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...
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...
