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IN the European Parliament yesterday it was only the two British National Party MEPs and a handful of other more enlightened delegates that saw an ulterior motive in a resolution calling for more co-operation between member states to fight forest fires.
But the motion was not really about forest fires at all, but more about exploiting the sympathy felt for the Greeks and other southern Europeans who have suffered so much from this problem this summer, to provide cover for a further advance of the federal superstate project.
In a briefing with other nationalist MEPs before the debate, Nick Griffin warned:
“This is a typical EU Trojan Horse proposal. Under the guise of dealing with terrible forest fires, it essentially pushes forward the creation of the uniformed European Civil Protection Force (ECPF).
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The hopelessly naive and ill-informed Tory group joined the socialists to vote in favour and the resolution was carried by 647 votes to 31. So supposedly Euro-realist British MPs voted in favour of speeding up the creating of the European Civil Protection Force – the latest step on the road to a United Europe. It’s something that would be rejected by British voters if they were given the chance to have their say on the issue.
In his debut speech to the European Parliament Andrew Brons, the British National Party MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, explained his reasons for voting against the motion:
“I voted to oppose this Joint Motion for Resolution, despite the fact that I agree with European countries co-operating voluntarily to prevent, fight and repair the appalling damage caused by forest fires.
“However, I object to the creation of European Union bodies that would exercise power over member states in areas that are wider than necessary to deal with this problem.
“This proposal is exploiting admirable humanitarian responses to the appalling tragedies that we have seen, in order to take further steps towards the creation of the European Protection Force.”


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Orlando was the worst mass shooting in US history. It looks set to become the most politically charged as well.
On Monday British columnist Owen Jones walked out on a Sky News interview about the massacre after a heated exchange in which the hosts refused to acknowledge that the attack was specifically targeted at the LGBT community.
Indeed there was something peculiar about the hosts’ insistence that Orlando was an attack on “the freedom of all people to try and enjoy themselves”.
The problem is that this attack presses so many buttons. First, it’s yet another mass-shooting in a country now notorious for them. Second, there’s the home-grown terrorism angle, with the killer invoking ISIS. Third, it is undeniably a specific attack on a gay nightclub, with unconfirmed reports from patrons that they had seen the killer in the same bar a dozen times before.
When responding to a tragedy, people generally and the media in particular turn to pre-existing narratives to inform their responses. And despite the obviously homophobic nature of this attack, mass murder of homosexuals is simply not a common or contemporary narrative for the public to adopt.
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Are barges moving on the Mississippi River?
More than a thousand barges — many of them likely carrying corn or soybeans — can now resume their trip along the Mississippi River after traffic was stopped due to a cracked bridge near Memphis, Tenn., according to a statement released by the U.S. Coast Guard.
How many barges are backed up on the Mississippi River?
A crack in a bridge over the Mississippi River has stranded more than 700 barges, cutting off the biggest route for U.S. agricultural exports when the critical waterway is at its busiest.
Why are barges used on the Mississippi River?
About half of the barge traffic on the Mississippi River involves the shipping of grain that is loaded onto ships traveling down to the Gulf of Mexico for overseas transport. Thousands of barges are used to carry grain down the Mississippi River to the Port of South Louisiana.
How big are the barges on the Mississippi River?
Most barges are built for specific cargoes. For dry cargo they average 1,500 tons capacity and measure 195 feet (60 metres) long by 35 feet (10 metres) wide; for liquid cargo the proportions are about 2,500 tons capacity and 295 feet (90 metres) by 50 feet (15 metres).
How far can shipping barges go up the Mississippi?
Lower Mississippi Louis to the Port of New Orleans has no locks or dams and allows barges up to 7×6 or 42 barge units per tow. Oceangoing ships with drafts of 45 feet and height clearances over 150 feet can navigate the waters up to Baton Rouge.
How far north can barges go on the Mississippi?
The river is 2,340 miles (3,765 kilometers) long. With the Missouri River, the Mississippi forms the world’s third-longest river system. It is navigable by ocean-going vessels from the Gulf to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. North of that location, it is navigable by barges and towboats as far as Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Why was the Mississippi River shut down?
It was shut down more than three weeks ago due to a cracked beam in the span. Buttigieg on Thursday met with regional transportation officials at a FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) facility in Memphis before touring the Hernando De Soto bridge, also called the Mississippi River bridge.
Is the Mississippi River blocked?
Mississippi River reopens near Memphis after shutdown caused barge jam. The Mississippi River reopened to vessel traffic near Memphis on Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The reopening ends a shutdown of a part of the waterway that disrupted shipments of oil and corn and caused a backlog of more than 1,000 barges.
How long does it take a barge to go down the Mississippi river?
The crew carefully planned the route; they would spend 14 days aboard, running 10 to 11 hours a day at around 10 miles per hour, eventually traveling 1,260 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. They would stop and tie up every night and eat dinners out.
How deep is the Mississippi River at its deepest point?
200′Mississippi River / Max depth
From its source, Lake Itasca, to its end, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River drops 1,475 feet. The deepest point on the Mississippi River is located near Algiers Point in New Orleans and is 200 feet in depth.
How fast do barges go on the Mississippi?
Description: The dimensions of the vessel are 241 feet by 58 feet with an 8- foot draft and height of 51.5 feet above the design water line. A towing speed of 8 miles per hour with 16 loaded mat barges and a running speed of 15 miles per hour with light boat in slack water was specified.
How long does it take a barge to go down the Mississippi River?
Is there a crack in the Mississippi bridge?
A bridge that crosses the Mississippi River has reopened after undergoing three months of repairs due to a crack in the support beam, multiple news outlets reported.
Can barges go under the Memphis bridge?
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – The United States Coast Guard Heartland says the waterway restriction near the I-40 bridge is lifted. The restriction lifted Friday, came after days of closure due to a crack found in the bridge. USCG says boats and barges are now permitted to cross under the I-40 bridge.
How deep is a river barge?
A standard barge is 35 feet wide and 195 feet long. It is 12 feet deep and sinks nine feet below the surface when loaded, pushing through the water like a brick.

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The heavy construction industry is sending its feedback on the way Manitoba Infrastructure wants to roll out the construction contracts for the Lake Manitoba/Lake St. Martin outlet channels.
Construction on the channels is expected to begin this fall.
“We think there could be adjustments to how the projects are rolled out in construction contracts, in terms of size and scheduling,” MHCA President Chris Lorenc said.
The MHCA’s early discussions with MI about what the contracts will look like, in terms of size and components was a topic at the association’s Executive Committee meeting August 25. MHCA will send the industry’s suggestions to MI and ask for further talks, prior to the finalization of the tenders.
“It is important that the industry and the government are working together to ensure that MI sees a vigorous, competitive bid process for this vitally important project,” Lorenc said.
Construction of the channels is expected to commence this fall. The $540-million project, https://www.gov.mb.ca/mit/wms/lmblsmoutlets/overview/index.html cost-shared between Canada and Manitoba, is expected to have the channels in operation by 2024.
