Pember Library

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich is the selection for this month’s book club.

HarperCollins description of the book says:

“The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. The descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry, their lives intertwine; only the youngest generation, of mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past continues to play in their lives.

Evelina Harp is a witty, ambitious young girl, part Ojibwe, part white, who is prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina’s grandfather, is a seductive storyteller, a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of the violent past. Nobody understands the weight of historical injustice better than Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, a thoughtful mixed blood who witnesses the lives of those who appear before him, and whose own love life reflects the entire history of the territory. In distinct and winning voices, Erdrich’s narrators unravel the stories of different generations and families in this corner of North Dakota. Bound by love, torn by history, the two communities’ collective stories finally come together in a wrenching truth revealed in the novel’s final pages.”

The Women by T.C. Boyle, Audio
Wowability: How to Achieve It and Why It Matters by Imran Syed, Business
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick, Fiction
What Southern Women Know About Faith by Rhonda Rich, Good News
The Wandering Ghost by Martin Limon, Mystery
The Mascot by Mark Kurzem,  NonFiction
A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents by Liza Palmer, PrePub
Someone Like You by Leigh Greenwood, Romance
The Devil’s Eye by Jack McDevitt, SF
Huge by Sasha Paley, Teen
Devil’s Gold by Julie Korzenko, Thriller

Read the first few pages of these books by signing up for the online book clubs. We send you a five-minute read in your email five days a week and by the end of the week, you can decide if the book is for you. We have some of the titles in our collection or you can request a copy of the book through our inter-library loan program.
This service is brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of the Pember Library.

Billion Dollar Lessons by Paul B. Carroll & Chunka Mui, Business
The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs, Fiction
If Tomorrow Never Comes by Marlo Schalesky, Good News
The Big Steal by Emily Jenkins, Mystery
If you Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? by Bill Heavey, NonFiction
The Sword and the Pen by Elysa Hendricks, Romance
Peeled by Joan Bauer, Teen

Sign up for Dear Reader by clicking the book club icon to the left. Each weekday, we’ll send you a quick read from a book. By the end of the week, you’ll have read two or three chapters and know whether or not the book is for you. This service is provided by the Friends of the Pember Library.

New titles are being added on a timely schedule throughout the year. This month look for the following new titles on the SALON website
Adult Fiction eaudiobooks:

Alex Cross’ Trial by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo; read by Dylan Baker and Shawn Andrews (WMA)

Black Cross by Greg Iles; read by Dick Hill (WMA)

Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell; read by Mary Stuart Masterson (MP3)

Carry on Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse; read by Martin Jarvis (MP3)

City of Thieves by David Benioff; read by Ron Perlman (MP3)

Ford Country by John Grisham (WMA)

Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow; read by Arthur Morey (WMA)

Hothouse Orchid by Stuart Woods; read by Carrington MacDuffie (WMA)

The Hunters by W.E.B. Griffin; read by Jay O. Sanders (MP3)

The Innocent by Harlan Coben; read by Dylan Baker (MP3)

Just One Look by Harlan Coben; read by Carolyn McCormick (MP3)

Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving; read by Arthur Morey (WMA)

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks; read by Pepper Binkley (WMA)

New York by Edward Rutherfurd; read by Mark Bramhall (WMA)

The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry; read by Scott Brick (WMA)

Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell; read by Mary Stuart Masterson (MP3)

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King; read by Frank Muller (MP3)

South of Broad by Pat Conroy; read by Mark Deakins (WMA)

Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood; read by Scott Brick (WMA)

Take One by Karen Kingsbury (MP3)

True Blue by David Baldacci; read by Ron McLarty (WMA)

Adult Non-Fiction eaudiobooks:

The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan; read by the author and Robertson Dean (MP3)

Born Round by Frank Bruni; read by the author (MP3)

Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom; read by the author (WMA)

Highest Duty by Chesley B. Sullenbeger; read by the author and Michael McConnohie (WMA)

In the President’s Secret Service by Ronald Kessler; read by Alan Sklar (WMA)

A Little Bit Wicked by Kristin Chenoweth; read by the author and Joni Rodgers (MP3)

Mayflower by Nathaniel  Philbrick; read by Edward Hermann (MP3)

Night by Elie Wiesel; read by Jeffrey Rosenblatt (MP3)

Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Riechl; read by the author (MP3)

The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (MP3)

Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner; read by the authors (WMA)

True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy; read by John Bedford Lloyd (WMA)

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer; read by Scott Brick (WMA)

Sign up for a free book club and every day. We’ll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. We’ll send a different book each week and you can sample two to three chapters.

This wonderful service is brought to us through the generosity of the Friends of the Pember Library.

Somebody by Stefan Kanfer, audio

Management Rewired by Charles S. Jacobs, business

One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer, fiction

Waiting for Daybreak by Kathryn Cushman, Good news

Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear, mystery

Waking Up in Eden, Lucnda Fleeson, nonfiction

To Be Announced, prepub

Summer By The Sea by Susan Wiggs, romance

The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds, science fiction

The Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kanell, teen

Pressure by Jeff Strand, thriller