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The Rappahannock County Library has recently acquired a number of outstanding books.
Watersheds: Mastering Life’s Unpredictable Crises, by Robert N. Lauer, Ph.D., and Jeanette C. Lauer, Ph.D., deals with the pursuit of happiness in a rapidly changing world. Answers to questions as to how to gain control of your life, bring about your own growth in the face of the unforeseen, and use the events of your life to fiilfill yourself are found in the stories of hundreds of people in this book.
Elizabeth Stone in Black Sheep & Kissing Cousins, How Our Fam-. ily Stories Shape Up, says our family stories have the power to play a role in shaping our identity and our sense of our place in the world. She weaves her own family stories among those of more than a hundred people, providing ways to interpret our own stories and their roles in our lives.
The Story of English by Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil, is a companion to the PBS Television Series. It is the extraordinary tale of a language that came from nowhere to conquer the world.
Two thousand years ago the English language was spoken by a handful of Ravage and now forgotten tribes on the northwestern European shores. Today it is spoken by perhaps a billion people, of whom 350 million use it as their mother tongue. This book is the first that tells the whole story of English in a popular way and makes it accessible to the general reader.
New fiction includes The Chcmn School by Nelson DeMille. This is a portrait of Russia, and sets forth issues of individual and national responsibility on a global scale. It brings the legacy of both the Viet
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