Books I'd Like To Read
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Most of the books on this list come from reviews in the magazines Entertainment Weekly and People. A lot of the descriptions are excerpted from the reviews. Please support these magazines and the books that they recommend.
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| Herzog, Maurice | Annapurna, First Conquest of an 800-Meter Peak | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Mountain climbing book. |
| Heskett, Jim | Nailgun Messiah | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Micah Reed has a knack for ticking off the wrong people at the wrong time. When his latest attempt to do the right thing angers some drug dealers, he takes refuge in the sleepy mountain town of Nederland. He plans on finding his sister Magda and disappearing into obscurity with her. Micah is in for a big surprise… |
| Hess, Anna | Farmstead Feast | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Winter: Delicious, in-season recipes by the author of The Weekend Homesteader. |
| Hessler, Peter | Strange Stones | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In this insightful collection from an award-winning journalist, readers are treated to masterful and energetically curious snapshots of modern Asia. |
| Hester, Elliott | Adventures of a Continental Drifter | Memoir | Hester ditches most of his earthly belongings and buys a one-way ticket around the world. If you go away for a year, som weird stuff is going to happen. |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Dance of the Reptiles | Non-fiction | In these columns originally printed in the Miami Herald, the author's musings on Florida life and politics can seem stranger than his fiction. |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Various | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com.
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| Hiassen, Carl | Kick Ass | Essays | Collection of newspaper columns on how weird is FL. |
| Hiassen, Carl | Lucky You | Fiction | Two white supremacist wannabes steal a winning lotto ticket. |
| Hiassen, Carl | Sick Puppy | Fiction | Twilly discovers that Stoat is about to mall a Gulf Coast island. |
| Hicks, Brian | Ghost Ship | Non-fiction | A freighter captain spotted the "Mary Celeste" sailing erratically on the horizon. Once aboard, his men foudn the ship deserted. But there was no evidence of calamity or violence; it was as if the crew vanished into the salt air. An exhaustively researched book, sometimes bogs down in the sheer mass of facts. |
| Hicks, Deborah | The Road Out: | Non-fiction | A teacher's odyssey in poor America. |
| Hidden, Rumer | The Battle Of The Villa Fiorita | Fiction | Recommended by Rebecca. This is an exciting story, set in the Villia Fiorita, on Lake Garda, Italy. Fanny had gone there with Rob, named as the co-respondent in her recent divorce, to await the decree absolute that would let them marry. The father had been awarded custody of the two younger children, Hugh and Caddie, but they had decided to follow their mother, and so they came face to face with Rob, and the story of the long feud that follows provides an exciting story. Not until the end is the outcome of the struggle hinted at, and when it comes it will surprise most readers. |
| Higashida, Naoki | Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism Kindle Edition by | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international success. Now he shares his thoughts and experiences as a twenty-four-year-old man living each day with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, Higashida explores school memories, family relationships, the exhilaration of travel, and the difficulties of speech. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it's raining outside. Acutely aware of how strange his behavior can appear to others, he aims throughout to foster a better understanding of autism and to encourage society to see people with disabilities as people, not as problems. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Higashida, Naoki | The Reason I Jump | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "One of the most remarkable books I've ever read" (Jon Stewart). Fascinating New York Times bestselling memoir by a 13-year-old boy with autism "is an intimate book, one that takes readers right into an autistic mind". Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Higgins, George V. and Dennis Lehane | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Elmore Leonard says this is the best crime novel ever written, and that it inspired him to stop writing westerns and give the genre a try. At the end of the TV series Justified, Raylan gives Tim his copy of the book. |
| Higgins, Graham | Survival Medicine | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Handbook to the prepper's long term survival guide. |
| Higgins, Victoria | Organization: The Art of Clean-Organizing | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. And stress free life management. |
| HIghsmith, Patricia | The Price of Salt or Carol | GLBT | A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. |
| Hildenbrand, Heather | Imitation | SciFi | Suggested By: Other. $2.15 Kindle book. Ven wrestles with these contradicting truths every day. A clone of wealthy eighteen-year-old Raven Rogen, Ven knows everything about the girl she was created to serve: the clothes she wears, the boys she loves, the friends she loves to hate. Yet she's never met the Authentic Raven face-to-face. Imitations like Ven only get to leave the lab when they're needed--to replace a dead Authentic, donate an organ, or complete a specific mission. |
| Hill, Henry | Perpper's Survival Pantry | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The ultimate SHTF preparedness guide to canning, dehydrating, and emergency water and food storage. |
| Hill, Jenna Miscavige | Beyond Belief | Memoir | My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape. Recommended by Winnipeg Shelley. |
| Hill, Jenna Miscavige and Lisa Pulitzer | Beyond Belief | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. My secret life inside Scientology and my harrowing escape. |
| Hill, Joe | Heart Shaped Box | Fiction | Hill's story about an aging rock star (with a penchant for macabre artifacts) who buys a haunted suit online will scare you silly. Recommended by Neil Gaiman. |
| Hill, Joe | NOS4A2 | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. |
| Hill, Rayven T. | Personal Justice | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. A Jake & Annie Lincoln Thriller book 7. When a man is brutally murdered and the suspected killer has disappeared, the family of the victim hires private investigators Jake and Annie Lincoln to track down the missing murderer. |
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Non-fiction | Story of famed 1930s horse. |
| Hillerman, Tony | Coyote Waits, or A Thief of Time | Crime/Mystery | Note: two separate titles. Purportedly among his best. |
| Hillerman, Tony | Leaphorn and Chee Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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| Hillerman, Tony | The Blessing Way | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $2.15 Kindle book. A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 1. Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. |
| Hillman, Thea | Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) | GLBT | Doesn't elicit a single eye-roll. Crackling, spirited prose which endears as she comes to accept and eventually embrace her intersexual identity. |
| Hillstrand, Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand with Malcolm MacPherson | Time Bandit | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The Hillstrand brothers, two of the stars of Deadliest Catch, chronicle a lifetime of daring exploits as fishermen on the unforgiving Bering Sea. A rollicking read. |
| Hilton, James | Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, and Other Stories | Memoir | Relates the heartwarming life of a gentle, lovable English school-master. |
| Hines, Babbette | Love Letters Lost | Non-fiction | Love letters and photos from flea markets. Sweetly hilarious. |
| Hines, Babbette | Photobooth | Photo | Photobooth presents over 700 photobooth photographs from the last 75 years, images at turns spontaneous and uninhibited, often goofy, and occasionally touching. |
| Hirsch, David | The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden | Technical/Reference | Creative gardening for the adventurous cook. |
| Hirsch, J.M. | High Flavor Low Labor | Cookbook | AP food editor Hirsch reinvents weeknight cooking with minimal fuss. Try pulled pork over soft polenta. |
| Hirvela, Stacey | Edible Spots & Pots | Technical/Reference | Small-space gardens for growing vegetables and herbs in containers, raised beds, and more. |
| Hitchens, Christopher | God Is Not Great | Non-fiction | A biting condemnation of religion which became a surprise bestseller. "There's been a turning point where people don't automatically think of faith as a virtue," he says. "But even I was surprised by how well it did in the Bible Belt." |
| Hitchens, Christopher | The Portable Atheist | Non-fiction | Arch-contrarian Hitchens presents a fascinating collection of articles that just say no to religion. Article are by other people, with introductions. Hmmmm. Sounds like it could be dull, but it got a really good review. |
| Hitchings, Henry | Sorry! The English and Their Manners | Non-fiction | Sparkling exploration of British etiquette puts seemingly stuffy customs into context with fascinating dives into both history and literature, including the novels of Jane Austen. |
| Hoag, Tami | The Bitter Season | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Kovac & Liska Series. This book is later in the series. Liska and Kovac are no longer partners. Liska's is looking into the cold case murder of a decorated sex crimes detective. Kovac is investigating an especially brutal double homicide: a prominent university professor and his wife, bludgeoned and hacked to death in their home with a ceremonial Japanese samurai sword. The two cases eventually intersect. Meanwhile, Minneapolis resident Evi Burke has a life she only dreamed of as a kid in and out of foster care: a beautiful home, a loving family, a fulfilling job. But a danger from her past is stalking her idyllic present, bent on destroying the perfect life she was never meant to have. |
| Hoag, Tami | Various - Kovac & Liska Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Author was raised in Harmony, MN. The series is set in Minneapolis.
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| Hoare, Philip | The Whale | Non-fiction | A love letter to the largest, loudest, oldest mammal. This is an exhilarating valentine. |
| Hobbs, Jeff | The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace | Non-fiction | Hobbs details his former Yale roommate's trajectory from slum kid to Ivy League star to victim of clashing worlds. Nuanced and shattering. |
| Hochschild, Adam | Bury the Chains | History | His descriptions of Indian slavery will make you want to put down the book and shut your eyes in horror. |
| Hockney, David | Secret Knowledge | Non-fiction | Hockney posited that the Old Masters used camera obscura techniques that projected the image of the subject onto the surface of the painting. Hockney argues that this technique migrated gradually to Italy and most of Europe, and is the reason for the photographic style of painting we see in the Renaissance and later periods of art. |
| Hodges, Andrew | Alan Turing: The Enigma | Auto/Biography | Inspiration for the movie: Hodges (mathematics, Wadham College, Oxford) examines both the heroic and tragic sides of Turing's life, from his decryption of the German U- boat Enigma cipher, to his tragic suicide. |
| Hodgkinson, Tom | How To Be Idle | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Learn the fine art of doing nothing with this wistful, tongue-in-cheek ode to laziness. It's insulting for people who have to work to feed and house themselves or their family. But people say that it is will written. Might be fun to try. |
| Hodgman, George | Bettyville | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Funny, touching, quirky book about nursing elderly parents. Hodgman left NYC to care for his mother in small-town Missouri. |
| Hodgman, John | The Areas of my Expertise | Humorous | Almanac of the absurd. Exercise in pointless humor like a list of 700 hobo names. |
| Hodgman, John | Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches | Humorous | Suggested By: Other. Heard on MPR. John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will - "the water is very cold, and made of evil"); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. |
| Hodgson, Barbara | Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour | Travel | Visually rich, eclectic, and quirky. She may tell you where to get coffee in one city, but in another tell who was murdered where. |
| Hoffman, Alice | At Risk | Fiction | I may have missed this one from 1988. Amanda, who has been winning gymnastic meets despite a summer-long malaise, tests positive for AIDS, contracted some five years before when she was transfused with contaminated blood after an appendectomy. |
| Hoffman, Alice | Incantation | Fiction | Young People. Grade 7 Up?The opposing forces of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal underscore this brief but rich tale set during the Spanish Inquisition. Told by 16-year-old Estrella deMadrigal, the novel shows how gruesome beliefs nourished by ignorance and prejudice destroyed the lives of countless people. |
| Hoffman, Alice | Various (Bibliography) | Other | Suggested By: Author. Novels - I do NOT have a Kindle copy of the books marked in bold.
