European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse After 125 books Nancy Drew Heads to College by Laura Lippman Baltimore Sun. Gone is the Titian hair or at least an references to it. Now she s a Reddish Blond but the Blue eyes still sparkle the Blue Mustang is still nifty transportation and George and Bess arc still along for the ride All the Way to Wilder University. After 65 years and More than 125 books Nancy Drew finally is going to College. The aptly titled new lives new loves the first in the Nancy Drew on Campus series will debuted recently. Here Nancy is 18, away from Home for the first time and encountering issues such As Date rape and alcohol abuse. She also has to decide How to handle her Long distance relationship with Ned Nickerson whose chief Charm seems to be that he does t mind Nancy being the smart one. Meanwhile the always capable Nancy also Man Ages to stay in River Heights where she has solved most of her mysteries to Date. Here she is still in High school still hanging out with Bess and George and still dating Ned Nickerson. What gives while the original series targeted for and 9 year old readers continues archway paperbacks has started the monthly on Gimps series in Hopes _ of keeping readers As they enter their teens. Nancy Drew May have sold 80 million books in Many languages Over her lifetime but there arc always new readers to bring into the fold. To get those readers the editors decided Nancy s life had to be More modern with All the attendant problems. But Don t think levelheaded Nancy will be tempted by sex alcohol or drugs. She s going to hang on to her principles and Good sense says Anne Grcen Borg executive editor at archway. Change has always been a constant in the life of Carson Drew s pretty daughter. She began life in 1930, a 16-year-old Debutante with Golden hair pre tar naturally competent she could do anything including changing her own tire in the first Book the secret of the old the original 56 books written by various writers All using the pseudonym Carolyn a conc were condensed and rewritten in 1959, in part because the so Ries reflected racial stereotypes of the 30s. Grossot & Dunlap still publishes the original but Simon & schuster acquired the rights to the character in 1979 and continued the series. / Nancy shows in new lives new loves that she Spretty darn emancipated for an 18-year-old College freshman. " l when Ned troubled by her. Aloofness asks if she has a new Guy Nancy fumes to herself docs it have to be someone else can t it just bar inc " Bookson tape Hiroshima by John Hersey audio editions. Fifty years ago uhen the news Vas released that american planes had dropped atom bombs on the japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Only thing that anyone deemed to be concerned about was that the War was . No one knew what the bomb was or even cared for that matter. It was t until that people began to learn about this terrible upon that had crushed the Cit ies in August 1.45. Then in 1946, John 1 Jersey s Book was released an j people really began to understand the awful truth about a bomb that had bestsellers the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is the topic of John Hersey s 1946 Book Hiroshima which is now available on audio tape. Killed 100,000 people in Hiroshima and 40,000 in. . This Book has been called the pulitzer prize win Ner s finest Effort. Told through the eyes of six survivors this narrative which is read by de Asner takes listeners through devastation and human misery Al most beyond comprehension but you do begin to understand because the Story. with a journalistic simplicity that etches the mind with indelible pictures of horror. Little by Little the author builds a vivid Panorama of what happened at the hour of the bomb and in the Days that followed.-. When you finally have it All it leaves you weak. -. " it 19 s5, Mersey added a final chapter called of term Atli explored the Fate of those six survivors. audio editions arc released through audio part ners and May be ordered by calling 800 231-4261. Strange highways by Dean Koan to time 1 Warner Audi books when Joey Shannon finally returns Home after 20 years it is for his father s funeral and to scale the family estate. Even if the Homestead was t in spent Coal mining Community in Pennsylvania it still would t be much of an estate but Joey wants no part of it feeling that everything should go to his be loved brother pm a successful author. At this stage in his wasted life Joey is an alcoholic who Long ago gave up on the idea of being a writer himself. At 40, he is Content to live self induced fog trying to forget something. Sadly he. Does t really know what he s trying to Block from his memory ,. After the funeral Joey starts out for Las vegas where he is a Blackjack dealer in route he pauses at a crossroad which leads to another Coal mining Community. This town however had already been. Condemned by the government the last time he was in Pennsylvania. This Isi the7 Road he would have taken 20 years ear Lier had he not made a secret pact with his brother. This ,".hbwevcr, instead of heading directly for the interstate he makes the turn toward the condemned town. 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