{"id":125,"date":"2008-02-28T14:27:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2008\/02\/28\/now-on-the-new-book-shelf\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:18","slug":"now-on-the-new-book-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2008\/02\/28\/now-on-the-new-book-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"Now on the New Book Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Currently on the New Book Shelf, readers will notice two books with conspicuously similar titles, yet vastly different subject matters: <em>The Ghost<\/em>, by Robert Harris, and <em>Ghost<\/em>, by Alan Lightman.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ghost-harris.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Call # PR6058 .A69147 G48 2007\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" \/>Harris&#8217; <strong><em>The Ghost<\/em><\/strong> is both murder mystery and contemporary political commentary.  The story centers on a fictional former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (based on Tony Blair), sequestered on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard to write his memoirs.  As Lang is accused of war crimes, his aide dies mysteriously and a new ghostwriter (the book&#8217;s narrator) arrives and begins poking around.\u00a0 From there the suspense rises.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ghost-lightman.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Call # PS3562 .I45397 G48 2007\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" \/>Lightman&#8217;s <strong><em>Ghost<\/em><\/strong>, on the other hand, focuses on the psychological turmoil of central character David, a middle-aged man who takes a job at the local funeral home.  After witnessing a supernatural event one evening and confiding about it to the wrong friend, his vision becomes a local media event that forces him to wrestle with fundamental beliefs about human existence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So take a moment and stop by the New Book Shelf to pick up one of these titles, or another that catches your eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently on the New Book Shelf, readers will notice two books with conspicuously similar titles, yet vastly different subject matters: The Ghost, by Robert Harris, and Ghost, by Alan Lightman. Harris&#8217; The Ghost is both murder mystery and contemporary political commentary. The story centers on a fictional former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}