[bksvol-discuss] New Books (112) for 07-30
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:43:39 -0700
=====FICTION, 26
A PLACE ON EARTH: A NOVEL (REVISED), BY WENDELL BERRY
The revised 1983 edition of Berry's novel about Port William, Kentucky,
the farm lands and forests that surround it, and the river that runs
nearby, is back in print, resonating with variations played on themes of
change: looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, and
lost into found.
Excellent Quality, 324 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103069/
A SERVANT'S TALE, BY PAULA FOX
Torn from her tropical homeland, a woman takes a job as a servant in the
barrio and, paradoxically, grows more independent. This is the story of
a life that is simple on the surface but full of depth and richness
underneath.
Excellent Quality, 322 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102736/
BLOOD LINE: STORIES OF FATHERS AND SONS, BY DAVID QUAMMEN
Blood Line explores the complicated liaisons between fathers and sons.
Excellent Quality, 182 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102757/
DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES, BY MARGARET ATWOOD
Pregnant women, students and journalists, farmers and bird-watchers,
ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls: all ordinary people -
or are they? This collection of short stories, by the author offers a
study of human motivation.
Excellent Quality, 246 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103040/
DRINKING DRY CLOUDS: STORIES FROM WYOMING, BY GRETEL EHRLICH
"Drinking Dry Clouds" is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing.
This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of
cowboys, waitresses, and bartenders along with Japanese Americans
interned at Wyoming's Heart Mountain.
Excellent Quality, 160 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102729/
FLYING CHANGES, BY SARA GRUEN
Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's days--the fear that her relationship
with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian
daughter Eva's dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her
mother ... and into harm's way.
Excellent Quality, 381 Pages
Romance, Animals, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102670/
HAWK'S WAY ROGUES, BY JOAN JOHNSTON
A special "Hawk's Way" collector's edition features three "Texas-style"
romances of the Whitelaw family: "Honey and the Hired Hand", "The Cowboy
Takes a Wife" and "Temporary Groom".
Excellent Quality, 353 Pages
History, Romance, Westerns, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/101427/
HIDDEN CURRENTS (DRAKE SISTERS, BOOK 7), BY CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Can Elle, the seventh sister in a family of magical sisters, survive
torture and terror in order to preserve the future of her family?
Excellent Quality, 468 Pages
Romance, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103142/
OMBRIA IN SHADOW, BY PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP
Patricia A. McKillip envisions Ombria as an enchanted time and place.
Somewhere in between the struggle to rule the whole of Ombria - both its
light and shadows - will rest in the hands of those whose fractured
lives align like the lost pieces of a magical puzzle...
Excellent Quality, 298 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103038/
RECKLESS EYEBALLING, BY ISHMAEL REED
All around New York the "Flower Phantom" has been assaulting prominent
feminists, tying them up and shaving their heads, and no one knows who
the menace could be.
Excellent Quality, 148 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102879/
REMEMBERING: A NOVEL, BY WENDELL BERRY
"Remembering" takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the
bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming
accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walk through the
streets of the city.
Excellent Quality, 124 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103016/
TALK STORIES, BY JAMAICA KINCAID
Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for
The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town", composed from 1978 to 1983, after
she first came to the United States from Antigua.
Excellent Quality, 257 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102841/
THE BOOK OF ATRIX WOLFE, BY PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP
In wolf shape, among the wolves, he had sensed danger sweeping toward
the mountains he loved. So begins "The Book of Atrix Wolfe".
Excellent Quality, 248 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103032/
THE CONFEDERATION HANDBOOK: THE ESSENTIAL COMPANION GUIDE TO THE NIGHT'S
DAWN TRILOGY: THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION, THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST, AND THE
NAKED GOD, BY PETER F. HAMILTON
Hamilton reveals the true potential of his brilliantly realized epic.