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| Hoffman, Beth | Saving CeeCee Honeycutt | Chick Lit | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A New York Times bestseller packed with "Southern charm" and "good old-fashioned heart" (Kristin Hannah): After her mother dies, CeeCee begins a colorful new life with her great-aunt Tootie. A "hit with the book clubs that adopted Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees" (Library Journal). |
| Hofmann, Corinne | The White Masai | Memoir | A Swiss tourist and a Masai warrior fall in love in Kenya; she moves to the bush with him and they wed. Just try to put this one down. |
| Hogsett, Jessie | Detatched | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Surviving reactive attachment disorder. the true story of a young boy who never "attached" or "bonded" with his alcoholic mother. He felt unloved, uncared for, unsafe, sad, lonely and extremely angry. As he grew up, he, like most Reactive Attachment Disordered kids, acted out, exhibiting severely antisocial, even violent, behavior. You will travel back in time to view a young childs life through his own eyes. You will see an innocent boy become a severely emotionally disturbed teen. Then, against all odds, you will read about miracles few ever thought possible. |
| Hohn, Donovan | Moby-Duck | Non-fiction | When journalist Hohn read about a shipment of 28,800 plastic ducks, frogs, etc that had fallen off of a storm-tossed ship, he set off on the adventure recorded here, sailing with driftology experts trying to chart the course of where things like the "floatees" go in ocean currents. |
| Holland, Barbara | When All the World Was Young | Memoir | Barbara Holland's smart, funny, and poignant memoir about growing up "weird" in the 1940s and 1950s. Holland's innate individualism turned Jr. High into a nightmare: a well-meaning but clueless girl in the lunch line says to Barbara, "There's someone in my class who's just as weird as you are. You ought to know each other." |
| Holland, Jimmie | The Human Side of Cancer, Living with Hope, Coping with Uncertainty | Non-fiction | Jimmie Holland, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center psychiatrist, is a longtime critic of the "mind over cancer" proponents who tell patients they must stay positive to survive their disease. Holland coined the term "the tyranny of positive thinking" to describe the belief. "The idea that we can control illness and death with our minds appeals to our deepest yearnings, but it just isn't so," she tells WebMD. "It is so sad that cancer patients are made to believe that if they aren't doing well it is somehow their own fault because they aren't positive enough." |
| Holland, Julie M.D. | Weekends at Bellevue | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of the psychiatric emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. |
| Holleman, Marybeth | The Heart of the Sound | Travel | Written on the 15th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Holleman explores the resiliency of nature, and the ways that resiliency is tested. |
| Hollinghurst, Alan | The Sparsholt Affair | GLBT | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Sparsholt is only the latest multigenerational tapestry of British gay life from laude author Alan Hollinghurst, yet this book, ingeniously constructed and delicately written, is his best yet. A queer classic so achingly powerful, you'll savor every page. |
| Holloway, Jeffrey | Anxiety Workbook | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. 30 days to a life free of anxiety. |
| Holman, Sheri | The Mammoth Cheese | Fiction | Town pastor wants to generate publicity for small town by convincing resident to make a huge cheese. Enjoyable slice of Americana. |
| Holmberg, Charlie N. | Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Baker Maire has the extraordinary ability to transfer emotions and powers through her enchanted confections. She doesn't know where her gift comes from, in fact she has no memory of her past. [here's where it gets weird - may or may not want to read this book] But when marauders take her captive her true identity slowly begins to surface. |
| Holmberg, Charlie N. | The Paper Magician | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Series: The Paper Magician, The Glass Magician, The Master Magician. The spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined--animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic. |
| Holmes, Hannah | Suburban Safari | Non-fiction | 21st Century suburban naturalist. Entertaining lectures on the history of lawns and the domestication of dogs. |
| Holmes, Hannah | The Well-Dressed Ape | Non-fiction | The focus is on Homo sapiens, but the animals claim the best moments. Smart and upbeat, this will leave you prouder of your similarities to the animal kingdom. |
| Holmes, Richard | Falling Upwards | Non-fiction | The Victorian era, literature, and science are beautifully intertwined in a history of hot-air ballooning. |
| Holt, Anne | Hanne Wilhemsen Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. "The Godmother of Norwegian crime fiction". Note: double-check this list - I think there may be some issues, especially near the end where the more recent books are listed.
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| Holt, K.A. | House Arrest | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. After he's convicted of theft, Timothy keeps a journal to chronicle the ups and downs of life under house arrest. Serious and funny, thrilling and touching, sweet and snarky. |
| Holt, Nathalia | Rise of the Rocket Girls | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Learn more about the women who worked in the space program. Holt's book is lively and immensely readable history. NASA. |
| Holway, John B. | Bessie Coleman: Pioneering Black Woman Aviator | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. She was the black Amelia Earhart. Back in the 1920s planes were made of wood and cloth held together with wire. And back then everyone knew blacks couldn't fly, and neither could women. But this spunky black woman from the cotton fields of Texas did loops above the Eiffel Tower, walked on wings above America, and jumped off planes to the oohs and gasps of crowds. |
| Home, Merrily | Photo Book of Old New York City | Photo | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. More than 100 slides of vintage New York City. |
| Honeyman, Gail | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Wacky, charming novel. Eleanor Oliphant is actually not fine at all, but her story is hilarious and moving. |
| Honoré, Carl | In Praise of Slowness | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. How a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed. |
| Hood, Ann | Knitting Yarns | Essays | Anthology about knitting, including essays from Sue Grafton, Barbara Kingsolver, and other authors. |
| Hood, Ann | The Obituary Writer | Fiction | A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen. |
| Hooker, Richard | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors | Fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV. The TV show M*A*S*H is based on this book. For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide |
| Hooper, Karen Amanda | Tangled Tides | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Yara Jones doesn't believe in sea monsters--until she becomes one. When a hurricane hits her island home and she wakes up with fins, Yara finds herself tangled up in an underwater world of mysterious merfolk and secretive selkies. Both sides believe Yara can save them by fulfilling a broken promise and opening the sealed gateway to their realm, but they are battling over how it should be done. The selkies want to take her life. The merfolk want something far more precious. |
| Hope, Laura Lee | The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK | Youth | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $.59 Kindle book. Meet Nan and Burt, and Freddie and Flossie -- two sets of twins in the Bobbsey family. Their adventures have thrilled generations of young readers. This volume collects the first 15 original Bobbsey Twins books (published between 1904 and 1922)
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| Hopkin, Ben | Darc Murders Collection | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book series. |
| Hopkins, Karen Ann | Lamb to the Slaughter | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Christian mystery. Hmmm. The death of a teenage Amish girl in a cornfield looks like an accident, but sheriff Serenity Adams suspects foul play. To solve the murder, she must investigate the nearby Amish community with the help of a man who was shunned years ago. |
| Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca | LIfe Among the Piutes | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The first known autobiography by an a Native American woman. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins' riveting, heartbreaking memoir is both a history of the Piute Indian tribe and an account of the devastation caused to the Piute people after their first contact with white men in the nineteenth century. |
| Horn, Dara | The World To Come | Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Recommended by Alice Hoffman. "Nothing short of amazing."―Entertainment Weekly. A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history―from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam. |
| Hornak, Francesca | Seven Days of Us | Brit Lit | Suggested By: People Mag. Confinement during an epidemic with her snarky food-critic dad, smothering mom, and frivolous younger sister unleashes secrets and festering resentments. Sharply funny and beguilingly British. |
| Hornby, Nick | A Long Way Down | Fiction | Four attempted suicides end up forming a whacky support group. |
| Hornby, Nick | Funny Girl | Fiction | Barbara looks like Marilyn Monroe, but she wants to be Lucille Ball. |
| Hornby, Nick | The Polysyllabic Spree | Essays | A year's worth of monthly columns. |
| Hornby,Nick | Songbook | Essays | Collection of music-as-metaphor essays. Hopefully not as tedious as the soccer/football book. |
| Hornfischer, James D. | Ship of Ghosts | History | Warship sunk in 1942 in the Sunda Straight and the survivors became POWs, many on the notorious Burma-Thailand Death Railway. Hornfischer exhaustively details the visceral terror of a naval battle, savage treatment by the Japanese captors, and post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| Horowitz, Seth S. | The Universal Sense | Non-fiction | Why's that song stuck in your head? Find the answer, and more, in this smart look at how the brain processes sounds. |
| Horstmann, Cay S., Gary Cornell | Core Java 2 Volume I - Fundamentals, 2001 | Computer | Covers J2SE Version 1.3. This is the Sun book. Obsolete? Ramsey Library |
| Hoskyns, Barney | Hotel California | Non-fiction | Veteran music journalist Hoskyns examines the often toxic relationshp tangles that connected CSNY, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles, and just about everyone else who picked up a guitar in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon in the late 60s and early 70s. |
| Hoskyns, Barney | Led Zeppelin IV | Non-fiction | Zeppelin's 1971 masterpiece dissected in geeky detail. Might suck, but might be worth a try. |
| Hourly History | Mayflower: A History From Beginning to End | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. The Mayflower was the ship that launched a nation. She left from England in September of 1620, carrying 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit. These Pilgrims had the courage of their convictions. They had already potentially faced execution for practicing their beliefs and now they were willing to uproot their lives, their families, and their homes, to sign contracts of indentured servitude for them and their children - all to find what they called freedom in a foreign land. |
| Hourly History | Theodore Roosevelt: A Life From Beginning to End | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Early Life & Education, Early Political Career and Marriage, The Old West and a New Beginning, Early Public Life, Becoming a National Figure, Governor and Vice President, Presidency, Post-Presidency, Election of 1912 and Final Years |
| Housden, Maria | Hannah's Gift | Memoir | Lessons From a Life Fully Lived. True story of four-year-old who dies of cancer. |
| House, Silas | Clay's Quilt | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When his mother dies during a harsh Appalachian winter, Clay must find a new family and a place to belong among the residents of Free Creek |
| Houston, James | Confessions of an Igloo Dweller | Memoir | Living with the Inuit. |
| Houston, Keith | The Book | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. This history of the book is packed with lore about binding, papermaking, and printing presses. |
| Howard, Tim | The Keeper | Memoir | American goalie who hone during the 2014 World Cup explains that he credits some of his soccer success to having Tourette's Syndrome. It endows him with a kind of sixth sense to he can anticipate which way his opponents will go. |
| Howe, Zoë | Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & rumours | Auto/Biography | Fleetwood Mac's songbird's rise from ordinary midwestern childhood to rock goddess status. |
| Howey, Hugh | Half Way Home | SciFi | Suggested By: Author. $4.29 Kindle book. Five hundred of us were sent to colonize this planet. Only fifty or so survived. We woke up fifteen years too early, we had only half our training, and they expected us to not only survive ... they expected us to conquer this place. The problem is: it isn't safe here. We aren't even safe from each other. |
| Howey, Hugh | I, Zombie | SciFi | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Be forewarned: This is not a zombie book. This is a different sort of tale. It is a story about the unfortunate, about those who did not get away. It is a human story at its rotten heart. It is the reason we can't stop obsessing about these creatures, in whom we see all too much of ourselves. |
| Howey, Hugh | Sand Omnibus | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Author. $5.99 Kindle book. By Hugh Howey the author of the Silo/Wool/Shift/Dust series. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next.
