IMCPL Staff Recommends http://www.imcpl.org/reading/staffrec/index.html Looking for a good book? Try these recommendations from Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library staff members! en-US An Unexpected Forest by Morse, Eleanor Lincoln http://www.imcpl.org/reading/staffrec/index.html After being fired, Horace Woodruff arrives home to discover that 1,000 spruce seedlings have mistakenly been delivered by the U.S. Forest Service. In Quixotic fashion, he determines that he will find a suitable place to plant them.
Recommendation for the Week of July 21, 2008 Looking for Hamlet by Hunt, Marvin W. http://www.imcpl.org/reading/staffrec/index.html Each generation finds a new way to look at the classic by William Shakespeare, incorporating the latest attitudes about politics, religion, psychology and love. 
Recommendation for the Week of July 14, 2008 A Chalice of Wind by Tiernan, Cate http://www.imcpl.org/reading/staffrec/index.html Thais and Clio are twin sisters who don't know each other. They finally meet on the first day of their senior year, and eventually discover that their grandmother had separated them in order to protect them.
Recommendation for the Week of July 7, 2008 Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West by Bhutto, Benazir http://www.imcpl.org/reading/staffrec/index.html

This book was published posthumously and is an excellent primer for understanding Islam and the challenges of governing a country which cannot reconcile its own faith, much less introduce “democracy and the West.”


Recommendation for the Week of June 30, 2008 Ines of My Soul by Allende, Isabel http://www.imcpl.org/reading/staffrec/index.html Not much is known about the women who worked to establish the Spanish Empire, but after four years of meticulous research Allende brings the story of this passionate and brave woman to life.
Recommendation for the Week of June 23, 2008