The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Egg Roll with Rice, Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
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Victoria Humphrey for Sacramento State, and Quentin Powell for UCLA, will have a signing party tonight in the Student Union at 7 pm.

Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Hyperion (September 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786809604
ISBN-13: 978-0786809608

From Hyperion Books for Children:

When high school sophomore Lucy Norton’s father remarries, her life is turned upside down. She and her father move from their West Coast home to a suburb on Long Island. With a small bedroom in the unfinished basement, a wicked stepmother and bratty stepsisters, countless chores, a blank social calendar, and a huge crush on the dashing prince of the varsity basketball team, Lucy’s life has all the makings of a Cinderella story. So with all the characters in place, will Lucy get the prince and live happily ever after?

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)


TRADE
1. The Road. Cormac McCarthy. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Kim Edwards. Penguin, $14
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 42
3. The Measure of a Man. Sidney Poitier. Harper San Francisco, $14.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 12
4. Blink. Malcolm Gladwell. L,B/Back Bay, $15.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2
5. The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $14
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 41
6. Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin, $15
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 11
7. Suite Francaise. Irene Nemirovsky. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
8. The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion. Vintage, $13.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 9
9. The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho. Harper San Francisco, $13.95
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 38
10. Everyday Food: Great Food Fast. Martha Stewart. Clarkson Potter, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 3

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor

Nothing: Something to Believe In by Nica Lalli
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Prometheus Books (March 14, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159102529X
ISBN-13: 978-1591025290

“A recent study by University of Minnesota sociology professors on the tolerance of ‘others’ in America showed that the group most hated and feared, the group seen as the greatest threat to our country, is atheists. The study also said that nonbelievers are the one group that Americans would least like to have marry into their family.”

Nothing is the autobiography of a nonbeliever that reveals her experiences in life and how her lack of religion influenced her experiences. This book really stood out to me because there are so many books out these days about all of the different religions, but it is very difficult to find one about a complete lack of one. As an atheist, it is sometimes frustrating for me to read really good books but become unable to really relate to them because of the deeply religious roots. It was nice to read a book for once about someone who faces some of the same things as I do, and I could easily relate to many of her emotions. It is an excellent read, for believers and nonbelievers alike.

Dexter (Keith) Gordon (February 27, 1923 - April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He is considered one of the first bebop tenor players. A famous photograph by Herman Leonard of Gordon smoking a cigarette during a set at the Royal Roost in New York City in 1948 is one of the more iconic images in the history of jazz.

Life and works

Gordon was born and grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a doctor who counted Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton among his patients. He played clarinet from the age of 7, before switching to saxophone (initially alto, then tenor) at 15. While still at school, he was playing in bands with such contemporaries as Chico Hamilton and Buddy Collette.

Read an interview with Dexter Gordon, free from Downbeat.com