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| Howey, Hugh | The Plagiarist | SciFi | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $1.07 Kindle book. By the author of the Silo/Wool/Shift/Dust series. Adam Griffey is living two lives. By day, he teaches literature. At night, he steals it. Adam is a plagiarist, an expert reader with an eye for great works. He prowls simulated worlds perusing virtual texts, looking for the next big thing. And when he finds it, he memorizes it page by page, line by line, word for word. And then he brings it back to his world. |
| Howkins, Heidi | K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Another mountain climbing book... |
| Howrey, Meg | The Cranes Dance | Fiction | At first glance, there are plenty of parallels between the film Black Swan and Howrey's novel. Authentic behind-the-curtain details (Howrey is a former dancer) do occasionally overpower the plot. |
| Hoyt, Penelope | The Nerdy Survivalist: How to Protect and Care For Your Family in the Direst of Circumstances | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. Find out how you can start building a food storage even when you're on a budget, what steps you need to take BEFORE a disaster strikes, and what mistakes you should avoid right before a storm in this book by Penelope Hoyt. |
| Huang, Eddie | Double Cup Love | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From the New York Times bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat: When Eddie's life was turned upside down, he traveled to his parents' homeland for a ferociously funny journey of food and self-discovery! |
| Huang, Eddie | Fresh Off the Boat | Memoir | Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his mother a fierce protector and constant threat. |
| Hudgins, Andrew | The Joker | Memoir | Rip-roaring memoir that examines how the ancient and often offensive art of joke telling affects life, society, religion, and everything in between. |
| Hudson, Suzanne | All the Way to Memphis and Other Stories | Short Stories | Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. The title story finds Clista, the main character, taking the journey of her life to the geographical city, complete with its confluence of borders, blues, rivers, and legend. Of course Memphis, as we all know, is as real and complicated as the south itself. |
| Hughes, Langston | The Best of Simple | Fantasy | This book compiles the cream of Langston Hughes' masterful interpretation of black life in the 1930s. |
| Hughes, Louis | Thirty Years a Slave From Bondage to Freedom | Classic | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Note: the movie was based on Twelve Years a Slave, a different book. |
| Humes, Edward | Garbology | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Why do Americans generate so much trash, and where does it all go? An eye-opening journey into the world of garbage. |
| Hunter, S. A. | Scary Mary | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Mary has always been different. She'd like to be normal, but being able to hear ghosts means she'll never be like everyone else. She starts her junior year of high school hoping to be left alone, but Cyrus Asher is new and doesn't know or seem to care that she's a freak. They start hanging out and all is well until she goes over to his house. Cy's house is haunted, and not by Casper, the friendly ghost. |
| Huntley, Paula | The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo | Memoir | A journal of her year in war-torn Kosovo when her husband was there to help rebuild the legal system. |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Barracoon | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: Other. Suggested by the New York Times. Brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade--abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Dust Tracks on a Road | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography--an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural south to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Every Tongue Got To Confess | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Delightful collection of African American folklore brings together a wealth of tales from communities all over the Deep South. |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Fiction | When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. |
| Hurwitz, Gregg | The Kill Clause | Crime/Mystery | Hurwitz makes his characters vivid, and he is so steeped in the details of police procedure that it's like a literary 'Law & Order' without the commercials. |
| Hussey, Andrew | Paris: The Secret History | Non-fiction | Describes daily life in the Paris throughout its history, though focusing on those living in the seedy underbelly of the city. |
| Huston, Charlie | Caught Stealing | Crime/Mystery | In his debut novel, Huston has come up with a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock. |
| Hyland, Mark | Help! I Married a Quilter | Memoir | Mark writes about 17 years of marriage to an avid quilter from an outsider perspective. He exposes the idiosyncrasies and jargon of quilting from a non-quilting perspective, recognizing the love and dedication quilters have for their art. |
| Hyman, Peter | The Reluctant Metrosexual | Humorous | Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life. Lad-lit genre. "Men with disposable incomes who like to shop are this year's black." |
| Hynd, Alan | Prescription: Murder! | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Volume 3 authentic cases from the files of Alan Hynd. From the files and pen of world renowned true crime writer Alan Hynd (1903 - 1974) comes the final installment of deliciously dark true murder cases of the first half of the 20th Century. These stories, the third of these three short collections, are unified by a single theme: they all involve physicians. |
| Ide, Joe | IQ | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Suggested List. Take Sherlock Holmes and put him in one of modern-day LA's toughest neighborhoods. IQ is a high school dropout who solved cases for whatever his clients can afford. |
| Illgunas, Ken | Walden on Wheels | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a 3-year transcontinental journey, working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to pay off his student loans before hitchhiking home to New York. Debt-free, Ilgunas then enrolled in a master's program at Duke University, determined not to borrow against his future again. He used the last of his savings to buy himself a used Econoline van and outfitted it as his new dorm. The van, stationed in a campus parking lot, would be more than an adventure--it would be his very own "Walden on Wheels." |
| Imboden, Thatcher and Cedar Imboden Phillips | Uptown Minneapolis | Non-fiction | Highly readable and lovingly compiled history of Uptown. |
| Inc. Sourcebooks | The Jane Austen Companion to Life | Other | A font called "Jane Austen" based on the author's actual handwriting appears throughout this small collection of Austen's thoughtful wit and wisdom. |
| Influential Individuals | Tony Robbins | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The life, lessons & rules for success. 35 of his most valuable and inspiring quotes relating to health, wealth, wisdom and well-being have been de-constructed and explained including actionable information as to how you can implement the lessons into your day-today life. |
| Influential Individuals | Warren Buffet | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The life, lessons & rules for success. |
| Ingalls, Rachel | Mrs. Calliban | SciFi | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Similar to The Shape of Water movie. This novella is a favorite of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and other famous authors. |
| Ingram, Jay | The Velocity of Honey And More Sciend of Everyday Life | Non-fiction | Ingrams considers more ways in which science governs our daily existence. Why do stones skip? Why do people often wake up before their alarm clocks? The science behind six degrees of separation. |
| Irving, Clifford | The Hoax | Non-fiction | By the guy who wrote the fake Howard Hughes auto-biography. |
| Irving, John | A Son of the Circus | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $3.23 Kindle book. A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits--coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving's most ambitious novel and a major publishing event. |
| Irving, John | A Widow for One Year | Fiction | Basis for the movie, "A Door in the Floor". Estranged couple cope with the death of their son. Complex evolution of their daughter. Hey, it's the "Garp" guy... |
| Irving, John | Avenue of Mysteries | Fiction | Juan Diego is a novelist who constantly slips into dreams of his youth in Mexico and his mind-reading sister. Charming - blends the fantastical with what is deeply real. |
| Irving, John | The Imaginary Girlfriend | Memoir | Suggested By: Author. Miniature autobiography (116 pages) detailing Irving's parallel careers of writing and wrestling. Note: this is included in "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed" |
| Irving, John | Trying to Save Piggy Sneed | Short Stories | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by the author, beginning with three memoirs. The longest of the memoirs is "The Imaginary Girlfriend," his candid account of his twin careers in writing and wrestling, which, as the Denver Post observed, is filled "with anecdotes that are every bit as hilarious as the antics in his novels . . . [and] combines the lessons of both obsessions." |
| Irving, John | Various | Fiction | Suggested By: Author.
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| Isaacson, Walter | Einstein | Auto/Biography | Einstein never met his first child, obtained a divorce by offering his first wife prize money from the Nobel he predicted he'd win, and once told his mistress that the missus wouldn't mind if they all lived together. A beach book this isn't; a triumph it is. |
| Isaacson, Walter | Steve Jobs | Auto/Biography | "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of," Jobs admitted to his biographer. |
| Isacoff, Stuart | Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization | Non-fiction | The difficulties in inventing the piano. Even the ancients knew that an octave sounded nice, and so did a fifth. But solving the matter how to translate the difficult mathematics of music into a piano took some doing. |
| Isay, Dave | All There Is | Non-fiction | Remarkable collection of true anecdotes about love and marriage, and all the obstacles in between, that's bound to win over even the most jaded of cynics. |
| Isay, Dave | Listening Is an Act of Love | Non-fiction | Isay invited folks to tell a meaningful story at recording booths around the country. A man tells how he lost the love of his life on 9/11. Read a few and you'll want to grab a loved one and share your own story. |
| Isay, Dave | Ties That Bind | Non-fiction | The founder of beloved oral history project StoryCorps draws from the project's rich archives for a collection of inspiring tales. |
| Issenberg, Sasha | The Suchi Economy | Non-fiction | In a wide-ranging history of sushi, the author visits five continents (and a douzen countries), detailing how fish goes from sea to market to kitchen to plate. |
| Iyer, Pico | Falling Off the Map | Travel | Some lonely places of the world. Uncannily observant, and hilarious. |
| Iyer, Pico | The Art of Stillness | Non-fiction | Acclaimed travel writer explores the pleasures and healing properties of slowing down and taking time to think. |
| Izzard, Eddie | Believe Me | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens. Gender fluid comedian and actor. |
| Jackson, Jim | The Prepper's Grid Down Survival Guide | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. How to prepare if the light go out and the gas, water, or electricity collapses. |
| Jackson, John L. Jr. | Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness | Non-fiction | Not surprisingly, African-Americans distrust the rhetoric of political correctness, and see instead the threat of racism lurking below every white surface. Conspiracy theories abound and racial reconciliation seems near to impossible. In Racial Paranoia, Jackson explains how this paranoia is cultivated, transferred, and exaggerated; how it shapes our nation and undermines the goal of racial equality; and what can be done to fight it. |
| Jackson, Joshilyn | Various | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. She was recommended by Sarah Addison Allen. Someone Else's Love Story was so good, I need to to back and read the rest of her books.
