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Librarians’
Picks for the Best Books of 2007
This list contains many titles in the
categories of children's, fiction, biography, and non-fiction. It
is a very long list, so please scroll down so that you may view all of
the titles
Children's
list
The year 2007 marked the
end of a reading phenomenon: Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last of the seven book
series by J. K. Rowling, was released in July amid much publicity.
Most fans and many of our readers felt the book merits the
attention and deserves the number one spot on the
Best Juvenile Books of 2007 list.
The remainder of the list follows.
From the Young Adult
collection Dreamquake: Book
Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox, a Printz Award Honor
Book, is a favorite with teens who love fantasy. This
one concerns dreams and their origins.
For those YAs who love fictional adventure, Peak by
Roland Smith tells the story of a 14 year old boy trying to become the
youngest person to climb Mt. Everest.
And for the gamers in the crowd, Epic by Conor
Kostick, a game designer turned author, creates a world where disputes
are settled in virtual reality games.
There is no war, but who controls the games?
Younger juvenile
fiction readers will enjoy Elijah of Buxton by
Christopher Paul Curtis about the runaway slave haven of Buxton in
Canada. Elijah, the first
freeborn child, tries to expose some dishonest adults.
For those who like some humor in their books, No Talking
by Andrew Clements pitches the class blabbermouths, a boy and a girl,
into a “no talking” contest with laugh-out-loud results.
Jack Plank Tell Tales by Natalie Babbit
shows how a pirate finds a second career as he tires of the hard life on
the high seas. For those
who need inspiration, The
Talented Clementine by Sara Pennybacker surprises everyone, even
herself, for the school “Talent Palooza”.
This easier read includes a load of laughs also.
And there is one non-fiction book that must be mentioned, Living
Color written and illustrated by Steven Jenkins in the science
section of the library. This
bright book features colors and how animals use them for protection.
We love science books that are accessible to children as young as
4 and as old as the librarians!
A Good Day by
Kevin Henkes leads this list of picture book favorites for 2007.
After overcoming some small problems, a dog, a bird,, a fox and a
squirrel enjoy a really
good day. In Fox by
Kate Banks, the young animal leaves home with his parent’s
encouragement. Eve
Bunting’s farm animals in Hurry! Hurry! race through the
barnyard to see the new chicks hatch.
Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems sees the return of
the beloved Knuffle Bunny, but he has a twin! This
makes for fun at school. In
a realistic divorce story, the family dog, a favorite with neither
parent, moves between Mom’s house and Dad’s house with their
daughter who asserts “ Fred Stays With Me” , a
book by Nancy Coffelt
Adult 2007 Fiction
Nerve
Damage / Peter
Abrahams. A metal sculptor
with terminal cancer sees his soon-to-be published New York Times obituary
with misinformation about his dead wife.
The Fall
of Troy / Peter Ackroyd.
A tale of the finding of the lost city of Troy seen through the eyes of
the young Greek wife of the archaeologist.
The Tale of Hawthorn
House : The cottage
tales
of Beatrix Potter / Susan Wittig Albert.
If you enjoy a “cozy”, this is for you, complete with
Beatrix’s menagerie of furry friends.
The
Blood of
Flowers / Anita
Amirrezvani. A young woman in
17th century Iran learns the art of carpet-making.
Her mother enriches their lives with tales of fantasy and magic.
Heyday
/ Kurt Andersen. A sweeping novel about a British immigrant discovering 19th
century America where he encounters historical figures such as Darwin.
The Theory
of Clouds /
Stéphane Audeguy. A young French woman begins to organize a cloud
expert’s research and learns there are clouds of many types. Compelling
fiction.
The Air
We Breathe
/ Andrea Barrett. German
espionage finds its way to a tuberculosis sanitorium in upstate New York
in 1916.
The
Big Question: a Novel about Reality Television
/ Chuck Barris. TV producer Barris considers the outrageous limits that
television could go to capture viewers.
Written in
Bone
/ Simon Beckett. A forensic
anthropologist in Great Britain uses his talents to solve a series of
murders in the Hebrides.
The Uncommon
Reader / Alan
Bennett. A little book, very British, that shows the Queen becoming an
avid reader, even to the point of skimping on “walkies” with the
corgies.
