Aglaura Public Library - Suggested Reading Archive

Suggested reading for March 2006:
Christ the Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice.

Synopsis:
"A riveting, reverent imagining of the hidden years of the child Jesus....Rice's book is a triumph of tone--her prose lean, lyrical, vivid--and character.....[T]his is fiction that transcends story and instead qualifies as an act of faith."

S Is For Silence by Sue Grafton.

Synopsis:
In Kinsey Millhone's 18th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother's absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again.

Suggested reading for February 2006:
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom.

Synopsis:
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

Pompeii by Robert Harris.

Synopsis:
Engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the aqueduct which brings water to a quarter of a million people. His predecessor has disappeared. When a crisis strikes the Augusta's main line, Attilus discovers that there are forces which even the Roman Empire can't control.

Suggested reading for January 2006:
The Lighthouse by P.D. James.

Synopsis:
When one of the distinguished visitors to Combe Island is bizarrely murdered, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in. Hardly has his team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and Dalgliesh faces a danger more insidious than murder.

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.