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New Materials at Sisson Library |
Carole Howard & Library staff | 5/12/08
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The following new books and materials have arrived at the Sisson Library on South 8th Street:
Cookbooks
“The Cook’s Encyclopedia of Bread” by Christine Ingram and Jennie Shapter is a fully illustrated reference guide to the breads of the world, with fascinating information about traditional baking methods. Its 150 recipes all have step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs. “Martha Stewart’s Cookies” contains recipes for 175 different cookies, plus ideas for packaging them as gifts and information about tools and techniques to bake them.
Large print novels
“Carolina Isle” by Jude Deveraux tells of the stormy results when two young ladies in their 20s decide to switch lives. “Dumping Billy” by Olivia Goldsmith is a romance set in Brooklyn. “The Windmill” by Stephanie Gertler follows a woman with a seemingly perfect life in Massachusetts whose husband suddenly disappears. “Mater Biscuit” by Julie Canon is the story of a family living in a small town in the South. “Between Sisters” by Kristin Hannah” is a portrait of two women – sisters by blood, strangers by choice – about to come together in a time of exquisite joy and unbearable sadness. “Dog Days” by Mavis Cheek is the story of a new divorcee facing life with a new dog, a daughter and many friends trying to match her up with other men. “Interpreter of Maladies” is an award-winning collection of nine stories that has won almost every award for debut fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize.
Non-fiction
“Head and Heart: American Christianities” by Garry Wills is a landmark examination of Christianity’s place in American life over our history from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush. “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” by Atul Gawande looks at medical failure and triumph, and how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. “A Canary’s Tale: Politics, Poison and Pollution vs. the Environment and the Public Health” by Jacob B. Berkson tells of a retired lawyer who develops multiple chemical sensitivity after his house is treated for termites. “Stori Telling” by actress Tori Spelling from the television show Beverly Hills 90210 is a memoir that talks about her decadent childhood, the real life behind the rumors and her quest to define herself in her own terms.
Books on CD
“The Other Boleyn Girl” By Philippa Gregory, the novel about Mary and Anne Boleyn competing for the love of Henry VIII, has been made into a major motion picture. It also have this book in hard cover. “A Prisoner of Birth” by Jeffrey Archer tells of how a man sentenced to 22 years in Britain’s highest-security jail seeks revenge. “Duma Key” by Stephen King is a supernatural tale set on an undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast.
War stories
 “American Warrior” is a combat memoir of Vietnam by Brigadier General John C. Bahnsen Jr., one of our country’s most decorated soldiers in the Vietnam War. “Tutankamun’s Aremies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt’s Late 18th Dynasty by John Coleman Darnell and Colleen Manassa explores the vast, complex and sophisticated military machine that defended and expanded the borders of the empire during the Eighteenth Dynasty. “Patton’s Pawns: The 94th U.S. Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line” by Tony Le Tissier tells of this division formed late in World War II made by largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings, with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust ands respect.
Quotable quote
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions, nor expensive diversions, or variety of company, if she can be amused with an author.” -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English aristocrat, writer and champion of women’s rights.
Thanks to our donors
For books and materials this week we thank Jan Aarvord, Kathy Bennett, Julie Gillentine, Biz Greene, Phyl Daleske, Susan Durkee, Caren Gavic, Kathleen Golden and Anna O’Reilly. |
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