Portrait of
an
Unknown
Woman
/ Vanora Bennett. Sir Thomas
More’s ward Meg Giggs finds love, suspense, and secrets as she decides
between her two suitors.
The Double
Bind
/ Chris Bohjalian. A college student riding her bike on a mountain path in
Vermont has her life changed forever.
Love
Kills
: a Britt Montero Novel
/ by Edna Buchanan. Britt discovers a bridegroom whose wives have been
dying mysteriously on their honeymoons.
Boomsday
/ Christopher Buckley. A viciously
funny satire about the baby boom generation’s solution to the social
security crisis.
Heartsick /
Chelsea Cain. A convicted
serial killer, who has tortured, then murdered young girls, leads a
detective to bodies of her victims, but she still has evil in mind.
Gentlemen of
the
Road
/ Michael Chabon ; illustrated by Gary Gianni.
A charming, literary, picaresque tale of two adventurers in the
Caucasus Mountains in 950 AD.
The
Yiddish Policeman’s Union / Michael
Chabon. Alaska is the Jewish homeland for the “frozen chosen” and a
place where all kinds of cool things happen.
Burning
Bright / Tracy Chevalier. Author of The
Girl With the Pearl Earring, Chevalier now visits the London of
William Blake.
Hidden
Moon: an Inspector O Novel / James
Church. With the unusual setting of North Korea, this is the latest in
this fascinating series.
An
Arsonist's
Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: a
Novel / by
Brock Clarke. Using the author’s word, the hero discovers much about his
life and the lives of his parents as he “bumbles” around, getting
charged with arson.
Tallgrass / Sandra Dallas. A
Japanese internment camp near a small Colorado town provides workers for
the sugar beet farm of a thirteen year-old girl’s family.
Mary
Modern
/ Camille DeAngelis. A
scientist clones her grandmother, who is “born” with memories of 1929.
A compelling gothic dilemma.
The
Entitled / Frank Deford.
Sportswriter Deford takes on the privileged world of professional
baseball players.
Tipperary
/ Frank Delaney. A large family saga that one reviewer calls “an Irish Gone
With the Wind.”
Falling
Man / Don DeLillo.
One family copes with the aftermath of 9/11.
The
Ministry of Special Cases / Nathan
Englander. Argentina in the mid-1970’s was a desperate and dangerous
place; this novel is unforgettable.
The Last
Wife of Henry
VIII / Carolly Erickson. Catherine
Parr, of all of Henry’s wives, was perhaps the most down-to-earth and
able to deal with the aging monarch.
Then
We Came to the End / Joshua Ferris.
An uproarious satire of the advertising business; a New York Times
“best book.”
World
Without End
/ Ken Follett. At over 1,000 pages this was a big book before Oprah
told us to read it. Engrossing
historical fiction.
Mistress of
the
Art
of
Death
/ Ariana Franklin. Imagine
a medical examiner – surprisingly - a woman in medieval Cambridge, who
is to solve the mysterious deaths of four children.
The
Secret Cardinal / Tom Grace. Give
this points for plot: a man must single-handedly rescue a Catholic
Cardinal from a Chinese prison.
The Blue
Zone / Andrew
Gross. A James Patterson co-author goes solo to write this gripping tale
of money laundering and the Colombian drug cartel.
A Spot of
Bother / Mark Haddon.
Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
offers this comic tale of the out-of-control family of a hypochondriac.
The
Camel
Bookmobile / Masha
Hamilton. Yes, a bookmobile
powered by camel in Kenya and run by an American librarian.
Heaven's
Net is Wide : the
First Tale of the Otori / Lian Hearn. The prequel to the historical
series set in feudal Japan.
Loving Frank : a
novel / by Nancy Horan. A novel about Frank Lloyd Wright.
Innocence
/ David Hosp. Defense attorney Scott Finn finds that proving the innocence
of a Salvadoran immigrant can be dangerous for him and his staff.
A writer to watch.
A Thousand Splendid
Suns / Khaled Hosseini.
Afghanistan, two women, and one husband are the basis for this
lyrical, powerful story from the author of the Kite Runner.
Genghis:
Birth of an Empire / Conn Iggulden.
A historical novel with a larger-than-life main character and a
masterful plot.
Stormy
Weather /
Paulette Jiles. The Texas
oilfields in the 1930s, a father who bets heavily on race horses, and the
old family farmstead that is almost beyond hope.
