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- Now that technology and increased opportunities for
travel bring us into closer contact with
other cultures and nations, some of the
awe and wonder formerly associated with World’s Fairs might have diminished. The
fascination with fairs of old—the
architecture, the innovations, the
underlying international tensions—doesn’t
seem to fade, however. This year marks
the 50th anniversary of the Brussels World’s Fair, which was the first fair of
the postwar era. Think cold war, Space
Age, Jetsons meets June Cleaver and you
get the picture. Books and films about World Fairs abound, so check the library
catalog and set your sights for a trip to
the Fair.
- Best-selling author David Baldacci charts a new course in his latest
thriller. Instead of focusing on American
political intrigues, The Whole Truth takes readers around the world
as Baldacci’s characters uncover a
plot to start World War III. Since he
always researches his novels himself,
Baldacci traveled to many of the
locations mentioned in the novel before
writing The Whole Truth, including Amsterdam, Dublin
and Paris.
In this frightening and convincing view
of a geopolitical crisis, the head of the
world’s largest defense contractor
hires a “perception management”
company to re-ignite Cold War fears about
the Red Menace. The plot calls to mind
recent concerns about real-life Russian
President Vladimir Putin. Intrigued?
Check out The Whole Truth, or pick up another Baldacci
blockbuster here at the library.
- Climbing season on Mount Everest is from April to June, with peak
season in late May. This year, along with
the usual attempted “firsts”
and other superlatives—oldest,
all-female, sans oxygen and Sherpas—one
of this year’s teams will retrace
the route of the late Sir Edmund Hillary, who in 1953, with climbing
partner Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became the
first man to reach the summit. Other
teams aiming for the top will include one
featuring legendary British climber Ranulph Fiennes, and a Chinese team bearing the
Olympic torch. For armchair adventurers,
there are accounts of expeditions gone
awry (Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, for example), along with
numerous biographies and memoirs.
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