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...
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...
