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New book recommendations for September

In contemplating this 5th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, readers may appreciate Jay McInery’s novel, The Good Life (2006), in which the events of 9/11 are sensitively portrayed as an impetus to the questions: "what happens, or should happen, when life stops us in our tracks, or our own choices do? What if both secrets, and secret needs, long guarded steadfastly, are finally revealed? What is the good life?"

If you enjoy reading unique cultural studies, travel memoirs, or histories, you will surely delight in Tom DeMott’s Into the Hearts of the Amazons: In Search of Modern Matriarchy (2006). DeMott provides a rare, insightful look at a remote corner of southern Mexico where the Zapotec culture thrives primarily under the control of women. Check out this fascinating new book just in time for Mexico’s Independence Day, celebrated from 11:00pm Sept. 15th and continuing through the 16th.