Friday, December 29, 2006
41. The opposite of fate : a book of musings by Amy Tan
Author: Tan, Amy
Title: The opposite of fate : a book of musings
Publisher: New York : Putnam, c2003.
Description: 398 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject(s):
Tan, Amy.
Tan, Amy -- Family.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Free will and determinism.
Chinese American families.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Fate and fatalism.
Meeting: January 24, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
40. The joy luck club
Sunday, October 22, 2006
39. Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez, an autobiography
Author: Rodriguez, Richard
Title: Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez, an autobiography
Subject(s):
Rodriguez, Richard.
Mexican Americans -- California -- Biography.
California -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Education.
Education, Bilingual -- United States.
Affirmative action programs -- United States.
Meeting: November 21, 2006
Title: Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez, an autobiography
Subject(s):
Rodriguez, Richard.
Mexican Americans -- California -- Biography.
California -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Education.
Education, Bilingual -- United States.
Affirmative action programs -- United States.
Meeting: November 21, 2006
Sunday, October 15, 2006
38. The idiot
37. Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies
36. Poppy
35. The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
34. The mists of Avalon
Saturday, October 14, 2006
33. A people's history of the United States
32. Tell me a riddle
31. Lucy
30. Shiloh
29. Sand rivers
28. The group
27. A year down under
26. Dance of the dissident daughter : a woman's journey from Christian tradition to the sacred feminine
25. Heat and dust
24. I know why the caged bird sings
23. Roll of thunder hear my cry
22. The metaphysical club
Author: Menand, Louis.
Title: The Metaphysical Club
Subject(s):
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Intellectuals -- United States -- History.
National characteristics, American.
Metaphysics -- History.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life.
Meeting: August 24, 2005
Title: The Metaphysical Club
Subject(s):
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Intellectuals -- United States -- History.
National characteristics, American.
Metaphysics -- History.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life.
Meeting: August 24, 2005
21. Wide Sargasso Sea
20. The beak of the finch : a story of evolution in our time
19. Swimming to Antarctica
17. Citizenship papers
16. North of south : an African journey
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Author: Nafisi, Azar.
Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Subject(s):
Nafisi, Azar.
English teachers -- Iran -- Biography.
English literature -- Study and teaching -- Iran.
American literature -- Study and teaching -- Iran.
Women -- Books and reading -- Iran.
Books and reading -- Iran.
Group reading -- Iran.
Meeting: December 14, 2004
Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Subject(s):
Nafisi, Azar.
English teachers -- Iran -- Biography.
English literature -- Study and teaching -- Iran.
American literature -- Study and teaching -- Iran.
Women -- Books and reading -- Iran.
Books and reading -- Iran.
Group reading -- Iran.
Meeting: December 14, 2004
14. Up the down staircase
13. Heart of darkness
12. The hound of the Baskervilles
11. Bookseller of Kabul
10. Neuromancer
9. Mrs. Dalloway
8. The hours
Author: Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
Title: The hours
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1999
Subject(s):
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Influence -- Fiction.
Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Pulitzer prizes.
Psychological fiction, American.
Domestic fiction, American.
Meeting: April 18, 2004
Title: The hours
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1999
Subject(s):
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Influence -- Fiction.
Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Pulitzer prizes.
Psychological fiction, American.
Domestic fiction, American.
Meeting: April 18, 2004
7. Among the believers : an Islamic journey
5. The country of the pointed firs
4. The giver
Author: Lowry, Lois.
Title: The giver
Subject(s):
Newbery Medal.
Science fiction.
Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Meeting: November 24, 2003
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
3. Fahrenheit 451
2. Midnight's children
1. From the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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