Title: Women of the silk / Gail Tsukiyama.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Description: 278 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject(s):
Meeting held: September 25, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
57. Women of the silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Title: Women of the silk / Gail Tsukiyama.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Description: 278 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject(s):
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):
Meeting held: August 19, 2008
55. The Iliad by Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles
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):
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):
Meeting held: May 15, 2008
53. The things they carried : a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien
Title: The things they carried : a work of fiction
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 1998.
Description: 246 p. ; 21 cm.
Description: 246 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject(s):
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
Friday, August 29, 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):
Meeting held: Feb.21, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 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
Monday, August 20, 2007
46. The keep by Jennifer Egan
Author: Egan, Jennifer. Title: The keep
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Edition: 1st ed.
Description: 239 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject(s):
- Cousins -- Fiction
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- Europe, Eastern -- Fiction.
45. The book thief by Markus Zusak
Author: Zusak, Markus.Title: The book thief
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Description: 552 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Subject(s):
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
- Books and reading -- Fiction.
- Storytelling -- Fiction.
- Death -- Fiction.
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction.
Meeting held: August 8, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
44. Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson
Author: Winterson, Jeanette,1959-Title: Written on the body
Edition: 1st American ed.Published
Published: New York : Knopf, 1992.
Description: 190 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: Mind and body -- Fiction.
Meeting held: June 12, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
43. Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang
Author: Chang, Jung,1952- Title: Wild swans : three daughters of China
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Description: 524 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject(s):
Chang, Jung, 1952-
Women -- China.
China -- History -- 20th century.
Meetings held: April 3 and May 2, 2007
Sunday, March 04, 2007
42. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Author: Amis, Kingsley. Title: Lucky Jim / with an introduction by David Lodge
Published: New York : Penguin, 1992.
Description: 250 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: College teachers -- England -- Fiction.
Meeting: February 22, 2007
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