Books in Pairs

Books in Pairs
Bethany Branch Library, April 13, 2007 and Gere Branch Library, April 16, 2007
Vicki W.

Vicki presented a fascinating selection of books that work well when paired together — books that add a little something to each other. A mixture of both Fiction and Non-Fiction titles!

Are You Up for an Epic?

Independent People
by Halldor Laxness

Pairs well with…

The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley

Life Under the Ayatollah

Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi

Pairs well with…

Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi [955.054 Naf]

Interested in more? Try…

Movie: Ten
directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Getting Up in Arms About the Environment

Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver

Pairs well with…

All Over Creation
by Ruth Ozeki

Interested in more? Try…

Movie: The Real Dirt on Farmer Brown
directed by Taggart Siegel

What Were They Thinking???

Swimming to Antarctica
by Lynne Cox [797.21 Cox]

Pairs well with…

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer [796.522 Kra]

Tragic Talent

Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy [616.994 Gre]

Pairs well with…

Truth and Beauty
by Ann Patchett [616.994 Pat]

Interested in more? Try…

Further Reading: Savage Beauty: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford [B M591m]

How It All Happened

The 9/11 Commission Report
by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [973.931 Nat]

Pairs well with…

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
by Sis Jacobsen and Ernie Colon [973.931 Jac]

Small Town Special

Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
by Michael Perry [917.75 Per]

Pairs well with…

The Lobster Chronicles
by Linda Greenlaw [B G838]

Stones From the River
by Ursula Hegi

Pairs well with…

Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You
by Hanna Jansen [j Jansen]

Interested in more? Try…

Movie: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
directed by Errol Morris

The Normal, Extraordinary Life

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
by Haven Kimmel [B K570]

Pairs well with…

She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts From Mooreland, Indiana
by Haven Kimmel [B K570]

Surviving Your Childhood

The Liars Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr [B K1392]

Pairs well with…

Cherry
by Mary Karr [B K1392]

Do You Love the #1 Ladies Detective Agency?

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
by Alexander McCall-Smith
The first volume featuring Isabel Dalhousie

Pairs well with…

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
by Alexander McCall-Smith
The first volume featuring Professor VonIgelfeld

The Mind, From the Inside Out

Thinking in Pictures
by Temple Grandin [618.928 Gra]

Pairs well with…

In the Shadow of Memory
by Floyd Skloot [612.82 Skl]

Cultural Misunderstanding

Kingfishers Catch Fire
by Rumer Godden

Pairs well with…

The Romantics
by Pankaj Mishra