Book of the month.....May 2008

The Great Swim, by Gavin Mortimer
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Why would anyone want to swim the English Channel?? Well – this book is about 4 women who, during the summer of 1926 –just after World War I – battled each other in a race to be the first woman to swim across that Channel. The 4 American women – Gertrude Ederle, Mille Gade, Lillian Cannon and Clarabelle Barrett – were each backed by various American newspapers from New York to Boston – and these newspapers made the most of the publicity that a woman, in a bathing costume on the front page of a national newspaper would produce.

Mr. Mortimer uses a great variety of sources to reconstruct the excitement and drama that accompanied an event that captured the heart of people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Check the library's catalog for The Great Swim. Meg

Book of the Month....April 2008

Mozart's Ghost, by Julia Cameron
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Meet Anna, a thirtysomething Midwesterner living alone in New York City. A schoolteacher by day, she is a medium by night, covertly helping people reunite with their lost loved ones. Anna leads a double life, guarding her secret as much as she guards her heart – until Edward, a gangly yet quietly handsome concert pianist, moves into her building.

Edward’s music fills Anna’s apartment with beautiful sounds that disturb her concentration and her lines of communication with ghosts. She and Edward fall for each other fast, but Anna is conflicted: by exposing her true identity, does she risk losing what may be her true love? And is music really his true love?

Then a ghost begins to interfere – Mozart’s ghost – and while making a pest of himself to Anna, he begins to play matchmaker with unpredictable results….**

Julia Cameron is also the author of several books about writing, including The Artists’ Way.

(**Text from book's fly leaf.)