speculated about what might have happened or what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story--until now. In The Wizard of Lies , Diana B. Henriques of The New York Times --who has led the paper's coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story broke--has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme, dra...

On the new book shelf in the Library's Lobby. Call Number:  R 729.5 .G4 B36 2011  Out of Practice: Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America By Frederick M. Barken, M.D. Publisher's Description :  Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and medical students steer clear in order to pursue more lucrative specialties. Patients feel helpless, well aware that they are losing a valued close connection as health care steadily becomes more transactional than relational. The thin-margin efficiency, rapid pace, and high volume demanded by the new health care economics do not work for primary care, an inherently slower, more personal, and uniquely tailored service. In Out of Practice , Dr. Frederick Barken juxtaposes his personal e...

On the New Book shelf in the Library's lobby Call Number:  HN 90 .M84 B37 20111 Barack Obama, The Aloha Zen President:  how a son of the 50th state may revitalize America based on 12 multicultural principles By Michael Haas Publisher's Description:   Obama's aspiration to transform the United States using Hawaìi as his model has been a conspicuous theme in his books and speeches over the years. In them, he extols Hawaìi's multicultural ethos, describing how a normative, problem-solving mindset predicated on mutual respect and harmonious interchange is inculcated in the culture, politics, and society of the Islands. Indeed, this "Aloha Spirit" is imbued in Barack Obama, is part of what made him irresistibly charismatic as a candidate, and explains why voters in 2010 were baffled at his demeanor after he became the 44th President of the United States. This unique book examines Obama's decisions as an adult and as president and exposes how they are directly l...