Book of the week: Ghost Moth
Ghost MothMichele Forbes2013, 240 pagesFictionGhost Moth by Michele Forbes is the story of Katherine, a mother in Belfast on the cusp of The Troubles in 1969, whose frightening experience swimming in the sea triggers memories of incidents which remain below the surface of her marriage. Sounds simple, but Forbes’s prose is like a masterful painting – you may respond to its beauty at first, but the longer you look the more you...
Book of the Week: A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons In the Good Life From an Unlikely Teacher
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons In the Good Life From an Unlikely TeacherSue Halpern2013, 312 pagesNonfiction Don’t judge this book by its cover. It has a goofy picture of a dog with a nurse’s cap perched on her head. But this book is more serious than it appears. Writer Sue Halpern and her dog, Pransky, complete therapy-dog training and start visiting the county nursing home. Sue recounts how she and Pransky interact with...
Book of the Week: The Abundance
The AbundanceAmit Majmudar2013, 255 pagesFictionMala and Ronak are grown children of Indian immigrants. They learn that their mother has cancer and return to the family home in the Midwest to be with her. Mala asks her mother to teach her how to cook the traditional Indian dishes. Cooking has always been an expression of their mother’s love for her family. A new chapter in their lives begins, and there is a new closeness between...
Book of the Week: The Abundance
The AbundanceAmit Majmudar2013, 255 pagesFictionMala and Ronak are grown children of Indian immigrants. They learn that their mother has cancer and return to the family home in the Midwest to be with her. Mala asks her mother to teach her how to cook the traditional Indian dishes. Cooking has always been an expression of their mother’s love for her family. A new chapter in their lives begins, and there is a new closeness between...
Concord Public Library book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Silent VoicesAnn Cleeves2013, 314 pagesFictionHere’s a British mystery writer with a new protagonist, DI Vera Stanhope, who has many personal issues. She’s a lonely, single, overweight, unattractive, uncouth middle-aged woman who’s a crack detective inspector. When she stumbles upon a dead body in the sauna of the fitness club she’s recently...
