Strength In What Remains
The New York Times – Dwight Garner: I read with great interest. Mr. Kidder relates the story of Deo's rural childhood in Burundi with patient grace and attention to detail. He has a casual mastery of complex topics, like the history of suspicion and animosity between Hutus and Tutsis?Strength in What Remains is perhaps at […]
Shake the Devil Off : a True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans
Kirkus Reviews: Journalist Brown (Snitch: Informants, Cooperators, and the Corruption of Justice, 2007, etc.) tries his hand at true crime. In October 2006, 28-year-old Zackery Bowen jumped from the roof of La Riviera bar in New Orleans and died instantly upon hitting the concrete. In his pocket was a suicide note explaining that he'd dismembered […]
A Guide Book of United States Coins 2009
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Littleton Coin Company.
The Fallen Sky : an Intimate History of Shooting Stars
Kirkus Reviews: Sprawling adventure memoir and natural history of meteorites from Cokinos (English and Creative Writing/Utah State Univ.; Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, 2000). In his quest to understand the passions of the opportunists, innovators and romantics that popular the history of meteorites, the author traverses the globe, […]
The Girls From Ames : a Story of Women and Friendship
Kirkus Reviews An in-depth look at the enduring bond of friendship among a tightly knit group of middle-class Midwestern women born in the early 1960s. Through his popular "Moving On" column in the Wall Street Journal, which focuses on transitions in women's friendships, Zaslow (co-author: The Last Lecture, 2008) was introduced to the women featured […]
Will I See My Dog In Heaven? : God's Saving Love For the Whole Family of Creation
Graham Christian – Library Journal: This little volume by longtime writer and Franciscan friar Wintz has a strikingly serious yet warm message. For Wintz, a careful and spiritually adept student not only of the Bible but of the life and words of St. Francis, God's promise of a new creation at the end of time […]
100 Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS
Synopsis: While AIDS is not the health threat that it once was in North America, it is still a significant public health problem and is a devastating epidemic in Africa and Asia. 100 Questions & Answers about AIDS and HIV provides answers to the most common questions asked by AIDS/HIV patients and their families. Written […]
Buzzed : the Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol to Ecstasy
Patrick Jones – VOYA: This book provides in-depth, comprehensive discussions of the effects of most recreationally used and abused substances, including alcohol, caffeine, hallucinogens, sedatives, steroids, and inhalants. Each chapter covers a different drug or category of drugs and provides a social and legal history of the drug's usage, descriptions of the effects on the […]
Broken : a Love Story : Horses, Humans and Redemption On the Wind River Indian Reservation
Debby Emerson – Library Journal: As the subtitle suggests, this is indeed a love story, but not in the typical romantic sense. It is a chronicle of the author's spiritual journey and growth and a peek at the realities of life on an Indian reservation. Jones has worked as a journalist for over 20 years […]
Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies
Synopsis Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home?even a green home?uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or remodel conscientiously, […]