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| Jackson, Shirley | The Haunting of Hill House | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers--and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. |
| Jackson, Shirley | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $3.23 Kindle book. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. A deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. |
| Jacobs, A.J. | Drop Dead Healthy | Memoir | At 41, Jacobs is a pudgy, stressed, and by his own admission, prefers the "joy of lounging" to the "joy of running". You'll learn fascinating facts, but really this book is a testament to the joys - and benefits - of moderation. |
| Jacobs, A.J. | The Year of Living Biblically | Memoir | One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. An agnostic man opts to live by the good book's rules. |
| Jacobs, Fay | Fried & True - Tales from Rehoboth Beach | GLBT | Qlib. This second collection of newspaper columns and other jottings from Jacobs is every bit as sardonic, witty, sarcastic, and insightful as her first book, As I Lay Frying. With this difference: a thread of melancholy runs through it. |
| Jacobs, Jane | A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece | Non-fiction | Jane Jacobs edits her great-aunt's memoirs. Camping with Indians, holding 100 wild dogs at bay by herself, traveling in a kayak wearing bear intestines. |
| Jacobs, Joan | The Body Project | Non-fiction | Explores changing attitudes toward weight, body image, virginity... |
| Jacobs, Mara | Against the Odds | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Anna Dawson book 1. I love Vegas, and I love the life I've built, but when one of my friends is murdered, and another one shot at, I know I need to take a serious look at myself. And I need to call in the big guns. Even if that means teaming up with Detective Jack Schiller, a man who's dealing with his own demons. |
| Jacobs, Michael | Books Unbound: | Craft | 20 Innovative Bookmaking Projects |
| Jacobs, Michael | Cards the Pop Up, Flip & Slide | Craft | Interesting card projects. Making bookmarks out of used envelopes, postal wreath card, slider card, secret message card (signal card), cards with mult sections that all flip open,various pop-up techniques, and more. |
| Jacobs, Michael & Judy | Creative Correspondence | Craft | Readers will find a wealth of information on basic and advanced folding techniques. Specific topics include the mennonite fold, square paper foldnote, diamond front, circle foldnote, sleeves and inserts. Each technique is broken down into clear and concise step- by-step instructions. |
| Jacobsen, Mary-Elaine | Liberating Everday Genius | Non-fiction | American adults who can and do break the mold. |
| Jacobson, Mark | American Gangster | Non-fiction | A riveting account of 70s Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas is just one piece in this collection of gripping stories spanning 30 years of NYC history. |
| Jaffrey, Madhur | Climbing the Mango Trees | Memoir | Memoir of growing up the product of British schools in Delhi, India. Since Jaffrey's is the sort of account that triggers a longing for a life one never lived, the family recipes that capture an incredible time and place are a particularily nice touch. |
| Jahren, Hope | Lab Girl | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Jahren's singular gift is her ability to convey the everyday wonder of her work exploring the strange, beautiful universe of living things tha endure and evolve and bloom all around us. |
| Jain, Anita | Marrying Anita | Memoir | At 32 - an old maid by Indian standards - she traded the bustle of NYC for Delhi. Though she was open to the idea of an arranged marriage, both Indian men and mothers considered her too wordly and experienced for that. |
| Jakes, John | North and South | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $1.99 Kindle book. Includes only book 1: North and South. Does not include book 2 Love and War, or book 3 Heaven and Hell. There was a miniseries starring Patrick Swayze (1985, 1986, and 1994). |
| Jakes, John | The North and South Trilogy | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $4.29 Kindle books. North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell. |
| James, E.L. | Fifty Shades of Grey | Other | Erotica, ala Anne Rice, etc. |
| James, Henry | The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl | Classic | Dry and dull, or "Three of the 20th Century's finest novels"?? Dunno, but they might be worth a try. |
| James, Jesse | American Outlaw | Memoir | People claim to know everything about me, when they actually know nothing. But once you read this, you will know everything - the whole story, right here. |
| James, P.D. | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Crime/Mystery | Emily from Friends is on the TV show. James's other series feature Cordelia Gray, a private investigator in London; titles in this series include An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin. |
| James, P.D. | Time To Be In Earnest | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In this "insightful and witty" memoir (Publishers Weekly), beloved crime and mystery author P. D. James reflects on her experiences during both world wars, her writing career, and more. "Deeply moving… Page after page recalls a vanished world" |
| Jamison, Kay Redfield | An Unquiet Mind | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A psychiatrist examines bipolar disorder through the lens of her own struggles with the disorder. This New York Times bestseller is "beautiful, funny, original… I absolutely love this book" (Pat Conroy). |
| Jamison, Leslie | The Empathy Exams | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. First story: author acts out symptoms to test med students. Marathoners, the diseased, the impoverished. Reading a book about pain sounds painful, but Jamison turns pain into art. |
| Jane, Mary | Keep Austin Weird | GLBT | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. A lesbian superhero love story for grown-ups. |
| Jay, Karla | Tales of the Lavender Menace | GLBT | Life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation. |
| Jefferies, Richard | After London | Post-Apocalyptic | The 1885 novel After London by Richard Jefferies is of the type that could be best described as "post-apocalyptic fiction"; after some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The first chapters consist solely of a loving description of nature reclaiming England: fields becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals running wild, roads and towns becoming overgrown, the hated London reverting to lake and poisonous swampland. The rest of the story is a straightforward adventure/quest set many years later in the wild landscape and society. |
| Jefferson, Margo | Negroland | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Pulitzer Price-winning cultural critic reveals what it was like to grow up among Chicago's black elite in the mid-century. |
| Jenkins, Amy | Screw the Gym! | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The guide to losing weight at home. No gym, no expensive equipment, no excuses. |
| Jenkins, Peter | Looking For Alaska | Memoir | In 1999, Peter Jenkins and his family left their farm in Tennessee to live in Alaska for a few seasons, eventually renting a house in Seward, Alaska (pop. 2,830) on the Kenai Peninsula. |
| Jenkins, Ryan | World War 2: Soldier's Stories Part V | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Stories from the African front. |
| Jennings, Ken | Brainiac | Non-fiction | By Ken Jennings, the 2004 74-game $2.5 million winner of Jeopardy! Hooks you with its charming self-deprecation. Includes a mother-lode of tips on strategy if you so much as daydream about trying out for the show. |
| Jennings, Kevin | Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son | GLBT | Baptist boy grows up ambivalent about his sexual orientation, an issue that trails him to a teaching stint at a Rhode Island prep school. Distinguishes itself from the glut of me-too coming out memoirs with equal parts humor and gravitas. |
| Jett, Julie | When The Storm Passes | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. In her debut novel, Joplin-area native Julie Jett chronicles the destruction of Joplin, the character and heart of its people, and the story of a young girl who finds her way home. |
| Jewell, Lisa | Vincc & Joy | Chick Lit | What if your first love was the one you've been destined for all along? This realistic, often dark portrayal of modern love is populated with well-drawn characters, and ridiculously readable. |
| Jin, Ha | The Bridegroom | Short Stories | Beautifully understated short stories of life in contemporary China. |
| Johansen, Erika | The Invasion of the Tearling | Fantasy | For years, the Tearling has sent human cargo to neighboring Mortmense as insurance against invasion. Queen Kelsea stops the shipments, but her problems are just beginning. Huh. I'm not convinced, but EW INSISTS that I will love this. |
| Johns, Bud | Old Dogs Remembered | Essays | Moving and sometimes funny anthology of essays and poems by other people commemorating dead dogs. |
| Johnson, Adam | Emporium: Stories | Short Stories | By the author of 'Parasites Like Us' where they dig up an infected Clovis site which kills off humans. These short stories from his previous debut have the same "inventiveness, black humor, and penetrating insight." |
| Johnson, Craig | Various - Longmire Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Movie/TV.
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| Johnson, Denis | Tree of Smoke | Fiction | Think you don't need another long novel about Vietnam? In the book's best section, Johnson gives a chilling ground-level account of the Tet offensive. |
| Johnson, Harriet McBryde | Too Late to Die Young | Memoir | LIfe as a 'crip' from a lawyer who is a disability rights activist. |
| Johnson, Karl | Art of the Deal | Non-fiction | Johnson details exciting anecdotes of scams, hoaxes, and instances of conjuring, written in the parlance of magicians and card players, usually slang that is clearly explained for lay readers. |
| Johnson, Mat | Loving Day | Fiction | When biracial Warren Duffy returns home to Philadelphia, he meets the teenage daughter he didn't know existed, who has been raised to believe she is white. Satirical and moving, a smart examination of racial identity in America. |
| Johnson, Maureen | Various | Youth | Suggested By: Author. John Green's "Let It Snow" co-author.
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| Johnson, Robert Flynn and William Boyd | Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers | Art | Like gold nuggets among worthless pebbles, the 200 classic images reproduced in this book include many of transcendent beauty and psychological insight, all with the magical, mysterious charge that comes from using our own imaginations to speculate on the circumstances in which they were taken. |
| Johnson, Steven | Everything Bad is Good for You | Non-fiction | How today's popular culture is actually making us smarter. |
| Johnson, Steven | The Ghost Map | Non-fiction | Johnson traces the courageous and ultimately successful attempt by an anesthetist/scientist/sleuth names John Snow to discover how cholera was transmitted. And he does so in a way that brings to nightmarish, thought-provokin life a world in which a swift but very unpleasant death can be just a glass of water away. |
| Johnson, T. Geronimo | Welcome to Braggsville | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Longlisted for the National Book Award! When four students protest a Civil War reenactment in a small Southern town, it leads to devastating consequences. "The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you'll read this year" (The Washington Post). |
| Johnston, Kristen | Guts | Memoir | Details how years of boozing and drugging caused her stomach to explode shortly after she started the London run of some play |
| Jolly, Alison | Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar | Non-fiction | Author lived on a former sisal farm with the French family who own it, but who in addition to farming tried to preserve the nature and people of the area. Book provides an anthropoligical look at the Tandroy people and a historical look at Madagascar. Reviewed in "Science News". |
| Jonasson, Jonas | The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Fiction | Suggested By: GoodReads.com. After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, so he decides to escape. |
| Jones, Abel | Ketogenic Instant Pot Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. 600 Low Carb High-Fat Keto Recipes that Cook Themselves. |
| Jones, Ann | Kabul in Winter | Non-fiction | She found a country devastated by decades of war, the world's worst educational system, and a profound disconnect between the statements of the Bush administration and the sad truth on the ground. |
| Jones, Beth | Simple: 30 Ways to Declutter Your Life | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. |
| Jones, Chris | Too Far From Home | Non-fiction | Jones absorbingly recounts how both U.S. and Russion space agencies raced to rescue the men stranded in the International Space Station after the space shuttle Columbia exploded in a fireball in 2003. |
| Jones, Dylan | The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music | Non-fiction | Irreverent takes on everyone from ABBA to Zappa. A perfect gift for the discerning fanboy in your life. Huh. Maybe me too? |
| Jones, Edward P. | Lost in the City | Short Stories | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In these 14 stories set in black neighborhoods of Washington, DC in the '60s and '70s, Jones establishes a mood and a specific sense of place, but he also presents universal hopes and aspirations. Beautifully and economically written, the selections are filled with revealing details of poverty and degradation, and yet the protagonists are survivors who look to find hope and meaning in their lives. |
| Jones, Judy and William Wilson | An Incomplete Education | Non-fiction | 3,6xx things you should have learned but probably didn't. It covers world history, art history, economics, literature, science, political science, religion, psychology, even film. |
| Jones, Margaret B. | Love and Consequences | Memoir | A victim of sexual abuse in kindergarten, Jones (a.k.a. Bree) entered CA's fostercare system and found a loving home with an all-black family in South Central L.A. |
| Jones, Paul | Hacking | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The fundamentals of hacking. A complete beginners guide. |
| Jones, Rodney | The Sun, the Moon, and Maybe the Trains | SciFi | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. YA Sci-fi. John Bartley's days are filled with working in the mill or the garden, and he can't wait to see Zella at the next barn dance. But when he stumbles through a hidden portal in the forest, everything he's ever known falls behind him. A hundred and thirty-four years behind, to be more exact. Tess can't quite believe John's tale of time travel. Does he really not know what a cell phone is? A car? Indoor plumbing? To convince the girl he's swiftly falling for that he's not crazy, John must delve into Tess's history - his future - and solve the mystery of his hometown's demise. |
