Roberta Brown-Jones – Nederland Community Library

On to New Frontiers

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GREAT TRAVEL RESOURCES AT NCL In my last coIumn I thought it appropriate to encourage everyone to take advantage of the great travel resources available through NCL’s print collection and our e-resources in Overdrive and 3M. ...by Roberta Brown-Jones

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LOVE LESSONS The Course of Love provides an honest, wise, and hilarious depiction of love and relationships.. ...by Roberta Brown-Jones

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ECONOMICS LESSONS Economics in Wonderland is a hybrid work that combines short explanatory segments on different issues like wealth inequality, free trade, and student debt, accompanied by cartoons visually amplifying the same subjects. ...by Roberta Brown-Jones

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SOLAR BONES A reverie on all the tiny details that accrete to create a life ...by Roberta Brown-Jones

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SHARING SOME RECOMMENDATIONS over the past few weeks, my reading list has swelled. I get my reading choices from a variety of sources: the New Yorker magazine’s interviews with authors and book reviews, books that look interesting to me as they cross the NCL circulation desk, and books that patrons come in saying is “the best book I’ve read in a very long time.” ...by Roberta Brown-Jones

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ONE IS GOOD, TWO IS ENOUGH Alan Weisman’s 2013 book, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? is a book that should be read by all who wish to support sustaining a planet worth living on. ...by Roberta Brown-Jones

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MEDITATIONS ON LIFE, DEATH, AND GRIEF Written by French author Maylis de Kerangal and translated by Sam Taylor, The Heart is a study of death, grief and the fine-tuned process of organ donation and transplantation. The book was included on a short list of Bill Gates’s top five books for summer reading. Gates, not usually a fan of fiction, calls The Heart “poetry disguised as a novel,” a fitting description....by Roberta Brown-Jones

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Good Morning, Midnight by Lilly Brooks-Dalton Brooks-Dalton’s novel is an exploration of what the experience of being the last survivors of a devastated planet would be. She examines the idea of where to find meaning when one knows there is no society to share knowledge with and no foreseeable possibility of leaving a legacy for anyone.....by Roberta Brown-Jones

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The Wonderful World of Lynda.com If you’re interested in learning some new skills but don’t want to have to spend money, be sure to check out Lynda.com....by Roberta Brown-Jones

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The DIVIDE: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi Taibbi was compelled to try to find answers to the question of how and why justice is administered so unequally in the United States....by Roberta Brown-Jones