READINGS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 24, 2014 «

READINGS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Roger Friedland

Harper Perennial

Amore: An American Father’s Roman Holiday

A memoir on moving his daughters from loveless California to Rome.

Laura Joh Rowland

Minotaur Books

The Iris Fan: A Novel of Feudal Japan

A plot on the shogun's life in this finale of thrillers set in feudal Japan.

Brenda Wineapple

Harper Perennial

Ecstatic Nation

...Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877: An acclaimed history.

Jeff Chang

St. Martin's Press

Who We Be: The Colorization of America

Dramatic demographic shifts (our colorization) amidst culture wars.

George Lerner

Pegasus

The Ambassadors: A Novel

The holocaust of the Rwandan civil war is backdrop for his debut novel.

The power of story can be just as entertaining
and engaging as a video game.
---author Kate DiCamillo, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (PBS News Hour, 1/10/2014)

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