SEASON 4 SUPER LIST OF THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING OF THE MONTH BOOK CLUB SUGGESTIONS
FICTION:
(ASW) The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany: The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo’s main boulevards. Alaa Al Aswany’s novel caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in 2002 and has remained the world "s best-selling novel in the Arabic language since.
(BRO) People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.
(CHI) Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Thriller Series: first novel in the series - Killing Floor: The bestselling, award-winning novel that introduced Jack Reacher.
(COB) Six Years by Harlan Coben: In this masterpiece of modern suspense, Harlan Coben explores the depth and passion of lost love as well as the secrets and lies at its heart.
(DEL) The Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in London, and, The Provincial Lady in America - The Provincial Lady Series by E. M. Delafield: The Provincial Lady has a nice house, a nice husband (usually asleep behind The Times) and nice children. In fact, maintaining Niceness is the Provincial Lady’s goal in life — her raison d'être. She never raises her voice, rarely ventures outside Devon (why would she?), only occasionally allows herself to become vexed by the ongoing servant problem, and would be truly appalled by the confessional mode that has gripped the late 20th century. The Provincial Lady, after all, is part of what made Britain great.
(DUN) The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore: Dunmore mines the past to chilling effect in this evocative and sophisticated ghost story about a love affair between a neglected wife and a mysterious soldier.
(EKM) Kerstin Ekman’s Series - The Women and the Town: Witches’ Rings, The Spring, Angel House and A City of Light. Other novels include Blackwater, The Dog and Under the Snow: Ekman is a literary writer whose feel for character and for her native Sweden give her novels an unusually rich depth and finish.
(ERD) Master Butcher’s Singing Club by Louise Erdrich: Follows the life of Fidelis Waldvogel and his family, as well as Delphine Watzka and her partner Cyprian, as they adjust in their separate lives in the small town of Argus, North Dakota. Bookended by World War I, which Fidelis and Cyprian fought in, and World War II, which Fidelis’ children fight in, the title contains several overarching themes including family, tradition, loss, betrayal, and memory, to name a few.
(EVI) Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison: A novel of the heart, a novel of unlikely heroes traveling through a grand American landscape, and most of all, a story that offers a profound look into what it takes to truly care for another person. Bursting with energy and filled with moments of absolute beauty, this bighearted and inspired novel ponders life's terrible surprises as well as its immeasurable rewards.
(FOL) A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett: In 1866 tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School when a mysterious accident takes the life of a student.
(FOR) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford: A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people.
(FUR) Soldiers of the Night Series by Alan Furst: Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, The Spies of Warsaw, Spies of the Balkans and Mission to Paris. As one reviewer remarks, “You can only see Casablanca once…” but Furst’s gripping, atmospheric novels deliver you back to the same pre-war tension with great power and exactitude.
(GIB) The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb: Exploring the indelible legacies of war and art, as well as love's power to renew, The Beauty of Humanity Movement is a stellar achievement by a globally renowned literary light.
(GRI) A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths: Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway investigates her most complicated case to date: two people affiliated with a museum housing aboriginal skulls succumb to a mysterious fever that later threatens the life of DCI Harry Nelson. When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum's curator lying dead on the floor. Soon the museum's wealthy owner lies dead in his stables, too. These two deaths could be from natural causes, but when he is called in to investigate, Nelson isn't convinced, and it is only a matter of time before he and Ruth cross paths once more.
(GRI) The Racketeer by John Grisham: Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise?
(HAR) The River Swimmer by Jim Harrison: In this collection of novellas Harrison is at his most memorable they present a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity.
(HA) The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard: The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard's novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.
(HEM) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical WWI novel.
(HIL) The Woman in Black by Susan Hill: Both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler -- proof positive that this neglected genre, the ghost story, isn't dead after all.
(HOW ) Penmarric and The Wheel of Fortune by Susan Howatch: Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, Penmarric is the totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself. In The Wheel of Fortune, Oxmoon, the rambling old mansion on a sprawling estate in Wales, has been for generations, the dream, the downfall, and the destiny of the wealthy Godwin family.
