Thursday, July 5, 2012

Reader's Shelf from Library Journal


The Reader's Shelf

From Library Journal

Novel Locked Rooms:  Literary Keys to Life's Questions




There But for the There But for the
By Smith, Ali
2012-07 - Anchor Books
9780307275240 Check Our Catalog

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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
By Auster, Paul
1990-03 - Penguin Books
9780140131550 Check Our Catalog

Comnbining dark humor, Hitchcock-like suspense, and film-noir prose, these three unique novels--united--form a powerful and thought-provoking puzzle. …More


The Man in My Basement
The Man in My Basement
By Mosley, Walter
2005-02 - Back Bay Books
9780316159319 Check Our Catalog

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Mosley departs from his Easy Rawlins mysteries for this thought-provoking novel. Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. When a mysterious white man offers to rent Charles's basement for the summer, Charles embarks on a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity.
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Man in the Holocene
Man in the Holocene
By Frisch, Max
Translator Skelton, Geoffrey
2007-08 - Dalkey Archive Press
9781564784667 Check Our Catalog

"A luminous parable . . . A masterpiece." The New York Times …More


Room
Room
By Donoghue, Emma
2011-05 - Back Bay Books
9780316098328 Check Our Catalog

Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, "Room" is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another. …More


The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
By Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Editor Shulman, Robert
2009-06 - Oxford University Press, USA
9780199538843 Check Our Catalog

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary with The Yellow Wallpaper, the fiction from her neglected California period (1890-95), and her later explorations of "the woman of fifty." Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction. …More

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