57. Women of the silk by Gail Tsukiyama

Author: Tsukiyama, Gail.

Title: Women of the silk / Gail Tsukiyama.

Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Description: 278 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Country life -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
• Women silk industry workers -- China -- Fiction.

Meeting held: September 25, 2008

56. River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey by Candice Millard

Author: Millard, Candice.

Title: The river of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey / Candice Millard.

Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2005.

Description : ix, 416 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• Roosevelt River (Brazil) -- Description and travel.
• Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel.
• Rain forests -- Amazon River Valley.
• Natural history -- Amazon River Valley.
• Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914)
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Travel -- Brazil -- Roosevelt River.
• Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

Meeting held: August 19, 2008

55. The Iliad by Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles

Author: Homer.

Title: The Iliad / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.

Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1998.

Description: xvi, 683 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: Originally published: Viking Penguin, 1990.

Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 635-637).

Subject(s):

• Achilles (Greek mythology) -- Poetry.
• Trojan War -- Poetry.

Meeting held: July 22, 2008

54. The Iliad / retold by Nick McCarty

Author: McCarty, Nick, 1940-

Title: The Iliad / retold by Nick McCarty ; illustrated by Victor Ambrus.

Publisher : Boston, Mass. : Kingfisher, [2004], c2000.

Description: 165 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Series: Kingfisher epics

Subject(s):

• Trojan War -- Juvenile literature.
• Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile literature.
• Trojan War.
• Mythology, Greek.

Meeting held: May 15, 2008

53. The things they carried : a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien

Author: O'Brien, Tim, 1946-

Title: The things they carried : a work of fiction

Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 1998.

Description: 246 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- United States -- Fiction.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
  

Meeting held: April 17, 2008

52. The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch

Author: Murdoch, Iris.

Title: The green knight

Publisher: New York, NY : Viking, 1994.

Description: 472 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Attempted murder -- England -- London -- Fiction
• Brothers -- England -- London -- Fiction.
• London (England) -- Fiction.
  

Meeting held: March 20, 2008

51. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a new verse translation

Title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a new verse translation / by W.S. Merwin

Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.

Description: xxiv, 171 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Gawain (Legendary character) -- Romances.
  
• Arthurian romances.

Meeting held: Feb.21, 2008

50. Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach

Author: Roach, Mary.

Title Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.

Edition: 1st ed.

Description: 303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303).

Subject(s):

• Human experimentation in medicine.
• Dead.
• Human dissection.

Meeting held: January 10, 2008

49. The widow of the south by Robert Hicks

Author: Hicks, Robert, 1951-

Title: The widow of the south

Publisher New York : Warner Books, 2005.

Edition: 1st ed.

Description: 426 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421).

Subject(s):

• McGavock, Caroline E. Winder, 1829-1905 -- Fiction.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties -- Fiction.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals -- Fiction.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
• Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864 -- Fiction.
• Plantation owners' spouses -- Fiction.
• Williamson County (Tenn.) -- Fiction.
• Plantation life -- Fiction.
• Cemeteries -- Fiction.
  

Meeting held: December 20, 2007

48. Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie

Author: Dai, Sijie, 1954-

Title: Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / translated from the French by Ina Rilke.

Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2002.

Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.

Description: 184 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Prohibited books -- Fiction.
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
• China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction.

Meeting held: November 8, 2007

47. The sewing circles of Herat : a personal voyage through Afghanistan

Author: Lamb, Christina.

Title: The sewing circles of Herat : a personal voyage through Afghanistan

Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2002.

Edition: 1st American ed. Description: xvii, 338 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22cm.

Subject(s):

• Lamb, Christina.
• Afghanistan.

Meeting held: October 18, 2007