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8 New Diversions Collection Books, Including "Girls of Riyadh" and "Once Upon a Quinceanera"
Posted October 20, 2007
The Library’s featured Diversions this week include Girls of Riyadh; Native Guard; Once Upon a Quinceanera; Uncommon Arrangements; The World Without Us; Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant; Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave; and Bento Box in the Heartland.
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea; translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth (PJ7962.A55 B3613 2007)
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (PS3570.R433 N38 2006)
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez (GT2490 .A45 2007)
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939 by Katie Roiphe (PR106 .R55 2007)
Read Reviewers’ Comments and an Excerpt
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (GF75 .W455 2007)
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler (TX652 .A46 2007)
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave by Ellen Sussman (PS647.W6 B33 2007)
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya (F534.V34 F87 2006)
These recently published works, selected for your reading pleasure, may be borrowed for 14 days.
The Diversions Collection is located on Level One of the Beatley Library, near the Circulation Desk.
To request a book that is currently checked-out, find it in the on-line catalog, then click the “REQUEST” button.
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