Expanding on its concepts and complexities, The Confederation Handbook
explores the 600-year history of more than 21,500 inhabited worlds,
asteroids, and bitek habitats.
Publisher Quality
Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/91087/
THE PICKUP, BY NADINE GORDIMER
When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South
African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid. Their
attraction to one another is fueled by different motives.
Excellent Quality, 278 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102915/
THE SONS OF HEAVEN, BY KAGE BAKER
The conclusion to the story of Mendoza and The Company. In The Sons of
Heaven, the forces gathering to seize power finally move on the Company,
while the Company makes its own plans for the immortals .
Excellent Quality, 432 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/96046/
THE WITCH FINDER, BY LOREND ESTLEMAN
In seventeenth-century England witchfinders were bearers of false
witness - and were paid handsomely for their lies. In twentieth-century
America the pickings are easier, and the pay has gone through the roof.
Publisher Quality
Romance, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89131/
THE ZERO GAME, BY BRAD MELTZER
The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First
Counsel returns to Wash-ington, D.C., with the story of an insider's
game that turns deadly.
Publisher Quality
Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88436/
TRICKY BUSINESS, BY DAVE BARRY
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a
top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from
the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can
find more money.
Excellent Quality, 320 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103241/
URAVUGAL (RELATIONS), BY K. SANKARAN NAMBOOTHIRI AND NEELA PADMANABHAN
The novel depicts the ups and downs in the condition of a
sixty-two-year-old timber depot employee who is admitted to the hospital
following a heart attack. The patient dies within two weeks of his
hospitalization leaving his family in deep grief.
Excellent Quality, 330 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/101471/
WHEN ANGELS FALL, BY MEAGAN MCKINNEY
It was five years since Elizabeth Alcester had laid eyes on her former
stable boy, Ivan Tramore . . . five years since her world had collapsed
in devastating ruin around her.
Publisher Quality
Romance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88357/
WISHMAKERS, BY DOROTHY GARLOCK
Hidden dreams - Beautiful and wealthy Margaret Anthony could by a yacht
at the stroke of a pen but to her free- spirited business partner she's
little more than a spoiled brat.
Publisher Quality
Romance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89633/
WITCH HUNT, BY IAN RANKIN
She is an ingenious assassin, with as many methods as identities, a
master of disguise with an instinct for escape.
Publisher Quality
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87474/
WORDS OF SILK, BY SANDRA BROWN
Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in a
high-rise elevator in Manhattan. Fighting her rising panic, she relies
on a handsome stranger to help overcome her claustrophobia.
Publisher Quality
Romance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88374/
YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY: LOVE PEOMS FOR REAL LIFE, BY ELIZABETH ASH VéLEZ
AND MARY D. ESSELMAN
Editors Esselman and Velez showcase the phases of love, a subject that
has long inspired, redeemed, frustrated, and obsessed us.
Publisher Quality
Romance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89449/
YOU ONLY LOVE TWICE, BY LORI WILDE
Comic-book heroine Angelina Avenger battles dastardly criminals and
alien invasions. But her creator Marlie Montague's life isn't as
exciting...until Marlie opens the front door and finds the business end
of a pistol pointed right at her.
Publisher Quality
Romance, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87496/
=====NONFICTION, 50
ABOUT THIS LIFE: JOURNEYS ON THE THRESHOLD OF MEMORY, BY BARRY LOPEZ
A new collection of biographical essays by the esteemed writer ("Arctic
Dreams, Of Wolves and Men", among other works).
Excellent Quality, 276 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102925/
ALL THE WORLD OVER: NOTES FROM ALASKA, BY JOHN MUIR
Muir explores into the vast and varied splendors of the natural world in
Alaska.
Excellent Quality, 88 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102722/
A CONTINUOUS HARMONY: ESSAYS CULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL, BY WENDELL BERRY
Berry's second collection of essays was first published in 1972, and
contained eight essays, including the seminal "Think Little," which was
printed in "The Last Whole Earth Catalogue" and reprinted around the globe.
