Book of the week
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...
Concord Public Library Book of the week
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...
Concord Public Library Book of the Week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. The eBook reviewed is available for free to Concord Public Library cardholders through our subscription to the New Hampshire Downloadable Books Consortium at nh.lib.overdrive.com.A Beautiful TruthColin McAdam2013, 292 pagesFictionSet in the 1970s, one half of this tale follows Walt and Judy, an infertile Vermont couple who adopt a baby chimpanzee....
Concord Public Library Book of the week
The Maid’s VersionDaniel Woodrell2013, 164 pagesFictionSelf-described “country noir” writer Daniel Woodrell’s (The Outlaw Album, Winter’s Bone, etc.) latest book is culled from historical events. Twelve-year-old Alek Dunahew spends the summer of 1965 with his grandmother, Alma. One night during a storm, she shares a long-kept story with him: “. . . she cunningly chose that raging moment to begin telling me her personal account of the...
