Looking for a Good Book?
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:36 pm
The Brookline Public Library is happy to provide our community of readers with a new and exciting service. We all know that tracking down the right book at the right time can be a struggle, especially when many of us don’t have as much times as we’d wish to browse shelves or pore over reviews. So, let us do the…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:56 pm
“Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and…
1969: The Year Everything Changed
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:53 pm
“Chronicles American music, news, politics, art, publishing, and sports during 1969, from Woodstock to the Manson family and Richard Nixon’s presidency to the gay rights movement.”
Robin’s Note: Kirkpatrick is a free-wheeling writer, and this look at the end…
On the Road to Freedom
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:49 pm
“An award-winning black journalist takes a pilgrimage through the sites and landmarks of the civil rights movement as he journeys to key locales that served as a backdrop to important events…
Running in the Family
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:46 pm
“An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents’ legacy and his own heritage.”
Robin’s Note: Michael Ondaatje is famous for writing the novel The English…
Harriett and Isabella
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:41 pm
“A novelization based on a nineteenth-century sex scandal traces how the downfall of Henry Ward Beecher divided the nation and severed the loving relationship between his sisters, author Harriet Beecher Stowe and suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker.”
Robin’s Note: For anyone…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:34 pm
“January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in…
The Air We Breathe
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:32 pm
“Detached from the rest of the country on the eve of World War I, the tuberculosis-stricken residents of an Adirondack lakeside sanatorium are housed in accordance with their economic status and languish in their isolation before an enterprising…