some more or less a practical cried to working in general. a couple futures i want to point out. chapter 10 of the girl working with your local counterparts. one of the sections is titled

make the counterparts your key advisers. this might seem like practical and reasonable advice for those who worked for a number of years but to high school students looking to get into international relations who think they know everything this might be advice they could take to heart and one of the other comments that she makes is speak in terms of we, not i. this book is not when to bower and when to handshake and when to walk next to somebody or behind somebody but very practical advice how to be respectful of other people. the format of the book makes it super quick and easy. one of the things she has is journal notes. she kept journals as she was working for the last 20 years and in the books -- let me read

you one of her notes here. it is not the one that is up there because -- before i found the best one. journal notes in south pacific islands, 2001. the ministry halt us all to one of the outlying villages to show successful environmental improvement project. six were consultants from various development organizations and the rest were government officials. today i was embarrassed that i couldn't wait for the trip to end. three consultants spend the entire two hours talking about they're expensive vacations to exotic locales apparently unaware how their conversation completely excluded the locals and probably made them feel even poorer than they are. the strange part was two of them are very good consultants and kind human beings. practical, simple advice, watch

what you say. in addition there are voices from the field and these are her friends and colleagues who have contributed to the book some of their advice. i will read two segments from these voices from the field and they have to do with dress code for international professionals. this is the field auditor. after an unexpected change of plans i find myself at the airport checking into -- i wondered if i would need to cover my head with a scarf. i looked at the people in line and every woman had her head coverage. for a high school student this would be very practical advice. pay attention to your surroundings and. on the next page when working in an islamic country a carious proportional with me at all times no matter where i am going what i am doing so i can confirm

my head when necessary from a human-resources specialist. this book would be good for any high school students because it is practical advice. that is my first book. i enjoyed it greatly. the next book is actually my favorite book that i received. the press secretary for gerald ford. at first i thought to myself can i really recommend this book to high school students that probably would think ford was in the 1700s. i said to myself in one of my liaisons of the college's journalism and one of the assignment our students have is to read a book on journalism for media communications from cover to cover. the professor doesn't care what the book is. he wants them to read a book cover to cover and this will be a popular one because i will

definitely recommend it to a lot of the students. i believe in my review i said it was a romp through history and it really was. he takes not only his personal perspective on what is going on but talks about how being a journalist and the long hours really affects his personal life. anybody considering being a journalist and want to major in that in college when they start reading you work 18 hours or 20 hours they might say to themselves is this the career for me? ironically he wanted to be an author. his mother wanted him to do something practical. for here i have him walking -- i have a question for my audience. a lot of the players in the book and i've looked at my audience and to think we're all here for

the ford administration. a lot of the players are still on the political scene now. does anybody know what positions dick cheney held in gerald ford's white house? anybody know his first one? [inaudible] >> he was assistant to the president and then became the chief of staff and then he was the campaign manager for ford. as per secretary, there was a lot of good and bad stories to talk about. rumsfeld is also very prominent. everyone is a little younger in the 70s. and we have henry kissinger and

rumsfeld in that picture. so let me just read one small excerpt from this book. this is from 76 when ford was running for the presidency against ronald reagan. i recorded in my oral diary this white house is not showing grace under fire. i described the recent primary losses and finger pointing as can a ballistics of the towering period and white house doesn't seem to be as much fun anymore. seems to be all hard work and long hours and little fun. in this period the president's -- how badly the white house staff generally and the press office specifically were serving his father. people around here can go home at night when they realize how they are letting my father down. i don't have trouble when i go home because i worked here 18 hours a day. when i get home i am tired from all that work and don't have

trouble sleeping at all. the conversation went on for two hours and by the end, i and other staff members were working hard for his father. that summarizes the way that he writes about his interactions with the other people in the white house. this book would be very good for any student considering journalism or interested in political science. that was my favorite book. i have a lot of occult books. vampire coming out the pores, dead people, stories about grave robbers. that was a big portion of the book that i received a. my favorite was this one, historical obsession with the hideous and the haunting. this is a historical book. the first example i have here is a page from a book. it does not have a lot of illustrations.

