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Meandering through the new bookshelves recently, I found some books of interest. Hopefully, they will interest you, too.

Late summer always brings soccer to mind as my sons played the game in high school. We have a new volume of the "Dummies" series involving soccer entitled Coaching Soccer for Dummies. The National Alliance for Youth Sports and its Director of Communication Greg Bach have created another super edition in the series. It will assist the new volunteer coach in learning the rules and fundamentals plus provide drills and team encouragement for all coaches.

Down Came the Rain: My Journey through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields tells her experiences following the birth of her first daughter. In this memoir, Shields relates her own story of infertility, high self-expectations as a mother, problems brought on by her sinking depression afterwards, then on to the therapies and medications she used to get her life back on a normal track. This candid book can help women going through postpartum depression to know they are not alone in their emotions.

Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is the main character in Nora Roberts' book Vision in White. She is the photographer in an all-inclusive wedding service, Vows, owned by herself and her three best friends. Scurrying to an appointment, Mac literally bumps into a former acquaintance, Carter Maguire, who is at Vows with his bride-to-be sister. Maguire, an English teacher and Shakespeare buff, immediately falls in love with Mac and slowly works on her defenses against marriage. This is the first in a new romance series by Roberts titled "Bride Quartet," and is also available at the library in large print.

New paperbacks are on a lower shelf of one kiosk near the regular paperback section. Among them are the latest books in two different series. Nina Wright writes about a female real estate agent in her "Whiskey Mattimoe" mystery series. Set in the small lakeside town of Magnet Springs, Mich., Whiskey and her afghan dog, Abra, solve murders. Whiskey and Abra attend a dog show in northern Indiana after being asked to attend as an example of what happens when bad training is given to your dog. They arrive after a double shooting; two dog breeders are shot at while in their car and a third breeder is murdered. Find out how they go to work and solve this murder in Whiskey with a Twist.

Laura Caldwell is the author of the Izzy McNeil mystery series. McNeil is a Chicago lawyer turned TV trial show host turned private investigator. Izzy goes undercover and into the underworld of the mob in this thriller. She jets around the globe to Rome and back looking for answers from anyone who can help her understand the family connection she's found to the Camorra mob family. Red, White and Dead is the final book in this fresh "red" trilogy that depicts a modern female role.

Stephen Fishman edited the latest updated edition of The Public Domain: How to find and use copyright-free writings, music, art and more. It is a guidebook to hundreds of resources to help find that certain creative work when working on projects large and small. It aids the user in locating what can be copied and freely used without paying permission fees. Chapters cover writings, works of art and music, maps, videos and films, computer software and more. It's an indispensable resource.

The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein is a colorful, fun book that explains one of the newer online social networking functions. Information covers everything from how to get started, listening in and the proper way to reveal oneself. Join thousands of others using their hand-held devices to keep up-to-date on everyday activities as well as business happenings.

- Vicki Mann

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