The Executive Committee, meeting in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic triggered business closures in 2020, also heard that a provincial advisory committee on the Quarry Rehab Program has been meeting and discussions are proceeding well.
There are options being discussed on how to improve the Quarry Rehabilitation Program, incorporating changes that were recommended in the Auditor General’s report that was released in 2020. The Auditor General’s Office did a review of the program in response to provincial department concerns about financial management.
Among the options being discussed is putting the program in control of third-party management, although provincial government support would be on-going.
Recommendations from the advisory committee are expected to be submitted to Agriculture and Resource Development Minister Ralph Eichler later this year.
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- The WCR&HCA is working with the Business Council of Manitoba, Canadian Construction Association and Economic Development Canada to host a planning session next month to discuss advancing a proposal for a Western Canada Trade Gateways & Corridors program, and how that would support national objectives.
- The RM of Springfield continues to consider its proposed new aggregate bylaw, having received feedback from the MHCA and aggregate producer members. The RM is looking at further water-related studies prior to further consideration.
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Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)/HBR004: Hubbard Brook Soil Temperature, Snow, and FrostEntry ID: LTER_HBR004
Abstract: LTER - Long-Term Ecological Research Program/Hubbard Brook
Experimental Forest (HBEF).
Soil temperature data have been collected approximately weekly at one
location in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) since 1959.
Sensors are replicated (1 and 2) at depths of 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24,
and 36 inches. The sensors are Colman temperature-moisture units.
Snow course data have ... been collected approximately weekly at a network
of standard rain gauges at the HBEF from 1956 to the present when
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consists of the average of 10 points measuring snow depth and water
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frost is measured. The two depths are averaged.
The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) is a 3,160 hectare
reserve dedicated to the long-term study of forest and stream
ecosystems. Located in the White Mountain National Forest of New
Hampshire, the HBEF was established in 1955 and is operated by the
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Start Date: 1956-01-01
AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE
CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > FROST
CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW COVER
CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > FROST
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW COVER
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH
LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE
SOLID EARTH > GEOCHEMISTRY > BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
Distribution Media: on-line, WWW
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Email: cfederer at asrr.arsusda.gov
Email: cfederer at lternet.edu
U.S. Forest Service NE Forest Experiment Station P.O. Box 640
Province or State: NH
Postal Code: 03824
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Email: gsfc-gcmduso at mail.nasa.gov
Bormann, F. H.; G. E. Likens. 1979. "Pattern and Process in a Forested
Ecosystem". Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 253 pp.
Federer, C. A. 1973. "Annual cycles of soil and water temperatures at
Hubbard Brook". U.S. Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment
Station, Research Note NE-167, 7 pp.
Federer, C. A.; L. D. Flynn; C. W. Martin; J. W. Hornbeck; R. S.
Pierce. 1990. "Thirty years of hydrometeorologic data at the Hubbard
Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire". USDA Forest Service,
General Technical Report NE141, 44 pp.
Likens, G. E.; F. H. Bormann; R. S. Pierce; J. S. Eaton; N. M.
Johnson. 1977. "Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem".
Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 146 pp.
See also: http://www.hubbardbrook.org/research/pubs/hbrbib.htm
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Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of beam sensitive weak-phase objects such as biological cryo samples usually show a very low signal-to-noise ratio. These samples have almost no amplitude contrast and instead structural information is mainly encoded in the phase contrast. To increase the sample contrast in the image, especially for low spatial frequencies, the use of phase plates for close to focus phase contrast enhancement in TEM has long been discussed. Electrostatic phase plates are favorable in particular, as their tunable potential will allow an optimal phase shift adjustment and higher resolution than film phase plates as they avoid additional scattering events in matter. Here we show the first realization of close to focus phase contrast images of actin filament cryo samples acquired using an electrostatic Zach phase plate. Both positive and negative phase contrast is shown, which is obtained by applying appropriate potentials to the phase plate. The dependence of phase contrast improvement on sample orientation with respect to the phase plate is demonstrated and single-sideband artifacts are discussed. Additionally, possibilities to reduce contamination and charging effects of the phase plate are shown.
Zach phase plates (PPs) are promising devices to enhance phase contrast in transmission electron microscopy. The Zach PP shifts the phase of the zero-order beam by a strongly localized inhomogeneous electrostatic potential in the back focal plane of the objective lens. We present substantial improvements of the Zach PP, which overcome previous limitations. The implementation of a microstructured heating device significantly reduces contamination and charging of the PP structure and extends its lifetime. An improved production process allows fabricating PPs with reduced dimensions resulting in lower cut-on frequencies as revealed by simulations of the electrostatic potential. Phase contrast with inversion of PbSe nanoparticles is demonstrated in a standard transmission electron microscope with LaB6 cathode by applying different voltages.
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The Australian Institute of Architects has expressed its disappointment that a long-term vision and sense of urgency for the two biggest issues affecting the nation’s built environment – climate change and the housing-affordability crisis – is not shared by all parties.
After a six-week campaign, the Institute remains committed to its Federal Election Policy Statement A Time For Action, which called for greater action to accelerate a net-zero economy, a long-term plan for housing, and greater integrity in government.
National President Tony Giannone said climate change and housing were continually nominated as key issues for the Australian public, but they were not being addressed sufficiently by all incumbent or aspiring political leaders.
“Our member survey revealed architects believe climate change was the most critical issue facing Australia, with housing a close second,” he said.
“Architects want to protect the future of the built environment. That’s why many of us are so passionate about making sure we usher in a low-carbon system as soon as possible. We need a responsible framework for us to ensure we reduce emissions from the building and construction industries, which make up about 38% of global emissions.
“We are disappointed climate change has not been more of an issue in the policy debate this election campaign.”
The Time For Action agenda called for greater investment for ARENA, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and universities to accelerate the decarbonisation of buildings and infrastructure. Under the policy platform, this would occur together with a national resilience policy, faster implementation of the Trajectory for Low Energy Buildings, and enhanced sustainability requirements in the National Construction Code.
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The Institute has called for inclusionary zoning with incentives.
“We want a better future for Australia and Australians,” Mr Giannone said. “We believe this can happen by delivering on a carefully thought-out plans for greater sustainability and affordability in our built environment.”
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Farm owners and other businesses who signed up to the botched scheme were scathing in their criticism as they gave evidence to a Westminster committee.
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The committee is holding an inquiry into the proposed reductions.
Mr Osborne told members: “It’s creating a real air of negativity in terms of ever getting involved in any similar schemes going forward.”
The RHI was designed to encourage businesses and farmers to switch to eco-friendly wood pellet boilers by offering a subsidy to buy the sustainable fuel.
But errors in its design meant applicants were paid more than it actually cost them to buy pellets.
A public inquiry into the scheme which triggered the collapse of Stormont in 2017 is due to report in the coming months.
Committee chairman Dr Andrew Murrison said any trend back to fossil fuels would be seen as “regressive” and potentially embarrassing for the government.
