A Short Guide to a Happy Life: Anna Quindlen, 2000 {donation}[170.44] “Life is made of momentswe have to teach ourselves how to live, really liveto love the journey, not the destination.”
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Malcolm Gladwell, 2000 {donated}[302] “The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads life wildfire.”
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001 {donated}[305.569] “Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wade America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity – a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.”
For the Love of a Dog: Patricia B. McConnell, 2005 {donated}[636.7] This work is “a wonderful blend of scientific knowledge, stories about real dogs and their behavior, and scenes from the author’s life with her own dogswill make you think – but it will also touch your heart.”
Life is so Good: George Dawson & Richard Glaubman, 2000 {donated}[920] “In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a 101 year old man who learned to read when he was 98, reflects on the philosophy he learned from his father – a belief that “life is so good” – as he offers valuable lessons in living and a fresh, firsthand view of America during the twentieth century.”
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The Mirror Garden: Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian & Zara Houshmand, 2007 {donated}[920] “This thought-provoking, heartbreaking, delightful memoir spirits us across the battlefield of today’s headlines into a kaleidoscopic landscape of Iran in all its magical richness.”
Desert Queen: The extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia. Janet Wallach, 1996 {donated}[920] “In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements – a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind.”
Starting Out in the Evening: Brian Morton, 1998 {donated}[fiction] “a finely tuned serious novel that conjures a fully formed and vibrant sense of life in all its complexity and eccentric charactersubtle, tender, and moving.”
Breakfast with Buddha: Roland Merullo, 2007 {donation}[fiction] “Insightful, amusing, lovingThere are lovely moments of enlightenment that are not accompanied by angels with flaming swords; rather, there is that peaceful blue sphere that is available to all of us.”
The Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver, 1998 {donated}[fiction] In this story the family of Nathan Pierce, a fierce, evangelical Baptist go to the Belgian Congo in 1959 taking with them all they believe they will need. “What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.” |