Excellent Quality, 176 Pages
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102782/
A MATCH TO THE HEART, BY GRETEL EHRLICH
After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her
Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a grueling but often
exhilarating journey back to the land of the living.
Excellent Quality, 202 Pages
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102754/
BEAUTY: AN ANTHOLOGY, BY JOHN MILLER
Beauty is more than skin deep. In this anthology of fiction, science,
lore, and just plain gossip, a remarkable range of authors ruminates on
the subject that captures everybody's attention.
Excellent Quality, 307 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103082/
BETTER: A SURGEON'S NOTES ON PERFORMANCE, BY ATUL GAWANDE
The "New York Times" bestselling author examines the complex and
risk-filled medical profession and how those involved progress from
merely good to great.
Excellent Quality, 273 Pages
Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102923/
BRAINSTORMS: PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS ON MIND AND PSYCHOLOGY, BY DANIEL
CLEMENT DENNETT
Discussions on artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive
psychology.
Excellent Quality, 364 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103153/
CLINTON AND ME, BY MICHAEL GRAHAM
Michael Graham, a humorist and political commentator, recounts the
presidency of Bill Clinton.
Publisher Quality
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88166/
COAST TO COAST: A JOURNEY ACROSS 1950S AMERICA, BY JAN MORRIS
A first book by the author of "Fifty Years of Europe" finds its writer,
living a very different identity and having recently reported on the
first Everest ascent in 1953.
Excellent Quality, 283 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102924/
CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED, BY DANIEL CLEMENT DENNETT
Consciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there
are facts about conscious experience--the way clarinets sound, the way
lemonade tastes--that we know subjectively, from the inside.
Excellent Quality, 507 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103160/
CROSSING OPEN GROUND, BY BARRY LOPEZ
The author travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing
endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures.
Excellent Quality, 210 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102764/
EAT SMART, WALK STRONG: THE SECRET OF EFFORTLESS WEIGHT LOSS, BY LESLIE
SANSONE
There are many small ways we sabotage our health without realizing it.
By recognizing these bad habits and developing good ones through small
changes, we can see big results.
Publisher Quality
Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89534/
GETTING PERSONAL: SELECTED WRITINGS, BY PHILLIP LOPATE
"Getting Personal" stands not only as a guide to Lopate's writing
career, but also as an intellectual autobiography, rooted in his
experience as one of America's most beloved and respected writers.
Excellent Quality, 398 Pages
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102693/
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER: A STORY FROM THE EDGE OF MEDICINE, BY JONATHAN WEINER
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Beak of the Finch" comes
a book about the new biology and how it touches a defiant
family-in-crisis fighting an incurable disease.
Excellent Quality, 356 Pages
Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103072/
HOME ECONOMICS: FOURTEEN ESSAYS, BY WENDELL BERRY
"My work has been motivated," Wendell Berry has written, "by a desire to
make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and
chosen place." In "Home Economics," Mr. Berry explores this process and
continues to discuss what it means to make oneself "responsibly at home."
Excellent Quality, 192 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102897/
ISLANDS, THE UNIVERSE, HOME, BY GRETEL EHRLICH
A collection of deeply personal essays that illuminate the relationship
between the human and the natural worlds by the acclaimed author of "The
Solace of Open Spaces".
Excellent Quality, 196 Pages
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103025/
JOURNEYS, BY JAN MORRIS
Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and
Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about
"romantic-visits" to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal.
Excellent Quality, 182 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102981/
LIFE: A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST FOUR BILLION YEARS OF LIFE ON
EARTH, BY RICHARD FORTEY
Fortey, a paleontologist with London's Natural History Museum, commences
his concise biography of Earth based on evolution with a first-person
account of a Darwinian-type scientific sea expedition in search of fossils.
