TLC Staff Recommendations

Winter 2004

BIG DIG
by Linda Barnes LP Fic

Carlotta Carlyle, the 6-foot tall, redheaded detective, has gone undercover to ferret out fraud and graft in Boston’s gigantic highway construction project. Not until the end do clues and suspects fall into place in this snappy who-done-it.
-Jean Bowman

GEISHA, A LIFE
by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown LP 792.70952 Iwa

This is a true story of one of the most successful geishas in Japan. Mineko Iwasaki tells how she left her parent’s home at age five, spending the next twenty-five years training and living as a geisha, until the beginning of the demise of geisha culture.
-Susan LaFantasie

PREY
by Michael Crichton LP Fic

The popular author of Jurassic Park crafts another blistering thriller about the hazards of science and technology. In Silicon Valley, a company unwittingly unleashes an evolving set of ‘creatures’ by merging the older technologies of computer science and biotech with the newer nano-technology. Unfortunately their creation might make humans obsolete.
-Ron Woods

OPEN HOUSE
by Elizabeth Berg LP Fic

Samantha enjoys a vindictive shopping spree after her husband leaves her, but then decides to take in boarders in order to make ends meet for herself and son. This touching story features fine writing.
Susan Sullivan

A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY
by Haven Kimmel LP B/Kimmel

Go back to the 1960’s in Mooreland, Indiana, and grow up with “Zippy,” the girl with big eyes and bigger ears. This is a delightful, captivating memoir full of childhood trauma, humor, and happiness.
-Jean Bowman

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