Book of the Week: Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince and the Search for Home
Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince and the Search for HomeAlison Singh Gee2013, 279 pagesNonfictionHere’s an unusual memoir that I think you’ll like. Alison Gee has a wonderful life. A magazine writer in Hong Kong, she’s young, pretty, has a rich British boyfriend, and loves going to parties. But something is missing. When she meets quiet, charming Ajay Singh, an Indian journalist, they fall in love, and she gives up...
Concord Public Library book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.The Big New Yorker Book Of Dogs2012, 395 pagesNonfictionCalling all dog lovers! Here’s a great collection of dog-themed covers, cartoons, poems and stories by the likes of James Thurber, Malcolm Gladwell, Donald Hall, Jeffrey Toobin, Roald Dahl and TC Boyle published over 80 years (from 1932-2012) in the New Yorker. Broken into four parts – Good...
Book of the Week: White Jacket Required
White Jacket RequiredJenna Weber2013, 208 pagesNonfictionWhen Jenna Weber graduated from college there were no jobs to be found. Drawing on her desire to write about food and maybe pen some cookbooks, she decides to go to Le Cordon Bleu in Florida for culinary arts training to really understand what she’s writing about. Throughout her training in the baking and pastry program, she attempts to deal with the loss of her brother,...
Book of the Week: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive ThinkingOliver Burkeman2012, 236 pagesNonfiction Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking is a handbook for what the English Romantic poet John Keats called “negative capability,” or living with “uncertainties, mysteries, (and) doubts” without feeling miserable. Burkeman neatly explains why positive psychology often backfires and...
Book of the week: Exploring Britain’s Castles: Celebrating Britain’s Magnificent Architectural Legacy
Exploring Britain’s Castles: Celebrating Britain’sMagnificent Architectural LegacyDonna Wood2011, 224 pagesNonfictionThis handsome book gives the history of Britain’s castles, why and how they were built, and includes gorgeous photographs of each castle. The book covers the castles by region in England, Scotland and Wales, so that if you are going on a trip you can include some in your itinerary. Perhaps you’d like to plan a trip...