Excellent Quality, 352 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102692/
LIFE IS A MIRACLE: AN ESSAY AGAINST MODERN SUPERSTITION, BY WENDELL BERRY
Actually consisting of a set of wide-ranging, sentimental essays in
which farmer, poet and writer Wendell Berry argues for greater dialogue
between the arts and sciences.
Excellent Quality, 154 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102889/
MAKING SENSE, BY ELLEN GOODMAN
This is a collection of syndicated newspaper columns by Ellen Goodman
covering a takes on a panorama of topics. She narrates with good humor
and focused intelligence, often giving an unconventional perspective of
current happenings.
Excellent Quality, 403 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102730/
MANHATTAN, '45, BY JAN MORRIS
On June 25, 1945, 14,000 American service men and women sailed into New
York aboard the British liner Queen Mary.
Excellent Quality, 274 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103225/
MEN'S LIVES, BY PETER MATTHIESSEN
An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island
fishermen whose voices -- humorous, bitter and bewildered -- are as
clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore.
Excellent Quality, 342 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102933/
MONSTER OF GOD: THE MAN-EATING PREDATOR IN THE JUNGLES OF HISTORY AND
THE MIND, BY DAVID QUAMMEN
Natural history and fiction writer Quammen explores the psychological,
mythic, and spiritual dimensions of the relationship between one
flesh-eating animal and one human victim.
Excellent Quality, 512 Pages
Nonfiction, Science, Animals, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103100/
MY KIND OF PLACE: TRAVEL STORIES FROM A WOMAN WHO'S BEEN EVERYWHERE, BY
SUSAN ORLEAN
In "My Kind of Place," the real Susan Orlean takes readers on a series
of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and
far-flung travel book. "My Kind of Place" is an inimitable treat by one
of America's premier literary journalists.
Excellent Quality, 308 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102936/
NATURAL ACTS: A SIDELONG VIEW OF SCIENCE AND NATURE, BY DAVID QUAMMEN
A writer for National Geographic with a string of nature books to his
credit, Quammen adds a new section to his 1985 collection of essays on
critters, folks, and acts relating to the natural world and the
scientific investigation of it.
Excellent Quality, 229 Pages
Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102909/
ON PARADISE DRIVE: HOW WE LIVE NOW (AND ALWAYS HAVE) IN THE FUTURE
TENSE, BY DAVID BROOKS
The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which
hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look
at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization
will shape the world's future.
Excellent Quality, 306 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103248/
ON THIS DAY IN AMERICA: AN ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC OF HISTORY, SPORTS,
SCIENCE, AND CULTURE, BY JOHN WAGMAN
Provides a day-by-day account of different events that have happened in
the almost five hundred years of the American experience, from 1492
through the 1980s. With over 4,000 facts.
Excellent Quality, 356 Pages
History, Reference, Science, Sports
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102960/
PAU HANA: PLANTATION LIFE AND LABOR IN HAWAII, 1835-1920, BY RONALD T.
TAKAKI
In many ways it was the plantation labor experience that makes Hawaii
unique in the world. Sugar plantations were very labor-intensive
operations and workers were needed wherever they could be obtained.
Excellent Quality, 215 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103053/
PRETENSIONS TO EMPIRE: NOTES ON THE CRIMINAL FOLLY OF THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION, BY LEWIS LAPHAM
Lapham stands virtually alone among mainstream American journalists in
having consistently seen through the fog of lies and narcissism
surrounding the Bush administration from its earliest days in Washington.
Excellent Quality, 288 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103039/
RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, BY JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
Reconstruction after the Civil War has been praised for cutting through
the controversial scholarship and popular myths of the time to provide
an accurate account of the role of former slaves during this period in
American history.
Excellent Quality, 258 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103043/
RESTORING HOPE: CONVERSATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF BLACK AMERICA, BY KELVIN
S. SEALEY AND CORNEL WEST
The relationship between art and politics, and the possibility of hope
among African-Americans today. Defining the crucial issues of our times,
they offer a transformative vision of the next century for black and
white Americans alike.