A Free
Life / Ha Jin. The
challenging life of a Chinese couple who emigrate to America after the Tiananmen
Square incident.
Tree
of
Smoke
/ Denis Johnson. A
monumental and brilliant novel of the Vietnam War.
Mister Pip
/ Lloyd Jones. A teacher reading Great Expectations helps children
escape violence in their own land as they learn about Victorian England
and the power of fiction.
Home to
Holly Springs / Jan
Karon. The beginning of a new series for Karon, The Father Tim Series.
Pontoon :
a Lake Wobegon novel /
Garrison Keillor. The usual cast of delightful
eccentrics find out what Grandma has been up to and it’s not
visiting relatives.
The God
of Animals
/ Aryn Kyle. Twelve-year old
Alice Winston must tackle adult problems on her family’s failing horse
farm, while trying to cope with issues relating to her runaway sister, her
English teacher, and a dead classmate.
Ghost /
Alan Lightman. A mortuary worker sees what? in this gripping tale.
What
the
Dead
Know
/ Laura Lippman. A “cold
case” involving a woman who, after an accident, claims to be one of two
sisters who disappeared thirty years ago from a mall.
The
Spellman Files / Lisa Lutz.
A young woman must decide whether to go into her zany family’s
business---a detective agency.
The Witch's
Trinity
/ Erika Mailman. Famine
and witch hunters in a medieval German village plunge villagers and an old
woman into despair and hysteria.
Rhett Butler's People / Donald McCaig. The Gone with the Wind story told from the viewpoint
of Rhett Butler, filling in details for the times he was missing from the
story.
On
Chesil Beach / Ian McEwan. In
1960’s Britain a young and sexually naïve couple honeymoon near the
sea.
Breakfast
with Buddha / by Roland
Merullo. A New York City man drives to North Dakota with his sister’s
guru in a sweetly funny tale.
On
Kingdom
Mountain
/ Howard Frank Mosher. A
bi-plane crash, gold pieces, a bank robbery and a new highway in Vermont
near the Canadian border in 1930.
Fire
in
the
Blood
/ Irène Némirovsky. Following the widely acclaimed Suite
Francaise, this is
another poignant tale written by the author who died in Auschwitz.
Last Night
at the Lobster /
Stewart O'Nan. A blizzard hits on a restaurant’s last night before
closing; a tale of loss and recognition.
Divisadero
/ Michael Ondaatje.
Teen girls cope after their mother’s death; a riveting tale of family
conflict.
The Fifth
Vial / Michael Palmer.
A medical thriller that tackles the questions of blood samples and
the illegal organ transplant trade.
Run / Ann
Patchett. The author of Bel
Canto brings us a tale of a Boston family, a confusion of relationships,
and a most satisfying ending.
The
Abstinence Teacher /
Tom Perrotta. Cultural clashes in a school struggling with how to teach
what few teachers are comfortable talking about; a gentle satire.
Vivaldi's Virgins /
Barbara Quick. An orphanage and music school with Vivaldi as the maestro
in Baroque-era Venice.
The
Collaborator of Bethlehem: an Omar Yussef Mystery / Matt Beyon
Rees. An enthralling mystery of present day Bethlehem where no one’s
loyalty is unquestioned.
The Reincarnationist / M. J. Rose. For DaVinci
Code fans; a man is plagued with historical flashbacks and there’s a
search for lost artifacts. Dramatic suspense fiction.
Exit Ghost
/ Philip Roth. The
author’s last Zuckerman novel.
Bridge of
Sighs / Richard Russo.
Small towns seen through Russo’s eyes are unforgettable; one critic
calls this the novel the one Russo was meant to write.
Peony
in Love
/ Lisa See. The rituals of a
well-to-do Manchurian household are disrupted when the young daughter
flaunts tradition and looks at her intended husband.
The
Visible World / Mark Slouka. A World
War II tale with a crucial scene occurring in Allentown.
The Beautiful
Miscellaneous /
Dominic Smith. An accident
changes the ordinary son of a brilliant physicist into a prodigy of sorts.
The
Last
Secret
of
the
Temple
/ Paul Sussman. Can an Arab
policeman from Cairo and a Jewish detective from Jerusalem work together
to find this secret?