| Jones, Stan | Village of the Ghost Bears | Crime/Mystery | The fourth mystery featuring Alaska state trooper Nathan Active involves a case of deadly arson at a local recreation center and has a finely laddered plot. |
| Jones, Stan | White Sky, Black Ice | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A "tough, gritty mystery" (Publishers Weekly) for fans of Tony Hillerman: State trooper Nathan suspects foul play when a double suicide takes place in a small Alaskan village. |
| Jones, Tayari | An American Marriage | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. A rising young executive and a talented artist, respectively, the couple has everything to look forward to. Then, while on a trip to visit Celestial's family, Roy is accused of rape by a woman in their hotel. He's innocent, but is convicted and sentenced to twelve years in prison. By the time he's exonerated and released, Celestial has started a relationship with his best friend. As wrenching as it is heartwarming, this masterful novel by the author of Silver Sparrow is both an illuminating examination of how the country's justice system tears apart African-American lives and a powerful, complicated love story. |
| Jones, Thomas D. and Michael Benson | The Complete Idiot's Guide to NASA | Non-fiction | All about how NASA works. |
| Jones, Tom | Sky Walking | Memoir | Jones recalls his decades-long run as an active astronaut in the 90s. Occasionally suffers from ponderous pacing, provides enough detail to please most die-hard stargazers. |
| Jordan, Teresa | Riding the White Horse Home | Non-fiction | Lore and science of ranching. Women who coped with physical hardship and killing loneliness. |
| Jorgensen, Jay | Edith Head: The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer | Non-fiction | Jorgensen captures a behind-the-scenes look at the world and work of this dedicated, prolific artist. He includes background information and gorgeous color photographs and illustrations of the costumes she meticulously designed. |
| Jourdan, Carolyn and Kim DeLozier | Bear in the Back Seat I and II | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
| Jourdan, Carolyn and Kim DeLozier | Bear in the Back Seat II | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. Adventures of a wildlife ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. |
| Joyce, Graham | The Silent Land | Post-Apocalyptic | Recommended by Stephen King. A freak avalanche buries Zoe and Jake, a couple on a skiing holiday near the Pyrenean resort town of Saint-Bernard-en-Haut. After digging out, they find themselves the only inhabitants of the unnaturally silent landscape. |
| Joyce, Rachel | Perfect | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A tale that "could easily become a book club favorite" (The Washington Post). When an ordinary morning takes an unsettling turn, Byron must contend with frightening realities |
| Joyce, Rachel | The Music Shop | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Fans of High Fidelity meet your next quirky love story. |
| Joyce, Rachel | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. $2.15 Kindle book. Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. |
| Judd, Ashley with Maryanne Vollers | All That Is Bitter and Sweet | Memoir | The actress, 42, spotlights three parts of her life: her childhood, spent in the shadow of a self-involved mother and a smothering sister...and more. |
| Julavits, Heidi | The Folded Clock | Non-fiction | Julavits's spirited sense of humor about her foibles and misadventures, combined with her ceaseless intelligence and curiosity, explode the typically confessional diary form. |
| Junger, Sebastian | War | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. The Perfect Storm guy. How do combat soldiers get through each day? Junger, embedded over a 12-month period in '07 and '08 with a 173rd Airborne platoon in Afghanistan's hostile Korengal Valley, explores these questions as he offers up a gritter portrait of life on the front lines. There is now a sequel: Tribe (2016) |
| Juska, Elise | Getting Over Jack Warner | Chick Lit | Silly love songs make it hard for a gal to grow up. |
| Juska, Jane | A Round Heeled Woman | Memoir | Before I turn 67 I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. True story! |
| K., Jerome (Jerome Klapka) | Three Men in a Boat | Classic | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. |
| Kagen, Leslie | Land of a Hundred Wonders | Fiction | Set in Cray Ridge, Ky., in 1973, Kagen's winsome second novel (after Whistling in the Dark) offers laughter and bittersweet sighs. As a child, NQR (Not Quite Right) Gibby McGraw survived an auto accident that claimed her parents' lives, but left her somewhat mentally challenged. |
| Kalanithi, Paul | When Breath Becomes Air | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 36, neurosurgeon Kalanithi chose to share his struggle in this posthumous memoir. A profoundly moving meditation on mortality propelled by wit, humility, and an undiminished sense of wonder. |
| Kalish, Mildred Armstrong | Little Heathens | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. NYT bestseller. An Iowa farm that offered one young girl and her family both extreme hardship and unexpected rewards during the Great Depression. |
| Kamkwamba, William | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Memoir | Remarkable story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. William built a windmill to bring water and electricity to his impoverished African village. |
| Kandel, Susan | I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason | Crime/Mystery | Pulpy, fashion-forward mystery. Equally sharp eye for dramatic plot twists and creative outfits, and yet, "the only thing about me that's size 6 is about two-thirds of one foot." |
| Kaneko, Amy | Let's Cook Japanese Food | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Recommended by Matthew Amster-Burton. Simple and westernized book. |
| Kaplan, Bruce Eric | I Was a Child | Memoir | Remember how other kids' houses had a smell, but you couldn't smell your own? If you do, this sharply observed memoir is for you. |
| Kaplan, Janice | The Gratitude Diaries | Non-fiction | Kaplan spent a year researching and practicing conscious gratitude, and guess what? Expressing appreciation makes everything better. |
| Kaplan, Robert D. | Balkan Ghosts | Non-fiction | Reconstructs the Balkans' history as a time warp in which ancient passions and hatreds are continually resurrected. Insightful. |
| Kapranos, Alex | Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand | Essays | Food essays. Reviews? Whatever. He sounded interesting on the radios and the reviews seem to be decent. He really liked the word, "prose". |
| Karasik, Judy | The Ride Together | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. A brother and sister's memoir of autism in the family. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Karbo, Karen | The Stuff of Life | Memoir | Karen Karbo is nothing if not funny. You'll thank her for not turning her chain-smoking father's death from lung cancer into a Lifetime movie weepfest. A touching portrait of one man's final days. |
| Kariya, Tetsu and Akira Hanasaki | Oshinobo - A La Carte series | Other | Suggested By: Other. This eccentric series is the best introduction to vast world of Japanese cuisine. Recommended by Matthew Amster-Burton.
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| Karr, Mary | Cherry | Memoir | Author of The Liar's Club. Account of stormy adolescence. |
| Karr, Mary | The Liars' Club | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Author recounts her childhood with wit and humor in this dazzling and devastating memoir. |
| Kashir, Sam and Jennifer MacNair | The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties | Non-fiction | Hollywood gossip with a brain. |
| Kasson, John | Rudeness and Civility | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic society. |
| Katayama, Lisa | Urawaza | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan. From watering your plants while you’re on vacation to getting rid of pesky stains! You’ll never need a store-bought fix again. |
| Katz, Gayle | Grounded Girls' Guid to Dealing with Difficult People and Saving Your Sanity | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. |
| Katz, Jon | Dancing Dogs | Essays | Sixteen funny keenly observed short stories illuminating the bond between man and his best friend. |
| Katz, Jon | Saving Simon | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Katz explores the value of compassion and chronicles his life-changing bond with a rescue donkey named Simon. |
| Katz, Jon | The New Work of Dogs | Non-fiction | He does a terrific job of examining how dogs are handling their new work serving as many a family's nurturer in chief. |
| Kaufman, Kenn | King Bird Highway | Non-fiction | A book about traveling and birding. |
| Kauter, Clare | Losing Your Head | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Charlie Davies Mysteries book 1. "The funniest book I've ever read... It gave me stomach cramps from laughing so much!" - Morgana Best, best-selling mystery author. When rich boy James is accused of killing his uncle, he bets Charlie twenty grand that she can't find the real culprit, and she simply can't resist. The money, that is - she has no trouble resisting him, no matter how symmetrical his stupid face is. |
| Kazmierczak, Pamela | 30 Easy Weeknight Dinners | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The winter recipes and winter food edition. |
| Kean, Sam | The Disappearing Spoon | Non-fiction | Unpacks the periodic table's bag of tricks. The book's title refers to gallium, a metal that disintegrates in hot coffee. He makes even the most abstract concepts graspable for armchair scientists. |
| Kean, Sam | The Violinist's Thumb | Non-fiction | Sam Kean is the best science teach you never had. Intriguing tales spun in light witty prose. |
| Kean, Thomas H., Lee H. Hamilton | Without Precedent | Non-fiction | Co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission. Mostly dry, but deeply informative. Should be read alongside the commission's report. |
| Keats, John | Keats: Poems Published in 1820 | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. |
| Keats, John | Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. |
| Keim, Joe | My People, the Amish | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The true story of an Amish father and son. Joe Keim paints a detailed picture of life behind the bonnets and buggies. More than a biography, this is an honest look at the heart-warming traditions that mingle with the deep-rooted legalism of the Amish community in Ashland, Ohio. |
| Keith, Sam and Richard (Dick) Proenneke | One Man's Wilderness | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. An Alaskan Odyssey. The DVD made from Dick's 16mm movies is "Alone in the Wilderness". We saw some of it on PBS. |
| Kellerman, Faye | The Ritual Bath | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series book 1. Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed. |
| Kellerman, Jonathan | Various | Crime/Mystery | Sue and Hobe recommend him. |
| Kellow, Brian | Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark | Auto/Biography | New Yorker movie reviewer who enlivened the art of analyzing movies. |
| Kelly, Caitlin | Malled | Memoir | Laid off as a journalist, Kelly worked in sales at a mall. Her adventures - plus a stinging indictment of the retail industry. |
| Kelly, Jack | Gunpowder | Non-fiction | The Chinese invented in the 10th century for fun and fireworks. Kelly's breathless style makes a potentially dry subject sizzle. Along the way, we meet Joan of Arc (good with God, better with artillery). |
| Kemelman, Harry | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. David Small is the new rabbi in the small Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. Although he'd rather spend his days engaged in Torah study and theological debate, the daily chores of synagogue life are all-consuming--that is, until the day a nanny's body is found on the rain-soaked asphalt of the temple's parking lot. |
| Kemp, Christopher | Floating gold : a natural (and unnatural) history of ambergris | Non-fiction | An entertaining and lively history that covers ambergris--a digestive byproduct from whales that is in most perfumes and one of the world's most expensive substances. Kemp presents an informative account of the natural history of whales, squid, ocean ecology, and the perfume industry. |
| Kenderian, Shant | 1001 Nights in Iraq | Memoir | After living in Chicago for two yeras, the 17-year-old Armenian Christian Iraqi went home in 1980 to visit his estranged father. While there, he was forced into the Iraqi navy during Sadda Hussein's war with Iran. His story is mind-blowing enough to keep you turning the pages. |
| Kendrick, Anna | Scrappy Little Nobody | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. These smart, self-deprecating essays by the star of Pitch Perfect tackle everything from the author's middle school malaise to her dating woes. |
| Kennedy, Dan | Loser Goes First | Memoir | My thirty-something years of dumb luck and minor humiliation. Memoir details blazing failures as a dotcommer, a rock star, a health-club attendant, a pro-bass fisherman, and the list goes on... |
| Kennedy, Dan | Rock On: An Office Power Ballad | Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. Kennedy's style - hilarious, paranoid and vulnerable - captures wonderfully the absurdity of the corporate music industry. That demise will come as no surprise to readers once they get a load of the endlessly inane meetings run by a series of company bigwigs desperate to figure out how to sell CDs to an audience that doesn't want them. |
| Kennedy, David M. | Freedom from Fear | Non-fiction | The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Reads like a novel (except for a slightly dull beginning with a detailed explanation of "The New Deal" and its related components). |
| Kennedy, Jacqueline | Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy | Non-fiction | Book with accompanying CDs. Sealed for decades, Jacqueline Kennedy's 1964 interviews with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. |
| Kennedy, Michelle | Without a Net | Memoir | Kennedy's vivid account of her months of homelessness makes a lively read, though you never really doubt that this resourceful and articulate young woman will find her way out of poverty in the end. |
| Kennedy, Pagan | The First Man-Made Man | Non-fiction | Long before Renee Richards broke ground for transsexuals, Laura Dillon became a man in the late '40s. Dillon's tale makes for a wild read. It's also an absorbing look at a centure of medical breakthroughs that allow people to change noses or genitalia to match their identities. |
