Leisure Reading @ Scott Library

Enjoy a selection from the Scott Memorial Library's Leisure Reading Collection on the Library's 1st floor.

Choose from bestsellers and new titles in fiction and non-fiction, including such genres as science fiction, mystery, biography and history. The Leisure Reading Collection is generously supported by the Florence Foerderer Tonner Fund. Call the Scott Library with questions: (215) 503-6994.

New for Fall 2008

Ian Ayres
Super crunchers : why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart

Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by watching : what I’ve learned about teamwork from the Yankees and life

Rita Mae Brown
The sand castle

Sandra Brown
Smoke screen

Philip Carlo
Gaspipe : confessions of a Mafia boss

Arthur C. Clarke
The last theorem

Edward Dolnick
The forger’s spell : a true story of Vermeer, Nazis and the greatest art hoax of the twentieth century

Iris Johansen
Silent thunder

Billie Jean King
Pressure is a privilege : lessons I’ve learned about life and the Battle of the Sexes

Diane E. Levin
So sexy so soon : the new sexualized childhood and what parents can do to protect their kids

Bret Lott
Ancient highway

Helen Mirren
In the frame : my life in words and pictures

Barbara Parker
The dark of day

Nancy Pelosi
Know your power : a message to America’s daughters

Luanne Rice
Last kiss

Kira Salak
The white Mary

Anne Rivers Siddons
Off season

Ron Suskind
The way of the world : a story of truth and hope in an age of extremism