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Short List for June 2012
Hi everyone.
I did not upload Catharine Rambeau’s Short List for June 2012. The Library now has Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs,” Rachel Maddow’s “Drift,” Alan Bennett’s “Untold Stories,” Elizabeth Bloom’s “See Isabelle Run,” “James Sallis’s “Cripple Creek,” and Frank McCourt’s memoir, titled “Teacher Man.”
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From the Shortlist: The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok (a memoir)
Lantana Public Library Call No.: B Bar
From the Short List: biographies of two American women writers
Edith Wharton Lantana Library Call No.: B Wha
by Hermione Lee
Mining previously untapped sources, Hermione Lee gives readers a new look at Edith Wharton in a landmark biography that is as tough, modern, brilliant and complex as Wharton’s own fiction.
(From the Short List by Catharine Rambeau, Dec. 19, 2007)
Eudora Welty: A Biography Lantana Library Call No.: B Wel
by Suzanne Marrs
An icon of American fiction, Welty loved the written word from early childhood. An astute shrewd observer, she studied people and loved strangers, and her work reflects humor and tragedy with lyric style. Marrs, who knew Welty for the last 20 years of her life, makes brilliant use of that access. An appendix, bibliography and notes are included.
(From the Short List by Catharine Rambeau, April 23, 2007)
From the Short List: Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible Lantana Library Call No.: F Kin
by Barbara Kingsolver
A richly satisfying novel about Nathan Price, a brutally ignorant American missionary in 1959 Belgian Congo. Written in alternating narratives spanning 30 years by Nathan’s wife and their four daughters, these stories, each in its distinct voice, omit none of the politics, folly and willful ignorance of this stranger in a strange land.
(From the Short List by Catharine Rambeau, Dec. 19, 2007)
Available: The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
The Brain that Changes Itself
by Norman Doidge
Lantana Library Call No.: 612 82 Doi
When Dr. Doidge, an M.D. and psychiatrist, first noticed that some patients responded to treatment in ways that indicated that their brains were not hardwired and that brain damage might be undone, he didn’t believe it. Research led him to the relatively new science of neuroplasticity, which appears to allow a damaged brain to reconstruct itself. This is gripping stuff, and you do not have to be a doctor to understand it: It is also a pleasure to read, and the case histories give room for hope.
(From the Short List, March 11, 2009, by Catharine Rambeau)