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Vote for the next "A Tale for One City" Book for Adults

Drop off your paper ballot at any Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial
Library branch or mail it to "A Tale for One City," 1001 Broad Street,
Chattanooga, TN 37402.  Vote by e-mail at
[log in to unmask]  All votes must be received by Friday,
September 30. Please choose one adult book from the following finalists:

 

 

 

_____ Gifted Hands by Dr. Benjamin Carson

 

Raised in Detroit by a mother with a third-grade education, Benjamin Carson
could have simply slipped into statistical obscurity. Instead, he finds the
inner power to become a world renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. His story goes beyond the usual
rags to riches of success to the private inspirations of a God-fearing
physician who lives to help others.

 

_____ Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

 

As the titles suggests, this is a fictionalized story of a young girl and
her life as a geisha in pre-war Japan. Sold into slavery at nine years old,
she is taken to a geisha house because her beauty is so renowned. From her
point of view the reader is taken into the streets of the geisha district of
Kyoto to witness Nitta Sayuri's transformation from a village peasant to one
of the most celebrated beauties in the geisha world.

 

 

_____ The Simple Truth by Philip Levine

 

Prolific poet Philip Levine's 15th collection of poetry won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1995.  His style is much copied, but this look back at the past
(everything from eating potatoes to losing friends) is full of humor and
wisdom.  He combines realism and romanticism to make life starkly real, but
also wonderful and moving.

 

_____ Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, this is the story of Ira and Maggie
Moran two opposites who find themselves married for 28 years. Now, as they
drive from their home in Baltimore to the funeral of Maggie's best friend's
husband the expectations, the disappointments, the children, and the way a
wife and husband can fall in love all over again begin to slowly unfold.

 

 

_____ Run with the Horseman by Ferrol Sams

 

This is a story of growing up with the rituals of life on an ancestral farm
in middle Georgia. Filled with humor it is a universal story of one boy and
all of those he encounters in a place called Brewton County with characters
as real and rich as only Sams can create.

 

 

 

Verbie Lovorn Prevost
Katharine Pryor Professor
and Head of English
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN  37403
Phone:  423-425-4238
Fax:  423-425-2282
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