Lying awake



Author: Salzman, Mark

Title: Lying awake

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2001

Description: 181 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3569 A4627 L95 2001

Note(s): California Gold: The Sacramento Valley Chapter of REFORMA Book Club (Selection)

Summary: In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, Sister John of the Cross experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is considered a spiritual master. But they are accompanied by powerful headaches, and when a doctor reveals they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice since she fears a "cure" may end her spiritual gifts

Subject(s):

• Carmelite Nuns Fiction
• Epileptics--Fiction
• Visions--Fiction
• Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction

Review(s):

• Burkhart, Marian. "EPILEPSY OR ECSTASY?." Commonweal 128, no. 7 (April 6, 2001): 25
• Vivian, Tim. "Lying Awake (Book Review)." Anglican Theological Review 83, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 340
• Weschler, Lawrence. "THE NOVELIST AND THE NUN." New Yorker 76, no. 29 (October 2, 2000): 74

Read: July 4, 2011

Sex on the Moon: the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history

Author: Mezrich, Ben, 1969-

Title: Sex on the Moon: the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history

Published: New York: Doubleday, 2011

Description 308 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: HV6248 R585M49 2011

Summary: In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall

Subject(s):

• Roberts, Thad, 1977-
• Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center -- History -- 21st century
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography
• Theft -- United States -- Case studies
• Theft -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 21st century
• Lunar petrology -- History -- 21st century
• Thieves -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography
• Scientists -- United States -- Biography
• Interns -- United States -- Biography

Review(s):

• Bob, Minzesheimer. "Ben Mezrich." USA Today, n.d.
• Pitt, David. "Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story behind the Most Audacious Heist in History." Booklist 107, no. 19/20 (June 15, 2011): 10
• "Stealing the Moon." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 16 (April 18, 2011): 1

Read: July 1, 2011

Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal

Author: Peet, Mal

Title: Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal

Published: Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2007

Description: 424 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PZ7 P3564 T36 2007

Summary: In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family

Subject(s):

• Grandfathers -- Fiction
• Guilt -- Fiction
• Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands -- Fiction
• England -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Sutton, Roger. "Tamar." Horn Book Magazine 83, no. 2 (March 2007): 200-201
• "Tamar." Kirkus Reviews 75, no. 5 (March 2007): 9-10
• Zvirin, Stephanie. "Tamar." Booklist 103, no. 11 (February 2007): 47

Read: June 22, 2011