it truly is a history book. a lot of the perspective of this book is how folklore then became movies or stories that were written about with the influence of our obsession and if you think of what is in movie theaters right now you will realize it is a lot of aliens and monsters and things that go bump in the night. this was wonders of the invisible world in the 1600s and this is one of a great example of how we started with our obsession. i will read you a short paragraph that goes with this image. they helped construct a new world methodology that had not included the and alluvium

giants. but also the claim native people in north america had a special relationship to satan and the new world demonology the native americans were seduced by state and to come to america as special servants. this made them in a literal sense the children of the double. other puritan leaders reinforced this view seeing the native americans as designed for them by the devil. puritan leaders turned old testament imagery of the israelites destroying the people for descriptions of their relationship with the new england tribes. the puritans believe you could not live with or convert monsters. you must destroy them. that is in the first chapter. there's a long introduction, exceedingly long in production but then he starts with where we got our ideas at the beginnings of monsters and goes on to talk about specific types of monsters and histories of those monsters.

for example aliens, dead bodies and those kinds of things. i think students would enjoy this and you can use this as a reference book. you can hand them this book and a short chapter about the history of our obsession with aliens. that is my presentation. on to barbara. [applause] >> engaged resistance. american indian literature and art from alcatraz, follows her last book. with few exceptions native americans have not had access to their own stories. the ability to tell their own stories in their own voices. instead hollywood and the media

interpreted their lives not for them but to them and to the rest of us. this one beautifully rendered interdisciplinary volume the author moves us from the common images and text rendered by others to those created by diverse groups as native american voices. this book is about text, the author writes in the prologue. it addresses many other things but its main goal is to provide new ways of looking at, thinking about and making sense of native american voices. and recent american indian art, literature and film. the title, engage resistance, emerges from the author's assessment of these works as a mode of resistance against those forces that assimilated or e race altogether their lives. greater moves engaging lee and

deliberately as he scituate's movies, poetry, fiction, paintings and sculpture as products of american indian sovereignty. event examines what he terms a pathetic act of this recounting in detail the reclaiming of alcatraz island indians on their own terms. i have several photos i pull from this book. one reason i like this is there were so many excellent illustrations. i will try to go through them as i go through this. requires a certain amount of coordination. let me see what i can do. this is the cover of the book. he mentions that he calls this activism, reclaiming of alcatraz island by american indians on their own terms, many of you in this room are old enough to

remember when several native american tribes took over alcatraz island. they created a whole different culture, one that basically took back the island including creating this residence card that you see here. bear with me for just a moment this is an outstanding selection because it is the rare work that presented interdisciplinary view of native americans in one well as illustrated well-documented volume. this is well researched scholarly work making it an outstanding choice for academic libraries especially to support their literature, art history or ethnic studies department. its research value makes it highly recommended for public libraries with well read populations and high school

advance placement classes. i have several photos i want to go through briefly. this particular picture, the artist, the author says it is part of the place making for india and alcatraz. they took signs that said keep off the property and inserted the word indian. this next photo is the tee shirt image from the movie skin and it is entitled the real founding fathers. the author says it is personal

and tribal leaders will is not narrative and that is why this is so interesting and is not only paintings and art work in different media but poetry and film and this is a page from evidence of red, poems written in verse and dialogue revoking drama or a screen play. holly generic connections with myriad kinds of texts, poetry, memoir, s.a. and fiction. the title of this is indian joe morris, modern militant indian or alcatraz proved a point and painted in 1972 on board 48 by 108 inches and courtesy of the department of the interior

national park service. this particular view of the u.s. was created by john smith. it is untitled but is a memory map done in 2,000 on paper. thirty-six-34 courtesy of the artist. in the book there are several versions of this same painting. one in particular that struck me as being very interesting is this same image is all brown. is called the browning of america. in this one, edgar is the painter, walk to oklahoma and trail of tears 1836 evoking the cherokee trail of tears and with

so many the cherokee nation died as they were displaced into oklahoma and it is part of the sine proje in atlanta, georgia and these are 18 x 12 inches. and a great deal of time talking about indian art, called the national museum of the american indian and the observation that it takes as its mission the task of completely rewriting of the territorial text taking the touchy issues of skin color head on. and notions that were created and perpetuated by these ends.