Malice /
Robert K. Tanenbaum. A
suspended basketball coach, the missing daughter of a Basque sheepherder,
and an assassination plot in Manhattan equal intense suspense.
The Street
of a Thousand Blossoms
/ Gail Tsukiyama. A portrait
of Japan before and after World War II, from the viewpoints of two bothers
with very different life careers.
Let
the Northern
Lights Erase
Your Name / by Vendela Vida. A
woman searches for her birth father in Lapland.
Luncheon
of the Boating Party / Susan Vreeland.
Renoir puts together his group for the famous painting and various
complications ensue.
The Seventh
Well / Fred Wander ; translated by Michael Hofmann. Compared to
Solzenhitsyn, this author has written a compelling tale of imprisonment.
Crawfish Mountain / Ken
Wells. Will the bayous win
against Big Oil and illegal toxic dumping as Justin Pitre
tries to save the land his grandfather gave him?
Biography
Things
I Overheard While Talking to Myself
/ Alan Alda. Alda tells about his almost-fatal illness and what he
learned from it.
The Invisible
Wall : a Love Story that Broke Barriers / Harry Bernstein. In his 90s,
this author has written his first book; a memoir of growing up Jewish in
small town England.
House of
Abraham : Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War / Stephen
Berry. The Civil War divided many families, including Lincoln’s own.
The
Bus
:
My Life
in and out of a Helmet
/ Jerome Bettis. From inner city Detroit to the champion Pittsburgh
Steelers, Bettis is one of the league’s most colorful characters.
Here if You
Need Me : a True Story / Kate Braestrup. Wonderful books can come from
anywhere: this author is the chaplain for the Maine Warden Service.
The Lost Life
of Eva Braun / Angela Lambert. Eva
Braun’s life was indeed lost; she was only 35 when she committed suicide
hours after marrying Hitler.
Dead
Certain: the Presidency of George W. Bush
/ Robert Draper. Doubt, or the lack of it, in the Bush administration.
George H.
W. Bush / Timothy
Naftali. The accomplishments
of the elder Bush are succinctly described here.
Cheney:
the Untold Story /
Stephen T. Hayes. An admiring portrait of the powerful Vice President.
Julia
Child / Laura Shapiro. A small, delightful biography of the great chef.
Clapton :
the Autobiography /
Eric Clapton. Called the best rock guitarist in the world, Clapton has
seen tragedy and triumph.
The Dalai Lama
: Man, Monk, and Mystic / Mayank Chhaya. The long journey from a
Himalayan village to an international symbol of peace.
The Diana
Chronicles / Tina
Brown. Yes, there is still more to say about the Princess of Wales.
Quiet
Strength: a Memoir /
Tony Dungy. The first African-American coach to win the Super Bowl tells
his inspiring life story.
Einstein:
His Life and Universe / Walter
Isaacson. A masterful biography.
Peter Jennings
: a Reporter's Life / edited by Kate Darnton, Fond remembrances by
friends and colleagues of the Canadian-American newscaster.
Joan : the
Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint / Donald Spoto.
Ike: an
American Hero / Michael
Korda. A good overview of
Ike’s life story.
Bento Box in
the Heartland : My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America / Linda
Furiya. Growing up Indiana, Furiya cherished and was embarrassed by her
family’s traditional
cuisine. A bonus: recipes end every chapter.
The Age of
Turbulence: Adventures in a New World / Alan Greenspan. The former
head of the Federal Reserve could just have easily been a jazz musician!
A Skating
Life / by Dorothy
Hamill. All has not been rosy for the former Olympic Champion, but she is
as vibrant as ever.
Infidel / Ayaan
Hirsi Ali. The Somali-born, onetime member of the Dutch Parliament tells
her harrowing life story.
Elton: the Biography / David Buckley. The
turbulent life of Elton John is revealed in this riveting biography.
Roosevelt
Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
/ Stacy A. Cordery. Teddy Roosevelt said he could either run the country
or control Alice, not both. He chose the country.
Born
Standing up
: a Comic's Life / by Steve Martin. A playwright, New Yorker essayist, a novelist
and screenwriter, Steve Martin still considers himself a comedian first.
Richard M.
Nixon / Elizabeth Drew. A concise biography probing Nixon’s
psychological makeup.
A
Life of Picasso, 1917-1932 / John Richardson. Volume three of the magisterial biography.
