Minot Diaries
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 […]
The Nostradamus Encyclopedia
The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual :essential Know-how For Keeping (not Killing) More Than 160 Indoor Plants
Library Journal Review: Pleasant (The Southern Garden Advisor) offers an attractive, easy-to-use guide to 160 common houseplants that is divided into three main sections: blooming houseplants, foliage houseplants, and houseplant care. The first two are arranged by scientific name, except for sections on groups of plants like bulbs, orchids, or ferns, which are arranged by […]