(JAM) The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James: The story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates.
(KOR) Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz: Portia Nathan, dedicated 38-year-old Princeton admissions officer, finds purpose in her gatekeeper role. But her career and conscience are challenged after she visits a down-at-the-heels New England town on a scouting trip and meets Jeremiah, a talented but rough-around-the-edges 17-year-old who maybe doesn't measure up as Princeton material.
(KWO) Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok: Inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.
(MAN) Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy - Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and the third work in progress is tentatively titled The Mirror and the Light: Mantel’s genius shines through these historical novels of Henry VIII’s England.
(MAR) A Song of Fire and Ice Fantasy Series by George R.R. Martin: Fantasy readers, go directly to the shelf and take out these stunningly crafted novels of an alternate, magical medieval world of war… In order, the books are: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows.
(MIS) Swimming Lessons, and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry: Beautifully crafted stories that bridge the gap between Canada and India.
(MOO) The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore: An elegant, haunting new novel from the award-winning author of "In the Cut" and "The Whiteness of Bones"--set in Germany on the eve of World War II, the story of one woman's journey of self-discovery as a continent collapses into darkness.
(MOR) Secret Keeper by Kate Morton: A spellbinding mix of mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love.
(OTS) When the Emperor Was Divine and The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka: Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination--both physical and emotional--of a generation of Japanese Americans. The Buddha in the Attic is gorgeous novel telling the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.
(PAT) Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson: Top plastic surgeon Elijah Creem is renowned for his skills in the operating room, and for his wild, no-expense-spared “industry parties”. That is, until Detective Alex Cross busts one of Creem's lavish soirees and ruins his fun. Now Creem is willing to do anything to avoid going to jail.
(RIC) Clarissa: or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson: An epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family.
(RIC Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a beautiful 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose nobleman master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother…
(SEE) Shanghai Girls by Lisa See: In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives…
(SOL) The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons: In 1938 Vienna, where it's no longer safe to be Jewish, 19-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her family and her upper-class lifestyle. As her parents await a visa to travel to New York and her sister prepares for a new life in California with her husband, Elise ventures off to the English countryside to serve as a maid in Christopher Rivers's ancestral home.
(STE) Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner: Tracing the interlocking lives, loves, and aspirations of four lifelong friends who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, Stegner's 1987 masterpiece is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight.
(THO) The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson: Chronicles the lives of the Ericksons as they come of age from the 1970s to near present day. It is an unforgettable, subtly provocative portrait of an American family as they navigate and redefine happiness in the course of their daily lives.
(TYL) Digging to America by Anne Tyler: In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her feelings of being an “outsider”.
(VER) Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese: Verghese mines his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations.
(WIL) Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles: A witty debut novel about a house-sitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong.
MYSTERY FICTION:
(ALD MYSTERY) Murder at the PTA by Laura Alden: A brand-new series in which murder is anything but elementary After Tarver Elementary School's unpopular principal is murdered, PTA secretary and mother of two Beth Kennedy puts aside bake sales and class trip fund-raisers to catch a killer. And when members of the PTA become suspects, she realizes solving this murder will not be as easy as ABC...
(BOW MYSTERY) The Family Way by Rhys Bowen: Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan’s own pending motherhood makes her unable to ignore a case of missing children. What she uncovers will lead her on a terrifying journey through all levels of society, putting her life-and that of her baby-in danger.
(FER MYSTERY) Zoë Ferraris’ Saudi Arabian Mystery Series: Finding Nouf, City of Veils and Kingdom of Strangers: Rarely does a Western author plumb the heart of Saudi Arabia in the way that Ferraris does in these three superb mysteries.
(FRE MYSTERY) Tana French’s Mystery Series - Dublin Murder Squad: In the Woods, The Likeness, A Faithful Place, Broken Harbour and The Secret Place: French's psychologically rich novels are so much more satisfying than your standard issue police procedural. Each of her novels focuses on one detective in the Murder Squad. You certainly don't have to read the books in order, but if you do, the bonus is that you come to know characters inside and out, and, consequently, realize just how wobbly our knowledge of anybody's "true" nature is.
