Sunday, September 21, 2008

101. The glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls




Title: The glass castle : a memoir

Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2006, c2005.

Description: 288 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

Meeting held: October 16, 2008

100. Way of the peaceful warrior : a book that changes lives by Dan Millman


Author: Millman, Dan.

Title: Way of the peaceful warrior : a book that changes lives

Publisher: Tiburon, Calif. : H.J. Kramer, Inc. ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed by Publisher's Group West, 1984, c1980.

Description: 210 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

Meeting held: June 25, 2008

Friday, March 14, 2008

99. The whistling season by Ivan Doig


Author: Doig, Ivan

Title: The whistling season

Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.

Description: 345 p.

Subject(s):
  • Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
  • Irrigation projects--Fiction.
  • Housekeepers--Fiction.
  • Teachers--Fiction.
  • Widowers--Fiction.
  • Montana--Fiction.
Meeting held: April 29, 2008

98. The Sacred and profane love machine by Iris Murdoch


Author: Murdoch, Iris

Title: The sacred and profane love machine

Publisher: New York : Viking Press, 1974.

Description: 374 p.

Subject(s):
  • Man-woman relationships--England--Fiction.
  • Married people--England--Fiction.
Meeting held: February 11, 2008

Sunday, January 13, 2008

97. Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Author: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-

Title: Love in the time of cholera / translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1989, c1988.

Description: 348 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1988.

Translation of: El amor en los tiempos del colera.

Subject:
  • Colombia -- Fiction.
Meeting held: January 22, 2008

96. The prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Author: Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527.

Uniform Title: Principe. English

Title: The prince : a revised translation, backgrounds, interpretations / translated and edited by Robert M. Adams.

Edition: 2nd ed.

Published: New York : Norton, 1992.

Description: xix, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-279) and index.

Subject(s):

  • Political science -- Early works to 1800.
  • Political ethics.
Meeting held: November 7, 2007

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

95. Mr. Emerson's Wife by Amy Belding Brown


Author: Brown, Amy Belding

Title: Mr. Emerson's wife

Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005.

Description: 328 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

Emerson, Lidian Jackson, 1802-1892 -- Fiction

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Fiction

Authors spouses -- Fiction

Married women -- Fiction


Meeting held: Sept.11, 2007

Saturday, May 05, 2007

94. The history of love by Nicole Krauss


Author: Krauss, Nicole.

Title: The history of love

Edition: 1st ed.

Published: New York : W. W. Norton, c2005.

Description: 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

Authors -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Lost literature -- Fiction.
Books and reading -- Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Poland -- Fiction.

Meeting held: June 7, 2007

Friday, March 09, 2007

93. The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion

Author: Didion, Joan.

Title: The year of magical thinking

Edition: 1st ed.

Published

New York : Knopf, 2005.

Description: 227 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan -- Family.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Widows -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Grief.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography

Meeting: April 25, 2007

Sunday, March 04, 2007

92. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee


Author: Lee, Harper.

Title: To kill a mockingbird

Edition: 35th anniversary ed.

Published: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995.

Description: 323 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

Fathers and daughters -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Trials (Rape) -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Lawyers -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Girls -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction.

Meeting: February 27, 2007