Alice has a PhD, is a Psychology Professor at Harvard, and has Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease. As her carefully structured, productive life unravels around her, Alice is forced to come to terms with the loss of her identity. A rare look through the eyes of one suffering from this illness, Genova provides the valuable opportunity to explore the world of dementia.
Delicious and unapologetic, The Daily Coyote winds its way into your heart with lyrical phrasing, beautiful photos, enchanting anecdotes, and of course, baby animals! Shreve captures the essence of the wilds of Wyoming with refreshing honesty. You'll fall in love with Charlie the coyote's antics and Shreve's open approach to the unique demands of raising a wild creature.
WWII posed a greater threat to works of art and cultural heritage than any other conflict in history. Though millions died, only a few hundred people rallied to preserve, recover, and restore the huge number of pieces of European art that had fell victim to the war. This enterprising group came to be known as "the monuments men" and this is their fascinating story.
1507 A.D.: a group of scholars in Eastern France studying the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci produce a map showing a new landmass in the West called “America.” 2003 A.D.: the Library of Congress pay $10 million for the only existing copy of this map. Lester provides a fascinating historical and cartographical look at this significant document.
This is a wonderful collaboration. Eckhart Tolle is good at making great wisdom simple. Patrick McDonnell, cartoonist of Mutts, is good at making simple wisdom whimsical. Starting with the cover, this book is as warm and profound as a dog and a cat sleeping together after a bonny day of exploration and play.
Zabelle Chahasbanian is an old lady on the verge of death when we first meet her. What follows is a look back at her life from her childhood during the Armenian genocide to her transatlantic voyage towards a husband she's never met. Little gems of folklore and a life's memorabilia make this a perfect read for bookclubs.
Angels, assassins, gangsters, Dominican Friars, earls and Jews, all brought to life through rich, evocative prose. Transporting the reader from modern day America to medieval England and France, Rice's first installment of her Songs of the Seraphim series is a tale of faith, loss, persecution and redemption, blending fiction with snippets of historical reality.
A rollicking novel about two city slickers who inherit a rural house with disastrous consequences (they run over the town mascot—a wild boar—on their initial journey to the home) as they cling to their deteriorating marriage. Lily digs up her ancestor's missing maid and wards off the boar's crazy owner while Duncan works on a sexist ad campaign that mocks the Vietnam War.
I love an unreliable narrator. The reader has to look for clues in the dialogue, in other characters' reactions and in subtle hints to divine the real story. Weber employs this device to create a brilliant satire on the candy industry. Alice of Zip's Candies tells her story in a rambling affidavit that exposes the racist origins of the company and her complicity in its many disasters.
Reading like an ADD-friendly afternoon spent at the computer, JPod is as much a work of contemporary art as it is a novel. Simultaneously relevant and irreverent, it takes a satirical look at workplace unhappiness and all of the bizarre elements that comprise mainstream North American culture. Bonus points to Coupland for shamelessly writing himself in as a character.
Pratchett's witty satire has struck the football field. The pretentious wizards of Unseen University are suddenly compelled to take up this violent sport, unaware of ulterior motives by the city's generally benevolent "tyrant." Add this to the university's mysterious new staff member, plus a dwarf maiden heartthrob, and you'll be laughing throughout this hilarious read.
It is difficult to imagine a situation involving more despair or requiring more guts than the one Aron Ralston found himself in when his arm became pinned by a boulder on a solo hike in Utah. His gripping account is a page-turner of the highest order, and you will never again dare describe yourself as tough after reading about his pocket-knife amputation.
Finding a gift for your father-slash-teenage son is a horrific prospect, but let me help: buy him this book. Simmons is, well, the hottest thing in sports since Reebok Pumps. The Book of Basketball is fun to read, amazingly informative, and full of so much love for its subject matter that it’ll keep any finicky man quiet for days. BONUS gift idea: Nuggets tickets! You'll thank me later.
This is one of history's greatest love stories, written by one of our generation's most capable storytellers. Allende unfolds the fierce romance of Ines Suarez and Pedro de Valdivia, a love that crossed a continent and the two lovers who founded the nation of Chile. Part history, part imagination, it is a completely engaging and heart-stopping novel.
Foer's first foray into nonfiction forces us to examine our physical and cultural attachment to eating meat. As a meat eater, I didn't always find this book to be an easy read, but it was impossible to put down. Well researched and compellingly written, Eating Animals is a must-read for anyone who cares about what they consume.
Don’t be daunted by this book’s length (almost 700 pages); Byatt is a brilliant storyteller, especially when exploring the Victorian era through WWI. She covers an encyclopedic array of political and cultural topics through the complicated relationships of two families ruled by artists—a children’s book author and a potter—whose mythic creations hint at dark family secrets.
On Monday, February 22nd at 7:30pm, we'll be hosting Colorado author Kirk Farber for his debut novel, Postcards From a Dead Girl. Kirk's book has been getting some rave reviews and we just had to share them with you here.
“Kirk Farber has a style very similar to Chuck Palahniuk, with offbeat observations, a view of our world through a slightly distorted lens, and a tone that's quite fun and sometimes hilarious and tragic at the same time. I love the voice and irreverence and humor.” - Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
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