Marta's Reading Insight
| Marta's Reading InSight | number 10 |  |
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Some new titles at the Library to add to your "must read" or "perfect gift" lists:
| *For the Non-Fiction fan: | |
| Arrogance: rescuing America from the media
elite by Bernard Goldberg |
Insider knowledge & righteous indignation about the media "leftist" slant |
| City Room by Arthur Gelb |
From copy boy to managing editor, 45 years inside the New York Times |
| Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common
Good by Paul Newman & A.E. Hotchner |
Philanthropy that is fun! |
| Brundibar by Tony Kushner & Maurice Sendak |
A children's book for everybody - the retelling of a classic opera about good and evil |
| Emotional Longevity: what really determines
how long we live by Norman Anderson |
Find out why optimists have lower blood pressure & heightened immunity. |
| The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: an informal
history of hospitality by Jesse Browner |
Discover how the host has asserted his will over the guests throughout history. |
| *For the Novel lover: | |
| L'Affaire by Diane Johnson |
Old fashioned & leisurely comedy of manners about cultural disconnect between Americans & Parisians |
| She is Me by Cathleen Schine |
One of Westport's
own writes of the wisdom, pain & love of three generations
of women. Schine will speak at the Library in the spring. |
| Winner of the National Book Award by Jincy Willet |
Satirical novel about fraternal twin sisters; a dark story with comic touches |
| Jamesland by Michelle Huneven |
Hollywood community of troubled eccentrics find answers through each other. Touches on the paranormal and the "varieties of religious experience." |
| Train: a novel by Pete Dexter |
Moral questions in a dark story of race, sex & golf hustling. |
| Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lathem |
A sprawling story of the 1970's friendship between two boys in Brooklyn & where their dreams carry them. |
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Marta Campbell, Head of Collection Management |  |
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