“The optics of reverting back to fossil fuels at such a time when we are laying into China for building coal fire power stations are frankly not very good,” he said.
Thomas Douglas, a UFU board member and broiler chicken producer for Moy Park, said the poultry industry in Northern Ireland was in danger of becoming a “backwater”.
He said local producers would no longer be able to compete with counterparts in the Irish Republic and Great Britain, where higher renewable subsidies were on offer.
“At the time, RHI was available and a number of us availed of that,” he said.
“In hindsight, we should never have bothered and put gas in and just burnt fossil fuels – we would have been far better off.”
He added: “It’s the end of the trust with government when it comes to looking at renewables and offering incentives to put renewables in.
“Because we have now learnt that you don’t trust government when they say, ‘You sign up to this, we’ll guarantee you 20 years’. Who’s going to do it?
“And that’s not the biggest problem. What bank is going to lend money to anybody ... on the strength of a renewable payment going forward when they have done this backward step with RHI?”


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"I am not sure if I am deserving of this award," I said once again when going up to the podium to receive recognition for which I have worked years. The following day, a medical student during rounds expressed how happy she was to be on my team, and I followed with the phrase "There are better teams in the hospital than ours."
Those phrases are common when you are suffering from impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. According to an article in the Harvard Business Review, "'Imposters' suffer from chronic self-doubt and a sense of intellectual fraudulence that override any feelings of success or external proof of their competence."
I have suffered from impostor syndrome since my medical school years, and at times it has become debilitating to the point of making me feel paralyzed when facing a new opportunity. Questions like "Do I belong here?" "They made a mistake, right? I don't deserve this" have invaded my thoughts and taken away the joy of new achievements. On many occasions, I have let my impostor syndrome undermine my accomplishments. I still remember crying in the bathroom of a very prestigious institution because I felt like an impostor when giving the keynote address of a statewide conference. I was crying because I had the fear that I would be discovered, and they would notice that I was not the right person for that keynote address.
I have way too many stories like these, in which I felt like an impostor doing what I love the most: caring for patients and conducting research.
Why Do We Suffer From Impostor Syndrome?
In my case, it is multifactorial. I am a woman of color in a system designed by the majority group that does not resemble me. Walking through hallways full of pictures of people that don't look like me reminds me every day that this place was not (or is not) welcoming of people like me. Family background is also a cause of impostor syndrome. As the daughter of two surgeons, impostor syndrome was rooted in my family dynamics, in which we value achievement above all else. Other causes of impostor syndrome include personality traits, a new environment (new job or position), social anxiety, and negative interactions with superiors or leaders in your field.
What Are the Consequences of Impostor Syndrome?
This is unique to each person, but what I have seen in myself and colleagues is that we hold ourselves to higher standards that are impossible to reach, and the sense of failure becomes an everyday practice. You end up working harder, for longer hours than your colleagues, to balance the feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence.
Impostor syndrome has been associated with anxiety, rumination, and depression, and in the case of academic medicine, it can force the person to leave academia. It can be tough to fight self-doubt when working in a system where grants, publications, and other accomplishments are considered currency.
In my case, procrastination has been a negative response to my impostor syndrome. I often make paella in the middle of a workday for no other reason than to decrease the chances of feeling like an impostor that day.
I have not been able to get rid of my impostor syndrome, but I have learned how to control it during times of stress. It all started with a Post-it note on my computer screen saying, "You belong," or writing on my hand before a big presentation, "You are not an impostor."
But it wasn't until I asked myself, "Must I be perfect for others to approve of me?" that I was able to move forward. To get past impostor syndrome, you need to start asking yourself some hard questions. I have to become comfortable confronting some deeply ingrained beliefs that I hold about myself. I started questioning my thoughts of self-doubt and sharing my feelings with colleagues. Realizing that I was not alone feeling like an impostor helped me be kind to myself.
The journey is long, and I am far from overcoming impostor syndrome, but I now know that I belong in medicine and try to help others in the same situation. If you see someone who seems awkward or alone, ask that person a question to bring them into the group because that person may be suffering from impostor syndrome as you do. We are stronger together, and we can't let impostor syndrome cut our wings before we learn how to fly.
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Mystery letter halted smartcards
Cape Town - An anonymous letter, received by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), stopped the department of home affairs' so-called Smart ID Card (SIDC) project in its tracks, MPs heard on Tuesday.
The contents of the letter, and the allegations it contains, will not be known before the end of June, when a forensic audit report into the matter is finalised.
Briefing members of Parliament's home affairs portfolio committee, Sita acting chief executive officer Ramabele Magoma-Nthite said the letter, received on September 9 2008, had made allegations about "serious flaws with regards to the evaluation of the Sita tender" for the card.
"Pursuant to the anonymous letter, Sita, on September 10 2008, halted the tender process, with a view to finalise (an) Auditor General's report on compliance with agreed-upon procedures," she said.
In May 2008, home affairs asked Sita to publish a tender for the long-awaited SIDC, which was approved by Cabinet in July 2001.
Tender evaluation process
Following receipt of the AG's report, the agency then decided, in December 2008, to start a forensic investigation. This had commenced in February last year, and led to the cancellation of the tender process six months later.
Responding to questions about the contents of the anonymous letter, Sita chair Zodwa Manase said among the allegations it made were some relating to the tender evaluation process.
"On the anonymous letter... the allegations that were made are being investigated... Some of the issues that were raised there were about the evaluation process, which involved not only Sita people... (but also) home affairs people and (others).
"The evaluation committee is made up of people from various departments and hence it made allegations about certain things that happened there.
"The full report will actually bring all those details, but it was just saying that the process has not been followed properly.
"It mentioned... that in the beginning, the evaluation committee was made up of 10 people but in the end there were four people.
"There were allegations that some people did not resign, although it's alleged they resigned, so this is the investigation that is being done, to determine if some of the things that are alleged there are true," she said.
Report not available immediately
Manase later added that there were "other irregularities" mentioned in the letter, but did not explain what these were. She declined to give further details, saying these were contained in the final report, "which will be finalised by the end of June".
At least one MP expressed frustration about the final audit report not being immediately available, as well as the lack of information on the contents of the anonymous letter.
Democratic Alliance MP Masizole Mnqasela started to say that he thought there was "something big awaiting us" in the forensic report, but he was quickly shut down by committee chairperson Ben Martins, who told Mnqasela he was speculating.
Project to restart in 2011
According to a Parliament Research Unit document tabled at the briefing, and dated February 22 this year, the long delays in launching the SIDC project may result in an unexpected halving of costs.
"The costs of smartcard technology have come down quite drastically... driven by many factors, such as the proliferation of cellular phone SIM cards.
"Furthermore, the entrance of China into the production of SIM cards has had global impacts on the cost structure of the technology.
"As a result, the current ID card project is expected to cost, at most, about 50% of the original R2bn anticipated by the department of home affairs," the document states.
