“Give Books For Gifts”

It’s that time of Year! Columbus Public Library is reaping the rewards of the second-best bookselling season of the year (next to Christmas). There are quite a few holidays coming up that are traditionally “book-giving” occasions --- Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and graduation, just to name a few. Publishers use this opportunity to bring out their “big guns”—authors like John Grisham, Stephen King, James Patterson, Phillip Margolin, and Stuart Woods.

Stuart Woods has a new Stone Barrington novel entitled “Dirty Work.” Stone is back in New York City from London. He’s hired by an heiress to find proof of her husband’s infidelity. When the undercover work Stone sets up turns dirty, leaving the errant husband dead and a mystery woman gone without a trace, Stone must clear his own name and find a killer among New York’s high society.

Besides Grisham, King, Patterson, and Margonlin there’s a whole corps of great authors who have mass appeal, bust just may not have the household name recognition of a Danielle Steele or a Mary Higgins Clark. I’ve chosen a few novelists who I feel fit that category:

“Lost Light” by Michael Connelly, the best-selling author of “City of Bones” and “Chasing the Dime,” brings lone wolf Harry Bosch out of retirement and on a wild excursion into evil, seeking the truth about a cold case that still haunts the LAPD, movie studios—and Bosch himself. Connelly is one of the best in the Mystery/Detective genre: don’t hesitate to give him a shot. (No pun intended!)

A series that’s popular with men and women, young and old, is “Left Behind.” Interest has never waned---and #11 has just been released. “Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages” is the newest installment by Jerry B. Jenkins and Dr. Tim LaHaye. The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn inexorably toward the Middle East, as are the armies of the world; when history homes in on the battle of the ages. Who will be left standing when the battle leaves the Tribulation Force on the brink of the end of time and the Glorious Appearing? Columbus Public Library has the previous 10 books in the series.