Local Author
A Ditch in Time, by Patty Limerick. The board chair for the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado traces the history of the Denver Water Department. Sounds dry, but it’s a rather juicy read. If you use water anywhere along the Front Range, you have a stake in this story. Limerick will speak and sign copies on Oct. 11 at the Nederland Library.
Fiction
The Life of Objects, by Susanna Moore. A young Irish lace-maker goes to live with a German family. Wrinkle: She arrives at the dawn of World War II.
Winter of the World, by Ken Follett. Another door-stopping epic from the author of “the Pillars of the Earth” and “World Without End.”
Beautiful Lies, by Clare Clark. A mysterious woman moves through Victorian-era London’s elite circles. Is she honest about her past? Hmm…
Thriller
The Cutting Season, by Attica Locke. Breakout star Locke knows her way around a Louisiana murder mystery. Her latest is set post-Katrina.
Black Fridays, by Michael Sears. Lies. Greed. Corruption. Murder! What could be more rewarding than Wall Street mayhem?
Biography/Memoir
I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, by Sylvie Simmons. He’s one of the most influential songwriters ever. Simmons, a music journalist, digs deep into his life.
Michael Douglas, by Marc Eliot. Douglas is talented, complicated and extraordinarily successful. What makes him tick?
My Mother Was Nuts, by Penny Marshall. From learning to tap dance as a child in the Bronx to directing huge movies like “Big,” Laverne DeFazio tells all.
History
The Devil’s Causeway, by Matthew Westfall. A daring mission to rescue American prisoners of war held in the Philippines in 1899.
John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger. OK, so he’s no Lincoln. But JQA had quite a life. Unger, an award-winning historian, spells it out.