Marco
Polo
: from Venice to Xanadu / by Laurence Bergreen. Bergreen
travels Polo’s path to the east and attempts to separate fact from
considerable fiction.
Beatrix
Potter: a Life in Nature
/ Linda Lear. Potter was a
brilliant amateur naturalist and a witty journal-writer, as well as the
creator of Peter Rabbit.
Ronald Reagan
: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History / John Patrick Diggins. How
Reagan earned his reputation for ending the Cold War.
Schulz
and Peanuts / David
Michaelis.
What’s fascinating is how much of Schulz’s interior life is
obvious in Peanuts.
Salem Witch
Judge : the Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall / Eve LaPlante.
Sewall was the only judge to publicly repent for his part in condemning
“witches.”
Shakespeare:
the World as Stage /
Bill Bryson. Under 200 pages,
this is a great introduction to The Bard of Avon.
Wish I
Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life / Allen Shawn. Shawn is afraid of many things, but his riveting life story
leads us to consider the nature of fear itself.
A Boy Named
Shel : the Life and Times of Shel Silverstein / Lisa Rogak.
Silverstein wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends but his creativity wasn’t
limited to children’s books.
My Grandfather’s Son / Clarence Thomas.
Thomas gives his side of the story of his life and appointment to
the Supreme Court.
Gonzo : the
Life of Hunter S. Thompson : an Oral Biography / by Jann S. Wenner,
with an introduction by Johnny Depp. He lives on here, and as Uncle Duke
in Doonesbury.
Amerigo: the
Man who Gave his Name to America / Felipe Fernández-Armesto. This
fascinating man managed to get two continents he did not discover named
for himself.
In an
Instant: a Family’s Journey of Love and Healing / Lee and Bob Woodruff. Bob Woodruff was severely wounded while reporting
on the Iraq war for NBC television.
Non-fiction
The
Zookeeper's Wife : a
War Story /
Diane Ackerman. The Warsaw
zoo during World War II, in charge of a heroic couple, was much more than
a deserted home for animals.
My
Dearest Friend
: Letters of Abigail and John Adams / edited by Margaret A. Hogan. A
great follow-up to David McCullough’s biography of John Adams.
Once Upon a Quinceañera : Coming of Age in the U.S.A
/ Julia Alvarez. Latina girls celebrate becoming fifteen and it’s big
business.
The Bible:
a Biography / Karen
Armstrong. An accessible history for all readers.
The Dirt
on Clean : an Unsanitized History
/ by Katherine Ashenburg. Soap,
hot and cold running water in every house– how cleanliness has changed
over the centuries.
Switching
Time
: a Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities / Richard K. Baer. The
title says it all.
Spy Wars : Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly
Games /
Tennent H. Bagley. Soviet agents, betrayal, the Kennedy assassination,
they’re all here.
The
Genetic
Strand
: Exploring
a
Family
History
through
DNA / Edward Ball. Ball’s family kept strands of hair for over a century;
now they give up their secrets.
Live from Cape Canaveral : Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to
Today / Jay
Barbree. A journalist’s eye on a far-reaching topic.
Beyond
the
Body
Farm : a Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries,
and the
Revolution in Forensic Science
/ Bill Bass. This
is for you, CSI fans.
The Most Noble
Adventure : the Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
/ Greg Behrman. A bright light in American diplomacy.
Animals Matter :
a Biologist Explains Why
We Should Treat Animals
with Compassion
and Respect / Marc Bekoff ; foreword by Jane Goodall. A well-written
overview of animal rights; good reading for teens and adults both.
The
Flexitarian Table :
Inspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone in
Between /
Peter Berley. This will help you solve the tofurkey dilemma.
All
the
Money
in
the
World
: How
the
Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their
Fortunes
/ edited by Peter W. Bernstein. These stories aren’t for the faint of
heart.
How
to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Recipes for Great Food
/ Mark Bittman. It’s been said that the single best thing we can do as
individuals to help the environment is to stop eating meat. This
comprehensive resource will help.
Nobodies : Modern American
Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global
Economy / John Bowe. Who picks our fruit? Are these people being held
captive?
Super Volcano
: the Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park / Greg
Breining. The geysers are
just indicators of volcanic and seismic events now overdue.
