TLC Staff Recommendations

Spring 2001

FAMILY HONOR
By Robert B. Parker 

If you’re a Parker fan, you’ll enjoy his new character.  Sunny Randall is a private eye in Boston with cop connections, a sidekick named Spike, and a cute dog that’s sometimes mistaken for an aardvark.  Funny one-liners and tight plotting make it familiar Parker with a feminine twist.  A fun and fast summer read (and there’s a movie coming).
-Jean Bowman

THE LAST RESORT
By Alison Lurie

Sharp observations of American society make this brainy beach reading.  Jenny has devoted her life to her older husband, Wilkie, a best-selling author and naturalist.  But now he’s become depressed so Jenny persuades him to go to Key West with her.  The author humorously observes the local characters and situations encountered by the couple as their lives begin to diverge and Jenny surprises herself.
-Jean Bowman

RUNNING NORTH: A YUKON ADVENTURE
By Ann Mariah Cook  798.83092

This amazing chronicle of the Yukon Quest, Alaska’s toughest sled-dog race, reads like a novel.  But it’s a true story of the Cook family’s move from Vermont to Fairbanks, adjusting to Alaska life and entering Fairbanks “society,” and training and mushing their lovable Siberian huskies.  The actual race is a fascinating journey most of us would never attempt but we’re eager to go along for the ride.
-Jean Bowman

TENDER AT THE BONE:  GROWING UP AT THE TABLE
By Ruth Reichl  641.5092

Former New York Times restaurant critic and current editor of Gourmet magazine, Reichl serves up anecdotes of her early life with food – at home, away at school and on to waitressing and collective ownership of a restaurant in Berkeley, CA.  Her family is lovingly described, particularly her mother who would serve family and guests “masterpieces” of aging food from questionable sources which now and then resulted in food poisoning.  A delightful memoir from an engaging gourmet.
-Jean Bowman

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