For Laci : a Mother's Story of Love, Loss & Justice
"Every mother's worst fear became Sharon Rocha's reality. On Christmas Eve 2002, she received a phone call from her son-in-law saying that her daughter, Laci, was missing. In the hours, days, and eventually months that followed, Sharon struggled to avoid accepting what no parent should ever have to face: the certain knowledge that her child […]
The World of Edward Gorey
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Sandra Taylor in honor of Edward Gorey's birth February 22, 1925. Perennial favorites such as The Doubtful Guest, The Insect God, and The Fatal Lozenge, which have been collected in the award-winning Amphigorey anthologies; set and costume designs for Dracula; illustrations for books such as Old Possum's Book […]
The Peter Pan Syndrome
The Flying Boy
A Land Beyond Tears
We Ain't Making Sausage Here
A political memoir by house speaker Marshall Cobleigh.
My Detachment
"My Detachment is a war story, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself." "Kidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college […]
A Million Little Pieces
Publisher Weekly Review: Frey is pretender to the throne of the aggressive, digressive, cocky Kings David: Eggers and Foster Wallace. Pre-pub comparisons to those writers spring not from Frey's writing but from his attitude: as a recent advance profile put it, the 33-year-old former drug dealer and screenwriter "wants to be the greatest literary writer […]
Taming and Training Cockatoos
Given to the library by Barbara Johnson
The South Beach Diet : the Delicious, Doctor-designed, Foolproof Plan For Fast and Healthy Weight Loss
Publisher Weekly Review: Despite the glitzy title, this is one of the more appealing diet books among the new "anti-carb" programs. Agatston, a doctor based at Miami Beach's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, found that his patients not only were unable to stay on various popular diets but their cholesterol and blood sugar levels remained dangerously […]