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Recommended Reading: The Morse Reading Adventure

 

 

 Books recommended by the Morse Museum Literary Group

Members of the Morse Museum Literary Group meet monthly to discuss books they have read.  Through the Morse Reading Adventure, they recommend books they feel have distinguishing qualities; some may or may not be Best Sellers.

 

Meetings are held at 3:00 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Jeannette G. and Hugh F. McKean Pavilion. Find out more about membership activities and events at the Morse Museum by calling (407) 645-5311 or through the Morse website: www.morsemuseum.org.

 

                   January 2009

 
Fiction
▪ American wife  Curtis Sittenfeld
▪ The appeal  John Grisham
▪ The boy in the striped pajamas  John Boyne
▪ Careless  Deborah Robertson
▪ The closed circle  Jonathan Coe
▪ The sealed letter  Emma Donoghue
▪ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  Mary Ann Shaffer
▪ Mozart's sister  Rita Charbonnier
▪ New England white  Stephen L. Carter
▪ People of the whale  Linda Hogan
▪ The private patient  P.D. James
▪ Rise and shine  Anna Quindlen
▪ Sarah's key  Tatiana de Rosnay
▪ The secret scripture  Sebastian Barry
▪ The soloist  Mark Salzman
▪ The white tiger  Aravind Adiga
▪ The vanishing act of Esme Lennox  Maggie O'Farrell

 

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Non-fiction
▪ Albin Polasek : man caring his own destiny : life and work of Albin Polasek  Jiri Klucka
▪ Anticancer : a new way of life  David Servan-Schreiber
▪ Audition : a memoir  Barbara Walters
▪ Backwards : returning to our source answers  Nanci L. Danison
▪ Character is destiny : inspiring stories every young person should know and every adult should remember  John McCain with Mark Salter
▪ Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world  Vicki Myron
▪ The duchess  Amanda Foreman
▪ Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire  Amanda Foreman
▪ The forger's spell : a true story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the greatest art hoax of the twentieth century  Edward Dolnick
▪ The house at Sugar Beach : in search of a lost African childhood  Helene Cooper
▪ The Jesuit and the skull : Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man  Amir D. Aczel
▪ The limits of power : the end of American exceptionalism  Andrew J. Bacevich
▪ The lost Ark of the Covenant : solving the 2,500 year old mystery of the fabled biblical ark  Tudor Parfitt
▪ The measure of a man : a spiritual autobiography  Sidney Poitier
▪ The monster of Florence  Douglas Preston
▪ Moyers on democracy  Bill Moyers
▪ The Niagara River : poems  Kay Ryan
▪ Payback : debt and the shadow side of wealth  Margaret Atwood
▪ The prince of Frogtown  Rick Bragg

▪ The sun kings : the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began  Stuart Clark

▪ The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl  Timothy Egan

▪ The wrecking crew : how conservatives rule  Thomas Frank
▪ The zookeeper's wife : a war story  Diane Ackerman
 
Morse Movie Tie-Ins
Friday Series
▪ Taking on the trust : the epic battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller  Steve Weinberg
▪ The house of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance  Ron Chernow
▪ Fortune's children : the fall of the house of Vanderbilt  Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II
 
Winter Series
▪ The beauty of life : William Morris and the art of design  Diane Waggoner
▪ The buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College  Randall M. MacDonald
▪ Greene & Greene  Edward Bosley

 

 

 

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