(HAR MYSTERY) Death Comes Silently by Carolyn Hart: Anne Darling must tread carefully, because a killer is on the loose who works well in the foggy days of winter.
(LEV MYSTERY) Death of a Neighborhood Witch by Laura Levine: On the mean streets of Beverly Hills, freelance writer and chocoholic Jaine Austen battles crime--and cellulite. When Jaine's cat accidentally gives her neighbor's parakeet a heart attack, she becomes her neighbor's enemy. Then she's the #1 suspect when her neighbor is found dead.
NONFICTION:
(001.42 MAC) How to Find Out Anything by Don Macleod: Not your average research book, How to Find Out Anything shows you how to unveil nearly anything about anyone. From top CEO's salaries to police records, you'll learn little-known tricks for discovering the exact information for which you are searching.
(153.44 GLA) Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell: Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant.
(155.937 PAU) Last Lecture by Randy Pausch: Dying Professor knocks one out of the park with his lecture on how to live.
(248 LAM) Help, Thanks, Wow: the Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott: Anne Lamott has created a concise explanation of prayer. In three essential prayers she shows how to ask for assistance from a higher power, how to appreciate the good things in life and how to feel awe about the surrounding world.
(289.309 BRO) The Book of the Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith by Joanna Brooks:The Book of Mormon Girl is a story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith.
(302 GLA) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: If we want to understand how some people thrive, we should spend more time looking around them-at such things as their family, their birthplace, or even their birth date. And in revealing that hidden logic, Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the most of human potential.
(302 GLA) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell: The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
(303.4 DIA) Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond: Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world.
(304.28 DIA) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?
(322.1 BAR) Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry: A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.
(326.09745 RAP) Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye: In 1774, as the new world simmered with tensions that would lead to the violent birth of a new nation, two Rhode Island brothers were heading toward their own war over the issue that haunts America to this day: slavery.
(345.44 REA) The Dreyfus Affair by Piers Paul Read: 1894 - The anti-Semitism and deceit on display in the Dreyfus case was an ominous prelude to the Holocaust and the long, bloody twentieth century to come.
(362.19 VER) In My Own Country by Abraham Verghese: When infectious-disease specialist Verghese, the Ethiopian-born son of Indian schoolteachers, emigrated to the U.S. and settled in Johnson City, Tenn., in the mid-1980s, he finally felt at peace "in my own country'' at last. But his work at the Johnson City Medical Center soon led him into a shadow world of Bible-belt AIDS.
(364.1563 LUN) How to be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life by J.J. Luna: Privacy is a commonly lamented casualty of the Information Age and of the world's changing climate - but that doesn't mean you have to stand for it. This new edition of J. J. Luna's classic manual contains step-by-step advice on building and maintaining your personal security.
(364.256 ALT) Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance by Lisa Alther: Here is a fascinating new look at the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud.
(373.11 DAN) I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had by Tony Danza: Screen and stage star Tony Danza's absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia's largest high school with 3600 students.
(610.92 VER) The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese: A remarkable journey to the ends and the edges of friendship, to its heights of intimacy and clarity, and also to its hellish depths of deception and betrayal. It is, above all, an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live, and how they survive.
(814.54 DAV) The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books by Robertson Davies: Readers around the world continue to mourn the 1995 death of a beloved literary icon, but this rich and varied collection of Robertson Davies’ writings on the world of books and the miracle of language captures his inimitable voice and sustains his presence among us.
(917.304 HAD) Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year by Doris Haddock: Told in Doris Haddock's distinct and unforgettable voice, Granny D will move, amuse, and inspire readers of all ages with its clarion message that one person can indeed make a difference.
(917.9 STR) Wild by Cheryl Strayed: In the wake of her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed's family scattered and her marriage was destroyed. Four years later, twenty-six years old with nothing to lose, Cheryl made a most impulsive decision: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert to Washington State-alone.
