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Book Bytes
2007 Reviews:
Donald Westlake: What's so funny?
Lisa Alther: Kinfolks falling off the family tree: the search for my Melungeon ancestors
Carl Hiaasen: Nature Girl
Mary Pope Osborne: Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn
James Patterson: The 6th Target
James D. Scurlock: Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders
Deborah Rodriquez: Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Jill Davis: Ask Again Later
Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins with Rachel Kranx A Star is Found
Kiran Desai: Inheritance of Loss
Patricia Reilly Giff: Water Street
Megan Whalen Turner: The King of Attolia
Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals
Stephen Prothero: Religious Literacy--What Every American Needs to Know--and Doesn't
Thomas B. Cavanagh: Head Games
Jeanne Kaogridis: I, Mona Lisa
Peter Carey : Theft: A Love Story
Joan Carris/Noah Z. Jones, Illustrator: Welcome to the Bed and Biscuit
Lisa Gardner: Hide
Lalita Tademy: Red River
Judith Gould: Secret Heiress
Irene Nemirosky: Suite Francaise
Marla Frazee: Walk On! A Guide for Babies of All Ages
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
2006 Reviews by Title:
Lemony Snicket: The End
Fannie Flagg: Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Richard Kurin: Hope Diamond: the Legendary History of a Cursed Gem
Sara Gruen: Water For Elephants
Brian Tacang: The Misadventures of Millicent Madding: Bully-Be-Gone
Michael Lavigne: Not Me: A Novel
Anne Tyler: Digging To America
Sebastian Junger: A Death In Belmont
Charlaine Harris: Grave Sight
Anne Perry: Dark Assassin
Henry J. Zeiter, MD: From Lebanon to California: A Marriage of Two Cultures
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
William F. Buckley, Jr.: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memories of My Melancholy Whore
Tracy Salcedo-Chourré: A Falcon Guide to California's Missions and Presidios: a guide to exploring California's Spanish and Mexican Heritage
Jeanne Huber : Decorative Concrete
2005
January 1, 2005 -- Alan Shepard: The First American
in Space
January 8, 2005 -- Escape in Iraq
January 15, 2004 -- My Kind of Place
January 22, 2005 -- Empires of Light: Edison,
Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
January 29, 2005 -- Be More Chill
February 12, 2005 -- The Children’s Blizzard
February 19, 2005 -- Tripping Over the Lunch Lady
February 26, 2005 -- The Pine Island Paradox
March 12, 2005 -- French Women Don't Get Fat
March 19, 2005 -- Da Wild, Da Crazy, Da Vinci
April 2, 2005 -- Do Elephants Jump?
April 9, 2005 -- REM World
April 16, 2005 -- Crossing the Threshold of Hope
April 23, 2005 -- The Finishing School
April 30, 2005 -- Abner and Me
May 7, 2005 -- The Long Goodbye
May 14, 2005 -- Downtown Stockton
May 21, 2005 -- I Walk In Dread
2004
January 10, 2004 -- The Scarlet Letters
January 24, 2004 -- Olive's Ocean
February 7, 2004 -- Coyote Moon
February 14, 2004 -- Crossing Over
February 28, 2004 -- Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
March 6, 2004 -- Welcome Home or Someplace Like it
March 13, 2004 -- Lyra's Oxford
March 27, 2004 -- Applied Economics
April 27, 2004 -- Louis Riel; a Comic-Strip Biography
May 1, 2004 -- Truly Winnie
June 5, 2004 -- Telegram
June 12, 2004 -- Stanley, California
June 19, 2004 -- Where in the World
June 26, 2004 -- When Difficult Relatives Happen to Good People: Surviving Your Family and Keeping Your Sanity
July 3, 2004 -- Don’t Look Back
July 10, 2004 -- Mister Monday
August 1, 2004 -- Mosaic; Techniques and Traditions
August 7, 2004 -- Chasing Vermeer
August 14, 2004 -- Lost and Found
August 21, 2004 -- Ain't She Sweet?