Excellent Quality, 226 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103052/
SIGHT-READINGS: AMERICAN FICTIONS , BY ELIZABETH HARDWICK
Newness and rootedness are the twin poles of Sight-Readings, Elizabeth
Hardwick's brilliant new collection of essays. Hardwick's focus here is
on American writers, at home and abroad, and especially women, as
writers and as characters.
Excellent Quality, 290 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103224/
TAKING THE WORLD IN FOR REPAIRS, BY RICHARD SELZER
A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally
published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback. Richard Selzer
retired as a surgeon in 1984 to write about his profession.
Excellent Quality, 239 Pages
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103054/
THEORY-BASED TREATMENT PLANNING FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS:
INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE, BY DIANE R. GEHART AND AMY R. TUTTLE
This textbook is a treatment planner and theory guide for therapists
working from systemic and postmodern approaches.
Excellent Quality, 270 Pages
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Nonfiction, Parenting and
Family, Professional and Technical
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/34771/
THE ANASAZI: PREHISTORIC PEOPLE OF THE FOUR CORNERS REGION, BY J.
RICHARD AMBLER
Ambler explores the Four Corners of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New
Mexico. Weaving together its geological, ecological and human histories,
he presents a unique portrait of this ruggedly beautiful landscape that
goes beyond mere description to give readers a true sense of the land in
all its richness.
Excellent Quality, 58 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102961/
THE BOILERPLATE RHINO: NATURE IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, BY DAVID QUAMMEN
The author hailed by Edward O. Wilson as "a brilliant young star of
nature writing" explores the relationship between humans and the natural
world in a collection of essays culled from his popular "Outside"
magazine column.
Excellent Quality, 288 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103155/
THE COMING OF AGE, BY PATRICK O'BRIAN AND SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
"The Coming of Age" is the definitive study of the universal problem of
growing old, which in and of itself is a brilliant achievement.
Excellent Quality, 585 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103104/
THE EXPLORERS: STORIES OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN
FRONTIER, BY TIM FLANNERY
In this lively collection of stories of adventure and discovery, "The
Explorers" tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of
Australia. Flannery presents 67 accounts that convey the sense of wonder
along with the dimensions of struggle.
Excellent Quality, 386 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103145/
THE FUTURE OF ICE: A JOURNEY INTO COLD, BY GRETEL EHRLICH
To understand the complex, primal nature of cold, Ehrlich traveled to
extreme points, from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic circle. She attempts
to uncover through her experiences the quintessential connection between
humans and the physical world.
Excellent Quality, 201 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102751/
THE FUTURE OF NATURE: WRITING ON A HUMAN ECOLOGY FROM ORION MAGAZINE, BY
BARRY LOPEZ
The western mindset is arguably one of the greatest threats to the
world's ecological balance. Corporatism and globalization are two of the
obvious villains here, but what part does human nature play in the problem?
Excellent Quality, 398 Pages
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102682/
THE GIFT OF GOOD LAND: FURTHER ESSAYS CULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL, BY
WENDELL BERRY
In the twenty-four essays of this collection, Wendell Berry stresses the
carefully modulated harmonics of indivisibility in culture and
agriculture, the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness, of man,
animals, the land, the weather, and the family.
Excellent Quality, 284 Pages
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102927/
THE RELUCTANT MR. DARWIN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DARWIN AND THE
MAKING OF HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION, BY DAVID QUAMMEN
He did not found a movement or a religion says Montana-based writer of
fiction and natural history Quammen, he never assembled a creed of
scientific axioms and ascribed his name to them.
Excellent Quality, 304 Pages
Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103108/
THE SOLACE OF OPEN SPACES, BY GRETEL EHRLICH
A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the
American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that
is a true celebration of the region.
Excellent Quality, 132 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102731/
THE UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE, BY LOREN C. EISELEY
Drawing from his long experience as a naturalist, the author responds to
the unexpected and symbolic aspects of a wide spectrum of phenomena
throughout the universe.
