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Residents and Library Committee members developed this year’s wish list. Some of the titles listed below came to the Library as donated books. The Committee purchased others with funds from the 1666 Coffman Association, book cart sales and generous financial gifts from residents. Find these books shelved in their permanent shelving locations as shown below in bold type. If you borrow these or other library materials, please sign them out.
AGING Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day – Miranda Esmonde-White Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest – Dan Buettner Good to Go: A Guide to Preparing for the End of Life – Jo Myers I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman – Nora Ephron ARCHITECTURE Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design – Jane King Hession ARTISTS Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series – Leah Dickerman and Elsa Smithgall BIOGRAPHY Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage – Barney Frank H is for Hawk – Helen MacDonald I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education – Malala Yousafzai Jonas Salk: A Life – Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope – Tom Brokaw On the Move: A Life – Oliver Sacks Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir – Diana Athill Words Without Music: A Memoir – Philip Glass BUSINESS God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican – Gerald Posner EUROPE – HISTORY Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe – William Rosen FICTION The Blazing World – Siri Hustvedt Bohemian Flats – Mary Relindes Ellis A Fireproof Home for the Bride – Amy Scheibe Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee God Help the Child – Toni Morrison High Divide – Lin Enger The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh Signature of All Things – E. Gilbert Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy LARGE PRINT All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics – David James MEDICINE AND HEALTH Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande The Gut Balance Revolution: Boost Your Metabolism, Restore Your Inner Ecology, and Lose the Weight for Good – Gerard E. Mullin On Immunity: An Innoculation – Eula Biss Prescription for Nutritional Healing – Phyllis A. Balch We Know How This Ends – Bruce Kramer and Cathy Wurzer MYSTERY / SPY / ADVENTURE Buried in a Bog – Sheila Connolly The Crossing Places – Elly Griffiths Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris Death by Cashmere – Sally Goldenbaum Death Ex Machina – Gary Corby Due or Die – Jenn McKinlay Ghosts of Belfast – Stuart Neville Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins A Land More Kind than Home – Wiley Cash Now You See Me – Sharon Bolton Perfidia – James Ellroy Uncertain Place: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery – Fred Vargas NATIVE AMERICAN & OTHER CULTURES Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People – Elizabeth Fenn NATURE/ENVIRONMENT Minnesota Weather Almanac – Mark Seeley PERSONAL GROWTH In Touch: How to Tune in to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself – John J. Prendergast, PhD Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free From Anxiety, Phobias and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Theory – John P Forsyth and Georg H. Eiffert Stress-free Living – Amit Soot Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness and Spiritual Well Being – Rudolph Tanzi and Deepak Chopra POETRY COLLECTIONS Selected Poems – James Fenton The Orange Tree: Early Poems – Jane Dickerson This Wild Country – Dorothy Schlesselman PSYCHOLOGY Road to Character – David Brooks REFERENCE Rand McNally Road Atlas US and Canada RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions – Phil Zuckerman SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS Our Story Begins: New and Selected Short Stories – Tobias Wolff TRAVEL GUIDES Lonely Planet Turkey TRAVEL LITERATURE Crossing the Driftless – Lynn Diebel. U.S. HISTORY One Summer, American 1927 – Bill Bryson WORLD HISTORY Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year – Michael Farquhar Comments are closed.
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