The Book of the Week newsletter highlights a different title from the Greene County Public Library each week which is featured on LITE 99.9 and MIX 107.7.
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Book of the Week - 02/18/08 |
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
Ruth Young suspects that something is terribly wrong with her mother. As a child, Ruth was constantly subjected to her mother's disturbing notions about curses and ghosts and to her repeated threats to kill herself. But now LuLing Young seems happy -- far from her usual disagreeable and dissatisfied self. Ailing and struggling to hold onto the evaporating past. LuLing begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Read More...
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Book of the Week - 02/11/08 |
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. Read More...
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Book of the Week - 02/04/08 |
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The Girls
by Lori Lansens
They're two girls. With two different, thinking brains. And two separate, beating hearts. But the Darlen girls are forever joined in a way that makes them closer than even the closest of sisters: As conjoined twins, Rose (the studious one) and Ruby (the beautiful one) lead their lives while connected at the head by an area the size of a bread plate. Read More...
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Book of the Week - 01/28/08 |
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
In this original narrative about man and nature, a bestselling author masterfully links four fundamental human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--with the fascinating stories of four plants that embody them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. Read More...
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Book of the Week - 01/21/08 |
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood - the world of the red tent. Read More...
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Book of the Week - 01/14/08 |
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The Brief History of the Dead
by Kevin Brockmeier
How many people could you remember, if you sat down and tried to make a list? We're not just talking about folks you know well, but anyone whose face you can conjure up--your mail carrier, that girl at the coffee shop, an old teacher. In Kevin Brockmeier's new novel, The Brief History of the Dead, an ever-shifting city of the dead is populated by the souls of those who have died but are still remembered by the living. These folks hang around in an afterlife that's pretty much like regular life--reading, eating, working, possibly changing but never aging--until the last person who remembers them dies. Then they vanish. It's a city built on memory, and memory makes a fragile building block. Read More...
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Book of the Week - 12/31/07 |
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Vanora Bennett
With a striking sense of period detail, "Portrait of an Unknown Woman" is an unforgettable story of sin and religion, desire and deception. It is the tale of a young woman on the brink of sensual awakening and of a country on the edge of mayhem. Read More...
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