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Audiobook Collection
This collection of audiobooks will be available until December.
New Books for November 2009
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America’s penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out “negative” thoughts. On a national level, it’s brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best—poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
2010 All Iowa Reads Book Selection
http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/archive/2009/10/air09book
Driftless by David Rhodes
With Driftless, Rhodes returns to the midwestern landscape he knows so well, offering a fascinating and entirely unsentimental portrait of a town apparently left behind by the march of time. Home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, Words, Wisconsin, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters. Among them, a middle-aged couple guards the family farm from the mendacious schemes of their milk co-operative; a lifelong paraplegic suddenly regains the use of her legs, only to find herself crippled by fury at her sister and caretaker; a woman of conflicting impulses and pastor of the local Friends church stumbles upon an enlightenment she never expected; a cantankerous retiree discovers a cougar living in his haymow, haunting him like a childhood memory; and a former drifter forever alters the ties that bind a community together.
(book cover images and summaries courtesy of www. amazon.com)
I would like to see newer titles by Chris Bohjalian.
Just finished reading “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” mainly for the novelty of it — but I must say I was impressed with the way the Zombies (Unmentionables) were interlaced with Jane Austen’s classic. Definately a quirky read for Austen fans and Zombie fans alike.
Thanks for adding it to the collection!
Thanks for your comment, Susan. P & P is my all time favorite book and I was skeptical when i first saw P & P & Z on the shelf, but I read the first chapter and thought it was quite fun.
~Leslie