| Kennedy, Randall | Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal | Non-fiction | Accusations of selling out?of betraying or neglecting the interests of blacks to curry favor with whites?are among the most damaging that African-Americans level at each other, according to Harvard law professor Kennedy. Called a sellout himself after his book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word appeared, Kennedy here explores the charge's potency. He recounts the centuries-long history of sellout rhetoric |
| Kenney, Dave | Twin Cities Picture Show: A Century of Moviegoing | Non-fiction | Filled with photos of the dazzling marquees and great theaters of yesterday and today [in the Twin Cities], historian Dave Kenney's highly readable account offers rich histories of some of the grandest theaters ever constructed. |
| Kenny, Deborah | Born To Rise | Non-fiction | The inspiring story of a visionary educator and her accomplishments at Harlem Village Academy. |
| Keret, Etgar | Suddenly, A Knock on the Door | Short Stories | Wisps of narrative that float on a mixture of wonder and melancholy. Many feature some kind of fantastical element - like a wish-granting goldfish. |
| Kershaw, Alex | Escape From the Deep | Non-fiction | On Oct 25, 1944, the USS Tang, a Navy submarine, sank after being hit by its own renegade torpedo. There were 9/87 survivors. Escape is slow for the first 60 pages, but it picks up once the sub meets its untimely demise. |
| Kershaw, Alex | The Bedford Boys | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From a New York Times bestselling author: On D-Day, the young men of a small American town risked everything for victory -- and paid a terrible price. This true story of heroism in World War II is "accessible and moving". |
| Kesey, Ken | Kesey's Jail Journal | Non-fiction | In 1967 the author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' began serving a a six-month sentence for marijuana possession. Now his prison diaries, profiles of fellow inmates, and psychedelic cut-and-paste collages are here. |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Fiction | Book, as in the movie. |
| Kessler, Lauren | Raising hte Barre | Memoir | Her passion for ballet reignited in midlife. Determined to dance The Nutcracker, she spent nine grueling (and fascinating) months in classes with a professional company. Eloquent, inspiring, and funny. |
| Keyes, Marian | Under the Duvet | Essays | Imagine Irish female Seinfeld. |
| Keys, David | Catastrophe | Non-fiction | Investigation into 6th century haze plunging earth into semi-darkness. |
| Khong, Rachel | Goodbye, Vitamin | Fiction | Suggested By: Book Award List. From list of books that you can read in one sitting. Her life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice. Freshly disengaged from her fiance; and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief. |
| Kick, Russ | You Are Being Lied To | Essays | Essays about lies perpetrated by the news media and textbooks. |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Invention of Wings | Fiction | Inspired by the true story of early-nineteenth-century abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Grimké, Kidd paints a moving portrait of two women inextricably linked by the horrors of slavery. |
| Kidder, David S. and Noah D. Oppenheim | The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture | Non-fiction | : Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati. Quench your intellectual thirst with an overview of the literature, music, film, personalities, trends, sports, and pop references that have defined the way we live. From the Slinky to Star Wars; Beatlemania to Babe Ruth; flappers to fascism?refreshing your memory and dazzling your friends has never been easier, or more fun. Whether you're a trivia genius, pop-culture buff, or avid reader, you'll be riveted by this comprehensive journey through contemporary culture. |
| Kidder, Tracy | A Truck Full of Money | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes the extraordinary true story of Paul English, a rebellious young man from working-class Boston whose fascination with computers led him to success and fortune. "Nuanced and intimate… You can't help admiring Mr. English and cheering for him" (The New York Times). |
| Kidder, Tracy | Mountains Beyond Mountains | Auto/Biography | A magnificent profile of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Schindler of infectious diseases who's done much but wants to do even more. |
| Kiernan, Denise | The Girls of Atomic City | Non-fiction | The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II |
| Kiernan, Stephen P. | The Curiosity | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Remarkably, the frozen man is brought back to the lab and successfully reanimated. |
| Kiernan-Lewis, Susan | Wicked Good | Chick Lit | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Liddy James put off her dream of owning her own French cupcake shop for 25 years. Now a widow and an empty nester, she knows if she's ever going to do it, she better make it happen soon. 
Unfortunately, there are a few roadblocks in her path to finally achieving her dream. One is a sexy DEA Agent dealing with the local meth problem who obviously wants her--but preferably not living in the same town. |
| Killilea, Marie | Karen | Memoir | In 1940, Marie defied doctors when they suggested she institutionalize her daughter Karen, a premature baby born with cerebral palsy. This award-winning memoir chronicles Karen’s inspiring success against all odds. |
| Kilmer-Purcell, Josh | I am Not Myself These Days | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. |
| Kilmer-Purcell, Josh | The Bucolic Plague | GLBT | How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir |
| Kilroy, Mike | Nine Meals | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. When the sun belched and the power grid failed, it was only nine meals until the end of the world. Billy "Shep" Shepard always thought the apocalypse would come from an asteroid with a funny name, or a super bug, or a nuclear war, or even Yellowstone blowing its top. It came from none of those things. Instead it came from an angry sun in the form of the biggest Coronal Mass Ejection mankind had ever seen – and it slapped the human race back a century. |
| Kim, Joseph | Under the Same Sky | Non-fiction | Kim survived - barely - on the streets of North Korea before escaping to China. Never a good student, he was determined to master English, finally making it to college in the USA. |
| Kimball, Katie | Better Than a Box | Cookbook | Suggested By: Unknown. $.99 Kindle book. How to transform processed food recipes into whole food favorites. |
| Kimball, Katie | Smart Sweets: 30 Desserts to Indulge Your Sweet Tooth | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. |
| Kimbrell, Andrew, editor | The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture | Non-fiction | Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. |
| Kimelman, Emily | Insatiable | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Sydney Rye Mystery book 3. When a dangerous man from her past calls, Sydney Rye finds she cannot turn him away. Robert Maxim explains that the daughter of a powerful friend has gone missing and he wants Rye to find her. In exchange, he offers her something she had given up hope of ever having; freedom from her past. |
| Kimmel, Haven | She Got Up Off the Couch | Memoir | Fans of Kimmel's breakout memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, will be delighted to learn that they continued to lead lives of ordinary wonder. |
| Kincaid, Jamaica | My Garden | Memoir | Referenced as a "green thumb classic" in a review of William Alexander's "The $64 Tomato". |
| King, Carole | A Natural Woman | Memoir | Her deaf and intellectually disabled brother inspired her to strive for excellence. She spent a year in a rustic cabin in Idaho. |
| King, Dean | Skeletons On The Zahara | Non-fiction | In 1815, American captain James Riley and his 11 men were shipwrecked off the Moroccan coast and washed ashore on the cliffs below the Sahara. They were captured and enslaved by Muslim nomads. Only half of them survived. |
| King, Gilbert | Beneath A Ruthless Sun | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Gripping, shocking, true story. Racial tensions boil over in a small Florida town when one tragedy reveals devastating truths about Jim Crow America. |
| King, Melissa | She's Got Next | Memoir | Her story of years spent playing pickup [basketball] games wherever she could find them. Part sports memoir, part chick-lit, and part amateur philosophy. |
| King, Sandra | The Book of Bright Ideas | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. For fans of Fannie Flagg: In 1961, nine-year-old Button befriends whimsical Winnalee, and the two search for secrets to add to Winnalee's Book of Bright Ideas. But when a devastating truth comes to light, their lives will change forever. |
| King, Sara | Fortune's Rising | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. Outer Bounds book 1. Book 2 is Fortune's Folly. Humanity, in its struggle to escape its own planet's demise, began sending colony ships from Earth almost seven hundred years ago in the desperate hope a handful would find some place habitable to human life and be able to continue our species. Only one ship survived. |
| King, Stephen | Cell | SciFi | Cell phones start turning their users into "phone crazies" - killers who can levitate and read minds. King hates cellphones and doesn't own one. |
| King, Stephen | Lisey's Story | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went--a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. |
| King, Stephen | The Shining | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Terrible events occur at an isolated hotel in the off season, when a small boy with psychic powers struggles to hold his own against the forces of evil that are driving his father insane. |
| King, Stephen and others | Rage Against the Night | Short Stories | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Under the onslaught of supernatural evil, the acts of good people can seem insignificant, but a courageous few stand apart. These brave men and women stand up to the darkness, stare it right in the eye, and give it the finger. These are the stories of those who rage against the night, stories of triumph, sacrifice, and bravery in the face of overwhelming evil. |
| King, Stephen and Richard Chizmar | Gwendy's Button Box | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Novella. In Castle Rock, Maine, young Gwendy receives a mysterious gift from an unsettling stranger. |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams | Fiction | A woman returns whom to take care of her father. Kingsolver draws heavily on Arizona's Native American and Hispanic cultures. |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Bean Trees | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible | Fiction | A profoundly affecting story of Africa's mysterious ways, and God's. Missionary pastor tries to speak the native language but has unfortunate mispronounciations. At Poisonwood'd center is the evil that can flourish when arrogance is cloaked in righteousness. |
| Kinsella, Sophie | Can You Keep A Secret? | Chick Lit | Spunky Londoner confesses enbarrassing things to a stranger on her plane and then learns that he is actually the dashing head of her company. |
| Kinser, Joshua | Good Dog, Bad Mountain | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. A memoir about a dog, a young man, and a hike on the Appalachian Trail. |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Man Who Would Be King | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. A British journalist meets two interesting adventurers in India ruing their plan of blackmailing a Rajah. They return to him several months later asking for maps and books of the area. They have a new quest in mind now: to become kings in the remote Afghanistan and rule over a unified nation. |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Man Who Would Be King | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Contents: The Phantom 'Rickshaw; My Own True Ghost Story; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes; The Man Who Would Be King. |
| Kipnis, Laura | How To Become a Scandal | Non-fiction | Media studies prof Kipnis offers up a theory of scandal - why people in high places self-destruct, and why we may need them too. |
| Kirchner, Ann | Sala's Gift | Memoir | Sala Kirschner spent five years as a slave in Nazi camps as a teen. Now her daughter has gathered Sala's vintage snapshots and the letters that reached her in the camps into a moving volume. |
| Kirkby, Mary-Ann | I Am Hutterite | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. $1.06 Kindle book. The fascinating true story of a young woman's journey to reclaim her heritage. |
| Kirkman, Robert and Tony Moore | The Walking Dead | Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(comic_book)#Trade_paperbacks
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| Kirn, Walter | Mission to America | Fiction | Two mormans decend from their Montana mountaintop to find new blood for the gene pool. The barbs are spot-on and the apostles, with their naivete about everything from Cheetos to Wiccans to reality TV, are hopelessly endearing. |
| Kirn, Walter | Up in the Air | Fiction | Sharp and funny, protagonist Ryan Bingham is written with first-person, stream-of-consciousness narration about his frequent-flier exploits. Adapted by Jason Reitman for the George Clooney movie. |
| Kitchener, Caroline | Post Grad | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Ivy League graduate reflects on how she and four of her classmates handled their newfound independence during their first year out of college. |
| Klam, Julie | Friendkeeping | Memoir | Have you ever had a friend who started doing yoga and really loved it? Has that friend tried force you do join her cult of yoga-doers? A rollicking must read. |
| Klavan, Andrew | Hunting Down Amanda | Crime/Mystery | Smart, gritty thriller. |
| Klay, Phil | Redeployment | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Suggested List. 12 searing stories about the Iraq War by a Marine who observed during the surge are a blazing literary achievement that strikes at the brutality and banality of war and powerfully memorializes its casualties both living and dead. Recommended by President Obama. |
| Klein, George with Chuck Crisafulli | Elvis: My Best Man | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. George Klein met Elvis Presley in the eighth grade -- and remained one of his closest friends throughout the star's meteoric rise to fame. Klein shares his memories of the music legend in this revealing memoir! "George was with Elvis from the beginning. He personally knows the story" (Dick Clark). |
| Klein, Jessi | You'll Grow Out of It | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. SNL and Inside Amy Schumer comedy writer's hilarious, astute essays about the perilous path to modern womanhood which will have to wincing in recognition. |
| Klein, Samanta | Sous Vide Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The complete Sous Vide cookbook for beginners and experts in Sous Vide. |
| Kleinedler, Steve, et al | 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses & Misuses | Non-fiction | This quick guide features 100 words that frequently trip us up. Well, none of the examples tripped me up, so this may be another Strunk & White fiasco. |
