As you may remember, I am a librarian and have been for many years. For this reason, my antennae perked right up when I saw an entry in ouron-line catalogue for a book called The Dewey Color System : Choose Your Colors, Change Your Life (ANF 155.284 SAD) just ahead of the Dewey Decimal Classification library manual that I was really looking for.
Strange thoughts raced through my head. Was this a study of people's reading habits somehow connected to colour? If I only read cookbooks and my favourite colours are chocolate brown and chili pepper red, does it mean I have a quiet personality with undertones of shake-it-up madness?
It was a bit of a let-down when I realized the book had nothing whatsoever to do with libraries, but got its name from the author Dewey Sadka.
He runs a national employment agency in the United States and has devised this colour system that he says truly reveals one's skills and limitations.
He thinks your preferences for particular primary, secondary, achromatic and intermediate colours reveal a lot about what motivates you. Once you establish your colour profile and read through the attributes, you can then work on improving your work and social skills.
I am a blue green black with yellow as my least favourite primary and teal my most favourite intermediate colours. You will have to read the book to find out what Dewey says are my attributes. Or you can ignore the whole issue and move on to one of these other titles.
The Historian : A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova. 2005. Fiction. (FIC KOS)
While exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and some yellowing letters that provide links to a centuries-long quest to find the truth about the legend of Dracula.
Deadfall by Lyndon Stacey. 2004. Fiction. (FIC STA)
Lincoln Tremayne's dream to ride on the British Olympic three-day eventing team is put in jeopardy when a vicious attack leaves the stable owners' daughter in a coma and him on the trail of the attackers.
Fighting For Dignity : The Ginger Goodwin Story by Roger Stonebanks. 2004. Biography (ANF 331.88 STO)
Ginger Goodwin grew up in the Yorkshire coalfields and on coming to sa国际传媒, worked in mines in Cape Breton and then Cumberland, where he became a prominent labour activist. His untimely and controversial death in the woods is examined.
TrumpNation : The Art Of Being The Donald by Timothy L. O'Brien. 2005. Biography (ANF 333.731509 OBR)
Interviews with friends, associates, and Trump himself, reveal a man who has a larger than life public persona, a man who lives in luxury but loves hamburgers, who has hugely successful investments but has seen his casino company go bankrupt.
Long Time Coming by Sandra Brown. 2006. Fiction. (FIC BRO)
Seventeen years later, Law Kincaid walks back into Marnie's life and receives the shock of his life -- her son is the spitting image of him, but he can't remember ever sleeping with her.
A Brother's Journey : Surviving A Childhood Of Abuse by Richard B. Pelzer. 2005. (ANF 362.76092 PEL)
Richard and his brother David both suffered abuse from their mother. David was rescued at 12, and Richard was left to be the target of his mother's alcohol-fueled anger.
Mrs. Paine's Garage And The Murder Of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Mallon. 2002. Biography. (ANF 364.1524 MAL)
Here is the story of the devout Quaker woman, Mrs. Paine, who was the well-intentioned landlady for Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife Marina before the assassination of Kennedy.
The Amphora Project by William Kotzwinkle. 2005. Science Fiction. (SF KOT)
Whole cities are crystallizing, their inhabitants frozen in the streets, killed by an extradimensional enemy and the only hope is Jockey Oldcastle, a fat, corrupt old star fighter and his crew.
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks. 2005. Fiction. (FIC SPA)
Jeremy and Lexie, whom we first met in "True Believer", are now living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, engaged to be married. A mysterious and disturbing e-mail comes that will alter their lives forever.
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