One Read » Air We Breathe http://oneread.dbrl.org A community-wide reading program of the Daniel Boone Regional Library. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 “The Air We Breathe” Will Be Featured On KBIA’s “Intersection” Program http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/10/28/air-we-breathe-kbia-intersection/ http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/10/28/air-we-breathe-kbia-intersection/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:47:59 +0000 admin http://oneread.dbrl.org/?p=490 Join us on Monday, November 2 from 12-1 p.m. on KBIA 91.3 FM to discuss this year’s One Read book, “The Air We Breathe” by Andrea Barrett. In studio guests include Brad Lookingbill of Columbia College, Darwin and Axie Hindman and Lisa Saffran director of MU’s Masters in Public Health Program.

Intersection is a new talk show produced by KBIA and the Reynolds Journalism Institute. You can listen to the show on KBIA 2 digital radio, or watch the show live by visiting KBIA.org.

On Intersection, we want YOU to become part of the conversation. Share your thoughts about the book by calling in at 573-882-8925, e-mailing us at IntersectionOnKbia [at] gmail [dot] com, or participating in the live online chat throughout the broadcast.

]]> http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/10/28/air-we-breathe-kbia-intersection/feed/ 0 Call for Entries: One Read Express Yourself Art Show http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/06/05/call-for-entries/ http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/06/05/call-for-entries/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:49:50 +0000 admin http://oneread.dbrl.org/?p=297 Once again this year, we will be hosting a show of artwork by community members. Artists may begin submitting work now for the One Read Express Yourself Art Show. Submissions should be inspired this year’s book, “The Air We Breathe.”

]]> http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/06/05/call-for-entries/feed/ 0 Where to Get the Book http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/06/03/where-to-get-the-book/ http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/06/03/where-to-get-the-book/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:33:44 +0000 admin http://oneread.dbrl.org/?p=287 Visit any Daniel Boone Regional Library location to check out a copy of “The Air We Breathe.” The book is available in hardback, paperback, large print, CD, and book discussion kit.

  • Columbia Public Library
  • Callaway County Public Library
  • Southern Boone County Public Library
  • DBRL Bookmobile
The Wolfner Library has “The Air We Breathe” available in recorded format for the physically and visually impaired. This service is part of the Talking Book program which is a free service to all residents of the state of Missouri. Call (800) 392-2614 for more information.

Purchase “The Air We Breathe” at the following book stores:

Then join your neighbors, friends or co-workers for a discussion of the book.

]]> http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/06/03/where-to-get-the-book/feed/ 0 About Andrea Barrett and “The Air We Breathe” http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/05/19/about-barrett-air-we-breathe/ http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/05/19/about-barrett-air-we-breathe/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 14:31:08 +0000 oneread http://oneread.dbrl.org/?p=284 About the Author

Andrea BarrettAndrea Barrett did not start out to be a fiction writer; she wanted to be a scientist. “I really wanted to be Darwin in a skirt wandering through the Galapagos or the Amazon naming birds and trees,” she says. Instead, Barrett has translated her fascination with science and the natural world into award-winning novels and short stories. Barrett is especially drawn to the history of exploration and the suffering men and women were willing to endure in the pursuit of knowledge. The “Voyage of the Narwhal” (1998) tells of a harrowing expedition to the Arctic, while in the title story from “Ship Fever,” a doctor struggles through a typhus epidemic.

Born in 1954, Andrea Barrett grew up on Cape Cod and studied biology at Union College in Schenectady. She now lives with her husband in western Massachusetts, where she teaches at Williams College. She has published six novels and two story collections, “Ship Fever,” for which she won the 1996 National Book Award for fiction, and “Servants of the Map” (2002), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her awards include fellowships from MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Biographical info compiled from the following sources: Seattle Arts & Lectures, Reading Group Guides, Library of Congress.

Also by Andrea Barrett

About the Book

Air We BreatheBarrett”s 2007 work, “The Air We Breathe,” is her sixth novel. In it, she weaves a tale of tuberculosis patients and passion against the backdrop of World War I. The novel was partly inspired by the research Barrett did for her story “The Cure” in “Servants of the Map.” “While I was researching that story, I got really curious about the big public sanitariums where people who didn”t have any money or families got sent,” Barrett told Sarah Seltzer in a Publishers Weekly interview.

Set in the Adirondacks of upstate New York in 1916, the novel is told in the first person plural and features four main protagonists: wealthy cement-plant owner Miles Fairchild, who is staying at a private guesthouse away from the sanitarium; Leo Marburg, a Polish-German immigrant at the sanitarium; young Naomi, who is Miles”s driver; and the ­­­­ward nurse and friend of Naomi’s, Eudora. While Miles takes a fancy for Eudora, she does not return the affection, but is in love with Leo. However, Leo in turn has a secret yearning for Eudora. This tangled love quartet ultimately leads to tragedy when Miles becomes a super-patriot as the U.S. prepares to enter the war, and foreigners of all stripes come under scrutiny.

- Contemporary Authors Online, 2009, Cengage Learning

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]]> http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/03/27/read-more-about-finalists/feed/ 0 Vote for the 2009 One Read Book http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/03/26/vote-for-the-2009-one-read-book/ http://oneread.dbrl.org/2009/03/26/vote-for-the-2009-one-read-book/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:58:46 +0000 oneread http://oneread.dbrl.org/?p=106 The One Read Reading Panel has selected “The Air We Breathe” by Andrea Barrett and “Unaccustomed Earth” by Jhumpa Lahiri as this year’s choices for the One Read vote. Voting begins March 30 and continues through April 17.

Vote at: oneread.dbrl.org

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