| Get Out the Vote!
Here's your opportunity to vote on the book
you think the Lake Travis Community should read for our "One Book, One
Community" program, "Lake Travis Reads."
Vote from April 15th-April 30th at the Bee
Cave Public Library, Lake Travis Community Library, Spicewood Community
Library, Bee Cave Barnes & Noble, Lake Travis High School Library,
Briarcliff Community Center, Starbucks in Lakeway and Bee Cave and online too!
You will choose from the following five
selections.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
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From Barnes & Noble
The winds
were mild; the skies were clear. On Friday, September 7th, 1900, most of the thirty seven thousand residents of
Galveston
were looking forward to a quiet weekend. Within two days, however, more
than a fifth of them would be dead, and their city of splendid homes &
broad clean streets, their city of oleanders and roses and palms would be
swept away or reduced to rubble. In hardcover, Erik Larson's Isaac's
Storm brought the devastating Galveston hurricane of 1900 to present
consciousness. This paperback edition will honor the centennial of this
tragic event, the greatest disaster in American history.
From the Publisher
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of
Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S.
Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea
swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours
later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that
completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what
remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline
found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy.
Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores
of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes,
Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal
miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting,
powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of
what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force
of nature.
This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's
Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and
Forgiveness by
Gilbert Tuhabonye,
Gary Brozek,
Gary Brozek
From the Publisher
This Voice
in My Heart
is the searing story of Gilbert Tuhabonye, a survivor of one of the most
devastating genocides in recent memory. Though now a track star and
motivational speaker, Gilbert once lay buried under a pile of burning
bodies after the centuries-old battle between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes
came to his school.
Fueled by
hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred Tutsi children and teachers
into a small room and used machetes to slash most of them to death. The
ones who survived the attack were doused with gasoline and set on fire.
After hiding under burning bodies for more than eight hours, Gilbert heard
a voice inside saying, "You will be all right; you will survive." He knew
it was God speaking to him. Gilbert was the only survivor at his school.
This riveting story will touch you from its first page and offer
inspiration for years to come.
 Truly
Remarkable
A reviewer, a marathoner,
01/28/2008
The
ignorance we have about what is going on in Burundi is truly an atrocity.
Gilbert shows incredible faith and courage throughout his memoir and
continues to mentor other runners to this day.
Other
Formats:
Audio
Compact Disc -
Unabridged, 20 CDs
From Barnes & Noble
Once again
confounding expectations, Alexander McCall Smith has written a mystery
novel unlike any other. Inspired by a chance encounter with Tales of the
City novelist Armistead Maupin, the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency decided to write a novel under the pressure of daily serialization.
Originally published in 110 installments in The Scotsman,
44
Scotland Street
recounts the intersecting lives of inhabitants of a multiple-occupancy
building in Edinburgh. At the center of the entertaining entanglement is
Pat, a 20-year-old gallery employee who makes a startling discovery about
a lost masterpiece.
From the Publisher
Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith brings all the warmth of his
extraordinary No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency books and the Sunday
Philosophy Club series to this witty novel chronicling the lives of the
residents of 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh. Originally serialized in
The Scotsman,
44
Scotland Street
is already an international sensation.
When
twenty-year-old Pat rents a room from handsome and cocky Bruce, she
inherits some delightfully colorful neighbors: Domenica, an insightful and
eccentric widow; Bertie, a five-year-old who’s mastered both saxophone and
Italian; and Irene, his overbearing mother. Pat’s new job at a gallery
seems easy enough. Her boss spends most of his time drinking coffee in a
local café and discussing matters great and small, and Pat’s duties are
light. That is until she realizes that one of their paintings may be an
undiscovered work of a renowned Scottish artist and she discovers that one
of their customers may be in on the secret. Add to this a fancy ball, love
triangles and an encounter with a famous crime writer, and you have
Alexander McCall Smith’s entertaining and witty portrait of
Edinburgh society.
Same Kind of Different as Me: A
Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who
Bound Them Together by
Ron Hall,
Denver Moore,
Lynn Vincent
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Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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Pub. Date: June 2006
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ISBN-13: 9780849900419
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224pp
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Compact Disc -
Unabridged, 3 CDs, 210 minutes
From the Publisher
Meet
Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the
1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for
eighteen years on the streets of
Dallas,
Texas.
No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless-until God moved. First
came a godly woman who prayed, listened, and obeyed. And then came her
husband, Ron, an international arts dealer at home in a world of
Armani-suited millionaires. And then they all came together.
But
slavery takes many forms. Deborah discovers that she has cancer. In the
face of possible death, she charges her husband to rescue Denver. Who will
be saved, and who will be lost? What is the future for these unlikely
three? What is God doing?
Same Kind
of Different As Me is the emotional tale of their story: a telling of pain and
laughter, doubt and tears, dug out between the bondages of this earth and
the free possibility of heaven. No reader or listener will ever forget it.
LOVED
JM, someone who loves!,
03/21/2008
I love
loved this book!!! Everyone should read this one. Someone should make a
movie out of it.
very
touching
A reviewer, A reviewer,
03/06/2008
Excellent
book for all ages. Am going to have my 2 teenage daughters read this. A
true testament to human kindness despite all circumstances.
Prepared
to be inspired!
Gail Stone, A reviewer,
01/29/2008
I like to
think of myself as an advocate for the homeless, but this book humbled me.
I have never in my life read anything that inspired and touched me more
deeply. The honesty with which this amazing story is told is certain to
touch your heart.
A Twist at the End: A Novel of O. Henry
by
Steven Saylor
From Barnes & Noble
Will
Porter, a.k.a. O. Henry, may have changed his name and address, but he
can't outrun the memory of a serial killer whose shadow won't fade.
From the Publisher
In an
artful blending of history, literature, and vivid imagination, author
Steven Saylor has crafted a novel that, much as Caleb Carr's bestselling
The Alienist, combines real characters and true crime into a story
that is an engrossing work of fiction.
The city
of Austin, Texas, "is fearfully dull," wrote young Will Porter to a friend
in the spring of 1885, "except for the frequent raids of the Servant Girl
Annihilators, who make things lively in the dead of night."
Years
later, Will Porter would become famous as O. Henry, the toast of New York
and the most celebrated writer in America. The long-ago Texas killings,
which he dubbed the work of the Servant Girl Annihilators -- perhaps the
first recorded serial murders in America -- would remain unsolved. But the
appearance of a merciless blackmailer and a mysterious stranger would draw
Porter back into the past, and back to Texas, to confront the stunning
solution to those murders -- and the secrets of his own soul.
The result
is a masterful novel of intrigue and murder, yet at the same time a
romance of time and place, with a colorful cast of memorable characters
brought vividly to life. It's a true tale of
Texas,
grand in both setting and scope. |
