Marta's Reading Insight
| Marta's Reading Insight | number 20 |  |
NEW TITLES FROM OLD FAVORITES
Have you read a book that you just could not stop talking about?
And eagerly awaited the author's next one? Reserve your favorite
new title!
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FICTION
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| Remember:
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing? |
New: The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank is both literary and high-class chick-lit, once again featuring Sophie Applebaum of Surrey, PA. |
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Remember:
The Hours? |
New: Michael Cunningham shifts focus with Specimen Days- three different characters in three different settings: the Industrial Revolution, New York in the 21st century & 150 years into the future. |
| Remember:
Mosquito Coast? The Old Patagonian Express? |
New:
In the novel Blinding
Light, Paul Theroux writes of a blocked writer
who becomes a blind writer when the hallucinogenic drug meant
to inspire him takes away his eyesight. |
| Remember:
The Bridges of Madison County? |
New: Robert James Waller returns with High Plains Tango - a young drifter settles in South Dakota and finds time for romance and a battle with those trying to take his land. |
| Remember: Lucia Lucia? |
New: In Notes from the Villa di Crespi, Adriana Trigiani tells what happens when a gorgeous hunk of a painter blows into town to restore Our Lady of Fatima church. |
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NON-FICTION
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| Remember:
Snow? My Name is Red? |
New: Orhan Pamuk limns the city then and now in Istanbul: Memories and the City. |
| Remember:
Truman? John Adams? Mornings in Horseback? |
New: Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough turns his attention to 1776, recreating the year of Independence from diaries and correspondence of the time. |
| Remember:
The Other Adonis? American Summer? |
New: Frank Deford returns to sports with The Old Ball Game: how John McGraw, Christie Mathewson and the New York Giants Invented Modern Baseball. |
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Marta Campbell, Head of Collection Management |  |
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