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Books I will be talking about at the Coffee Monday program on March 6, 10-11 AM
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Rough sleepers : Dr. Jim O'Connell and his quest to create a community of care
by Tracy Kidder
This masterful work of reporting and nonfiction storytelling takes us deep into the world of Dr. Jim O'Connell, a Harvard Medical School graduate, who, following his life's calling, serves Boston's homeless community, facing one of American society's most shameful problems, instead of looking away.
362.592 KID
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Strength in what remains
by Tracy Kidder
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains presents the story of Burundi civil war survivor Deo, who endures homelessness before pursuing an education at Columbia and eventually returning to his native land to help people in both countries.
305.896 KID
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An American summer : love and death in Chicago
by Alex Kotlowitz
The award-winning author of There Are No Children Here examines the humanity and brutality of Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods through a series of deeply intimate profiles that illuminate the firsthand realities of gun violence in today's America.
364.15 KOT
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We should not be friends : the story of a friendship
by Will Schwalbe
Tracing an extraordinary, life-changing college friendship over decades of challenge and change, this warm, funny and irresistible book follows the author as he, joining a little-known secret society at Yale, finds an unlikely friend in a physically imposing, loud, star wrestler determined to become a Navy SEAL.
177.62 SCH
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The end of your life book club
by Will Schwalbe
A Hyperion editor-in-chief and journalist recounts how his mother and he read and discussed books during her chemotherapy treatments, describing how the activity involved a wide range of literary genres, furthered their appreciation for literature and strengthened their bond.
BIOGRAPHY SCHWALBE
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President Garfield : From Radical to Unifier
by C. W. Goodyear
In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixer and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all these things and more.
Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected President to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so.
President Garfield is American history at its finest. It is about an impoverished boy working his way from the frontier to the Presidency; a progressive statesman, trying to raise a more righteous, peaceful Republic out of the ashes of civil war; the tragically imperfect course of that reformation, and the man himself; a martyr-President, whose death succeeded in nudging the country back to cleaner, calmer politics.
Publication date: July 4, 2023
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