| Kleinfield, Sonny | His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond | Non-fiction | The complexities and contradictions of the friendship between a 93-year-old wheelchair-bound woman living in a New York City nursing home and a poor, 20-year-old Hispanic volunteer charged with visiting her on afternoons is the subject of this inspirational book. |
| Kleinzahler, Agust | Cutty, One Rock | Memoir | The austere poet writes about the Jersey Mob, Brit poetry, and the family dog in this poignant memoir. |
| Klinkenborg, Verlyn | The Rural Life | Non-fiction | Year-long meditation on the deep joys and ordinary beauty of our daily lives. |
| Klosterman, Chuck | Fargo Rock City | Memoir | How rock bands changed his life. It'll stick to you like the decal on a black concert t-shirt. |
| Klosterman, Chuck | Killing Yourself to Live | Memoir | Chronicles his 21-day, 600-CD road trip across America in search of famous rock-star death sites. |
| Klosterman, Chuck | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs | Essays | He shows how 'The Empire Strikes Back' created Gen X, and John Cusack's Lloyd Dobler schtick in 'Say Anything' ruined the mind of every American female born between 1965 and 1978. |
| Kluger, Jeffrey | The Sibling Effect | Non-fiction | What the bonds among brothers and sisters reveal about us. Addictively readable. |
| Kluwe, Chris | Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies | Non-fiction | On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities |
| Knight, David Jacob | The Phone Company | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Phone Company has been around for a long time. As civilization grew, so did PCo's power, slowly spreading its lines across the continent. Today it's in everything. It's in the air around us. |
| Knight, Thomas Jefferson and Ethel Knight | Free State of Jones and the Echo of the Black Horn | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In Civil War–era Mississippi, Captain Newt Knight took over a town and created a groundbreaking mixed-race community. Featuring perspectives from two of Knight's descendants, this gripping history reveals his life and lasting impact. |
| Knighton, Ryan | Cockeyed | Memoir | Those of us in the sighted world may have walked past a blind person and asked, "How, exactly, do they do it?" This feisty, bittersweet memoir, both answers that question and shrugs it off as he describes his 15-year descent into darkness, the result of a rare degenerative eye disease. |
| Knipper, Stephanie | The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Perfect for fans of Sarah Addison Allen! When estranged sisters Rose and Lily reconnect at their family's flower farm, Rose's daughter begins to show miraculous powers. This heartfelt novel "will appeal to those seeking elements of magic realism, family relationships, and personal growth" (Library Journal). |
| Knisley, Lucy | French Milk | Memoir | A recent college grad's graphic memoir about the six weeks she spend in Paris with her mom. Slight, but charming. |
| Knorr, Roseanne | A Grown-Up's Guide to Running Away From Home | Non-fiction | How to pay for your getaway. What do to about children and pets. Bureaucratic challenges. Those faraway place get a lot closer. |
| Knowles, Drew | Rouge 66 Adventure Handbook | Travel | Christened "The Mother Road" by John Steinbeck, the 80-year-old highway reaching from Chicago to L.A. is a festival of vintage Americana lovingly document in this photo-illustrated guide. |
| Knowles, Harry | Aint it Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out | Non-fiction | The internet movie guy. |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace | Fiction | Classic novel of friendship and lost innocence. Two roommates at New England's Devon School in the summer of 1942. |
| Knowlton, Elizabeth | The Naked Mountain | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Well-written account of the 1933 German-American expedition to Nanga Parbat, which included a woman. Tragedy ensued, along with controversial death(s). Mountain climbing. |
| Kobayashi, Kentaro | Donburi Mania | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Recommended by Matthew Amster-Burton. Delightful little cookbook of rice bowl dishes. |
| Kodas, Michael | High Crimes | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. This account of an Everest ascent effectively strips the journey of all sentiment. During his 2004 expedition, Pulitzer-winning journalist Kodas finds the slopes of the famed mountain rife with theft and drug use. Equipment vanishes. Money-hungry guides take on ill-prepared climbers, then leave them to their fates in the unforgiving terrain near the top. Mountain climbing. |
| Kohn, Edward P. | Hot Time in the Old Town | Non-fiction | The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt. For 10 hellishly hot days in August 1896, the poorly ventilated tenement blocks of immigrant New York were transformed into massive ovens: horses dropped dead in the streets and nearly 1,300 people perished. |
| Kolata, Gina | Rethinking Thin | Non-fiction | Many obesity researchers believe body weight is inherited much like height. "Lean people think they are morally superior," one scientist told Kolato, but they're really winners of the genetic lottery. It isn't willpower, then, but a battle against biology - an especially pointless one given that new studies show "having a bit of extra fat appears to be protective." |
| Komito, Sanford | I Came, I Saw, I Counted | Non-fiction | Sandy Komoti, one of the crazy guys from "The Big Year" bird book. Out of print? |
| Konigsberg, Ruth Davis | The Truth About Grief | Non-fiction | Five stages? Maybe not. This hopeful book upends old ideas and emphasizes resilience. |
| Konkoly, Steven | The Jarkarta Pandemic | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Perseid Collapse Series stand-alone prequel. Cases of a highly lethal virus appear in major cities around the globe. Most ignore the warning signs. Alex Fletcher, Iraq War veteran, has read the signs for years. With his family and home prepared to endure an extended period of seclusion, Alex thinks he's ready for the pandemic. He's not even close.
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| Konkoly, Steven | The Perseid Collapse | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $1.07 Kindle book. In the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, the Fletchers, along with their closest friends, are forced to separate--each group setting off on a harrowing journey. Alex Fletcher heads to Boston, on a rescue mission to find his son and friend's daughter--both trapped at college during the 'event'. What he finds along the way will shake him to the core and alter his life forever.
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| Kopelman, Jay and Melinda Roth | From Baghdad with Love | Memoir | A tenderhearted Marine officer risks all to get a stray puppy, stranded in Iraq, safely to the U.S. Dry eyes aren't an option. |
| Korelitz, Jean Hanff | Admission | Fiction | With acceptance rates at Ivy League schools now impossibily low, this timely novel written by a former "reader" of personal essays at Princeton has built-in appeal for anyone seeking insight about the ferocious competition. Well-researched insider tidbits. |
| Korkus, Jim and McLain, Bob | The Revised Vault of Walt | Non-fiction | Unofficial, Unauthorized, Uncensored Disney Stories Never Told. This first volume in Disney historian Jim Korkis' best-selling Vault of Walt series features nearly 30 little-known insider stories about Disney including:
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| Korn, Fadumo | Born in the Big Rains | Memoir | As a girl Korn led a near-idyllic life, herding goats and traveling with her tribe in Somalia. But all that ended when she turned 7 and was subjected to the ritual of genital mutilation. A moving, unsentimental, and informative account of the painful personal experience. |
| Kornblut, Anne E. | Notes From the Cracked Ceiling | Non-fiction | Journalist Kornblut presents an unsettling look showing how sexism, media mockery, and failed strategies keep women from higher offices. Full of astonishing anecdotes. |
| Koslow, Sally | Slouching Toward Adulthood | Non-fiction | Koslow write wittily about the infantilization of American youth as increasing numbers treat getting a job and moving out as just an option. |
| Kostova, Elizabeth | The Historian | Fantasy | Twilight for smarty-pants. |
| Koterba, Jeffrey | Inklings | Memoir | Political cartoonist Koterba didn't know his twitching and flailing were caused by Tourette's when he was a boy - he thought he was crazy (and so did his family). A powerful and touching portrait of an artist. |
| Kozak, Harley Jane | Dating Dead Men | Chick Lit | Stumbles on corpse while searching for Mr. Right |
| Kraft, Chris | Flight | Memoir | My life in mission control. Flight is the stirring account of the U.S. space program from its infancy to its greatest triumphs - from the one man who was there for it all, Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr., the first NASA Flight Director. |
| Krakauer, Jon | Missoula | Non-fiction | Inspired by the story of a friend who was raped by a man she trusted. Equal parts riveting and horrifying, it's a hell of a read. |
| Krakauer, Jon | Three Cups of Deceit | Non-fiction | Based on wide-ranging interviews with former employees, board members, and others who have intimate knowledge of Mortenson and his charity, the Central Asia Institute, Three Cups of Deceit uncovers multiple layers of deception behind Mortenson's public image. |
| Krakauer, Jon | Under the Banner of Heaven | Non-fiction | Krakauer takes readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. |
| Krakauer, Jon | Where Men Win Glory | Non-fiction | The Odyssey of Pat Tillman |
| Krasnostein, Sarah | The Trauma Center | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. A transgender former prostitute cleans up the fetid houses of he psychotic, the hopeless, and the murdered. It's a fascinating bio of Sandra Pankhurst, who found her way from an abuse-filled childhood to the life and gender she was meant to have, then devote that life to helping others. |
| Krauss, Erich | Wave of Destruction | Non-fiction | Stories from the wake of the Dec 26, 2004 tsunami. Knowledgable account of survivor stories, and something of a page-turner. |
| Kring, Sandra | The Book of Bright Ideas | Fiction | Much to her mother's dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother's ashes and a tome she calls 'The Book of Bright Ideas'. |
| Kroese, Robert | Monday Morning in the Mailroom of Good and Evil | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. I think I started this and was underwhelmed. |
| Krouse, Erika | Come Up and See Me Sometime | Short Stories | 13 sharp stories with nervy women worth getting to know. |
| Krueger, Willam Kent | Vermilion Drift | Crime/Mystery | Crafty MN PI Cork O'Connor finds the remains of six bodies. Five may have been there since 1964; the sixth was murdered a week ago. |
| Kuo, Michelle | Reading with Patrick | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A "tender memoir" (O, The Oprah Magazine): When a former teacher helped an incarcerated student continue his education, they both found their lives transformed. "Honest, generous, humble, and wise… A testament to the power of language and of books" |
| Kurlansky, Mark | The Big Oyster | Non-fiction | A fascinating history of the oyster's role in NYC's development. |
| Kurlansky, Mark | The Last Fish Tale | Non-fiction | By the author of Cod and The Big Oyster. Pollution, global warming, and overfishing threaten to wipe out our supply of fish. |
| Kurson, Robert | Crashing Through | Non-fiction | Blinded at 3 by an explosive chemical, he became an Olympic skiier and CIA analyst before making medical history in 2000 as one of only about 20 people to regain sight after a lifetime of Braille and guide dogs. He learns that he'll never process visual stimuli normally. He can't recognize people by their faces, and he half-longs for the security of blindness. But grit and creativity carry him through. |
| Kurson, Robert | Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May's vision. Even if the surgery worked, history was against him. Fewer than twenty cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after a lifetime of blindness. Each of those people suffered desperate consequences we can scarcely imagine. |
| Kurzweil, Allen | Whipping Boy | Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully |
| Kurzweil, Ray | The Singularity is Near | Non-fiction | When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil ponders topics including the prospect of extraterrestrial intelligence, surpassing the speed of light, and extending human life. Must reading for devotees of futurist literature. |
| Kushner, David | Alligator Candy | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Kushner decided to investigate his own past to answer long-lingering questions about the abduction of his brother 30 years ago. |
| Kushner, David | Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids | Non-fiction | A fat New Jersey kid who got hooked on "Magic: the Gathering" and turned his childhood obsession into millions by counting cards at casinos, winning online poker tourneys, and coming up with advanced analyses of sports bettting. |
| Kusy, Frank | Dial and Talk Foreign at Once | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. When Frank Kusy is challenged by his publisher to research a book on India in just 66 days, he thinks it will be a breeze. How wrong he is. From the very start, it's a rollercoaster ride of daily dramas and madcap meetings he never dreamt could come his way. And in the background, someone close is lying in wait to sabotage his best-laid plans. |
| Kusy, Frank | Rupee Millionaires | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. It is 1990, the heyday of Thatcher's Britain, and a new decade is dawning. As London's banks and stock-markets start filling up with young entrepreneurs called "yuppies", a completely different type of wheeler-dealer – the world traveller merchant adventurer – is emerging on the other side of the world, in India. |
| Kyle, Aryn | The God of Animals | Fiction | Alice and her overworked father are trying desperately to hold on to the family's small-town Colorado horse ranch. This debut delivers all the fun of the book about horses you loved as a kid - but with the added weight and seriousness of a novel for grown-ups. |
| La Plante, Lynda | Above Suspicion | Fiction | A mystery to devour this novel starring Anna Travis, the clever daughter of a former London police chief. |
| Lacey, Robert | Model Woman | Auto/Biography | Biography of Eileen Ford, the brutally honest model behind Ford Models. Fascinating look at the woman who, perhaps more than anyone, shaped our ideas of what it means to be a sophisticated American beauty. |
| Lackberg, Camilla | Various | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka Books. Husband and wife team solve murders in their Swedish seaside village.