these issues going so far to spotlight in the city of the inception in perpetuation. he spends two chapters looking not only at physical structure of the museum but take away all the territorial expectations we have when we do these. it is not about anthropology. it is about interpretation of indian life by native americans themselves. i highly recommend this book for a collection in colleges and in public libraries because it is different and presents a different voice. 9 next favorite book -- these are slightly out of order. remembering the music for getting words, travels with mom

in the land of dementia. the author strips away the romantic veneer of mother/daughter loved to the bear tooth and tough reality of caring for a patient who is slowly losing her mind. when we meet the author of this compelling memoir she has seen her mother in rehab for alcoholism and divorce from her father and marriage to an abusive stepfather only to discover a little by little day by day that her mother is developing alzheimer's disease. it seems we can never learn everything about this disease of the mind. much of what we know, only be speculated buy medicine and psychology and observed in bewilderment and 4 by family survivors. those who have watched a parent or friend decline will quickly recognize the account of her once musically gifted mother. and her erratic behavior.

from discovering piles of garbage in her mother's home to forgotten conversations that we her mother to fret i can't remember what i had for breakfast. don't get old. she is admirable in her determination to protect her mother and see her through this latest and last catastrophe with or without her relatives or her mother's lifelong friend who stepped in to help or might fail to appear at all. nevertheless kate developed her own positive coping strategy for making it through each day with her mother in tow. at an end shea like many of us in similar situations battles the contradictory feelings of grief, relief and guilt. even though we know and she knows that she did everything possible for her ailing mother. writing the book is clearly therapeutic and readers, whether or not they share her experience

will probably find it equally therapeutic. it is contemporary subject matter making this an outstanding choice for public libraries. highly recommended for book clubs and academic libraries especially those institutions that train medical providers, psychologists and social workers. i understand there were some misprints in public publicity about this session. all of our books today are really appropriate and this one in particular. barbara williams -- i am barbara williams, county librarian of riverside county and i spent time at the reference desk helping patrons come in. and not caregivers' but very good friends of people who have

issues like this. remembering the music for getting the words portray. i have a colleague read the book whose mother had alzheimer's and she was very moved by it so i highly recommend it. my neck favorite book was raise the appeal:how candidates in both races in u.s. political campaigns. this work is timely and informative not only because of the 2012 presidential election but also because it places recent past elections and their candidates in a new sharper focus. the authors, one a media culture and communication professor and the other a political science professor observed candidates often use any and every tool available to them to persuade voters to elect them.

sometimes even appealing to the most before. human attitudes to accomplish their electoral goals. recently coined code words, immigration reform, food stamp president, racial authenticity or black and the like and racial framing our reexamined through familiar and well documented cases including footnotes, charts and graphs. intelligent and non academic language this is an outstanding collection for large public libraries especially those with significant collections of history and popular culture for libraries and schools with the dance place classes like history and academic libraries. last on my list and let me say here there are so many books, the other lady before me, so many books are received that i really enjoyed and what i'd do

is the ones i've really enjoyed i usually end up donating. so i have donated most of them to one of my daughters as a school librarian and donated some to her library and my husband is the dean of a community college arts and humanities over the library and donated the bulk of the books to them but could have kept all of them very easily. the best of times the worst of times, contemporary american short stories from the new gilded age is a fully engaging collection of contemporary short stories. the new gilded age in the 20th and early 20 first century has been known in some circles, social and political issues in short story format written by men and women authors who bring insight from a variety. insight from a variety -- hold on -- let me start again.

a full range of social and political -- men and women authors who bring in sight from a variety of perspectives and ethnicities. authors include the immediately recognizable like john updike and those better known in smaller circles but equally literate circles. the collection group their works into sub collections for stories about family relations, identity and working conditions. the involvement of university serve students to identify which stories to include give the collection a freshness and accessibility for anyone who enjoys reading and may be discussing well written contemporary short stories wherever they can find them. the stories are written using a variety of styles and voices making this collection highly recommended for public libraries and for high school libraries and academic libraries

especially for writing and literature classes. i highly recommend al four of these books in addition to the ones that you will find in your catalog. makes excellent choices for several libraries. thank you. [applause] >> my name is merlyn miller from vermont and i have picked three books that i felt were my favorites, they all happen to be about world war ii. the first book is a memoir

