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New Diversions Books from the Library, Including "In Defense of Food" and "Black Dossier"
Posted July 21, 2008
Beatley Library’s featured Diversions this week include Proust Was a Neuroscientist; Cleopatra’s Nose; Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict; I Am Legend; The Senator’s Wife; Black Dossier; In Defense of Food; and Bella Abzug.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer (NX180.N48 L44 2007)
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Cleopatra’s Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire by Judith Thurman (PS3620.H88 C57 2007)
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (PS3618.I427 C66 2007)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (PS3563.A8355 I2 2007)
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The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller (PS3563.I421444 S46 2008)
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Black Dossier by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill; 3-D efffects created by Ray Zone (NC1429.O54 L43 2008)
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan (RA784 .P643 2008)
Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook up Politics Along the Way by Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom (E840.8.A2 L485 2007)
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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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