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Fall 2006 Page 10 |
One Campus, One Book
Upcoming discussion of Tracy Kidder's Mountains
Beyond Mountains
Join Lorilie Roundtree and your
colleagues to
talk about Tracy Kidder's non-fiction epic, Mountains Beyond Mountains:
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World.
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| Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Soul of a New Machine, Home Town, and other best-selling non-fiction narratives. Mountains Beyond Mountains tells the story of a charming and gifted physician who believes that "the only real nation is humanity," and who uses his wit, skill, and love of life to cure the illnesses and diseases of people in need. |
The central character of this marvelous book is one of the most provocative, brilliant, funny, unsettling, endlessly energetic, irksome, and charming characters ever to spring to life on the page. He has embarked on an epic struggle that will take you from the halls of Harvard Medical School to a sun-scorched plateau in Haiti, from the slums of Peru to the cold gray prisons of Moscow. He wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action
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Find copies of Mountains Beyond Mountains in LOIS, the Library Catalog (2 copies), in the Sacramento Public Library catalog (7 copies), and in El Dorado County Library (1 copy). |
And that's not all!
In November, Riad Bahhur will lead a discussion
of The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.
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| "Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent
Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th
century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the
narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of
his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban
takeover in the mid '90s. ... the result is a complete work of literature
that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that
has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium.Publisher's
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Find copies of The Kite Runner in LOIS, the Library Catalog (3 copies), in the Sacramento Public Library catalog (40 copies), and in El Dorado County Library (7 copies). |
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