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Added to the Lisbon Public Library in celebration of the birth of Olivea Maria Lyndes.
Doctor De Soto
The Marriage Plot
The Washington Post – Ron Charles …a romantic comedy wrapped around an academic satire that looks like the sprightly love child of Allegra Goodman and Jonathan Franzen…A master of voice, from the perfectly calibrated voyeurs of The Virgin Suicides to the bifurcated consciousness of Middlesex, Eugenides delivers The Marriage Plot as a sympathetic omniscient narrator […]
That Used to Be Us : How America Fell Behind In the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
The New York Times Book Review – David Frum …a book that is at once enlightened and enlightening. Friedman—not that you need me to tell you this—is a very good reporter…The partnership with Mandelbaum has been fruitful, curbing Friedman's notorious verbal excesses and stiffening the book with extra analytic rigor
The Submission
The New York Times – Claire Messud With the keen and expert eye of an excellent journalist, Waldman provides telling portraits of all the drama's major players, deftly exposing their foibles and their mutual manipulations. And she has a sense of humor: the novel is punctuated with darkly comic details…Elegantly written and tightly plotted, The […]
Meadowlands : a Wetlands Survival Story
The New York Times – Pamela Paul: Just as some books that children find appealing make librarians want to yank their hair out, so other books guaranteed to please school librarians turn children's gazes toward the recess yard. Then there are the books that satisfy both, like Meadowlands…[which] is tremendously (but not intimidatingly) informative, fun […]
Energy Island
School Library Journal Gr 2 6—This account of how the residents of a Danish island made large and small changes to switch to renewable energy sources puts names and faces to processes described in more conventional discussions of alternative energy. Before the transformation, Samsø's most remarkable feature was its continual winds. A determined teacher spent […]
The Long Song
The New York Times – Fernanda Eberstadt: Readers of The Long Song will find little here of the maddened grief of Toni Morrison's Beloved or the deep melancholy of Edward P. Jones's Known World. Levy's novelistic defense against evil and injustice is her humane sense of comedy. In The Long Song, she has painted a […]
Truth
Library Journal: As head of homicide in Melbourne, Australia, Inspector Stephen Villani devotes himself to serving justice. Yet even as he pursues cases with single-minded intensity, he can't ignore a foreboding that the job is destroying him. Faced with a brutal triple homicide and an unidentified victim found in a penthouse apartment, Villani uncovers a […]
Dinosaur Mountain
Publishers Weekly This dynamic book brings readers into the ?Bone Wars? of the late 19th and early 20th century, focusing on Earl Douglass, a fossil expert whose search for ?something big? made him one of the era's most successful ?bone hunters.? Ray's sweeping scenes of the dry Utah landscape capture the excitement of the hunt, […]