AT THE LIBRARY
New items are available at the Hancock County Public Library.
The following items are available at the Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road. For more information on the library’s collection or to reserve a title, visit hcplibrary.org.
Adult Fiction
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“Run Me to Earth,” by Paul Yoon
Alisak, Prany and Noi, three orphans united by loss that only war can bring, must do what is necessary to survive the landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed-out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopter leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences and sets them on disparate paths across the world.
Adult Nonfiction
“Spies on Trial: True Stories of Espionage in the Courtroom,” by Cecil C. Kuhne III
The spy business often results in a sudden exchange of the dark shadows of the clandestine back room for the bright lights of the open courtroom. The situations that judges and juries face in espionage cases are typically more unusual, complex and diverse than one might possibly imagine. Author Cecil C. Kuhne III describes a number of historical, law-changing judicial cases, well-publicized criminal trials of those accused of treason against the United States and lawsuits concerning other unusual matters, such as the governmental restrictions on surveillance devices that cannot be sold to the general public. The author explores well known espionage cases such as the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell trial of 1951, as well as more recent cases where the courts have dealt with the activities of the National Security Administration as they monitor telephone communications in their efforts to apprehend terrorist organizations.
