October 2018

Windsor Library’s Newsletter for Readers

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Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living by Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle This very endearing and heartwarming book describes how, after being advised to undergo extensive therapy for her cancer diagnosis, ninety-year-old Miss Norma decides to skip the hospital bed and instead travel the country with her retired son Tim, his wife Ramie, and their dog Ringo.

Listen Up

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers

an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Utterly original and compelling, it has been hailed as a modern true crime classic—one which fulfilled Michelle's dream: helping unmask the Golden State Killer. Narrated by Gabra Zachman Length: 9 hours and 45 minutes

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Books for Readers Who Like Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Check out these read-Alikes for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer and feminist is a native of Nigeria. “Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

This is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. In a story set in Nigeria. Okonkwo is a hard working farmer and a strict father. Banished for several years due to an accidental killing, he returns to his home to find the British government replacing tribal customs.

Minaret by Leila Aboulela

This engaging and provocative novel is about a young Muslim woman -- once privileged and secular in her native Sudan and now impoverished and working as a maid in political exile in London -- gradually embracing her orthodox faith.

Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go teaches that the truths we speak can heal the wounds we hide.

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

In a culture that's driven by social media, women are using this online space to come together, share their stories and encourage a new generation to recognize the problems that women face. This book is a call to arms in a new wave of feminism, and it proves sexism is endemic - socially, politically and economically - but women won't stand for it.

The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna

This novel, set in Croatia, is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.

In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

From the world-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic, the second volume of his memoirs, spanning 1955-1959, the author's high school years during the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising. In the House of the Interpreter evokes a haunting childhood at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, and the formative experiences of a political dissident.

Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon

Nowhere Man is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a magnetic young man stranded in America by the war in Bosnia.