Norwich Public Library
December Books & DVDs
Just arrived: great reads & DVDs. You can check availability and place holds on items you want at our online library catalog. Happy holidays to you and yours from Norwich Public Library!
New Books

Featured fiction:

by Richard Flanagan

 

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014

 

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.


Fiction

Panic in a Suitcase, Yelena Akhtiorskaya

The Happiest People in the World, Brock Clarke

The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber

*The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

Let Me Be Frank with You, Richard Ford

Gray Mountain, John Grisham

A Map of Betrayal, Ha Jin

The Laughing Monsters, Denis Johnson

Redeployment, Phil Klay 

Mermaids in Paradise, Lydia Millet

The Forgers, Bradford Morrow

The Siege, Arturo P�rez-Reverte

Lila, Marilynne Robinson

Citizens Creek, Lalita Tademy


Science Fiction        

The Peripheral, William Gibson

The Slow Regard of Silent Things Patrick Rothfus

Featured non-fiction:

 

by Atul Gawande

 

Being Mortal, the fourth book from Boston surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande (The Checklist Manifesto), displays the precision of his surgical craft and the compassion of a humanist in a frank and often emotionally powerful examination of the burden of mortality. Read the rest of the Shelf Awareness review here. 

Non-Fiction

Small Victories, Anne Lamott

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life

 

Travel

Rick Steves' Ireland 2015

 

New DVDs

Featured DVD


(New DVDs continued)
  

Breathless        

Case Histories  

The Lake House

*The Newsroom - season 2

LUV Collection

These DVDs are from the rotating Librarians of the Upper Valley (LUV) video collection available until January 10th


 

I am Sam         

After the Thin Man       

All the King's Men (Penn)        

All the King's Men (Crawford)  

Another Thin Man        

The Bad Mother's Handbook      

Blindsight       

Blue Caprice

The Botany of Desire    

Broken City      

Nova Science Now        

Changeling      

Charlie Wilson's war    

Cherry Blossoms          

Circus 

Cold Weather   

The Colors of the Mountain      

Conan O'Brien: Can't stop

Contraband      

Courageous     

The Cove         

Crazy, Stupid, Love       

The Crown Prince         

Dark Shadows  

Galapagos        

Gunner Palace 

Hell on Wheels 

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

The Lost Prince 

Salt     

Shadow of the Thin Man           

Song of the Thin Man   

A Tale of Two Pizzas     

Talk to Me       

Talking to Heaven        

The Thin Man Goes Home         

The Thin Man 

The Third Man 

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Wheel of Time  

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights      
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