called accident of fate. living in vienna when the german army invaded austria and the austrian republic ceased to exist and its territory was incorporated into the nazi reich known as the province of busmarch. with all the other boys in his school, 13-year-old imre was separated from his non-jewish classmates and expelled in june at the end of the school year. it quickly became clear that his family needed to leave austria but like many jewish families with limited means they had almost no options. most countries severe restricted the admission of jews from german control various. the first choice would have been the usa, a quota system in force would have meant waiting years. the all we feasible destination was yugoslavia where they had an

uncle, grandmother and aunt. yugoslavia was still an independent country free of anti-semitic legislation but next came a valid passport and entry visas. there was a little confusion and mix ups but imre was granted papers and the rest of his family was not. so his mother put him on a train to yugoslavia by himself and he said goodbye hoping at some point hoping they could join him and eventually his mother managed to send his brother max to england and she crossed illegally into yugoslavia and they were temporarily reunited. imre was able to remain safe for a while but when he was 17 years old he was handed a piece of paper that stated imre as a jew being dangerous to public order and safety has been sentenced to

two years hard labor in a concentration camp. he was arrested and imprisoned with a sentence of hard labor and this was the worst sentence imaginable to him because he knew it was the harshest of all the concentration camps. he was thinking i am only 17 and never done anything wrong. perhaps if i work hard and obey all the commands i will not be harmed but these thoughts vanished quickly when he stepped foot in to it. he was assigned to a grave digger detail and the grave digger's job was to drag the corpses out of the barracks, load them onto a barge sleigh beleaguered will be march to a nearby field and spend the entire day digging mass graves in frozen ground and flinging the corpses in to them. each grave was meant to hold 400 bodies. the earth was frozen hard and the work was exhausting and painful.

none of the prisoners had loved and all were in an utterly weakened state but had to work without respite to. how many of the grave diggers themselves were murdered on any given day under the pretext they worked too slowly depended entirely on the mood of the guards. in the end, imre ended up spending three weeks there because of a nazi general who happened to respond to an appeal from his uncle. this is a picture of the release form for him from the death camp. eventually imre joined tivo's partisans. a communist resistance movement in yugoslavia. becoming an officer and army veterinarian but had to deal with anti-semitism because his personal identity placed him in triple jeopardy because he was a

jew and he spoke german and had german education and many could not fully appreciate the difference between a german-speaking jew and a nazi. third, because his first name imre was hungarian and hungarians were allies of the germans and therefore detested by the partisans. as a partisan he became involved with many search and rescue operations to recover downed allied airmen and this was a job he was especially proud to heartache in and this was a photograph of one group of airmen that he helped rescue. in this photograph imre is the young man who is right in the middle of the picture.

the tallest one. at 45 he sled -- fled the communist regime and reach liberated southern italy. in 47 at the age of 22 he emigrated to the u.s. and earned a law degree at new york university and eventually flew back to europe. to explain the book's title allow me to read this passage from the book. these are imre's words. knowing my personal stamina or resourcefulness played an insignificant role in my survival and religious belief played no role at all i am deeply disturbed by the occasional suggestion that those who survive somehow did so thanks to their courage, their resilience or their faith. the implication that those who perished could have survived if only they had shown the same qualities is profoundly disparaging of their memory. it is in fact nothing but mine was nonsense that flies in the face of the stark evidence.

we who survived of our live to chance. in no way were we more wordy, wise or strong than those who were guests, hank, shot or slaughtered. if i had lived to write these words that it has been nothing but an accident of fate. and i must seize the opportunity. this will written memoir will appeal especially to teenagers because the memoir describes the author's teen years and also at my school books about the holocaust and memoirs about the holocaust are really popular with students because the holocaust is part of our curriculum and it would be a great book in a public library. the next book is called finish 40 at home. the unfold world war ii story of

b 24s in the pacific by phil scarce. two weeks after the japanese attacked pearl harbor young 16-year-old boy named herman lied about his age and joined the army first assigned to radio school he then volunteered for the army air forces, applied for gunnery training and ended up assigned to a base in hawaii. he is the young man in the middle in this picture. while he had joined the army at the spur of a moment thinking it would be a fun adventure his first time out on a bombing mission, shooting and being shot at, with missing debt and losing friends, the rest of the dog that express crew became veterans. they quickly came to understand the price of a single combat

