Kate recommends Favorites

In our semi-annual book talk program, Chapter One, Adult Non-Fiction Librarian Kate recommended the following titles:

Kate’s Favorites

Would Everyone Please Stop by Jenny Allen (2017)

A writer and performer whose essays and articles have appeared for years in many magazines, reporting from the potholes midway through life’s journey, presents a hilarious collection of writings on day-to-day, and not-so-day-to-day life as she tries to make sense of the baffling and annoying world around her.  814.6A

Churchill and Orwell: the Fight for Freedom by Thomas Ricks (2017)

A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world.  941.08409R, CD

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (2017)

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. A lush tale infused with clear-eyed compassion, this novel will inspire reflection, discussion and an overwhelming desire to drink rare Chinese tea. FIC, LT, CD, Overdrive

The Birdwatcher by William Shaw (2017)

When a fellow birdwatcher is found murdered in his remote home, Police Sergeant William South, who may have murdered a man when he was a child in Northern Ireland, finds his world turned upside down.  FIC

City of Masks by S.D. Sykes (2017)

Delayed in mid-14th-century Venice while preparing to embark on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Lord Somershill stays at the house of an English merchant before the murder of a man at a carnival draws him into an investigation that exposes dangerous personal secrets. FIC

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware (2017)             

In the wake of a woman's horrifying discovery of human remains along a scenic tidal estuary, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a second-rate boarding school near the English Channel reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher.  FIC, LT, CD, Overdrive