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Between Fences Lending Library: Books and Videos The following titles are available in sets of approximately fifteen copies for books and single copies for videos. Those with an asterisk * have a study guide to accompany the title. To check availability or if you have further questions, please contact Marie Fuertes at fuertes@utahhumanities.org or (801) 359-9670. Request Form for Books and/or Discussion Leader (pdf)
Books Dancing at the Rascal Fair – (Ivan Doig, 1987) From its opening on the quays of a Scottish port in 1889, to its close on a windswept Montana homestead three decades later, this story is a passionate and authentic chronicle of an American experience. The Devil’s Highway – (Louis Alberto Urrea, 2004) The gripping true story of twenty-six men, looking for a better life in the United States, who cross the border into Arizona's Devil's Highway region. Abandoned by their coyote (or guide), the men are left to the desert environment and their own devices. This book brings the issues surrounding American immigration policy down to the personal level. * Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood – (Fatima Mernissi, 1994) In an exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth, women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. A provocative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex in the recent Muslim world. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise & Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape – (James Howard Kunstler, 1993) Kunstler traces the history of settlements from the Pilgrim village to the modern suburb, with suggestions on how to build communities once again worthy of our affection. * The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West – (Patricia Nelson Limerick, 1987) The “settling” of the American West has been perceived as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures, most with happy endings, and a process that came to an end with the “closing” of the frontier in the 1890's. Limerick argues that the American West has a history grounded in primary economic reality, in hardheaded confrontation of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. * Reservation Blues – (Sherman Alexie, 1996) Funny, tragic, sometimes raw, Alexie’s novel dispels stereotypes and myths of life on a contemporary Spokane Indian reservation. * Snow Falling on Cedars - (David Guterson, 1995) In 1954 a local fisherman of San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound is found suspiciously drowned. A Japanese American is charged with his murder and with it brings the memories of a community Japanese residents sent into exile during WWII while its neighbors watched. Great at creating suspense and a desire to change. * Something to Declare: Essays – (Julia Alvarez, 1998) As an immigrant from the Dominican Republic , Alvarez reflects on her life before the United States, her crossing of national borders to move to the U.S., and her assimilation into American culture. Alvarez eloquently depicts her love of writing and family, and offers insight into what it means to have a place. * Who Owns the West? – (William Kittredge, 1995) Kittredge offers no easy answers, but a sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. Three essays compose a celebration of a new West that is being colonized and parceled out for the second time and an elegy for a West that is fading. * Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey – (Lillian Schlissel) More than a quarter million Americans crossed the continental U.S. between 1840 and 1870. Men of the frontier have become an integral part of history and folklore, but pioneering was a family matter, and the experiences of American women are central to an accurate picture of what life was like on the frontier. These chronicles of women show an absorbing and informative aspect of the westward saga. Videos (VHS) Understanding Your Neighbor
Planning and Property
Finding Common Ground
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