Money to Burn : a Novel of Suspense
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Grippando?s overwrought financial thriller gives its hero, Michael Cantella, almost as rude an awakening as Kafka?s Gregor Samsa. Scandals involving subprime lending, short selling, and Ponzi schemes provide a timely backdrop. On the eve of his 35th birthday, Cantella goes from being a star performer at a premier Wall Street investment firm […]
Imperfect Endings
Publishers Weekly A deceptively cheery tale about her mother?s plans to end her own life underscores the author?s conflicted role in filial caring and responsibility. Carter?s mother, a widow living in Washington, D.C., had suffered from Parkinson?s disease for more than 20 years, and by 2001 had grown debilitated and depressed about her physical helplessness; […]
The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie
Michele Leber – Library Journal An 11-year-old solving a dastardly murder in the English countryside in 1950 wouldn't seem to be everyone's cup of tea. But Flavia Sabina de Luce is no ordinary child: she's already an accomplished chemist, smart enough to escape being imprisoned by her older sisters and to exact revenge, forthright and […]
House Rules : a Novel
The Washington Post – Maureen Corrigan Throughout the long unfolding of House Rules, Picoult keeps so many storyline streamers whirling in the air that it would be easy just to praise her technical mastery. But though the multiple plots and narrators are, indeed, adroitly managed, what most readers will cherish is the character of Jacob […]
One Good Dog
Library Journal Readers of Wilson's other novels, mainly women's romantic fiction romances in the vein of Kristin Hannah (e.g., Cameo Lake), are in for a big surprise. Adam March is a rising star in the corporate world when he explodes and slaps his female assistant. His fall from a great height leaves him doing community […]
Mrs. Adams In Winter : a Journey In the Last Days of Napoleon
Library Journal In early 1815, Louisa Adams left St Petersburg, Russia, with her young son to travel 2000 miles by horse and carriage to meet husband John Quincy Adams in Paris. As had been all too common in her marriage, she had been living alone for almost a year after her ambitious husband temporarily (it […]
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Donated in Memory of Theresa Dowd by Mary & Don Beaudin. Children's Literature: Calpurnia is an active, inquisitive eleven-year-old girl, living in a small Texas town in 1899. She takes no interest in cooking or sewing and is, in fact, inept in all household duties. Calpurnia is the only girl in a family of seven […]
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Donated in Memory of Theresa Dowd by Mary & Don Beaudin. School Library Journal Gr 3-6: Living in the shadow of the Fruitless Mountain, Minli and her parents spend their days working in the rice fields, barely growing enough to feed themselves. Every night, Minli?s father tells her stories about the Jade Dragon that keeps […]
Shiver
Donated in Memory of Theresa Dowd by Mary & Don Beaudin. Publishers Weekly Stiefvater leaves the faeries of Lament and Ballad for a lyrical tale of alienated werewolves and first love. For years, Grace has been fascinated by the yellow-eyed wolf that saved her from its pack when she was a child. Sam, bitten by […]
Peter Jennings : a Reporter's Life
Fred Baerkircher – Library Journal This account of the life of a longtime anchor of American evening news was culled largely from interviews conducted for a televised remembrance of Peter Jennings, which aired shortly after his death in 2005. Presented verbatim, the material comes from Jennings's colleagues, friends, and family members and is arranged into […]