My Country, 'tis of Thee : How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014 “More than any other, one song traces America’s history of patriotism and protest.” Murphy’s (Marching with Aunt Susan) sweeping opening line sets the stage for subsequent examples of how marginalized groups have adopted and changed the song, “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” A straightforward narrative examines the song’s various versions. Beginning in […]
Love In the Time of Global Warming
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift.
The Return : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews After being diagnosed with a fatal brain condition, a seemingly mild-mannered New York book editor heads to Mexico for a violent confrontation with his past. Richard Marder never fully realized how much taking his young wife, Chole, to New York City from her home in Michoacán, and her subsequent estrangement from her family, […]
The Guns At Last Light : the War In Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Washington Post – Gerard DeGroot In this, the third volume of his Liberation Trilogy, [Atkinson] reconstructs the period from D-Day to V-E Day by weaving a multitude of tiny details into a tapestry of achingly sublime prose. When handsome words are used to convey horror, their effect is like a bayonet in the gut. […]
The Day of Battle : the War In Sicily and Italy
Robert Killebrew With this book, Rick Atkinson cements his place among America's great popular historians, in the tradition of Bruce Catton and Stephen Ambrose. Though The Day of Battle's tone is appropriately somber—the story of civilian deaths in Italy from allied bombing and German executions is especially sickening—its underlying theme is optimistic, even triumphal. Atkinson […]
Henry's Heart : a Boy, His Heart, and a New Best Friend
Killing Lincoln
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Gerri Livingston.
Shadow and Bone
Children's Literature Alina and Mal, orphaned children from an early age, grew up as best friends in war-torn Ravka. Now, they are both part of the First Regiment and head across the Fold to get supplies from West Ravka. While journeying across the treacherous Fold, their regiment is attacked and Alina unleashes her dormant power […]
Bring Up the Bodies
Janet Maslin Two years ago something astonishingly fair happened in the world of prestigious prizes: the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for 2009 both went to the right winner…Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall…It was a hard act to follow. But the follow-up is equally sublime.…Bring Up the Bodies is […]
Cloudette
Added to the Lisbon Public Library in celebration of the birth of Rachel Lillian Santy.