BOOK NOTES: "Grow Vegetables in Pots,", "Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match,"

Grand Forks Public Library

• "Grow Vegetables in Pots," is a comprehensive guide to container gardening, this book covers everything from how to choose a pot to planting to pruning, including pest control. With sections for vegetables, fruits, and herbs, this book is sure to inspire.

• "Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match," by Amy Webb is the story of how one digital strategy expert, depressed with her online dating prospects, reinvigorated her love life using strategies usually reserved for the business world.

• "The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies," by David Thomson. Part history, part narrative, this book encompasses films from all over the world. The author contextualizes film to see how culture and personalities intersected to create the motion picture genre.

• "John Wayne: The Legend and the Man" by John Wayne Enterprises includes photographs from childhood, film, interviews, and personal collections. This stunningly illustrated pictorial biography tells the tale of The Duke, from childhood to stardom and beyond.

• "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry," by Chuck Wills is a chronological history of weapons and warfare, from "prehistory" to the present, seasoned biographies of such personalities as Oliver Winchester, Horace Smith, and M.T. Kalashnikov.

East Grand Forks Campbell Library

• "The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During waves of Change" by Jon Gordon shares a fable about a goldfish who has always been fed and a shark who teaches him to find food. The simple fable reinforces a proven truth -you can't control the events but by your faith and beliefs you can control actions.

• "The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century" by Manus Midlarsky offers a comparative analysis of genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings, costing an estimated 40 million lives. Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international context including analysis of the Jews in Europe.

• "Being George Washington: The Indispensible Man, as You've Never Seen Him" by Glenn Beck reads like an action novel -- bullet holes through his clothing, horses shot out from under him, disease, spies and double-agents. Beck celebrates Washington's great heroism and character, but also presents him as a flawed man.

• "There's a Business in Every Woman: A 7-Step Guide to Discovering, Starting, and Building the Business of Your Dreams" by Ann M. Holmes is based on interviews with more than 80 women entrepreneurs. Holmes developed a seven step program that gives the know how to proceed in a wide range of businesses.

• "America's First First World War: The French and Indian War, 1754-1763" by Timothy J. Todish tells the story of conflict in the wilderness and how the colonists of New France and New England, reinforced by regulars from their mother countries and Indian allies made war North-American style.