Earlier this month, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told journalists at Parliament that plans to produce the smart ID - which will contain an individual's personal information on a card the size of a credit card - would start up again next year.

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Latitude: 52.3426 / 52°20'33"N
Longitude: -0.7392 / 0°44'20"W
OS Eastings: 485992
OS Northings: 272366
OS Grid: SP859723
Mapcode National: GBR CWM.5Y3
Mapcode Global: VHDRP.4CLZ
Entry Name: 10, the Green
Listing Date: 13 May 1986
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1371747
English Heritage Legacy ID: 233566
Location: Orlingbury, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN14
Civil Parish: Orlingbury
Built-Up Area: Orlingbury
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Orlingbury St Mary
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ORLINGBURY THE GREEN
SP87SE, SP8672 (North side)
2/282, 13/282 No.10
School and house, now one dwelling. Mid C19. Probably by R.C. Hussey. Squared
coursed lias with ashlar dressings and slate roof. L-shape plan, in Tudor style.
House: single storey with attic. Entrance front of 2-window range to right of
dormers with 2-light stone-mullioned windows. 3-light stone-mullioned windows at
ground floor with arch head lights. One-window range to right is former school
with similar 2-light windows. Central C19 plank door has moulded stone surround
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gabled porch to left and projecting gable to right with 9-light stone-mullioned
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Welcome to the 17th annual Bates College Store "Good Reads" list!
We invite you to browse and enjoy. We hope you'll find the perfect summer reading on this list. As always, we are eager to hear your thoughts!
Receiving 3 or more recommendations on the 17th annual list!
Bring Up the Bodies (Hillary Mandel)
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
Hunger Games Trilogy (Suzanne Collins)
My Beloved World (Sonya Sotomayor)
Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward)
State of Wonder (Ann Patchett)
Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)
When We Were the Kennedys (Monica Wood)
Wild (Cheryl Strayed)
Submissions are listed alphabetically by surname of the submitter. In an effort to conserve paper, we have condensed the list with very little regard for design or spacing! We apologize for overcrowding, typographical errors or other misrepresentations.
Speaks the Nightbird, The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter, The
Providence Rider by Robert McCammon
This is a mystery series set in the early 1700's. Young Matthew Corbett starts out as Clerk to a Magistrate in South Carolina, and ends up as a "Problem Solver" (i.e. detective) in New York City. The characters are well-developed and quirky, the mysteries are compelling, and Matthew himself is young, witty and finding his way as we all do - maybe less gracefully than some of us do. It does get violent, but otherwise it's a fun series.
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
Another mystery with some biology in it. A young scientist who works for a drug devo company goes off to the jungles of Brazil to find her Ph.D. mentor who has disappeared there. The mentor is supposed to be developing a drug that the company has great interest in. Discovering what she is actually doing proves to be quite an adventure. It kept me reading on a long plane ride, although it was not my favorite read of the year.
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
I liked this book way more than I thought I would. It's a true story about the author, a journalist who gets interested in exploring memory (mostly because his own is so bad) and sets off to learn more about the people who compete in "memory competitions" (you know, the folks who can memorize the random order of a deck of cards or a list of 2000 times in 3 minutes). So ultimately Foer decides to compete himself (and describing his year of preparation makes up a good part of the book), but first he describes some of the psychology, neurobiology and experiential stuff that we know about the brain, memory and learning. It was an easy, interesting read with a conclusion that made me feel good about my own (somewhat questionable) memory.
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
This is the second in Follet's Century Trilogy (the first is Fall of Giants) and it picks up where the first book left off. Follett follows 5 families from America, Germany, Wales, Russia and England through WWI in the first book and WWII in the second installment. With these strangely connected families, we see the Nazis, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of women, the atomic bombs, and much more. This is the kind of historical fiction that takes you through the high points through the eyes of fictional characters (which is probably like learning about virology by reading "The Demon in the Freezer", but I'm OK with that). The trilogy is typical of Follett's epic novels, and I will certainly read the third part when it comes out.
Lee Abrahamsen, Associate Professor of Biology
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life--until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive?
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
I laughed, cried and thought at times, I was losing my mind too.
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillmanby Jon Krakauer
Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born. But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably more complicated than the public knew...
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Don Fendler and Joseph B. Egan
I read this with my 8 year old and recommend it to all Mainiacs!
Sheila Anderson, Asst. Director, Operations and Analysis, Bates Career Dev. Center
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth. A multi-generational novel tracing the melancholy fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Martin Andrucki, Professor of Theater
I just read the sweetest little book. It's Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott. Not deep, just a quick, uplifting, rambling set of thoughts about what praying means to the author.
Jenny Bergeron (lab rat with us this spring/summer) recommends Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
I'm reading the Sonya Sotomayor autobiography My Beloved World which I am enjoying very much. I completely related to her experience being the first generation in her family to go to college.
Linda Archambault, Lab Research Assistant, Dana Chemistry
I thought the three books by Oliver Potzsch about the hangman's daughter were a fun read. Mystery books which they take place during a bloody time in Europe's history.
The Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughters Tale
The Poisoned Pilgrim: A Hangman's Daughters Tale
The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughters Tale
Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, Associate Professor, Department of Politics
Chris Ware, Building Stories
John Baughman, Associate Professor of Politics/Advisor to the President
Lisa Genova, Bates grad, is an incredible writer. Still Alice and Left Neglected would still be recommended by me, and now her third novel, Love, Anthony...is a wonderful read. You literally can't put her books down, they are written with such style and knowledge that it is hard to believe they are fiction...I highly recommend all three books.
As always, anything written by Tess Gerritsen if you like murder mysteries...and she lives in Maine!
Jane Bedard, Admission Office Specialist-Operations
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Four Hour Work Weekby Timothy Ferriss
Stardust(audiobook) Written and Narrated by Neil Gaiman
Ulysses (audiobook) Written by James Joyce, Narrated by Jim Norton
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Rachel Boggia, Assistant Professor of Dance
Here are two suggestions from my Hungarian summer:
Dezső Kosztolányi, Skylark (NYRB Classics 2010)
Sándor Márai, Embers (Vintage 2002)
Raluca Cernahoschi, Assistant Professor of German
When We Were the Kennedy's by Monica Wood
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
Kristen Cloutier, HCCP, Asst. Director of Center Operations
This is my lone recommendation:
Nurture Shock:New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Emily Merryman
Daphne Comeau, Administrative Assistant, Annual Giving
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Harrowing and deeply committed work that crosses genres and media, between Hedges' impassioned histories/interviews and Sacco's graphic-novel illustrations: native communities in the Dakotas, corrupt and imploding New Jersey urban cores, devastated mountain tops in West Virginia... and it all ends with the Occupy Movement. I'd say it's depressing but it's not: it's a work of passionate energy and truth-telling.
Geoff Dyer, Zona. Any Tarkovsky fans out there? Watch Stalker and then read this amazing book.... scene-by-scene and marvelous digressions that take you deep into the movie and into Dyer's life and sensibility.
