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Mae Sander's Bookshelf

Week of April 28, 2008


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Books shown above:

• The Cuisine of Hungary
• A Taste of the Past: the Daily Life and Cooking of a 19th-Century Hungarian Jewish Homemaker
• The Eastern European Cookbook
• The Czechoslovak Cookbook
• Gundel's Hungarian Cookbook
• Jewish Cooking in America
• Jewish Home Cookbook
• The First Jewish-American Cookbook
• Apricots on the Nile
• Cocina Judia: Memoria y Tradicion
• A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking
• Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food
• In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
• The Book of Jewish Food
• A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
• Food & Judaism
• The Food of Israel
• The Unprejudiced Palate
• Joy of Cooking
• Classic Southwest Cooking
• River Roads Recipes
• The New Orleans Cookbook
• The Bialy Eaters
• Six Thousand Years of Bread

Shannon Roudebush's Bookshelf

Week of March 31, 2008


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Books shown above:

• Leftovers
• The Handmaid's Tale
• A Great and Terrible Beauty
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• Then We Came to the End
• The Legacy of Luna
• Cocktails for Three
• The Gatecrasher
• Undead and Unpopular
• The Way the Crow Flies
• A Prayer for Owen Meany
• 101 Things You Should do Before Going to Heaven
• The Good Earth
• Anna Karenina
• The Monsters of Templeton
• Escaping into the Open
• My French Whore
• The Omnivore's Dilemma
• World Without End
• Redeeming Love
• The Secret Life of Bees
• Stargirl
• Catching Genius
• The Rest of Her Life
• Little Pink Slips
• Love Walked In
• The Department of Lost & Found
• Mother

Kristin Hannah's Bookshelf

Week of March 7, 2008

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 Books shown above:

• Black House
• Fortune’s Rocks
• The Prince of Tides
• Plainsong
• Our Lady of the Forest
• The Stand
• The Witching Hour (two copies!)
• The Poisonwood Bible
• A Thin Dark Line
• Fiona Range
• The Shadow of the Wind
• Twilight
• The General in His Labyrinth
• House of Sand and Fog
• The Shining
• The Woods
• Second Nature
• Cold Mountain
• Sense and Sensibility
• Dark Rivers of the Heart
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• American Pastoral
• Peachtree Road
• The Road
• Coldheart Canyon
• Bastard Out of Carolina

Jessa Crispin's Bookshelf

Week of February 25, 2008

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Books shown above:

• The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Annotated Hunting of the Snark
• The Norse Myths
• Beowulf: A Dual Language Edition
• Outfoxing Fear: Folktales From Around the World
• The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Russian Fairy Tales
• The White Goddess
• Metamorpheses
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead
• The Coyote Road
• The Golden Bough
• The Red Fairy Book
• The Green Fairy Book
• Irish Fairy Tales
• Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Penguin Epics Boxed Set
• The Inferno of Dante
• Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
• Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit

Joel Bass' Bookshelf

Week of February 11, 2008

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    Books shown above:

• Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems
• Infinite Jest
• White Teeth
• Emergence
• The Bloody Chamber
• The Story of English
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
• Cloud Atlas
• Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place
• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
• Libra
• Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
• The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul
• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
• Middlesex
• The King of Attolia
• The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are

John Lawton's Bookshelf

Week of January 14, 2008

   

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    Books shown above:

• Idoru
• All Tomorrow's Parties
• Pattern Recognition
• Spook Country
• Neuromancer
• Count Zero
• Burning Chrome
• The Difference Engine
• Essential Blogging
• Drown
• Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
• Retribution

Ben Lukoff's Bookshelf

Week of December 17, 2007

   

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    Books shown above:

• Once in Golconda
• The Young Detective's Handbook
• Mr. Bean's Diary
• Philosophy of Natural Science
• Philosophy of Language
• The American Language
• The American Language, Supplement 1
• The American Language, Supplement 2
• Experience
• Varieties of American English
• The Acoustic Analysis of Speech
• The Glory of Their Times
• A History of the English Language
• Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle
• The Elements of Murder
• The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920-1940
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My Country Right or Left
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950
• Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick
• Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay
• Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
• The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889-1969
• Language in the USA

Andrea Johnson's Bookshelf

Week of December 3, 2007

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    Books shown above:

• Maia
• Jack of Kinrowan
• XXXHolic
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• Tsubasa
• Mother Night
• Welcome to the Monkey House
• Cat's Cradle
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Red Storm Rising
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Romance of Tristan and Isuelt
• Robots and Empire
• Star Trek: Log Seven
• Shardik
• Foundation's Edge
• The Puppetmasters
• Time for the Stars
• In Alien Flesh
• Second Foundation
• Friday
• The Martian Chronicles

Bob Lock's Bookshelf

Week of November 19, 2007

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    Books shown above:

• Selling Out
• Fat
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
• Light
• Nova Swing
• Bone Song
• Wintersmith
• Brother Odd
• Science of the Discworld 2
• Night Watch
• Soul Music
• Interesting Times
• The Truth
• Men at Arms
• Flames of Herakleitos
• The Lonely Dead
• Wolves Eat Dogs
• Broken Angels
• Woken Furies
• Black Wind: A Dirt Pitt Novel
• Holy Fire
• Gridlinked
• The Line of Polity
• Cowl
• Prador Moon
• The Voyage of the Sable Keech
• Polity Agent
• The Skinner

Daphne Durham's Bookshelf

Week of November 5, 2007



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Books shown above:

• Tokyo Year Zero
• Daywatch
• New England White: A Novel
• Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life
• A Golden Age
• Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Life Class: A Novel
• Matrimony: A Novel
• Exit Ghost
• The Air We Breathe: A Novel
• The Zero
• Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
• Origin: A Novel
• Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and Life)
• Shadow Man
• How to Talk to a Widower
• The Face of Death
• About Alice
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• I am Legend
• In the Woods
• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
• Caught Stealing: A Novel
• Six Bad Things: A Novel
• A Dangerous Man: A Novel
• The Death and Life of Bobby Z
• Decorativa



Tom Nissley's Bookshelf

Week of October 22, 2007


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Books shown above:

• The Roaring Nineties
• Rock Springs
• Sacre Blues
• Saturday
• The Secret Lives of Citizens
• The Secret Parts of Fortune
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
• Selected Stories
• Shame
• Seven Plays
• Rhinoceros
• The Shadow Boxer
• The Shell Collector
• Shooting the Stars
• A Short History of Reconstruction
• Julian of Norwich: Showings
• Shroud
• The Signifying Monkey
• Silence
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Sixty Stories
• A Man Without a Country
• The Slave
• The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
• The Sink
• Slaves in the Family