Posts Tagged ‘Fiction’
Christ in Concrete
Published in 1939, Pietro DiDonato’s Christ in Concrete examines the American experience for hard-working Italian immigrants living in New York City’s Lower East Side shortly before the Great Depression and focuses on a family’s struggle against harsh economic realities and tenement living. The novel was inspired by the death of DiDonato’s father in a…
Read MoreNobody’s Family is Going to Change
“When somebody has got what Willie here has got, they just know where they’re going and there’s just no point in trying to stop them.” Willie, seven years old, can’t stop dreaming of the day he will dance on Broadway. Emma, his older sister, is determined that someday she will address a courtroom. Is there…
Read MoreHarry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2
In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with…
Read MoreFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women–of the irrepressibly daredevilish…
Read MoreNew item ; Smoke Signals DVD
A great movie. It’s been circulated many many times at our library in VHS, so I figured we should get the DVD. Have you seen it? What do you think? Watch the Preview HERE
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