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2001 - 2002
Tender at the Bone
by Ruth Reichl
At an early age, Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense
of the world." She introduces us to the interesting and eccentric individuals
who shaped her childhood and youth and describes in delectable detail the
foods she learned to prepare and those she ate on trips to exotic places.
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
by Kathleen Cambor
In 1889, over 2,000 people in the town of Johnstown, PA, died when the South Fork dam, built by wealthy members of the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club to create a lake, collapsed. Cambor recreates the era through her descriptions of the doomed town and its inhabitants and poses the question of moral responsibility for the disaster.
Singing Boy
by Dennis McFarland
On the way home from an awards dinner in Boston, Malcolm Vaughn is shot and killed
by a stranger while his wife and son Harry watch from their car. His violent
death plunges Sarah, Harry and Malcolm's best friend Deckard into a prolonged
period of grieving. McFarland explores the courage and frailties that
bind these three people together.
The Blackwater Lightship
by Colm Toibin
Helen O'Doherty, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora have been
estranged from each other for years. They come together in Dora's house by
the sea to tend to Helen's brother Declan, who is dying of AIDS. Unwilling
housemates, they struggle with the emotions and resentments of a family
at war with itself.
Life Is So Good
by George Dawson
George Dawson, born in Texas in 1898, had to leave school to help support his
family. As a black man in a strictly segregated society, he had to watch
his step. Despite poverty and hardship, George always remembered his
father's maxim that "life is so good".
The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
Waking from a bad dream, Charles Baxter goes for a walk in his moonlit
neighborhood. He meets his friend Bradley Smith, who suggests "Feast
of Love" as a title for the book Charlie is writing. Bradley introduces
Charlie to individuals who tell him about their loves - the mad kind,
the bad kind and the everlasting kind.
Lying Awake
by Mark Salzman
Sister John of the Cross is a Carmelite nun who, despite her devotion to her vocation, has spent many of her cloistered years in a kind of spiritual drought. When she receives God’s grace in the form of intense mystical visions, she is inspired to write luminous poetry. When a medical exam shows that the severe headaches that accompany the visions are a symptom of a seizure disorder, she must decide whether to have surgery. A “cure” might mean the end of her visions.
The Samurai’s Garden
by Gail Tsukiyama
Stephen, a 20-year-old Chinese painter, is recovering from TB at his family’s summer home in a village on the coast of Japan. He is alone in the house with Matsu, the housekeeper and gardener. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel world, and Stephen becomes a student worthy of the master.
No Great Mischief
by Alistair MacLeod
In 1779 Calum McDonald set sail in exile from Scotland with his wife, 12 children, and the family dog. They settled on Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. Two hundred years later his great-great-grandson Alexander records the legends, heroism and tragedies of Clan McDonald.
Legacy of the Dead
by Charles Todd
Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard, a shell-shocked veteran of WWI, is dispatched to a small town in Scotland to question the locals about the identity of a body found in the countryside.
Titles Selected by Suzanne Fisher, Librarian
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