Cheryl Strayed, Wild. Much more about the wilderness in Strayed's troubled soul than the wilderness of the Pacific Crest Trail, but a great and funny read, especially when she's falling over because she can't pick up her 100-pound backpack.
Jane Costlow, Clark A. Griffiths Professor of Environmental Studies
Blackout/All Clear (published two volumes) - Connie Willis
The last two (of four) books in the Oxford Time Travel Series primarily set in WWII during the blitz. (A few years ago Lee A. recommended The Doomsday Book which is the first in this series.)
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
A dystopian novel, originally published in the mid-80s, that explores the subjugation of women.
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Fun book for anyone who loves pop culture and video games from the 1980s.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
An 11-year old aspiring chemist solves a murder.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
A classic worthy of another read.
Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Nonfiction about the 1893 World's Fair and a serial killer.
Grace Coulombe, Director, Mathematics & Statistics Workshop
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. Interesting true story about a young woman with nothing left to lose and her struggle to hike over a 1000 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. Since I am an avid hiker and outdoors person, I especially liked this book but I think anyone can appreciate the difficulties life brings and our efforts to overcome obstacles.
Sisters of the Quilt by Cindy Woodsmall -- trilogy about the pull between Old Order Amish life, Mennonite life and the modern world. Great, well developed characters, interesting story. Easy read.
The Gift of an Ordinary Day, by Katrina Kennison. A mother's memoir about the importance of the seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life.
When Women were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams. Another non-fiction (New Year’s resolution to read more non-fiction...) about a woman finding her voice and paying tribute to her mother and all women. Williams taught a class in non-fiction nature writing last spring at Dartmouth. My daughter remains awestruck.
Karen P. Daigler, Senior Associate Director for Graduate and Professional School Advising
A High Wind in Jamaica (Richard Hughes)
The Judges of the Secret Court (David Stacton)
David Das, Assistant Director of Off-campus Studies
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson...Someone previously recommended this in one of your former lists. It is an excellent portrait of the movement of African Americans out of the deep south to the northern states between WWI and the 1960's.
The Patriarch- the biography of Joseph Kennedy by David Nasaw. A thorough and fascinating history of the Kennedy clan.
The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Connor. The biography of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt and the recovery of some of his stolen works (by the Nazis in WWII.)
Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson. A wonderful look at Hemingway's Cuban years and his special love for his fishing boat Pilar.
Jerry Davis, Class of ‘61
Books I have enjoyed this year include:
Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibigiza
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
When We Were the Kennedys and Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood
Wild by Charyl Strayed
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Marty Deschaines, Assistant Director, HCCP
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It’s the story of a young German girl caught in the path of the advancing Nazi regime during World War II.
The story instantly travels you back to the time of WWII and holds your attention the whole way through. This book has a little bit of something for everyone. At some points it's haunting, some parts are extremely funny, and then of course there is the unbearably sad and heartbreaking parts as well.
Donna Duval, Asst. to AVP for Development
I would not have thought I'd like them but when my nephew recommended the Hunger Games series I started reading them. I found them to be one of the quickest reads as the first person narrative really sucked me in. Although I read The Healing of America by T. R. Reid in 2011, I did not turn it in last year and thought it was worth a mention. If anyone needs convincing how upside down the U.S. Healthcare system is the Healing of America is a must read. The author takes a journey to several other countries to explore how their health system works and what treatment they would recommend and cover for his ailing shoulder. Where he found the care that best suited his needs (and the cost of that care) was an interesting highlight of his journey.
Ken Emerson, Associate Director of Human Resources
Cleo: Helen Brown
It's a true story about life/love and grief after her son dies.
Waterlily: Ella Cara Deloria
A novel on Indian Life (Dakota Sioux) just as the European settlers arrived. Written by a Sioux Enthologist in the 1940's, printed 18 years after her death. A real insight into the beliefs and culture of the Native American.
Princeton Murders: Ann Waldron
Fast moving mystery, great for a vacation. It's about a chance to teach a writing class at Princeton. It has all the diversity in faculty, staff and students all colleges have, making it a good read.
The War Brides: Helen Bryan
A different take on WWII in 1939, when 5 women's lives collide in a sleepy english village.
Knockdown: Sarah Graves
A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery- set in Eastport, ME
White Dog Fell From the Sky: Eleanor Morse
In an intense novel set in 1977, Botswana and South Africa, it brings home the message that our memories, love and hope cannot be beaten out of human spirit.
Melinda Emerson, Purchasing, Sales and Accounting Specialist - ILS
The Man Watching: Anson Dorrance and the UNC Women's Soccer Dynasty by Tim Crothers - A very insightful biography of Anson Dorrance, winner of 21 NCAA National Championship's as Head Coach of the University of North Carolina. A very good read and certainly can be enjoyed by both soccer fans and non-soccer fans. It deals with coaching, leadership, the relationships in sport and some interesting gender issues. Dorrance describes a lot of the differences in leading men and women, and his personal evolution as he adjusted away from leading groups of young men to women. He also gives his account of the Title IX revolution in college sports and admission, and played a key role as the USA rose from newcomers to being a world power in women's soccer.
Stewart Flaherty, Head Coach, Men’s Soccer
Two time-travel novels (one is a sequel of the other) by Connie Willis:
Blackout, and All Clear
They are a wonderful evocation of the time when Britain stood alone against Hitler, before the U.S. joined her in World War II.
Lois Griffiths, Alumna and Retiree
Coe, Lewis. The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States. MacFarland and Company. 2003.
Dray, Philip. Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America. Random House. 2005.
Frost, Randy O. & Gail Steketee. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. Mariner Books. 2012.
Hayes, Christopher. Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy. Crown Publishers. 2012.
Morse, Flo. The Shakers and the World’s People. University Press of New England. 1980.
David Haines, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Here are my two cents on two books:
Ruth Moore, The Weir.
This novel was written in the early 1940s by a wonderful Maine author. Take some time during your summer daydreams about island life to read about families fishing and fighting on a fictional Maine island. The novel is rich with its descriptions of the small details of relationships and the big questions about what holds a community together.
Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs.
Maybe it's because, like me, he's a guy in his 40s with kids just shy of their teens, but I don't think the appeal of these essays is so small. He can write so deftly and eloquently about so many things, and his wit about contemporary life and his wisdom about the complex makes thinking recreational (in both meanings of the word).
Enjoy your reads, and have fun stocking the shelves.
Joe Hall, Associate Professor of History
An echo to what must to be many recommendations for Monica Wood's When We were the Kennedys, phenomenal writing while it captures Maine and a piece of Maine heritage.
Judy Head, Associate Dean of the Faculty
Helen Hamlin, Nine Mile Bridge. A lovely account of far northwestern Maine in the 1920’s as the wife of a game warden.
