Concord Public Library Book of the week
Hild: A NovelNicola Griffith2013, 543 pagesFictionA good historical novel has a special magic that immerses the reader in another time. This novel, about the early life and times of St. Hilda of Whitby, does just that. The author interweaves facts about jewelry, textiles, languages, food, weapons, coins and poetry of 7th court intrigue through the eyes of a very perceptive child. The story begins when Hild is 3-years-old and her...
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For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Spirit of Steamboat: A Walt Longmire StoryCraig Johnson 2013, 146 pages FictionOn Christmas Eve 1988, lawman Walt Longmire convinces his friend, the irascible former sheriff Lucian Connally, that he needs him to fly an emergency mission. A young Asian girl has been badly burned in a car crash and needs to be airlifted to Denver in a blizzard. Lucian...
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For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. This Is Paradise Kristiana Kahakauwhila 2013, 235 pages Fiction In these six short stories, we are invited to see Hawaii from the lives of ordinary people. In the first story we see the tension that exists between the locals and the tourists. A young girl is warned by the locals that the man she is with has been in prison and is probably...
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Eleanor & ParkRainbow Rowell2013, 328FictionIn the suburbs of Omaha in 1986, two misfit teenagers come together in a whirlwind romance that takes everyone by surprise. Eleanor, at 16, is living in a broken home with an abusive stepfather and four younger siblings, all of whom share a single room. At school, she suffers abuse because of her large frame and awkward taste in clothing. But everything changes when she meets Park. Park...
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Critical MassSara Paretsky2013, 465Fiction V.I. Warshawski (Victoria Iphigenia, a.k.a. Vic) is a Chicago private eye of Polish/Italian descent. In Paretsky’s seventeenth book, Vic’s best friend, Lotty, an elderly Austrian-born doctor whose family died in the Holocaust, asks her to look into what has happened to Judy, the drug-addicted daughter of her childhood playmate, Kitty. After tracking Judy to a rural meth house where she’s...