mission would be quite high and they knew the japanese were skilled, capable adversaries. this is a picture of the crew of the dog patch express. the dirksen senate office building 4 that he flew in was nicknamed the dog patch express and many of the other be 24s had similar nicknames. like virginia belle, daisy mae, green hornet and superman. the dog brach express is from a cartoon called little wapner and this is a picture of mammy yoke them --yokum with a corncob pipe deliver a knockout punch with her left fist. they use armor piercing bombs, fragmentation bombs, incendiary bombs but the most common were

called a general purpose bomb would go all of drab with a bland around the nose and the table. they were also 100 lbs. or 250 pounds or 1,000 or 2,000 pound bombs. their primary responsibility was protection of the hawaiian islands, patrol and search missions and conducted countless hours of training to maintain combat readiness. the missions were flown against targets to soften the japanese defenses. if an island was slated for invasion, air strikes would be followed by navy ships. and the marines would go ashore. this book is the true story of young men and missions of the eleventh bombardment group as it flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of work. most looked to the war being fought in europe but these men

were facing determined enemy fighters in the south central pacific often with inexperienced crews and inadequate navigational training. they faced thousands of miles of over water flying with no alternative landing sites offer. their losses were enormous but always there goal was to complete 40 combat missions and they get home again. fa -- one such bombing mission was to complete a minefield that would close the shipping channel between the islands of iwo jima -- there were four bomber planes each loaded with four, 1,000 pound mind that took off but because the harbor was heavily defended by and our war craft guns and japanese ships they flew a risky group between mountains where they had to fly close to each other so that their wing tips overlapped.

at one point lt. miles released a maligned as another aircraft passed laterally in a bank be neat and the mine crashed into the fuselages punching an ugly 3 x 6 foot hole which you can see in this picture. six foot parachute was attached to the mine designed to slow its descent into the water so it billowed out behind the aircraft dragging the plane down while the mine jammed into the control cables for the airplane's elevator and rudder so two of the air man grabbed an ax and started chopping of parachute lines to get it to follow away. then they worked their gun barrels at improvised crowbars to try to lift the mine out of the side of the plane without setting off 465 pounds of tnt. after that there was nothing they could do except hope and pray the plane would hold together for their 800 mile ride

back home. and they made it. as you can see in the picture this aircraft never flew again. oops. how do i go back? that is forward. thank you. now i want to go forward one. thank you. japanese anti-aircraft weapon that they dropped by aircraft flying over american planes and the bombs were set to detonate the above their target aircraft. this is a picture of one of those for as bombs. the white streak shooting from beneath left searing hot pieces of phosphorous and were able to burn a hole through the bomber.

and this is a picture of iwo jima. it is entirely cratered by bombs. this is another picture of one of the be 24s. this book was written by herman's sun and brings the reader along on training and combat missions flying to midway, bomb, against targets closer to japan such as you would seem. the author's intense research is obvious and appeals to the reader because it reads like a page turning story. my last book is called just a larger family, letters of marie williams and from the canadian home from 1940-1944. as world war ii and europe got

under way families began evaluating british children. evacuation was limited to well-to-do families, people with money or influence but companies like ford and kodak arrange the evacuation of their employees and serves clubs like rotary started to help and private schools would make arrangements. and the british government got involved to make evacuation more equitable and the results was the children overseas reception board. for canadians it was painfully clear a german invasion of great britain was a possibility and many canadians had strong ties to the mother country and felt committed to the british cause in whatever way they could. one way was to accept british children into their homes for the duration of the war. so what would possess a young divorced woman, margaret sharp

to send her a three sins, bill, christopher and tom, thousands of miles away across submarine infested oceans to stay for an indefinite period of time in a city she had never visited with distant relative she barely knew. what could have convinced another young couple, marie and john williamson with young children of their own leveraged limited house folding, and a mother whose health was never especially robust to welcome three young boys they had never met into a home they knew was not large enough? this is a picture of marie williamson as she and her husband john welcomed these english brothers to join them and their two children in a small house in toronto, canada for the duration of the war. the shark boys were privately that kiwis and in a different

