Booklist
- A Tapestry of Diversity
FAITH FOR BEGINNERS│ Aaron Hamburger│ FIC
Helen Michaelson, a daughter of Russian immigrants, designs a trip to Israel for her cancer-ridden husband and son Jeremy, a gay NYU student and recent attempted-suicide survivor, hoping that Jeremy will reclaim his faith. The family’s time in Israel weaves unexpected turns into their lives.
BELOVED│ Toni Morrison│ FIC, Q, CASS, CD
Having had the fabric of her life destroyed by slavery, Sethe is haunted by the death of her young daughter, Beloved. She is unable to free herself from horror-ridden memories until she has a chance encounter with Paul, another slavery survivor who helps Sethe reclaim and redesign her life.
GILEAD│ Marilynne Robinson│ FIC, Q, CASS, CD
In 1956, aging 76- year- old Rev. John Ames of Gilead, Iowa writes his life story for his 6- year- old son, interlacing his father’s and grandfather’s lives. His writings span vanishing prairie towns and world wars. Rev. Ames’ simple meditations weave an insightful tapestry, as threads of life flow from generation to generation.
THE MATTER OF GRACE│Jessica Barksdale Inclan│ FIC
Four swim club friends’ lives intertwine, and as the fabric of each falls apart: Felice’s troubled marriage, Helen’s affair with a younger man, Stella’s surprise pregnancy, and Grace’s cancer relapse and suspected eating disorder, readers will be kept guessing through the knots and twists and broken threads of intricate female relationships.
7 DAYS AT THE HOT CORNER│ Terry Trueman│ YA
Eighteen- year- old Scott Latimer’s best friend reveals that he’s gay. Scott struggles with his own patterns of belief and prejudices, as well as those of others, and worries that he might have contracted AIDS after a batting cage accident.
LEFT TO TELL: DISCOVERING GOD AMIDST THE RWANDAN HOLOCAUST│ Immaculee Ilibagiza │ B
As a 22- year- old Tutsi in Rwanda, Immaculee, hidden in a bathroom for 91 days, witnessed neighbor killing neighbor. Today she speaks of her survival as true testimony to the saving power of God and devotes her life to weaving a tapestry of understanding and forgiveness among the people of the world.
WOMEN OF THE SILK│ Gail Tsukiyama│ FIC
Sent to work in a Chinese silk factory, Pei and her best friend Lin, decide to go through a ceremony in which they pledge their lives to spinning silk rather than marrying. Into this touching story of the bonds of sisterhood is woven a beautiful tapestry of rural life in China, even in the midst of political turmoil.
BLISS: A NOVEL│ Zulfu Livaneli ; Cigdem Aksoy Fromm (Trans.)│ FIC
Raped by her uncle, the sheikh, and disgraced, 15- year- old Meryem is taken to Istanbul by her cousin who by design is ordered to kill her. Instead, they seek refuge and meet an Iranian professor who offers them a job on his boat. After this offer, the pattern of their lives changes dramatically.
AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN│ Howard Fast │ FIC
Family matriarch Barbara Lavette returns to Europe and Israel and confronts intricately woven personal challenges. Her final years of life are interlaced with family, friends, a new lover and a time to face death. This moving story of ever- evolving life changes is rich in character and ethnicity.
THE FAITH CLUB: A MUSLIM, A CHRISTIAN,A ND A JEW-THREE WOMEN SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING│ Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner│201.5 NF, Q
Three women decided to write a children’s book designed to foster understanding of the common threads interwoven in their religions. What they didn’t realize was that they would first have to deal with their differences, which they do in this candid interfaith dialogue, thus unveiling a tapestry of commonality.
ND 9/07
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