Barton Gellman, Angler: the Cheney Vice Presidency. An account of Cheney’s profound influence, little understood at the time, on war, the environment, and government finances. In some ways Cheney comes across as less unprincipled—he apparently had no personal financial gain from the Halliburton no-bid contracts in Iraq, for example, when many assumed he got rich from those contracts. But in other ways Cheney profoundly suborned the Republic by secretly sabotaging environmental legislation, creating no-warrant spying on American citizens, no-charges imprisonments at Gitmo, secret CIA prisons, and rewriting tax legislation to lower corporate, income and capital gains taxes that fueled America’s gulfs in income and budget woes.
David Traxel, An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent. An iconic 20th century painter known for his paintings of Monhegan Island, he was also a political radical who paid for his views during the McCarthy era, an unrepentant realist as abstract art became popular, and a most unreliable spouse. Drawn to demanding physical environments, he painted in Alaska and Greenland as well as Maine.
Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein: It's Even Worse Than It Looks : How The American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics. An account from two observers of American politics, one at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the other at the liberal Brookings Institution. Their thesis is that the tactic of resistance by the Republican Right to all proposals by President Obama has significantly crippled America’s ability to make decisions on almost everything.
Pete Seeger: Pete Seeger : In His Own Words. Pete, now almost 100, has become the old man of American folk music, leftist international politics and river environmentalism. A pack-rat, Pete saved copies of everything, and this book is a rambling collection of his letters, articles and songs. Not a book to describe as “I couldn’t put it down,” but his accounts of resisting Joe McCarthy and HUAC in the 1950’s and his journey from communism to a more balanced internationalism are worth reading. His great contribution may be the evolution of folk music into a medium of international understanding.
Sue Hubbell: A Book of Bees and A Country Year: Living the Questions. Sue Hubbell would fit right into a MOFGA convention, though she raises bees commercially in the Ozarks. An unrepentant back-to-the-land hippie, she is a marvelous, gentle, astute writer. Both these books follow the cycle of the seasons, and can be read in an afternoon.
Elie Wiesel: Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea. Known as a Holocaust survivor and novelist, Wiesel was raised in the devout mystical Hasidim of Eastern Europe and spent decades as an international journalist for Jewish papers. A longish book, more reminiscing than tightly edited, but touching, especially his comments on world events and major players (many of whom he knew) of the eight decades since his boyhood.
Don Perkins: The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories. Perkins' book on Maine barns, just out, is a parallel to the well-known book on New England residential architecture, Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn. Perkins' book is straightforward and descriptive, using particular barns from around the state to explain how different farm needs from mixed agriculture to dairy to potatoes led to variations in barn design. Lots of photos to help the uninformed understand such terms as a "jowled post"--a vertical timber made from a single tree trunk turned upside down to get a thicker surface at the top, with the stump carved to create a wide space to tie other beams into one spot for support. The peak of Maine farming was in 1880, but there are still a few immense agricultural barns being raised, most recently by Amish families moving into northern Maine for its affordable land.
Bill Hiss ’66, Retired, and looking forward to more reading!
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
Aislinn Hougham, Leadership Gifts Officer
Got a list for you this year:
Inn Boonsboro Series by Nora Roberts
The Last Boyfriend
The Perfect Hope
Betrayal by Danielle Steels
The Innocent by David Baldacci
The Leopard by Jo Nesbo
Grace Grows by Shelle Sumners
The Last Victim by Karen Robards
Summer of Two Wishes by Julia London
All very different genres but most very good!!
Joan Houston, Administrative Assistant - Facility Services
My contributions for the year (I was on sabbatical):
Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
Candace Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Erik Larson, In the Garden of the Beasts
Erik Larson, Thunderstruck
Jon Sweeney, The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation
Eric Jay Dolan, When America First Met China
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Patrick McGovern, Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer and Other Alcoholic Beverages
Jim Hughes, Thomas Sowell Professor of Economics
I'd recommend, as a great beach book, the River of No Return, by Bee Ridgeway. It's a great romp through 18th-century England with an interesting sci-fi, time-travel twist.
Margaret Imber, Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies
I've recently read three books by Maine author Paul Doiron who will be visiting campus on 12 June 2013.
The books are: The Poacher's Son, Trespasser and Bad Little Falls: A Novel. He has a new book coming out on 6 July 2013 titled, Massacre Pond: A Novel.
As soon as I finished one book, I had to start the next one right away. The books are about a Maine State Warden, the situations he has to deal with and, of course, a little romance.
His books are very well written and informative. I can't wait for the next one---very difficult to put down.
Rachel Jacques, Assistant to the VP for ILS
I have five: three are books I'm eagerly anticipating spending time with this summer, two more are books - recently published by Bates authors - that I've already read in drafts from their inceptions.
The first - strongly recommended to me by my daughter - just won this year's Pulitzer Prize for biography. It is Tom Reiss's The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. The second may be the most important book of the past twenty years on the U.S. war in Vietnam, Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. The third is a new biography of my second cousin twice removed, Barbara Ransby's Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson.
The fourth and fifth are wonderful books by Bates graduates who were my students, research assistants, and honors advisees as undergraduates in the mid-late 1990s, before they became American History professors themselves. They are Eben Miller's Born Along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement and Erik Gellman's Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights.
Hilmar Jensen, Associate Professor of History
The World Without You: A Novelby Joshua Henkin
A family with four adult children gathers for a weekend in Western Massachusetts to memorialize the youngest, a journalist who was killed a year earlier while on assignment in Iraq. Fine writing coupled with all the filial drama you might expect under such circumstances provides a powerful reading experience.
Phyllis Graber Jensen, Director, Photography and Video
Here are two non-fiction and two fiction suggestions from among many books I enjoyed this year.
Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs and the Micropolitics of Mothering (by Cameron MacDonald). This is an interview study exploring the lives of upper income professional women (largely white and heterosexually partnered) and the nannies (often lower income women of color, sometimes documented or undocumented immigrants) they employ. The analysis is thoughtful in its attention to the intersecting effects of gender inequality, racial inequality, class inequality and national/international public policy in shaping the daily lives of the families in the study.
Unequal Childhoods (by Annette Lareau, second edition). This observational study of how social class shapes parenting strategies in a manner that reproduces class inequality and unfairly privileges middle and upper middle class kids came out about 10 years ago, but the new edition is very recent. Lareau updates the stories of the families most centrally featured in the book, including attention to the children’s experiences as they grew to young adulthood. I used it in a course of mine this fall and students from a wide range of class backgrounds found the analysis provocative, and it has lots of implications for public policy and public life.
The Train of Small Mercies (by David Rowell). I enjoyed the way this novel captured a critical moment in US history, the assassination of RFK and the events of the broader set of events of the summer of 1968, by tracing the stories of fictional characters from varying backgrounds who all intersected with the funeral train that carried Bobby Kennedy’s body from New York to Washington.
State of Wonder (by Anne Patchett). In this novel, Patchett follows the path of a US pharmaceutical researcher who is drawn into the Amazon rainforest to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a colleague. The story is compelling, and along the way she highlights the tensions of globalization and imperial power as they intersect with gendered patterns.
