Winter 2008 Reading List

The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel
Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
The Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
Double Cross by James Patterson
Down River by John Hart
Fatal Revenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Malinche by Laura Esquivel
A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman
The Parting by Beverly Lewis
Playing for Pizza by John Grishman
Run by Ann Patchett
Soul Catcher by Michael White
Stone Cold by David Baldacci
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
World Without End by Ken Follett
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Winter 2008

Bridge of Sighs
by Richard Russo

Bridge of Sighs is Russo's portrait of small town life and the people who inhabit it. Over the years, Thomaston, New York has been on the decline. It's one main business-a tannery-has been slowly poisoning its residents with its toxic runoff.

Russo explores of the lives of three Thomaston families the Lynches, Marconis, and the Bergs as they cross, collide, and interweave each other's lives.