Title: The Time Keeper
Author: Mitch Albom
Call #: ALBOM
TIME, it is something that we race against, wish away and sometimes hope to have more of. In this novel you will travel to a place and find how measuring time began. This inspirational piece is not about gaining time, however it is about spending your time wisely.
Recommended by: Crystal
Title: Not All Tarts Are Apple
Author: Pip Granger
Call #: GRA
Seven-year-old Rosie is living happily with “Uncle” Bert and “Aunt” Maggie above their café in the tough Soho district of London when she learns from a classmate that her real mum’s a tart. Granger brings her own experience of the Soho district to life in the wonderful characters she creates.
Recommended by: Bobbie
Posted in General Fiction
Tagged Coming of Age, Detailed Setting, Recommended by Bobbie
Title: Last Kiss
Author: Luanne Rice
Call #: RIC
A year after the death of her 18-year-old son Charlie, in a random New York mugging, Sheridan Rossiare has not touched music, her life’s passion. While Sheridan is in the depths of her grief, Charlie’s girlfriend Nell is convinced Charlie’s death was no random mugging. This leisurely-paced book has enough drama to keep you interested.
Recommended by: Connie
Title: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Author: Susannah Cahalan
Call #: 616.8 CAH
Susannah is a young woman who has worked her way through the ranks at the New York Post. She is fun-loving, smart and happy. She starts experiencing symptoms – fatigue, numbness in her limbs – which her doctor attributes to mono. Until the night that she experiences hallucinations and body convulsions. She is admitted to the hospital and won’t come out for over a month. The doctors cannot figure out what is wrong with her. She is, at turns, delusional, catatonic, and violent. Ultimately doctors discover that she has a virus that makes her body attack her brain. It is now believed that this virus is the culprit of what people believe to be demonic possession. Fascinating.
Recommended by: Kathy
Title: The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
Author: Rick Geary
Call #: Graphic Novel GEARY
Rick Geary, who specializes in making historic crimes into graphic novels, has come up with another great edition. The lives of two Italian immigrants convicted of a brutal murder are rendered in Geary’s unique drawing style. Sacco and Vanzetti, persecuted more for their anarchist political beliefs rather than actual evidence, maintain their innocence to the end. The case has been considered by many to be the most controversial of the 20th century.
Recommended by: John
Title: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Author: Laurie Viera Rigler
Call #: RIG
This was a fun, fast read. I’d recommend it to anyone who is a fan of the Regency period in England. Jane Austen fans will probably like it, too, just for the flavor of the period.
Recommended by: Betty
Title: Niagara Falls All Over Again
Author: Elizabeth McCracken
Call #: MCC
In this fictional memoir, Mose Sharp, recounts his life: a childhood in Des Moines, a career in vaudeville, his transition into movies, finally ending with his old age in Hollywood. While this is a chronicle of one man’s life, it is also about a maturing America, coming into its own. Niagara Falls All Over Again may have its focus in the Hollywood glare, but it is also a novel about friendship, family, and popular culture in 20th century America.
Recommended by: Becky
Posted in General Fiction
