Book of the week: The Trivia Lover’s Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found
The Trivia Lover’s Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and FoundGary Fuller2012, 270 pagesNonfictionThe author has a PhD in geography, was a geography professor for 35 years, and was a winning contestant on Jeopardy! He posits that geographic ignorance is widespread, but that geographic intelligence is necessary for us to understand how the world is organized. Here you’ll find 150 geography-based trivia questions with...
Concord Public Library book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Servant’s Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs RomanceMargaret Powell2013, 184 pagesNonfictionIf you love Downton Abbey (or the earlier Upstairs, Downstairs) and you wonder how accurate these period television shows are, then this is the book for you. Margaret Powell went into service as a kitchenmaid (like Daisy) in 1922 at the age of 15. By 1925...
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Vivian Maier: Out of the ShadowsRichard Cahan and Michael Williams2012, 287 pagesNonfictionVivian Maier, celebrated amateur “nanny photographer,” was not discovered until after her lonely death in 2009. Her many, many photographs, which had by necessity been abandoned in storage and which she had never shared, luckily found their way to auction and into the hands of discerning collectors. The short but thoughtful biographical sketch...
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For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Care of Wooden FloorsWill Wiles2012, 295 pagesFictionA British copywriter stays at his composer friend Oskar’s elegant, ultramodern, apartment in a glum Eastern European city. The instructions are simple: feed the cats, don’t touch the piano and make sure nothing hurts the priceless wooden floors. Believing a change of scene will help him write...
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Dying on the VineAaron Elkins2012, 294 pagesFictionForensics professor Gideon Oliver and his wife Julie are in Tuscany to visit some old friends whose family owns a vineyard. While there, Gideon is asked to look at some skeletons from a recent case, but he finds problems with the carabinieri’s conclusions. There are many odd things about the way the skeletons are found, where they are resting, etc., and Gideon steps in to help....
