Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Library Journal's Reader's Shelf

Read My Lips:  Memorable Deaf Fictional Characters

Books recommended by editors at Library Journal
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter



The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
By McCullers, Carson
2004-04 - Mariner Books
9780618526413 Check Our Catalog


An Oprah's Book Club selection
With the depression as a murky backdrop, this first novel depicts the bleak landscape of the American consciousness below the Mason-Dixon line. Miss McCullers' picture of loneliness, death, accident, insanity, fear, mob violence and terror is perhaps the most desolate that has so far come from the South. Her quality of despair is unique and individual; and it seems to me more natural and authentic than that of Faulkner. Her groping characters live in a world more completely lost than any Sherwood Anderson ever dreamed of. And she recounts incidents of death and attitudes of stoicism in sentences whose neutrality makes Hemingway's terse prose seem warm and partisan by comparison. Hovering mockingly over her story of loneliness in a small town are primitive religion, adolescent hope, the silence of deaf mutes - and all of these give the violent colors of the life she depicts a sheen of weird tenderness.
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Keeping Silent



Keeping Silent
By Damron, Carla
2002-05 - Worldwide Library
9780373264216 Check Our Catalog


Deaf since the age of 16, acclaimed sculptor Sam Knowles is accused of murdering his fiance. South Carolina social worker Caleb Knowles believes his brother's innocence, knowing Sam could never hurt the woman he loved. But Sam, battling demons Caleb cannot understand, withdraws into a hard shell, leaving Caleb to solve the crime, save his brother, and expose a killer. (May) …More


Murder on Lexington Avenue



Murder on Lexington Avenue
By Thompson, Victoria
2010-06 - Berkley Prime Crime
9780425234372 Check Our Catalog


After an influential man in the deaf community is murdered, Frank Malloy is assigned the case, presumably because his son attends the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Malloy suspects the murderer is tied to the school, and turns to midwife Sarah Brandt for help. …More


Silence Is Golden



Silence Is Golden
By Warner, Penny
2003-10 - Perseverance Press
9781880284667 Check Our Catalog


Old prospector Sluice Jackson appears to have struck it rich with the discovery of a tooth-sized gold nugget. But when Flat Skunk starts turning up dead bodies instead, Connor Westphal digs for the story behind her headlines--and finds all that glitters isn't gold. …More


In This Sign



In This Sign
By Greenberg, Joanne
1984-09 - Owl Books (NY)
9780805007220 Check Our Catalog


The highly acclaimed novel of a family whose love and courage enable them to survive in the silent world of the deaf.
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Talk Talk



Talk Talk
By Boyle, T. Coraghessan
2007-07 - Penguin Books
9780143112150 Check Our Catalog


Bestselling author and PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Boyle recasts the battle of good and evil as an identity theft suspense story. As the tension mounts, Boyle drops crumbs of wisdom in his signature style, leading readers along a mysterious trail. …More

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