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Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited.
This month we stroll down the Biography aisle. Fascinating stories await you...where often truth is more daring than fiction.
March is women's history month, so we start with amazing women:
- Discoveries In The Stacks: Financial Goals In The New Year
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited. It's January! A time for lots of resolutions. Part of our collection looks at all aspects of...
- Discoveries In The Stacks: College And Career
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited. This week we highlight the College and Career section found in a separate part of the non-fiction...
- Discoveries In The Stacks: Financial Health
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited. This week we highlight the 330 section. Are you prepared for retirement? How about long term care?...
- Discovery In The Stacks - Audiobooks
This week Discoveries In The Stacks highlights audiobooks, and in particular the narrartors / readers of audiobooks. Perhaps you really enjoyed the last book you heard on CD, or playaway, because you really enjoyed the reader's voice. Did you know...
- Discoveries In The Westover Stacks - Get Cooking!
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's bi-weekly exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited yet. This week we highlight the 641 section....Cooking and it's many delights. Did you know that...
Library
Discoveries in the Stacks: Biographies
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited.
This month we stroll down the Biography aisle. Fascinating stories await you...where often truth is more daring than fiction.
March is women's history month, so we start with amazing women:
- Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale, by Gillian Gill. Florence Nightingale is a woman who very well might have been one of the first reformers of Britain's health-care, and most of us know her as a "saint" in the early delivery of medicine. Gill delivers a comprehensive look at this Victorian-era icon.B NIGHTIN F
- Cherie Blair: Speaking for myself, by Cherie Blair. An accomplished woman in her own right as a successful lawyer, Blair recounts her life in the limelight along side Prime Minister Tony Blair while navigating family life with young children in 10 Downing Street, and her own career. B BLAIR C
- Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Booth Luce, by Sylvia Jukes Morris. A rags to riches story full of ambition and intelligence. Luce is at once a politician, playwright and social seductress. B LUCE
- Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin', Paula Deen. Cooking wizard, Paula Deen, tells all...from her charmed southern childhood, through a rough marriage and on to The Lady & Sons restaurant, and her own television show. B DEEN P
- Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher. Taking her one-woman show, of the same name, Fisher recounts her life with wit and humor...from Hollywood celebrity parents to Princess Leia and being a cultural icon at the age of 19 through mental illness and a scattered life. B FISHER C
- In Spite of Myself: a Memoir, by Christopher Plummer. Plummer delivers a cleverly-written and witty account of his days as a stage and screen actor. B PLUMMER C
- Alfred Hitchcock: a Life in Darkness and Light, by Patrick McGilligan. This definitive biography details Hitchcock as a comprehensive film craftsman, dedicated romantic, constant trickster and devoted husband. B HITCHCO A
- Discoveries In The Stacks: Financial Goals In The New Year
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited. It's January! A time for lots of resolutions. Part of our collection looks at all aspects of...
- Discoveries In The Stacks: College And Career
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited. This week we highlight the College and Career section found in a separate part of the non-fiction...
- Discoveries In The Stacks: Financial Health
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited. This week we highlight the 330 section. Are you prepared for retirement? How about long term care?...
- Discovery In The Stacks - Audiobooks
This week Discoveries In The Stacks highlights audiobooks, and in particular the narrartors / readers of audiobooks. Perhaps you really enjoyed the last book you heard on CD, or playaway, because you really enjoyed the reader's voice. Did you know...
- Discoveries In The Westover Stacks - Get Cooking!
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's bi-weekly exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited yet. This week we highlight the 641 section....Cooking and it's many delights. Did you know that...