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August
09, 2008
What to read during the library's closed week.
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My
Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
In December
of 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard educated brain scientist,
experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the
left side of her brain. Her mind deteriorated to the point where she
could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life…all
within a span of four hours. Today Taylor is convinced that her
stroke was the best thing that ever happened to her. |
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Loose
Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
by Kerry Cohen
Cohen's memoir is a
deeply poignant, desperately sad account of a confused,
directionless adolescent girl's free fall into self-destruction.
Honest and frequently difficult to read, this is a great book about
"trying to fill the emptiness with air."
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Rome
1960: The Olympics that Changed the World
by David Maraniss
Maraniss argues that the
Olympic Games that introduced Cassius Clay, Wilma Rudolph and Rafer
Johnson were a sociopolitical watershed. The Games showcased Soviet
Union propaganda, issues of social inequalities and anticolonialism
and should be considered an important moment of historical
transition.
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The
End of Food
Food by Paul Roberts
Beneath a history of
food, loads of statistics and future-tense fretting, Roberts
delivers a familiar plea for rethinking food systems. The book has
some interesting examples but will be very familiar to fans of
Michael Pollan.
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Fallen
Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
by Nancy Isenberg
Should Aaron Burr be
considered a founding father? Is he a political schemer who deserves
to be remembered as a villain? This biography presents Burr in a
striking new light, as a founder at the center of nation building
who championed equal rights, freedom of speech and wanted to expand
suffrage.
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