Excellent Quality, 240 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102895/
THE UNFORESEEN WILDERNESS: KENTUCKY'S RED RIVER GORGE, BY WENDELL BERRY
This book represents two visions among many that ultimately saved
Kentucky's Red River Gorge from destruction. Fortunately not an epitaph
to one place, "The Unforeseen Wilderness" remains a compelling homage to
wild places everywhere.
Excellent Quality, 112 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102723/
THE VENETIANS (THE SEAFARERS), BY COLIN THUBRON
The history of Venice, from the 7th century through the 17th.
Excellent Quality, 176 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103009/
THE WHOLE SHEBANG: A STATE-OF-THE-UNIVERSE(S) REPORT, BY TIMOTHY FERRIS
From the world-acclaimed author of "Coming of Age in the Milky Way"
comes this delightfully engrossing, comprehensive, and comprehensible
report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole.
Excellent Quality, 394 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103152/
THROWIM WAY LEG: TREE-KANGAROOS, POSSUMS, AND PENIS GOURDS: ON THE TRACK
OF UNKNOWN MAMMALS IN WILDEST NEW GUINEA, BY TIM FLANNERY
In New Guinea pidgin, "Throwim Way Leg" means to kick out your leg on
the first step of a long journey. Full of adventure, wit, and natural
wonders, Flannery's narrative is just such a spectacular trip.
Excellent Quality, 326 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Animals
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103114/
WHAT JESUS MEANT, BY GARRY WILLS
As the religious rhetoric of the culture wars escalates, "New York
Times" bestselling author and eminent scholar Garry Wills explores the
meaning of Jesus's teachings. In what are billed as culture wars, people
on the political right and the left cite Jesus as endorsing their views.
Excellent Quality, 157 Pages
Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102882/
YOUNGER NEXT YEAR FOR WOMEN, BY HENRY S. LODGE AND CHRIS CROWLEY
A guide to aging without fear or anxiety. Fitness, nutrition, and
continued active engagement are the keys. "Harry's Rules" are practical
and sound - the last rule is "Connect and commit."
Excellent Quality, 400 Pages
Nonfiction, Self-Help, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98741/
=====TEENS & CHILDREN, 36
ANGEL IN HEAVY SHOES (KATIE ROSE, BOOK 5), BY LENORA MATTINGLY WEBER
When the playwriting contest was announced at Adams High, Katie Rose
Belford planned to spend the next, few days preparing her entry. She
simply would not allow herself to be distracted by anyone else's problems.
Excellent Quality, 202 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/101943/
A CURSE DARK AS GOLD, BY ELIZABETH C. BUNCE
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to
keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming
mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man
capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide
if his help is worth the price.
Excellent Quality, 396 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102718/
DANIEL'S STORY, BY CAROL MATAS
A young Jewish boy recalls life in Hitler's Germany. First his family is
forced out of their home in Frankfurt and sent on a long journey to the
Lodz ghetto in Poland, and then to Auschwitz -- the Nazi death camp.
Excellent Quality, 122 Pages
History, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103015/
FIRE STAR (FIRE SERIES, BOOK 3), BY CHRIS D'LACEY
David Rain is faced with the most perilous task yet when Gwilanna
returns, this time determined to resurrect the dragon Gawain on the ice
cap of the Tooth of Ragnar, unless David and her friends can stop her.
Excellent Quality, 548 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103061/
GENTLEMEN, BY MICHAEL NORTHROP
When three teen-aged boys suspect that their English teacher is
responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze
of assured clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's Crime
and Punishment before learning the truth.
Excellent Quality, 234 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102817/
GIRL IN BLUE, BY ANN RINALDI
As a teen, Sarah Wheelock has vowed never to let a man control her. With
this conviction, she lives her life on a Michigan farm, disguises
herself as a boy, and fights in the Civil War.
