This blog began in 2003 as Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag and continued as From the Library Director from 2005-2010. You can read my newspaper columns at FromtheLibraryColumn published Thursdays in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Jane's Picks

Jane Dutton, Director of the Gale Free Library in Holden, MA, amazes me with her voracious reading habit. If only I was this well-read! I do seem to have a great knack for having ordered Jane's taste in books for our library ... and someday hope to have read more of them when she comes out with her quarterly recommended book list, Jane's Picks:
Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
Away by Amy Bloom
Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares
Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
House Lights by Leah Hager cohen
Maytrees by Annie Dillard
The Landing by Emma Donoghue
Bride Island by Alexandra Enders
Envious Moon by Thomas Christopher Greene
North River by Pete Hamill
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles
A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent
On Chesil Beach by ian McEwan
Red Rover by Deirdre McNamer
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher
Rest of Her Life by laura Moriarty
When the World Was Young by Tony Romano
Peony in Love by Linda See
How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper

and the mysteries:
Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke<
Always by Nicola Griffith
War Against Miss Winter by Kathryn Miller Haines
Gray Ghost by William Tapply