Wild
Caribbean : the Hidden Wonders
of the World's Most Famous Islands / Michael Bright. Beyond
the shore and the tourist shops lie some of nature’s treasures.
Boom!
Voices of the Sixties
/ Tom Brokaw. Not the
greatest generation, perhaps, but one of the most colorful.
Mirage:
Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt / Nina Burleigh. Napoleon recruited mathematicians, artists,
physicists, etc. to explore an unknown land.
The
Science
of Leonardo
: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance / Fritjof
Capra. Leonardo’s inclusive view of the world was simply extraordinary.
Beyond
the White House : Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
/ Jimmy Carter. The many
contributions of his post-presidential life.
Beyond the Internet:
Successful Research Strategies / Barbara A. Chernow.
Research skills are still needed to find information that has not
been and may never be digitized.
Knit and
Crochet with Beads / Lily M. Chin. Elegant combinations!
Giving
: How Each of Us Can Change the World / by Bill Clinton. We’re not
ex-presidents, but there is much we can do.
I
am America (and so can you) / Stephen
Colbert. His humor isn’t for everybody.
The
Secret History
of the War on
Cancer / Devra
Davis. Do scientists know more about the dangers of everyday chemicals
than they have told us?
Red
Book : American State, County & Town Sources
/ edited by Alice Eichholz. A
directory for genealogical research.
Dancing in the
Streets : a History of
Collective Joy / Barbara Ehrenreich. A fascinating consideration of a
unique subject.
American
Creation : Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic /
Joseph J. Ellis. The contentious period after the Revolution.
The
Terror Dream
: Fear
and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America / Susan Faludi.
Have we regressed to pre-women’s rights days as we try to protect
ourselves from terrorists?
Case
of
Abraham
Lincoln
: a Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a
Great President / by Julie M. Fenster.
Lincoln’s first criminal case says a lot about his future.
The
Wal-Mart
Effect : How
the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works-- and How it's Transforming
the American Economy / Charles Fishman. An excellent modern day
economic study.
The
Perils of
Peace
: America's Struggle for Survival after Yorktown
/ by Thomas Fleming. Britain dragged out the peace process while
Washington struggled to keep troops in the field; this was a perilous time
in the birth of a nation.
Simon
and Garfunkel's Bookends
/ Pete Fornatale. Part of Rodale’s series on pop music, this little book
shows us why this album was important.
Planet Earth as
You've Never
Seen it Before / Alastair
Fothergill. Based on the
marvelous series on PBS, an exquisite, almost unbelievable, look at our
home.
What
on Earth
Have I done? : Stories,
Observations, and Affirmations / Robert Fulghum. More wisdom from the
“What I Learned in Kindergarten” Fulgham.
Better : a Surgeon's Notes on Performance / Atul Gawande. How
doctors learn, make mistakes, and improve their performance.
Modernism:
the Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond / Peter Gay. The heresy is art-for-art’s sake; Gay
explores the beginning of cultural secularism.
The
Greyston Bakery
Cookbook : More than 80 Recipes to Inspire the Way You Cook
and Live / Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan.
Zen Buddhism, brownies, and a firm commitment to the community –
a wonderful, delicious combination.
Collected Poems,
1947-1997 /
Allen Ginsberg. The rich legacy of a major poet.
The
Sixth
Extinction :
Journey Among the Lost and Left Behind / Terry Glavin. This is a
fascinating look at the loss of culture and ethnic identity.
The
Innocent
Man / John Grisham. Grisham moves
to nonfiction in this consideration of one man’s experience with the
justice system.
A Prince
Among Dogs
: and Other Stories of the Dogs
We Love / compiled by Callie Smith Grant.
Delightful tales.
The
Complete Travel
Detective
Bible : the Consummate Insider Tells You What You Need to Know in an
Increasingly Complex World!
/ Peter Greenberg.
The
Official
eBay
Bible
: the Newly Revised and Updated Version of
the Most
Comprehensive
eBay
How-to
Manual
for Everyone
From
First-time
Users
to
eBay
Experts
/ Jim Griffith. How to sell grandma’s knick knacks for fun and profit!
How
Doctors Think
/ Jerome Groopman. The
process of diagnosis and treatment is based more on intuition than you
might imagine.
The
Coldest Winter
: America and the Korean War
/ David Halberstam. The master journalist’s last book; the definitive
history.
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