October in the Library
by Anne Newins
Many Manor residents have enjoyed the family history display, thanks to Eleanor Lippman, Reina Lopez, and Sarah Karnatz, as well as all of the people who contributed materials. If you missed the full display in the Sunrise Room, or would like to have a second look at some of these fascinating documents and photographs, a partial display continues in the Auditorium through October.
As in real life, family sagas can be happy, sad, melodramatic, or comical. This month’s display provides readers with a variety of family stories, including the following fiction and non-fiction titles:
- All the Presidents’ children: triumph and tragedy in the lives of America’s first families, by Doug Wead
- The last days of the Romanovs: tragedy at Ekaterinburg, by Helen Rappaport
- The Island of sea women, by Lisa See
- The poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
- A tendering in the storm , by Jane Kirkpatrick
- O pioneers! , by Willa Cather
- Who we are and how we got here: ancient DNA revolution and the new science of the human past, by David Reich
Residents also have enjoyed David Drury’s riveting Inquiring Minds program about the early history of epidemics. We hope that he will continue the series in the future. In the meantime, if you want to learn more, the library has a few non-fiction books about epidemics, including:
- Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks. (Call number 616.8)
- Fevers, feuds and diamonds, by Paul Farmer (Call number 614.57)
- The great influenza: the story of the deadliest pandemic in history, by John M. Barry ( Call number 614.5)
- Pale rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world, by Laura Spinney (Call Number 614.5)
- Together, by Luke Adam Hawker (Call number 741)
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