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2000 - 2001
Rose’s Garden
by Carrie Brown
It has been four months since Conrad Morrissey’s wife Rose died, and he is distracted by grief. After an angel appears in his garden, Conrad begins to share his experiences with his neighbors and finds his life is rich and blessed.
Give Me My Father’s Body
by Kenn Harper
Minik was one of 6 Greenland Eskimos brought to New York by explorer Robert Peary in 1897. Orphaned after his father died in the U.S., Minik later returned to Greenland, and tried unsuccessfully to readjust to life there. He had become a man without a culture. Harper’s book is a story of scientific arrogance and cultural misunderstanding.
Home Across the Road
by Nancy Peacock
In 1861, Cleavis, a 6-year-old slave owned by the Redd family and fathered by the slave owner, was sold away from his mother after being falsely accused of stealing a pair of earrings belonging to the slave owner’s wife, when in fact the real thief was her son. The earrings became a talisman for the black Redds and a curse for the white Redds.
Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo
Charles "Sully" Sullivan heads a cast of lovable losers and eccentrics
in a small town in upstate New York that has been bypassed by
progress and the interstate.
Walking Across Egypt
by Clyde Edgerton
Feisty Mattie Rigsbee, 78 and widowed, lives alone in her ranch house in Listre, North Carolina. When she meets Lamar, the town dogcatcher, and learns that he has a nephew in the Young Men’s Rehabilitation Center, she contrives to meet and improve him.
City of Light
by Lauren Belfer
Nicknamed “the Queen City”, progressive Buffalo, New York, is preparing for thousands of visitors to the Pan-American Exposition of 1901. All is not well, however. There is labor unrest among the immigrant workers, demonstrations by “Negroes” wanting equality and a suspicious death at the power plant. Neither is all well for Lousia Barrett, headmistress of a girls’ school, who is troubled by a shameful secret she must conceal.
A Crime in the Neighborhood
by Elizabeth Berne
Life is quiet, predictable and safe in 10-year-old Marsha Eberhardt’s suburban Maryland neighborhood. Seemingly so, that is, until a child is murdered in the woods behind the shopping mall, and Marsha’s father leaves his wife and children to go to Canada with his wife’s sister Ada.
The Fencing Master
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Set in Madrid in 1868, this is the story of Don Jaime Astarloa, the fencing master, an honorable man who finds himself unwittingly entangled in political intrigue and betrayal.
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
This plainly-written, deeply affecting book about the lives of ordinary people and the dramas of small town life is set on the edge of the Colorado plains.
The Music Lesson
by Katharine Weber
A 41-year-old Irish-American art historian becomes involved in an IRA plot to ransom a stolen Vermeer painting.
1999 - 2000
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, tells her life story
and reveals the customs and traditions passed down from mother to
daughter in the time of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.
The Color of Water
by James McBride
McBride, a black man, pays homage to his mother, a white woman,
who was born to Orthodox Jewish parents in Poland, moved to America,
became a Christian, married a black man and raised 12 children.
Reservation Road
by John Burnham Schwartz
A hit-and-run accident plunges two families into a nightmare
existence of guilt and depression.
Gates of Fire
by Steven Pressfield
An account of the Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 B.C. between
the Spartans and the Persians, told from the Spartan point of view.
The Patron Saint of Liars
by Ann Patchett
Young, pregnant Rose leaves her three-year marriage and takes refuge
in St. Elizabeth's home for unwed mothers in Kentucky.
Reading in the Dark
by Seamus Deane
Family secrets tear apart a Catholic family in Northern Ireland.
The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
A city lawyer tries to recruit as clients families of children
killed in a school bus accident in a small upstate New York town.
The Voyage of the Narwhal
by Andrea Barrett
The crew of the Narwhal set out on an Arctic expedition that
many will not survive. This is part adventure, part love story.
Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
A series of events in a small western town changes the lives of
12-year-old David, his sheriff father, his mother, and the Sioux
housekeeper, as they discover the truth about family loyalty.
1998 - 1999
The Tummy Trilogy
by Calvin Trillin
Trillin's hilarious essays about his lifelong quest for authentic
American food are collected in this volume.
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Conway
Conway, an educator, wrote this autobiography about growing up in
the Australian outback and about growing apart from her family.
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
A fisherman's daughter, sold to a geisha house at age 9, reveals the
culture, customs and hardships of a geisha's life.
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
A Japanese-American fisherman's 1954 murder trial becomes the
backdrop of a story that follows a doomed love affair between
a white boy and a Japanese girl, a simmering land dispute, and the
wartime internment of Japanese-Americans.
1997 - 1998
A Civil Action
by Jonathan Harr
Idealistic and egotistical Boston lawyer Jan Schlichtmann battles
giant corporations responsible for poisoning a town's water supply.
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
A wounded Confederate soldier, nauseated by the horrors of the
battlefield, journeys home to reclaim his life and be with the
woman he loves.
Le Divorce
by Diane Johnson
A California film-school dropout goes to Paris to visit her sister
and encounters culture shock in her dealings with French middle class
society.
Resistance
by Anita Shreve
Shreve's best novel is a moving WWII love story about an American pilot
shot down over occupied Belgium and the woman who hides him.
Titles Selected by Suzanne Fisher, Librarian
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