AUBURN -New books are announced at the Auburn Public Library.
Fiction
“The Wandering Hill” by Larry McMurtry. Tasmin Berrybender, on the verge of motherhood and living with elusive native American Jim Snow, witnesses her father’s deterioration as her dysfunctional British family continues their journey up the Missouri River.
“Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood. As she did in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood ponders a grim future society, this time in a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.
“Best Friends” by Thomas Berger. Twenty years after growing up together, boyhood friends Sam Grandy and Robert Courtright discover they have grown into different people, threatening the core of their friendship.
“Sappho’s Leap” by Erica Jong. This dramatic novel conjures up the life of one of ancient Greece’s most fabled female poets as a series of epic journeys, loves and losses.
“The House Sitter” by Peter Lovesey. Called in to investigate the strangling of a National Crime Faculty psychological profiler, detective Peter Diamond finds himself challenged by a fellow investigator, a cocky young officer and the victim’s employers.
“Blue Horizon” by Wilbur Smith. The adventures of the Courtney family continue as the children of Tom and Dorian, fleeing the wrath of Dutch overlords, encounter the wilderness, warring tribes and wild animals of colonial South Africa.
Nonfiction
“Are You Hungry, Dear?: Life, Laughs and Lasagna” by Doris Roberts. The plucky actress who plays the world’s most exasperating mother-in-law on TV’s Everybody Loves Raymond weaves favorite recipes into her hardscrabble success story.
“Human Sacrifice” by James P. Moore. A retired police detective explains why he believes Dennis Dechaine, convicted of 12-year-old Sara Cherry’s 1988 murder in Bowdoin, Maine, is innocent.
“I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility” by Trisha Meili. The unnamed woman who, in April of 1989, was assaulted, raped and left for dead in New York’s Central Park steps forward to tell how she rebuilt her life in the aftermath of the brutal crime.
“Jefferson’s Great Gamble” by Charles A. Cerami. This vivid account describes how Thomas Jefferson, with only a standing army of 1,000 and an untested foreign relations team at his disposal, outmaneuvered Napoleon Bonaparte to compel the Louisiana Purchase.
“Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market” by Eric Schlosser. The author of Fast Food Nation returns with another compelling expose, in which he documents the organized but illegal enterprises he claims account for 10 percent of the U.S. economy.
“Lobster at Home” by Jasper White. For all who have ever considered venturing beyond broiled with melted butter, one of New England’s finest chefs shows how and why in this glossy recipe book.
Children’s
“Great Books for Babies and Toddlers” by Kathleen Odean. What can we read to our babies after “Goodnight Moon?” Odean’s list includes not only picture-story books, but also nursery rhyme, fingerplay and song books.
“Starting with Alice” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Eight-year-old Alice, who has just moved to Maryland with her father and brother, wants most of all to have pierced ears, a friend – and a mother. For readers in grades three through eight.
“Kit’s Friendship,” from the publishers of the American Girl series. Here are recipes, crafts and games that Kit, living in the 1930s, might have enjoyed with her chums. For ages 7 and up.
“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell. This fresh edition of an old favorite, with color plates and pen and ink drawings from 1915, is the gripping story of a 19th century horse’s difficult life, told in his own words. For readers ages 8 and up.
“Waggle” by Sarah McMenemy. This colorful torn-paper collage with pen and ink tells the story of how Rosie chooses just the right name for her new and exuberant puppy. For children ages 2 to 5.
Send questions/comments to the editors.
