We have had a copy of National Geographic photojournalist Robb Kendrick’s “Revealing Character: Texas Tintypes” at the library for many years now, so I’m sure many of you have seen the excellent work he does using this photographic method of years past.
Kendrick was born in Spur in 1963 and moved around the area, eventually graduating from high school in Hereford. His father was born and raised in Spur. Many of the cowboys he photographed in “Revealing Character” were from the Pitchfork Ranch, the 6666 Ranch and other area ranches.
We recently added another of Kendrick’s photographic essays to our shelves. Marianne Wiggins, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of many novels, and Jay Dusard, author of many books on photography (including “The North American Cowboy: A Portrait” and also a nominee for a Pulitzer Prize), together with Kendrick authored “Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century.” Wiggins introduces the volume, and Dusard provides the afterword. Kendrick tells the backstory of the project in his photographer’s notes, while also interweaving stories from the cowboys themselves among the images. Both an evocative work of art and a masterful documentary record, “Still” honors the resilience of modern cowboys as they bring traditional ways of living on the land into the twenty-first century. I have been in contact with him about the possibility of a visit to our library sometime this fall.
We have received many books through donation this past week. Some we had already, but there were a few we did not. We added “Deja Dead” from #1 internationally bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs. We also added “When We Were Young” from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury. A classic story about second chances, the novel features the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce.
Tony and Brianna Lincoln just moved into Paradise, but friendly they aren’t. In fact, these urbane thrill killers are knocking off the neighbors one by one, and Jesse Stone is next in “Stone Cold” from Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone series.
We have added two new large print western fiction to our collection with Rod Miller’s “A Thousand Dead Horses,” and from E.L. Ripley we have “Ralph Compton’s Calvert’s Bluff.” New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel’s “Nine Lives” has been added to our large print fiction section, along with “All the Devils Are Here” by Louise Penny.
In the children’s section there are a few new additions as well. In graphic novels we have “Agent 9: Flood-a-Getton” by James Burks. In non-fiction we have “It’s a Numbers Game: Baseball” from National Geographic Kids. For the younger set who just want to read a fiction chapter book, we have “ A.L. Tait’s “Prisoner of the Blackhawk” and “Race to the End of the World.” Also in fiction we have “The Hedgehog of Oz” by Cory Leonardo, “Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories” by Jeff Kinney, “Grimmtastic Girls” by Joan Holub, and “Double Trouble” by Daina Sargent.
Check it all out at the Library.
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