position than children who came to canada under the banner -- because they were unofficially that kiwi's they were not eligible for tax relief and although margaret and douglas shark were eventually able to send a certain amount of money and clothing and other small gifts to canada the ball fifth of the financial burden for their bringing fell on the williamsons. guardianship of the boys was not illegal concern -- everything that goes along with raising children. in the grand scheme of all world at war those issues might seem small but in practice difficult to answer when a concern your own children are even more difficult when deciding for someone else's children. sometimes it was possible to get margaret sharp's input but transatlantic communication was

difficult and letters might take weeks to cross the atlantic. they had to worry that letters might go down with torpedoed merchant ship and more often than not parental decisions can't wait that long so margaret sharp pafford -- seemed to be reluctant letter writer and at one point at williamson had to ask her to write more frequently to her boys to assure they did not forget their real mother. this is a picture of the two women when they got together many years later. it was 1958. it is amazing to look back to a world where distant cousins were prepared to take all three boy from a different country into their home for an indefinite period. although bill and christopher went off to live with families,

one cannot but be staggered by the generosity of the offer that margaret fails to appreciate. this is one of the letters written by one of the boys writing to his mother. it is not important to know what it said. it is obviously a child's scribbles. but murray wrote 150 letters to the boy's mother margaret sharp imaginings she would make market feels she was still with her children and the letters are brimming with detail about family holidays, financial implications of their extended family and involvement in their church, games and activities that kept them occupied and their education. marie's letters reflect the lives and concerns of that particular family in toronto but also a portrait of canada's

second-largest city during wartime and they reveal a special insight into the program of child evacuation. there is a forward in the book that puts the letters in historical context. it is actually edited by marie's daughter mary. and margaret's youngest son, sharp. this book grabbed my attention because of my english canadian heritage but ultimately i just liked the way the letters slowly reveal the story of how these two families intertwined and about this child evacuation program during world war ii that i was unaware of until i read this book. i think it would have appeal to high school students as well as public libraries. thank you. [applause]

>> i am hilary albert. my books are not filled with lots of pretty pictures. anything the one book that have what the pictures has the most disturbing images. these books are meant to be referred to repeatedly. they have something to offer for everyone. sometimes it may be for the high school teacher and sometimes for the world leader but the things they have in common is they teach a lesson and that is the important thing. there's nothing more important than giving knowledge. whether the reader walks away with the same knowledge is a different matter. each book challenges the reader in a different way and that is the most exciting thing about holding a book in your hands. once you open it you are not only read what someone wants you to learn but bring your own

interpretation upon it. which button do i push? okay. sorry. sorry. okay. okay. a historian teaching literacy in middle school and high school classrooms is a great source to work on history with a new approach. this goes beyond the textbook or facts to questions that make were learning facts necessary and more memorable. there we go. okay. as you can see from the first page what this does for the teachers is give them an idea what each chapter is going to

teach the student. it is a great source for teachers and what it does the first step is used as primary source material to set the stage by looking beyond the internet or memorization which we know teacher is usually doing to an actual source document and can bring history alive right away. this helps the concept of time and place. rather than thinking of struggling students being unable to use an actual source document this book helps figure they can by using a modified version and word bank to assist the teacher. it is down on the bottom. the word bank takes a large words in bold print and tells them exactly what it means so the struggling student -- i don't know if there's another term teachers use for a struggling student. they can then understand the

word. a set of questions and analysis then follow and the students are then asked to take a side and prepare a position and they usually discuss it in a classroom. this helps the teacher plan a lesson plan which i don't know if you work in a public library but we get teachers asking for lesson plans. great book to give to the history teacher. the set of questions and analysis that direct the plan was suggested resources which come at the end of a book. this is not a substitute for the textbook. it also comes with outs which open the text book sections where the teacher can open the textbook can use this section there using in a textbook with this part of the book and they can combine them and make it more interesting for the student

and teacher. they call it sourcing, contextualize in and collaborating with close reading. each lesson plan will then stand on its own leading gauges students in historical inquiry revolving around one question in the primary source documents giving the teacher a chance to do something different and more interesting than memorization which to me if would have made it more interesting to sit in the classroom. i don't know about the rest of you. for my next book, were of the park, bosnian lesson for global security was my favorite book. i know it sounds kind of depressing but it was remarkably written. it was an amazing book by an amazing author. very much involved in bosnia even today. she was at the time the ambassador to vienna. she spent a lot of time going to