Emily Kane, Professor of Sociology
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (I haven't read the rest yet, but if they're as good as this one the entire "Songs of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin can go on the list)
Marseille Caper by Peter Mayle (This is part of a series of which I haven't read the others, but if you like this one the others may be worth trying)
Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Anything by the following authors:
Susan Kenney (Graves in Academe, Garden of Malice, etc.)
Agatha Christie (Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder on the Orient Express are my favorites, but all of her mysteries are great)
Hennig Mankell (The Kurt Wallander series in particular)
Helene Tursten (the Detective Inspector Huss Series in particular)
Stephen White (Alan Gregory Series)
As is probably obvious from this list, I'm a mystery buff. Most of these are pretty light reading, but Mankell and Tursten (the Swedish Authors) tend to be very dark and heavier than the rest. Any questions, feel free to ask.
Jeff Kazin, Library Assistant – Public Services
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey—This gorgeously descriptive book combines the brutal reality of homesteading in 1920’s Alaska with a whimsical lesser-known Russian fairytale. The lyrical prose is immediately captivating and so vividly imaginative that I pictured each scene so perfectly in my mind as I read. I’m not usually a fan of debut novels, but this one remains unforgettable in a year of some decently read books.
Prince Edward: A Novel by Dennis McFarland—1950’s Prince Edward County, Virginia—a time of segregation in which PE County was the only county in the US to close its public schools for five years rather than desegregate them. This novel is told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy, who doesn’t completely accept the concept of the separation between blacks and whites, in schools or otherwise, despite being surrounded by family members who represent the other side. The characters in this novel are complex, flawed, and honest. At times, it can become a little heavy in the historical lessons but still a wonderful read.
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon—Another complex book about race relations, this time in the late 60s. This is a love story between a developmentally disabled white woman and a deaf African American man who are both locked away in the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded and their quest to provide a child with a safe and protective upbringing, even if it means the chance of never seeing her again. It’s beautifully written, with layers of courage and strength found up until the very last page. A really good book club read that prompted very rich discussion.
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesay—Jane Eyre fans, beware…this is a modern tribute to the classic, but is charming and captivating enough to stand on its own. This time we’re in 1950s-60s Scotland, and we follow Gemma’s footsteps of life from the time her parents pass away at her young age of 3, while raised by an adoring uncle and tyrannical aunt and her resilience to endure a crappy boarding school until she can finally make it out on her own. Gemma is a likeable character who you find yourself rooting for against all odds.
Chef by Jaspreet Singh—This book explores a cultural writing style that is vibrant and at times, achingly beautiful as we follow Kip’s journey back to his war-scarred Indian homeland after a 14 year departure from being a cook in the northern Indian army during the India-Pakistan conflict. This book is told through Kip’s memories and his mind’s eye as he travels on a train back to Kashmir to provide the wedding feast for the daughter of his former General. The characters, landscape, and food descriptions weave together to form a really lovely and poetic novel.
A must-have children’s bedtime book:
Boogie Knights by Lisa Wheeler—Received this book when my son was born three years ago but really only began reading it to him within the last year. It is rip-roaring fun, filled with clever word play, nonstop rhyming, and awesome illustrations. We literally read this over and over and can’t get enough of it. Definitely a must in any child’s growing library.
Alison M. Keegan, Administrative Assistant, Office of the Dean of the Faculty
A Delicate Truth by John LeCarre: The newest book from one of my favorite writers. A relatively quick read as much of the book consists of his superb ability to write dialog. The plot centers around a joint anti-terrorist operation between British standard armed forces (off the book) and American mercenaries and the moral dilemmas created. Most of the characters are less internally conflicted about their roles than usual, but the conflicts between characters and puzzles created kept me very engaged.
I love Hilary Mantel's two books on Thomas Cromwell and Henry the 8th, Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. Her writing is, in my opinion, superb and interesting, and, although much of the story is well known, she makes it all seem new. I can't wait for the last book (about Cromwell's ultimate demise) in this trilogy.
The Lobster Coast by Colin Woodard is an engaging history of the Maine Coast beginning in the 1500s. I am surprised by how much I am enjoying this history of this important part of our (and other New England) state(s). My naive notion that our ancestors were better to our New England indigenous peoples than they were to those in the plains and southwest was certainly shattered.
For those who like simpler moral dilemmas, and are not tired of the Lance Armstrong saga, I would recommend The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton, who was Lance's teammate during most of his Tour victories. As much as Mr. Armstrong has tried to discredit Mr. Hamilton, this has the ring of truth.
John E. Kelsey, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience
The Lobster Coast by Colin Woodard.
Don Kimmel, Bates spouse and friend
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Meg Kimmel, Associate VP for Communications
I don't know if you've listed this one before, but it is a wonderful read for anyone interested in nature, healing and the meaning of life. A student gave it to me a couple of years ago (I work on snails), and I passed it on to a good friend with health issues.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Nancy Kleckner, Associate Professor of Biology
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox
From the stone lamps used in the caves of Lascaux to LEDs, this is a story of the social, political and environmental effects of human's attempts to light our world. It was a surprisingly good read.
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
The story of two friends brought up in well-to-do families and educated at Smith, who weren't ready to settle into the married, society life that was the expected path for them in 1916. So they took jobs as schoolteachers in a new settlement in Elkhead, Colo., deep in the Rockies. This is a delightful story, based on letters found by one of their daughters (Dorothy Wickenden), newspaper articles from the time, and oral histories.
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A novel about four people and their entertwining paths between 1975 and 1984 in Mumbai, India. You learn about the turmoil of "The Emergency" called by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi through their experiences, but it's the story of how they deal with the different hands that they have been dealt and the unlikely bond that they create that makes this a good read.
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andre Makine
A boy, growing up in a drab industrial town in Communist Russia in the 1960s and '70s, learns about his family through his grandmother's stories during his summers with her in a small town on the Russian steppe. This is a French novel, translated by Geoffrey Strachan. Through the stories of about his French great-grandmother and Russian great-grandfather and his grandmother's experiences as a nurse and young wife as she travels from Paris to Siberia, the boy gets a romantic, dream-like view of Russian history. The stories she tells start in Paris during the flooding of 1910 and continue through a Russia consumed by war and famine. This was not one of my favorites, but it was worth the read.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomicby Alison Bechdel
This book was my first experience with the graphic novel style and I was pleasantly surprised. Alison Bechdel is a talented artist and storyteller and shows her skill in this touching story about her late father and her attempt to understand and come to terms with him as a father and as a person struggling with his own identity.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Need I say more? Maybe I do. I love this book! This is the second time I've read it and convinced my book group to read it with me this time. (I like to suggest classic literature every once in a while.) Don't be intimidated. Even if you read it just for the history of whaling and the knowledge of whales and their habitat during that period, it's worthwhile. If you're still reluctant, I found that reading a critical edition helped me understand the metaphors, literary and historical references, and the detailed descriptions of ships and whaling. I read the Longman Critical Edition, edited by John Bryant and Haskell Springer. An excellent read!