Excellent Quality, 310 Pages
History, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102830/
GREEN ANGEL, BY ALICE HOFFMAN
Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster,
fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past.
Excellent Quality, 116 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103013/
HOW I SAVED MY FATHER'S LIFE (AND RUINED EVERYTHING ELSE), BY ANN HOOD
An acclaimed author of adult novels and short stories delivers her first
novel for young readers, with this story of a 12-year-old girl's quest
for faith and understanding in the face of her parents' divorce and a
move to a new town.
Excellent Quality, 218 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102880/
KNIGHT'S FEE, BY ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
When Randall drops a fig on the new Lord's horse, his life changes forever.
Excellent Quality, 288 Pages
History, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102898/
NOTES FROM THE MIDNIGHT DRIVER, BY JORDAN SONNENBLICK
In this novel described as "Tuesdays with Morrie" for teens, a troubled
16-year-old boy discovers the friendship of a lifetime after he is
sentenced to do community work at an old folks' home. A funny,
bittersweet tour de force.
Excellent Quality, 265 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103029/
RHIANA, BY MICHELE HAUF
When a cavalcade of marauding dragons threatens the lives of villagers,
the king, sympathetic toward the dragons, prevents Rhiana from using her
magical skills to protect the people.
Excellent Quality, 413 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/101426/
SONG FOR A DARK QUEEN, BY ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
The life of Boadicea (Boudicca), queen of the Iceni who led them and
other British tribes in a valiant but futile revolt against the Romans
in 62 A.D.
Excellent Quality, 170 Pages
History, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102874/
SWORD OF WATERS (THE SHIELD, SWORD, AND CROWN #2) , BY HILARI BELL
When fourteen-year-old Arisa, aided by Prince Edoran and Weasel, tries
to find the long-lost sword, she faces betrayal of the worst kind.
Excellent Quality, 345 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103223/
TANGLED BUTTERFLY, BY MARION DANE BAUER
After an outburst at her brother's wedding, 17-year-old Michelle is
taken to Minnesota's Apostle Islands for a rest and there meets Paul, a
young Native American writer who is the first to sense how deeply
disturbed she is.
Excellent Quality, 166 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102877/
TEN CENTS A DANCE, BY CHRISTINE FLETCHER
With her mother ill, it's up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to
support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a
Polish-American girl from Chicago's poor Yards is a job in one of the
meat packing plants.
Excellent Quality, 356 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102752/
THE RED NECKLACE: A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, BY SALLY GARDNER
An exciting, romantic novel set against the feverish backdrop of the
French Revolution. Clever and head-turningly attractive,
fourteen-year-old Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by
Têtu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy.
Excellent Quality, 378 Pages
History, Romance, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102755/
THE SCHOOL FOR DANGEROUS GIRLS, BY ELIOT SCHREFER
Angela's parents think she's on the road to ruin because she's dating a
"bad boy." After her behavior gets too much for them, they ship her off
to Hidden Oak. Isolated and isolating, Hidden Oak promises to
rehabilitate "dangerous girls."
Excellent Quality, 342 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102860/
THE SECRET LIFE OF PRINCE CHARMING, BY DEB CALETTI
After Quinn gets dumped, she starts to wonder if there really are no
good men. It doesn't help when she discovers that her selfish,
womanizing father has stolen more from the women in his life than their
hearts.
Excellent Quality, 324 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103226/
THE SUMMERBOY, BY ROBERT LIPSYTE
When Bobby Marks takes a summer job in a laundry, he gets more than he
bargains for: prejudice, unrequited love, and other hazards.
Excellent Quality, 154 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102858/
WATER SKY, BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE
While searching for his uncle in Barrow, Alaska, a young boy joins the
crew of an Eskimo whaling captain and learns the importance of whaling
to the Eskimo culture.
