LOOK FOR THE RED BINDER
A bright, red 3-ring binder is now available in the Pennswood library to orient you to the 173 books written by resident authors.
Thanks to our “readers” (Sally Burkman, Pat Cautilli, Louise Dunham, Gaby Kopelman, Judy Toohey, Karolyn Tucker) and our editor (Kathy Hoff), you can now quickly peruse a list to find what you’re interested in. Many thanks too to Caroline Swain, Library Committee Chair and her many volunteers. “Resident Authors” books are just to the right of the “New Books” section, facing the library entrance across from the Bistro (on the other side of a low wall).
What will you find among our resident authors and poets?
Autobiographies: an internationally famous landscape architect, a memoir of a childhood growing up in India during WWII, life in NYC and London (1933 -2012), a childhood under Hitler
Biographies: stories about Princeton baseball coach Bill Clarke, about a Mayan explorer and archeologist, about the first successful heart surgeon, about a Philadelphia shipping magnate, about a forestry pioneer who founded the first free U.S. TB sanitarium, about a Scottish American minister/educator, farmer/slaveholder and Founding Father, and others
Children’s fiction: tales from Western Ireland, cat stories and others
Fiction & Short Stories: Mayan folktales, rites of passage, the Depression years
Humor: Henry Martin, Henry Martin, Henry Martin (including 68,647 cartoons from The New Yorker)
Non-fiction: A broad-range from a mother’s struggles to accept a gay son, history of the income tax, religion for agnostics, geriatric secrets, the psychological impact of physical abuse of children, the art and craft of quilting, Arab philosophy of the medieval Muslim world, pointillist history and numismatics, history of the modern world, remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, analysis of Anais Nin’s works, Dutch floral tiles and Delft ceramics, Shakespeare’s women and more
Poetry: Anne Baber, Elaine Ferrara, Phyllis Purscell, John Wood and others
I double-dare you to take a peek and not find something on those shelves that surprises you, delights you, peeks your interest! Come and browse—and be astonished at the richness of our Pennswood peers.
(Marguerite Chandler, for the Quakerism Committee)