Margo Knight, Director of Advancement Research
The River Swimmer - Jim Harrison (NY : Grove Press, 2013, 198 p., 22 cm.)
The master returns with only two novellas which are nonetheless as rich in character development and fine-tuned language as any in his previous trilogies. Gosh, can he turn a phrase!
The Fall of the House of Dixie - Bruce C. Levine (NY : Random House, 2013, 439 p., 25 cm.)
A new look at the Civil War South and its flimsy framework where slavery was not an happenstance but a central pillar of the region’s social and economic culture, and both were doomed.
Jim Lamontagne, Library Assistant – Cataloging
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Just finished reading this book after a trip to the Southwest. Very interesting read which acknowledges the sacrifices of this little known group of people who changed the outcome of the war in the pacific.
Michael LeComte ,Technology Support Specialist
Cod: Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
Lynne Lewis, Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics
I like a story that brings a sense of place, and so I recommend J.L. Carr’s A Month in the Country. Standing beside Tom in the cool of a country church, watching his progress restoring a mural, I joined him as place wove into his story. Be ready to be changed by what this Great War veteran shares as the layers of the mural are revealed.
Rebecca Lovett, Assistant Bookstore Manager
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, a book about a rural African-American family and community in Hurricane Katrina's path is a powerful and wonderful novel!
"Without a false note . . . A superbly realized work of fiction that, while Southern to the bone, transcends its region to become universal." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Bill Low, Curator – Museum of Art
When We Were the Kennedys, Monica Wood
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Catherine the Great, Robert Massey
1493, Charles Mann
The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt
Kathy Low, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Psychology
This past year I focused on starting mystery series that have gotten high praise and started with the first book in each series. These are two books that are the start of promising series:
Ice Hunter by Joseph Heywood
In this debut to the Woods Cop series, Grady Service, a Conservation Officer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, gets news that his nemesis, the head of a clan of poachers, is to be released from prison. While tracking poachers, he discovers something even more troubling in the Mosquito Wilderness. Service must call upon his life experiences to track, stalk, and capture the “ice hunter.” I really enjoyed the setting of the UP – very similar to Maine. The story moved along well and you get to know the main character. I finished the second in the series and enjoyed that as well.
The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais
This is Robert Crais's first novel, the award-winning mystery that introduced Private Investigator Elvis Cole. He is a wisecracking individual – similar to Robert Parker’s Spenser character – and in this novel he infiltrates high-society Hollywood, and crosses the line with the Latino drug trade in search of a kidnapped mother and her son. The adventure and the characters of this novel are exciting, and I really enjoyed this book. The series has received many awards and many books in this series, including L.A Requiem, have been on the New York Times bestsellers list.
The Divinity of Dogs by Jennifer Skiff
“My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face. I am among the ranks of millions of people who appreciate the souls of dogs and know they are a gift of pure love and an example of all that is good.” —Jennifer Skiff The Divinity of Dogs is about the moments you learn something profound about life from an experience with a dog. This book contains seventy short stories from people all across the country who share their true stories of life with their dogs, many of which have led to spiritual enlightenment. I liked that I could pick up this book and read a few heartwarming stories and then come back to it sometime later to read a few more. A wonderful read!
Mary Main, Asst. VP of Human Resources
The Outsourced Self: intimate life in market times by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Last summer, Arlie Hochschild, who owns the conserved land I steward in Turner for the Androscoggin Land Trust, gave me a copy of her latest book. Little did I realize how pertinent it would prove to my own life, and I'm recommending it here because I know that at Bates, there are many people who are scattered far from the traditional support systems of families and home towns; people who have moved here for work and chosen to make a home here. Independence is great, until trouble strikes and you need help. Without the framework of people who 'have" to help you out, where do you go? In our mobile society, the question is pervasive--and a whole new group of careers has emerged to fill the void. At first I rolled my eyes over the idea of people hiring a "Wantologist," but came to realize that perhaps the best advice might be from someone without a stake in the outcome. See what you think!
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. She had me from Page 1. It's not about the butterflies.
Life Everlasting: the animal way of death by Berndt Heinrich. A beloved naturalist examines recycling of a different sort--and made me re-examine my burial plans. (not that I'm planning to put them into effect anytime soon, but it's good to have a plan.) The thought of continuing on to nourish other lives is very appealing; an immortality of sorts.
In Sunlight and In Shadow by Mark Helprin. Helprin continues the kind of magical romance that captivated me in his Winter's Tale. Two uncommon people glimpse each other on a brilliant May day in 1946, and their lives are turned upside down and transformed. What could be a more romantic beginning? The novel could have stopped there. But it goes on, to lives beginning, and ending, and dancing through postwar New York City.
Judy Marden '66 ( and retiree)
Big Data, A Revolution That Will Transform How we Live, Work and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier. 2013
Brad MacCachran, Bates Gift Officer - College Advancement
I have two books by Ha Jin
Waiting: A Novel
Maggie Maurer-Fazio, Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics
Hunger Games Trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Read the books – haven’t seen the movie(s) - and not sure that I want to now. Enjoyable and gripping adventure story – Ms. Collins offers a futuristic look at life after an apocalypse with political intrigue. I agree with the previous readers who recommended this set of books and pass along my referral.
Pocketful of Names, by Joe Coomer
The back cover offers this description, “Coomer offers the rugged yet stunning beauty of Maine and the lobstermen and their families who are dependent on the sea for survival. . . Inhabiting an island off the coast of Maine, left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hanna finds her life as a dedicated and solitary artist rudely interrupted one summer when a dog, matted with feathers and seaweed arrives with the tide…”
I enjoyed reading this story because of the ease in which the author pulls the reader into the lives of the characters. The dramas that Hanna and her visitors endured were easy to relate to and provided an extra bit of connectivity with living in Maine by aptly describing the trials and celebrations of people living in a coastal town.
The Great Coat, by Helen Dunmore
I picked this book up at Ladd Library recently for a quick read for a break while working my way through Tolstoy’s, Anna Karenina. And it was a quick read – described as “the perfect ghost story” and “Intensely gripping” – I found it disappointing. The story moved along well, but I wasn’t left “gripping” the book to see what was going to happen next. I’m not a suspense genre fanatic, but Ms. Dunmore has a long way to go to meet with the suspense of Stephen King’s stories of the supernatural. Maybe it’s just me – check it out for yourself.
Monica McCusker, Office Coordinator, College Store
I would recommend, if someone already has not: My Beloved World by Sonya Sotomayor. See cut and pasted (from Amazon) description:
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.
Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself. She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book, destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery.
It really has been a fine and fascinating read!
Amy McDonough, Biology Dept.
The Start-up of YOU. Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
David McDonough, Director - Bates Career Development Center
Compiled and edited (well, tossed together, really) by Sarah Potter, Bookstore Director 5/13

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