Books selected by group members are availa ble at the Franklin Road Branch while supplies last. New members are alway s welcome. Tell a friend!
\nFever by Mary Beth Keane is ava
ilable as a print book\, an e-book\, a downloadable audiobook\, and as an audiobook CD in the
Library's collection.
"On the eve of the twentieth century\, M
ary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New Yo
rk City. Brave\, headstrong\, and dreaming of being a cook\, she fought to
climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and e
nterprising\, she worked her way to the kitchen\, and discovered in hersel
f the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy\, and wi
th an independence rare for a woman of the time\, she seemed to have achie
ved the life she'd aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one d
etermined "medical engineer" noticed that she left a trail of disease wher
ever she cooked\, and identified her as an "asymptomatic carrier" of Typho
id Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory\, he made Mallon a hunte
d woman."