Author: Albom, Mitch, 1958-
Published: 2007
Call Number: B SCHWARTZ SCHOOL
Format: Books
Summary: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.
Author: Boyne, John, 1971- author.
Published: 2006
Call Number: Y BOYNE
Format: Books
Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author: Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951, author. Meyer, Michael, writer of introduction.
Published: 2005 1935
Call Number: F LEWIS
Format: Books
Summary: A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that prophesies the coming of totalitarianism in the United States. "It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called "a message to thinking Americans" by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can't Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today's news."--Amazon.com.
Author: Anderson, Catherine (Adeline Catherine)
Published: 2003
Call Number: PB ANDERSON
Format: Books
Author: Golden, Arthur, 1957-
Published: 1999 1997
Call Number: F GOLDEN
Format: Books
Author: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Corngold, Stanley, tr.
Published: 1986
Call Number: CL KAFKA
Format: Books
Author: McMahon, William H.
Published: 1970
Call Number: 974.9
Format: Books
Call Number: YA HIN
Format: Books
Author: Miller, Linda Lael Jackson, Brenda
Call Number: PB MILLER
Format: Books
Author: Miller, Linda Lael
Call Number: PB MILLER
Format: Books
Author: Patterson, James
Call Number: F PATTERSON
Format: Books
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