This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by First Lessons by Lina J. Potter by Litworld Publishing House.
Publisher Claims To Know 1971 Plane Hijacker’s Identity
There’s only one still unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history: The identity of “D.B. Cooper” the man who hijacked a 1971 flight and parachuted out with $200,000. Carl Laurin’s publishing firm announced they cracked the case with a “memoir detailing the confessions of a longtime friend who supposedly committed the crime: Walter R. Reca, a former military paratrooper and intelligence operative.” (If reading about when plane hijackings were routine is your thing, you’ll probably be interested in The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner)
New Albany Library Plants Book-Themed Gardens
In the year that felt like spring would never come, I love this story about a library that turned eyesore spots in the parking lot into gardens inspired by books: “Frankenstein,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Color Purple” and “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” And in taking it to the next level each garden will have a QR code that can be scanned with a smartphone, which will connect to a library page that gives you information about the flowers and the book.
Jimmy Kimmel Asked People To Name A Book–It Didn’t Go Well
Jimmy Kimmel thought the recent Pew Research Center’s findings that one in four Americans has not read a book was probably even worse in reality so Kimmel Kimmeled and asked random people to name a book. Any book. It went really bad so let’s all hold hands together and laughsob as we watch.