Concord Public Library Book of the week
A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My LifeJames Bowen2013, 279 pagesNonfictionJames Bowen was barely making ends meet as a busker in Covent Garden, recovering from years of homelessness and drug addiction, when he came home one evening to find a ginger tom cat in his apartment building in north London. Bowen nursed the injured cat back to health, dubbed him Bob and delighted in their new friendship. One day Bob followed him onto...
Concord Public Library Book of the week
The Log of the Molly B Pete Hogan 2013, 194 pages Non-fiction This illustrated memoir tells of Hogan’s harrowing journeys on his beloved Tahiti Ketch. Motorless, and with no communication devices, built by Hogan himself in Vancouver, the Molly B sails down the Pacific Coast and barely makes it through the Panama Canal. Hogan is bailed out numerous times by patient souls, and he carries on through the Caribbean and across the Atlantic...
Concord Public Library Book of the Week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts & Get a Good Night’s SleepColleen E. Carney and Rachel Mamber2013, 181 pagesNonfictionDo you have problems sleeping at night? Then you may want to read this little book written by two psychologists – one is director of a sleep laboratory in Toronto, Canada, and the other is director of the Insomnia...
Book of the week: Orphan Train
Orphan TrainChristina Baker Kline2013, 273 pagesFictionThe two main characters of this novel are Molly, a seventeen-year-old intelligent but troubled child of the foster care system, and Vivian, a 91-year-old widow living in a huge Victorian house on Mount Desert Island overlooking the ocean. How do they meet, why do they become friends, and what do they have in common? As a child Vivian was sent by the Children’s Aid Society on the...
Book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Leaving Everything Most LovedJacqueline Winspear2013, 338 pagesFictionMaisie Dobbs is an independent woman for her time. Having risen from a position of housemaid at age 13 to working as a nurse during the Great War to becoming a psychologist, she’s now in her late 30s and the owner of her own investigative business.Her latest client is the brother...