August 28, 2004 -- What Not to Wear for Every Occasion
September 11, 2004 -- Funny in Farsi
September 18, 2004 -- The Fine Art of Flower Arranging
September 25, 2004 -- Ophie Out of Oz
October 2, 2004 -- Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
October 9, 2004 -- High Country Fall
October 16, 2004 -- And If I Perish
October 30, 2004 -- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
November 6, 2004 --
November 13, 2004 -- Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown
November 20, 2004 -- Memory of Fire: book one of the World Gates
November 27, 2004 -- Shoot the Moon
December 4, 2004 -- He's Just Not Into You
December 11, 2004 -- Mao’s last dancer; a memoir by Li Cunxin
December 18, 2004 -- In The Night Room
2003
January 4, 2003 -- Coraline
January 11, 2003 -- Any Small Goodness
January 18, 2003 -- Last Man Down: a Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center
January 25, 2003 -- Hoot
February 1, 2003 -- Voyage of the Arctic Tern
February 8, 2003 -- Choosing Naia; A Family’s Journey
February 14, 2003 -- Stuart's Cape
February 22, 2003 -- Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things worth Savoring
March 8, 2003 -- The Silver Lining: the Benefits of Natural Disasters
March 15, 2003 -- Arabat
March 22, 2003 -- The Annoyance Bureau
March 29, 2003 -- A Miracle for St. Cecilia's
April 5, 2003 -- Drop City
April 19, 2003 -- City of the Beasts
April 26, 2003 -- Patrick, Son of Ireland
May 10, 2003 -- The Da Vinci Code
May 17, 2003 -- The Silent Boy
May 24, 2003 -- Matisse Picasso
May 31, 2003 -- Profiles of the Presidents
June 7, 2003 -- Money for Nothing
June 14, 2003 -- Monkeewrench
June 21, 2003 -- Small Wonder
June 28, 2003 -- Abhorsen
July 5, 2003 -- The Big Meow
July 12, 2003 -- Cat in a Neon Nightmare: a Midnight Louie mystery
July 19, 2003 -- The Life You Save May be Your Own
July 26, 2003 -- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
August 2, 2003 --
August 9, 2003 -- Disappearing Act
August 16, 2003 -- Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
August 23, 2003 --
August 30, 2003 -- Easter Island
September 6, 2003 -- Appetites: Why Women Want
September 13, 2003 -- Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What do You See?
September 20, 2003 -- Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan
September 27, 2003 -- Isle of Palms
October 4, 2003 -- In the Shadows of War
October 11, 2003 -- Persepolis; the Story of a Childhood
October 18, 2003 -- The Wolves in the Walls
October 25, 2003 -- The Long Haul
November 1, 2003 --
November 8, 2003 -- Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do
November 15, 2003 -- Jennifer Government
November 22, 2003 -- Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia
November 29, 2003 -- Vulture Capital
December 6, 2003 -- A Christmas Journey
December 13, 2003 -- Coercing Virtue: the Worldwide Rule of Judges
December 20, 2003 -- In Time of War
December 27, 2003 -- Polly's Absolutely Worst Birthday Ever
2002
January 5, 2002 -- Peace Like a River
January 12, 2002 -- I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
January 19, 2002 -- Till Tomorrow
January 26, 2002 -- The Price of Terror: One Bomb, One Plane, 270 Lives; the History Making Struggle for Justice after Pan Am 103
February 2, 2002 -- Farewell to Manzanar
February 9, 2002 -- Amelia Earhart’s shoes: is the mystery solved?
February 16, 2002 -- Winnie Dancing on Her Own
March 2, 2002 -- The Things I Know Best
March 9, 2002 -- The Heart of the Soul
March 16, 2002 -- Remembering Korea: The Korean War Veterans Memorial
March 23, 2002 -- The Eyre Affair
March 30, 2002 -- Burning Marguerite
April 6, 2002 -- Pet of a Pet, and Five Creatures
April 13, 2002 -- J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
April 13, 2002 -- Dear Miss Breed
April 27, 2002 -- The Secret Ingredient
May 4, 2002 -- Losing My Mind
May 11, 2002 -- George Speaks
May 18, 2002 -- Funny Frank
May 25, 2002 -- Put a Lid On It
June 1, 2002 --
June 8, 2002 -- The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have: The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting
June 15, 2002 -- Losers
June 22, 2002 -- Nature’s Army: when soldiers fought for Yosemite
June 29, 2002 -- The Confessions and Secrets of Howard J. Fingerhut
July 6, 2002 -- Missing from Haymarket Square
July 13, 2002 -- Where have all the Flowers gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty
July 27, 2002 -- Daddy's Little Girl
August 3, 2002 -- The Mulberry Tree
August 10, 2002 -- When the Circus came to Town
August 17, 2002 -- Elijah's Cup
August 24, 2002 -- The Egyptian Box
August 31, 2002 -- Red Rabbit
September 7, 2002 -- Among the Betrayed
September 14, 2002 -- You Don't Know Me
September 21, 2002 --
September 28, 2002 -- Gooney Bird Greene
October 5, 2002 -- A Summer to Remember
October 12, 2002 -- Lovely Bones
October 19, 2002 -- Lemony Snickett: the Unauthorized Biography
November 2, 2002 -- Hobart
November 9, 2002 -- Blessings
November 16, 2002 -- Crispin: the Cross of Lead
November 23, 2002 --
November 30, 2002 -- Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
December 7, 2002 -- The Lighthouse Family: the Storm
December 14, 2002 --
December 21, 2002 -- Christmas in Harmony
December 28, 2002 -- Then Came Christmas
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