(929.2 DE) Hare with the Amber Eyes: a Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal: In the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi assembled a collection of 360 Japanese ivory carvings known as "netsuke." In this grand story, a renowned ceramicist and the fifth generation to inherit the collection traces the story of a remarkable family and a tumultuous century.
(940.5318 ALB) Prague Winter: a Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright: Albright recounts a tale of these years that is by turns harrowing and inspiring.
(940.5412 EDS) The Monuments Men by Robert Edsel: Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.
(940.5472 HOU) Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston: During World War ll a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California to house thousands of Japanese American internees. For 7 year old Jeanne Wakatsuki, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew.
(940.5472 WIE) Night by Elie Wiesel: Candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of Wiesel’s survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
(942.271 CAR) Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon: The story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon.
(944.36 MCC) The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough: The enthralling, inspiring-and until now, untold-story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
(973.31 WOO) The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood: In a grand and immensely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.
(973.52 DAU) 1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan: At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open ocean-but America's war fleet, only twenty ships strong, faced a practiced British navy of more than a thousand men-of-war. Still, through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado, the American navy managed to take the fight to the British and turn the tide of the war.
(973.929 BLU) The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal: When in 1997 Bill Clinton appointed Sidney Blumenthal as a senior advisor, the former writer was catapulted into the front lines of the Clinton wars. From his first day in the White House until long after his appearance as the only presidential aide ever to testify in an impeachment trial, Blumenthal acted in or witnessed nearly all the battles of the Clinton years. His major new book--part history, part memoir--is the first inside account we have of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.
(973.931 EIC) 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars by Kurt Eichenwald: Bestselling author of "Conspiracy of Fools" and "The Informant"--recounts the first 500 days after 9/11 in a comprehensive, fly on the wall, compelling page-turner as gripping as any thriller.
(974.461 ONE) Rogues and Redeemers by Gerard O’Neill: From the bestselling coauthor of "Black Mass"comes a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured 20th-century Boston.
(B ALLEN) Gracie: a Love Story by George Burns: The then 92-year-old Burns tells a true-love story of the life he shared with his wife, who died in 1964.
(B BALSAN) The Glitter and the Gold: the American Duchess - In Her Own Words by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan: Balsan was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She soon became part of a intricate hierarchy and witness to a life of glamour.
(B BARNES) Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes: Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: inevitable extinction.
(B CHANEL) Coco Chanel: the Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie: Sleek. Chic. Notoriously guarded. Welcome to the secret world of Gabrielle Chanel.
(B CHANEL) Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan: The book pieces together how Coco Chanel became a German intelligence operative; how and why she was enlisted in a number of spy missions; how she escaped arrest in France after the war, despite her activities being known to the Gaullist intelligence network, and was able to return to Paris at age seventy, in triumph.
(B CHURCHILL) The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester (in 3 volumes): The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action.
(B CLINTON) A Woman in Charge: the Life of Hillary Rodman Clinton by Carl Bernstein: Drawing from hundreds of interviews with colleagues, friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial figures of our time.
(B EISENHOWER) Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith: New life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president. As America searches for new heroes to lead it out of its present-day predicaments, Jean Edward Smith’s achievement lies in reintroducing us to a hero from the past whose virtues have become clouded in the mists of history.
(B FRANKLIN) The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood: Landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious.
(B POWELL) Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir that Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey by Margaret Powell: Margaret Powell’s classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high.
(B POWELL) Servants' Hall by Margaret Powell: Powell tells the true story of Rose, the under-parlourmaid to the Wardham Family at Redlands, who took a shocking step-she eloped with the family's only son, Mr. Gerald.
(B SOAMES) A Daughter’s Tale: the Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child by Mary Churchill Soames: In this charming and intimate memoir, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter shares stories from her remarkable life-and tells of the unbreakable bond she forged with her father through some of the most tumultuous years in British history.
(B SOTOMAYOR) My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor: The first Hispanic, and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.
List prepared by BPL Reference Staff.
Titles suggested are all owned by the Barrington Public Library, 9/13.