Staff Picks
Rory Gilmore's Reading Challenge (List #7 - Starting with 'Deenie')
- Ariel H.
- Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Collection
☕ Take a deep dive into all the books seen and referenced on the Gilmore Girls from Season 1 to A Year in the Life.
📚 Just in time for our winter weather. So, grab your books, a cup of coffee (or hot cocoa), and bundle up by the fire.
❄️Smells Like Snow❄️ (except for SC)
Since there are 408 titles, there will be multiple lists sent out over the next few months. Enjoy!
Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood.
Published in 2009
Neither a New York playwright nor her flaky mother will take steps to mend their long-time rift. This is a job for the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, sworn lifelong friends, who stage an outlandish intervention to bring the two back together. This title has been Repackaged.
Driving Miss Daisy.
Published in 2010
The poignant story of the decades-long relationship between a stubborn, elderly Jewish woman living in the '40s South and her benevolent black chauffeur.
Deenie
Published in 2003
A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
Don Quijote De La Mancha
Published in 2004
Presents the classic Spanish tale of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world, accompanied by essays, notes, and a study of Cervantes's language.
Don Quixote
Published in 2008
The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.
Don Quixote
Published in 2014
Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote is considered by many to be the greatest work in the Spanish literary canon. Both humane and humorous, the two volume oeuvre centres on the adventures of the self-styled knight errant Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Quixote's credulous and chubby squire. Together the unlikely pair of heroes bumble their way from one bizarre adventure to another fueled in their quests by Quixote's histrionic world view and Sancho's, who in conjunction with Quixote provides the spark for endlessly bizarre discussions in which Quixote's heightened, insane conception of the world is brought crashing to earth by Sancho's common sense.
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Published in 1982
Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in German concentration camp.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Definitive Edition
Published in 1996
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Published in 2002
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds?a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. To find out more about this book, go to http://www.DevilInTheWhiteCity.com. From the Hardcover edition.
The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Published in 2003
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America₂s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds₇a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Published in 2003
The drama of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair springs to life through two characters, Architect Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works, and murderer Dr. Henry H. Holmes. While Burnham overcomes extreme personal challenges to build the famed White City, the sinister Holmes, possibly responsible for scores of murders, lures people to his World's Fair Hotel, complete with gas chambers and a crematorium.
The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Published in 2003
The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection.
Published in 2000
Poe's tales haunt and thrill, read with perfection. Includes The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, and more.
Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Tales and Poems.
Published in 2013
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems features all of Edgar Allan Poe's classic fiction. It includes The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and other tales of madness and mania; the revenge classics The Cask of Amontillado and Hop Frog; the gothic chillers The Fall of the House of Usher and The Mask of the Red Death; The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter, all featuring detective C. August Dupin; the full-length novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; and sixty other stories. This volume also includes more than sixty works of poetry, among them such literary landmarks as The Raven, The Bells, Annabel Lee, The Haunted Palace, and The Conqueror Worm. The heroes, heroines, demons, and dreams who populate these poems represent some of the most memorable and imaginatively evoked creations in the English language.
Dracula
Published in 2021
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula , may not be the first vampire novel, but it is certainly the most famous. These scenarios couldn't be more different than the conservative Victorian era during which the book was published ? though critically praised from the start as being ahead of its time it was not an immediate bestseller. The story is told through a series of letters recounting a young Jonathan Harker, a lawyer who visits Count Dracula to arrange a real estate transaction and realizes before long that he has been taken hostage there. Harker escapes after a series of horrifying events, and Dracula makes it his mission to go after the young lawyer ? and his lovely fianc?, Mina, and Mina's friends. With the assistance of an old teacher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, the tide turns against Dracula with Van Helsing chasing the Count back to his Transylvania castle, where the ultimate battle takes place.