Risked
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).
A Call to Action : Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
I've Got You Under My Skin
Donated to the library by Friends in Council in memory of Jean Haywood. Publishers Weekly 03/24/2014 Fans of MWA Grand Master Clark will find plenty of intrigue and excitement in this contemporary thriller, which opens with the fatal shooting of Dr. Greg Moran in a Manhattan playground by a shadowy figure known only as "Blue […]
The Bully Pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The New York Times Book Review – Bill Keller "There are but a handful of times in the history of our country," Goodwin writes in her introduction, "when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge." The years covered in this book are […]
Manson : the Life and Times of Charles Manson
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: …[a] brawny, deep-digging biography that's much more riveting than might be expected…Mr. Guinn is fascinating in his use of hindsight, and it allows him a more probing view of his subject than earlier biographers had…Manson tells stories so well that it is sure to attract attention to Mr. […]
The White Princess
Publishers Weekly In Gregory’s fifth entry in the Cousins’ War series, marriage unites the upstart House of Tudor with its long-time enemies, the declining House of York, to rule over volatile 1485 England. As Gregory envisions her, narrator Elizabeth of York—sister to the princes imprisoned in the Tower, mother of Henry VIII, grandmother of Elizabeth […]
Queen's Gambit
Publishers Weekly Tudor women continue to rule historical fiction, as Fremantle demonstrates in her debut novel tracing Katherine Parr’s passage from grieving widow to Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, the one who survives. Taking us into Katherine’s mind and heart, Fremantle portrays a complex gentlewoman: decent, though willing to hasten her previous husband’s demise; […]
A Step of Faith
"Evans moves events along at a rapid-fire pace….Christoffersen's unconventional road trip travels a path of self-discovery and determination." (Publishers Weekly )
Carrie and Me : a Mother-daughter Love Story
Publishers Weekly Born in 1963, Burnett’s eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton, was an actress and playwright beginning to establish a name for herself when she died of lung cancer at age 38, in January 2002. In this nostalgic look back at Hamilton’s short life and last work-in-progress, Burnett (One More Time) portrays a loving daughter who […]
Daddy's Gone a Hunting
“The mistress of high tension.†(The New Yorker )