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Z | Ivan Doig
|  | Work song (2010)Set in Butte, Montana shortly after World War I, this story brings back Morrie Morgan from Doig's earlier book, The Whistling Season. Morrie is always on the move, one step ahead of trouble, but is no ignorant drifter. A former itinerant school teacher, he has an amazing knowledge of almost everything, and finds a job in the local public library. In this mining town, pretty much owned by Anaconda Copper, there is a united nations of miners who live in their national enclaves, but attempt to come together in solidarity to challenge the dangerous conditons and low pay. Morrie, with help from a wonderful cast of characters, reluctantly comes up with a brilliant solution. I found the writing witty and entertaining and thoroughly enjoyed the story. | | WPL Call No: F Doig, I.
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| Jane Ziegelman
|  | 97 Orchard : an edible history of five immigrant families in one New York tenement (2010)97 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan is now the site of the Tenement Museum. Visitors can tour the actual spaces once occupied by German, Irish, Jewish and Italian immigrants. Jane Ziegelman is the director of the new Culinary Center at the museum and her book is the history of how families from different cultures survived in their new land – how they struggled despite economic and availability odds to keep the foods they loved on their tables. It is a fascinating look at the immigrant experience at the turn of the 20th century. | | WPL Call No: 394.12 ZI
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| Ilan Stavans
|  | Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Early Years (2010)This is for fans of Garcia Marquez and his magic realism. It is a short, thorough literary biography of the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Stavans explores Garcia Marquez's journey from being part of a middle class family in Columbia to becoming one of the world's most significant writers. Garcia Marquez had an eclectic employment history which included work as a journalist and in the film industry. Stavans covers in detail the influence of family, such as wife, Mercedes, on Garcia Marquez's writing. He also covers in detail the influences of places he lived on his writing. In this concise volume, Stavans discusses the influences of other great writers, such as Faulkner, on the great Latin American writer. During a significant part of his life, Garcia Marquez associated himself with a group of other intellectuals including Luis Bunuel and Carlos Fuentes. Stavans incorporated an entire chapter on magic realism, the writing style developed by Garcia Marquez and some of his peers. This is a well written biography by another significant Latin American writer. | | WPL Call No: 921 G1652s
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| Kate Morton
|  | The forgotten garden : a novel (2009)Three generations of women tell this mysterious family saga. The title refers to a secret garden on a grand estate in Cornwall,complete with maze and hidden cottage and the story begins with a little girl sent alone on a ship to Australia. Arriving in Melbourne with no identification, she is raised by the harbormaster and his wife and becomes part of their loving family. That child grows up, grows old and her granddaughter completes the task of revealing past secrets. There's a nice twist at the end, too. | | WPL Call No: F Morton, K.
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| Chris Cleave
|  | Little Bee (2009)Little Bee packs more than a sting. It's a page turner with a storyline right out of current events. Great storytelling can open your eyes to another world and Cleave gets this right. | | WPL Call No: F
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| Allegra Goodman
|  | The Cookbook Collector (2010)There is something in this novel for almost any reader. "The Cookbook Collector" is a drama and a suspenseful page-turner with many surprises. The story is about mixes of characters with strong personalities, clashing value systems and busy lives. It is focused on two sisters, Emily and Jess; some reviewers have compared Goodman's book to Jane Austen's writing. It would appeal to readers interested in rare book collecting, cooking, social action and operation of fledgling computer companies. | | WPL Call No: F Goodman, A.
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| Danielle Ganek
|  | The Summer We Read Gatsby : a novel (2010)A great beach read for the literary set is Danielle Ganek’s new book set in the Hamptons in 2008. Half-sisters Pecksland and Cassie Moriarty inherit a dilapidated cottage in Southhampton called Fool’s House from their Aunt Lydia (think Auntie Mame!) Lydia’s plea from the grave is “to seek a thing of utmost value in the house.” The sisters spend their last summer in the house before its sale trying to determine what that is. Is it a painting , possibly a Jackson Pollack? Is it a first edition of Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby? Something more ethereal? Find out in this fun comedy of manners. | | WPL Call No: F Ganek, D.
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| Pearl Abraham
|  | American Taliban : a novel (2010)All American high school graduate John Jude Parish has it all. This handsome, incisively intelligent skateboarder and surfer decides to defer his freshman year at Brown so he can do some individual exploration. As a result of a high school course in comparative religions his course of off year "study" brings him to an exploration of Sufism and from there to enroll in a course in Arabic at a Sharia school in Brooklyn. As his interest in Islam grows he decides to visit Pakistan and study while there. As the title suggests, his journey brings him to quite a different place both physically and spiritually. | | WPL Call No: F Abraham, P.
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| Helen Simonson
|  | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (2010)Simonson has written an entertaining "novel of manners" featuring Major Pettigrew and the villagers of Edgecombe St. Mary. With gentility and sensibility reigning supreme, you will be rewarded with a well told story. | | WPL Call No: F Simonson, H.
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| James Lehrer
|  | Super : a novel (2010)Jim Lehrer, the anchor of PBS News Hour, writes mysteries and his 20th is Super: A Novel set in 1956 on the Sante Fe Railroad’s Super Chief, the famous silver train that traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles in 39 hours during the glory years of rail travel.
The cast of characters onboard include former President Harry Truman,the actor Clark Gable, Hollywood producers, government officials and various train personnel. Three passengers die mysteriously and as the wheels turn we enjoy great train adventure trying to figure out “Who dunnit?”
| | WPL Call No: F Lehrer, J.
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