Excellent Quality, 211 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103046/
WINTERGIRLS, BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Six years after Cassie and Lia resolved to become the skinniest girls in
their school, Cassie dies. Unable to bear the sadness and guilt
following Cassie's death, Lia spirals deeper into her own eating disorder.
Excellent Quality, 282 Pages
Teens, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102982/
YELLOW FLAG, BY ROBERT LIPSYTE
When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and
replaces his injured brother in the family race car, he struggles to
keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can
continue making music with a brass quintet and headline as a NASCAR racer.
Excellent Quality, 234 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102758/
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT: A GOSSIP GIRL NOVEL, BY CECILY VON ZIEGESAR
Enter the world of Gossip Girl -- and watch us drown in luxury while
indulging in our favorite sports -- jealousy, betrayal, and late-night
bar-hopping. Well, the moment of truth has finally arrived.
Publisher Quality
Teens
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89269/
ZEN AND THE ART OF FAKING IT, BY JORDAN SONNENBLICK
When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the
umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge
of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and
the need to quickly become a
Excellent Quality, 266 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102813/
A BLIZZARD YEAR: TIMMY'S ALMANAC OF THE SEASONS, BY GRETEL EHRLICH
Ehrlich ventures confidently into new terrain in her eloquent and
affecting debut children's novel.
Excellent Quality, 122 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102794/
DEEP DOWN POPULAR, BY PHOEBE STONE
In a small Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush
on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he suddenly develops
a medical problem and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they
become friends, to her surprise.
Excellent Quality, 280 Pages
Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103036/
FIRE! FIRE! SAID MRS. MCGUIRE, BY BILL MARTIN
Smoke is rising in the city, but help is on the way. Join the rescue
brigade on a wild adventure at the scene of a most unexpected fire!
Excellent Quality, 32 Pages
Children's Books, Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103004/
GIRAFFES OF THE SAVANNA , BY SALLY ODGERS
Second grade series. Book about giraffes.
Excellent Quality, 15 Pages
Children's Books, Animals, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99634/
HORACE AND MORRIS BUT MOSTLY DELORES, BY JAMES HOWE
Horace, Morris, and Dolores do everything together and know that they
will be Friends Forever...until one day, when Horace and Morris become
part of an exclusive boys' club and Dolores finds herself left out.
Excellent Quality, 32 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102962/
LITTLE DOG POEMS, BY KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE
From cold-nose wake-up to bedtime with a Little Dog-shaped lump under
the covers, a day that a little girl spends with her Little Dog is
recounted in thirty short, playful poems.
Excellent Quality, 40 Pages
Children's Books, Animals, Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103005/
LOS GATOS BLACK ON HALLOWEEN, BY MARISA MONTES
Follow los monstruos and los esqueletos to the Halloween party. Under
October's luna, full and bright, the monsters are throwing a ball in the
Haunted Hall. Las brujas come on their broomsticks. Los muertos rise
from their coffins to join in the fun.
Excellent Quality, 32 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103006/
MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS, BY LISA YEE
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent
Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy,
deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course
of a tumultuous summer.
Excellent Quality, 266 Pages
Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102820/
PRONGHORNS (NATURE'S CHILDREN), BY ELMA SCHEMENAUER
Describes the physical features, natural environment and habits of
pronghorns who should be considered part of the goat family.
Excellent Quality, 48 Pages
Children's Books, Nonfiction, Animals, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/101935/
THE HOLE STORY, BY EVE MERRIAM
Describes all kinds of different holes, from straws to locks to noodles.
Excellent Quality, 34 Pages
Children's Books, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102963/
TUESDAY, BY DAVID WIESNER
Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore nearby
houses while their inhabitants sleep.
Excellent Quality, 31 Pages
Children's Books, Animals, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103007/
WHOEVER YOU ARE, BY MEM FOX
Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing
and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same. They may
not speak the same language. Their lives may be quite different. But
inside, they are all alike.
Excellent Quality, 32 Pages
Children's Books, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102964/
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