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New Relax & Read Books
November 1, 2006
If you are looking for some recreational reading, look no further than our Relax & Read shelves. Here are some recently obtained titles for you to consider.
Fiction
Oh Pure And Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
In penitence for their contributions to the creation of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, the primary physicists from the Manhattan Project, are returned to contemporary America to survey their atomic legacy. They set off on a mission to promote world peace, only to have their message hijacked by religious fanatics who believe that Oppenheimer is a herald of the Second Coming.
It Might Have Been What He Said by Eden Collinsworth
This debut novel tells the story of a couple madly in love and just plain mad. Isabel and James fall in love, marry, have a son and seem to be in bliss. Even Isabel doesn't seem to understand what when wrong as this paragraph opens the story: "Isabel could remember the precise moment she tried killing her husband. Strangely enough, she couldn’t recall why."
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Only 2 of the 5 planned novels of this suite were written before Nemirovsky was sent to Auschwitz and killed. She based the stories on the common occurrences her family and friends were experiencing in France at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. "A Storm in June" takes place during the 1940 exodus from Paris. "Dolce" is set in the midst of a small village trying to cope with the soldiers who have moved in with them.
Non-Fiction
The Din In The Head by Cynthia Ozick
Award winning novelist and critic Ozick sets her target on great literature and those that wrote it. With titles such as "What Helen Keller Saw", "Highbrow Blues" and "An (Unfortunate) Interview with Henry James", these essays are sassy and very enjoyable.
Branded For Life: How Americans Are Brainwashed By The Brands We Love by Howard J. Blumenthal
As an expert in marketing, Blumenthal helps the rest of us recognize when we are being manipulated by the products we can’t seem to live without and gives us advice on how to break the cycle.
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