bosnia during the bosnian war when it was actually happening. the book is divided into two parts. war and peace. this is a map of bosnia and serbia during wartime. is not very clear. the book itself has two sections, war and peace and chapters told from, quote, the inside and the outside. the inside would be something like this bread factory which fascinated me that ms. hunt was able to gain trust of the average civilian. she would go into the war and gain the trust of civilians like this man who is working in a bad factory and they told -- oh my goodness. they told how they were surviving and how the factory

itself is being run from a serbian tank may have stolen land she went and met with all the people and would bring the information back to the dinner is they went to indiana which were the outside part and trying get the time to get the people at these dinners like the german ambassador and austrian ambassador and her husband, the good looking guy on the end she is talking to get more involved and to do something to end besiege. the reason i thought this book was so important for today once it was written and the information was out there in some of the other information and she brought it -- she brought this information to world leaders and no one did anything to stop the other genocides and that really upset me. they could use this information right now with syria and they

are ignoring it again. for my last book is the quotable ferro --thoreau. is really little. about this big and this fake. he would have loved the book. it feels good when you touch it. it is organized beautifully. for librarians it is great. it is alphabetical starters. it is not just random quotes like most quote books seem to be these days. it goes from duty to experience to weeds. it ends with weeds. isn't that cool? i am loved it. it ends with miscellaneous subjects where they could figure out what to put it in so they created miscellaneous subjects. at the beginning of the book there is a delightful discussion how to pronounce his name because when he was first out

there they thought his name was pharaoh -- ferro --thorough. he was upset they didn't renounce thoreau. kramer quotes about himself. one of them was it is my own way of living that i complain of as well as yours. shows he was an equal opportunity curmudgeon. he hated himself too. i thought that was great. this book is illustrated with objects. this is a slug used to kill a moose in the hunting and fishing section with inappropriate quote perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted exo for the humane society. an old pact that thoreau walked upon. his survey of walden pond with the excellent quote do your work and finish it if you know how to begin it you know how to end at.

here is a map of walden pond that he did. the very first map of walden pond. there are quotations about all the popular books. a joy to return to over and over again. but great addition to any library. my three books are short. they are not beautiful to look at but they are beautiful to touch. they are well printed. i recommend them to all public libraries and all secondary education books, secondary educational institutions. thank you very much. [applause] >> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2.

what are you reading? booktv wants to know. >> i am reading a book called values to action by kramer. he is a professor at kellogg school of business. recommend it highly. i just finished reading currency wars. can't remember the author but it is about international economics and what is happening to us. finally i just finished a book called unaccountable which will be released in september, written by marty kerri who is one of the leading surgeons at johns hopkins hospital. >> for more information on this and other summereading lists visit booktv.org. >> we want to introduce you to michele fitzgerald the brittle at palgrave macmillan publishers. we want to learn about the upcoming titles for fall of 2012 that you have and if we could

let's start with the former president of france. >> his new book my life in politics coming out this fall originally published in french and this is the first time will be available in english. for it really details the history of u.s./french relations. a really warm memoir. he talked about growing up in france during and after world war ii, his political career and his vision for the future of france, u.s. and europe as a whole. >> will he be touring the u.s.? >> unfortunately he will not. he is under the weather at the moment so you will be doing interviews remotely from france. >> danny -- >> the most controversial book on the list this season which makes it impossible to work on. he is connected to israel and what people refer to as a republican is really leader and

he details that the u.s. and israel have had a strong close relationship but that the u.s. relief focuses on their own concerns and for israel's prosper in the future they need to focus on themselves first. >> what books this palgrave macmillan will look for? >> we are a publisher of nonfiction. we are global publisher and we look to publish books that focus on all sides of the debate. we want to contribute to the dialogue and we publish everything on a wide range of ideas as long as they're thoughtful and well argued. >> another offer with a book coming out is don watkins. >> this comes from the executive director of the iran institute and they really argue for the u.s. to themselves off of what we're seeing, back to the libertarian principles of and rand. >> fin