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Books
Sandwiched In:
2007 - 2008 Season of Reviews
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Thursdays, 12:10 p.m.
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limited. Please arrive early. Seating starts at 11:30 a.m.
Once the room has reached
capacity, some standing room may be available. Sponsored
by the Friends of Brighton Memorial Library.
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- October 4:
The
Camel Bookmobile
by Masha Hamilton
- The story of an unorthodox
mobile library in Africa.
- Reviewer:
Bill Pontius, Executive Director, Friends of the Rochester
Public Library
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- November 1:
The
Devil in the White City
by Erik
Larson
- A serial killer and the
building of the Chicago World’s Fair.
- Reviewer:
Detective Andrew Minchak,
Brighton Police Crime Scene Investigator .
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- December 6:
All Governments Lie! The Life
and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
- by Myra MacPherson
- Reviewer:
Mel Braverman, activist and retired
Xerox manager.
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- January 3:
Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortensen
and David Oliver Relin
- One man’s mission to build
schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Reviewer:
Joe Flaherty, founder & director, Writers &
Books.
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- February 7:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin
Hamid
- 9/11 changes a Muslim Wall
Street achiever to a fundamentalist.
- Reviewer:
Dr. Carl Davila, Presidential
Fellow and Visiting Asst. Prof. of History & Anthropology, SUNY
Brockport.
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- March 6:
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette
Walls
- A memoir of surviving a
horrendous childhood.
- Reviewer:
Paul Caccamise, former administrator, Monroe County Dept. of
Social Services; V-P,
- Life-Span.
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- April 3:
Astrid and Veronika
by Linda Olsson
- A sensitive relationship
between a young writer and the village octogenarian.
- Reviewer: Mildred Boylan, former faculty member, St. John
Fisher; Times-Union reviewer.
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- May
1:
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union:
a novel by Michael
Chabon
- A mystery set in Alaska, an
alternative Jewish homeland.
- Reviewer:
Phyllis Kasdin, Special
Programs.Director, JCC.
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