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| LaFerla, Jane | Fresh Paint: New Looks for Unfinished Furniture | Craft | Painting the unpainted. |
| Lagercrantz, David | The Girl in the Spider's Web | Crime/Mystery | The 4th book in the Lisbeth Salander series, but not written by Stieg Larsson. |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | Unaccustomed Earth | Short Stories | This mesmerizing collection explores the universal struggles Bengali immigrants face in the U.S. |
| Lahti, Christine | True Stories From an Unreliable Eyewitness | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. The Emmy-winning actress reveals her feminist coming-of-age through a series of raw, political, and deeply personal essays - including one about her late, physically abusive older brother. |
| Laing, Olivia | The Trip to Echo Spring | Non-fiction | Beautiful, fascinating meditation on the relationship between drinking and great writing. "My stories written when sober are stupid...all reasoned out, not felt." F. Scott Fitzgerald. |
| LaMarche, Una | Like No Other | Youth | A strict Hasidic girl and a nerdy west Indian boy fall for each other after getting trapped in a hospital elevator. |
| Lamb, Bette Golden and J.J. Lamb | Sin & Bone | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Gina Mazzio RN Medical Series book 2. STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN That's the plea RN Gina Mazzio hears when she gets an anonymous call the night before her wedding. The cops say it's a crank call. Her fiancé says she's altar-shy. Her fellow workers call her "crazy." |
| Lamb, Wally | Wishin' and Hopin' | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. |
| Lamott, Anne | Operating Instructions | Non-fiction | Beautiful and honest account of her first year as a single parent. |
| Lamott, Anne | Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith | Non-fiction | Chronicle of an uncommonly openhearted struggle to lead a sane and moral life, drawing from whatever traditions speak to her. |
| Lamott, Anne | Some Assembly Required | Memoir | Son Sam became an unwed father at age 19. She soon found herself in love with baby Jax. She records his antics along with her own control-freak neuroses and the general family tumult. |
| Lamott, Anne | Stitches | Non-fiction | Encouraging each reader to reflect and focus on what it is, after all, that really matters. |
| Lampert, Ross B. | The Eternity Plague | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. In 2035, Dr. Janet Hogan makes a stunning discovery: infected by five species of naturally-mutated viruses, every one of earth's nine billion inhabitants has become immortal. Or have they? By the time Janet learns that this immortality is an illusion, it's too late to change people's beliefs. Some love her for creating this miracle and the coming paradise they long for. Others hate her for what they see ahead: immoral behavior without consequence, overpopulation, famine, and worse. Zealots demand that she save people's souls, humanity, the earth… or the viruses. Or else. |
| Lancaster, Craig | The Fallow Season | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $.99 Kindle book. From the bestselling author of 600 Hours of Edward comes the story of two small-town characters whose fates are inextricably linked. |
| Lancaster, Jen | If You Were Here | Fiction | Mia's obsessed with Abington Cambs, the setting of many John Hughes movies. She buys Sixteen Candle's character Jake Ryan's house, despite its major flaws. Witty and hilarious, even for non-Hughes fanatics. |
| Lanchester, John | Capital | Fiction | Big, vivid, complicated portrait of London. Convincing and entertaining look at modern life in urban Britain. |
| Lanchester, John | I.O.U. | Non-fiction | Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay. Lanchester illustrates exactly how loans from predatory and incompetent players wound up being sold as triple-A investments, and how a subsequent housing market dip toppled the financial system. |
| Landay, William | Defending Jacob | Crime/Mystery | 14-year-old boy has been stabbed and Andy's son, Jacob, has been arrested for the crime. Grabby premise and careful plotting keeps you turning pages through the shocking gut-punch of an ending. |
| Landis, Deborah Nadoolman | Hollywood Sketchbook | Art | A Century of Costume Illustration. 100-year history of cinematic costume design that include never before seen illustrations and profiles of influential wardrobe designers. |
| Lane, Harriet | Her | Crime/Mystery | Two women strike up a casual friendship that seems harmless, if unlikely, until it becomes clear that one of them is plotting something sinister. |
| Lane, Jennifer | Blocked | Chick Lit | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. College freshman Lucia Ramirez has a secret crush on Dane Monroe. He's a tall drink of water -- blond, brash, and one hell of a volleyball player. ¡HÃjole! Lucia hopes her volleyball scholarship to his school will make him notice her. |
| Lane, Summer | Day Zero | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. Novella. First installation in a series. Since the collapse of modern society, she's been living in the remains of downtown Hollywood, California, foraging for food and fighting for her life. And then everything changes. After she is forced out of her home, she heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely comrades, and the hope of a safe haven. Together, they journey toward the dregs of civilization, facing starvation, imprisonment and death. They are alone, but they are ready. Day Zero begins today. |
| Lang, J.A. | Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. It's autumn in the Cotswolds, and Chef Maurice is facing a problem of mushrooming proportion. Not only has his wild herb and mushroom supplier, Ollie Meadows, missed his weekly delivery--he's missing vital signs too, when he turns up dead in the woods near Beakley village. |
| Lang, Michael | The Road To Woodstock | Memoir | In this lively memoir, Lang, one of the festival's cocreators, retells the story some of it already well-known of the halting steps that he and his partners took to develop the greatest rock concert of all time. |
| Langer, Adam | Crossing California | Fiction | Five gifted teens and their clueless elders in 1979-1981 Chicago. Begins and ends with the halting romance of two awkward geniuses. Character, Michelle, steals the show: her acid tongue will dazzle you with her smarts. |
| Langman, Kris | Logic to the Rescue | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. When Nikki Murrow failed her first High School debating match she did what anyone would do. She hid in a closet. She found comfort hiding among the mops and cleaning supplies, but she also found two imps – tiny creatures from a magical kingdom who lead her on a strange journey into the Realm of Reason. |
| Langridge, Richard | Dan and Frankie Save the World | SciFi | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Serial loser Dan Pratt never asked to be the saviour of humanity. All he ever wanted was to get drunk and play video games with his best friend/uninvited lodger Frankie. When it later becomes apparent that the insurance company he works for is actually a front for a sect of evil, body-snatching jelly-slugs (and prompted by his trusty best friend and movie aficionado, Frankie), Dan reluctantly agrees to investigate. |
| LaNier, Carlotta Walls with Lisa Frazier Page | A Mighty Long Way | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Carlotta Walls was the youngest of the "Little Rock Nine" -- the nine black students who risked everything to challenge segregated education in America. This account tells her story in her own words. |
| Lankford, Andrea | Haunted Hikes | Travel | The former National Park Service Ranger digs up a wealth of spooky lore about National Parks in North America, throwing in trail maps for the intrepid. Particularily rewarding for history lovers. (Is this something Beth would like?) |
| Lankford, Terrill Lee | Blonde Lightening | Fiction | Lankford shows in telling detail how a film really gets made. "Blonde" is a continuation of "Earthquake Weather", but it stands alone as testament to all the cynical, underhanded, and tragic things you think you know about Hollywood. |
| Lankford, Terrill Lee | Earthquake Weather | Fiction | Lankford's, a former screenwriter-director, take on L.A. is dead-on like the "tragic" irony that "people at the very bottom of the food chain are passing judgement on what should be made into feature films." |
| Lanpher, Katherine | Leap Days | Essays | Behind her are a successful career at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, an unsuccessful marriage and a younger woman's belief in endless possibilities. Essays include warm memories of her childhood in St. Paul. |
| Lansdale, Joe R. | The Big Book of Hap and Leonard | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Series recommended by Kent. Contents:
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| Lansdale, Joe R. | Various (Hap and Leaonard Series) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Friend. "Witty and profane" series recommended by Kent.
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| Lansky, Aaron | Outwitting History | Non-fiction | The amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books. Aaron Lansky innocently embarked on a project that turned out to define his life. |
| Lansky, Sam | The Gilded Razor | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Recounts the prescription-drug addiction that overwhelmed his last years at an elite prep school, and the subsequent boot camps and psych wards he slogged through. Funny as it is dark. |
| Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese religion, not only for Taoism but Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts. |
| LaPorte, Nicole | The Men Who Would Be King | Non-fiction | Spielberg/Geffen/Katzenberg. The trio envisioned a Hollywood utopia where creativity would trump corporate greed. |
| Largo, Michael | Final Exits | Non-fiction | For dad? A-to-Z guide to ways that people die. |
| Larkin, Joan | A Woman Like That | GLBT | Lesbian coming out stories. |
| Larman, Craig | Applying UML in Patterns | Computer | From Omar V. |
| LaRoche, Loretta | Life is not a Stress Rehearsal | Non-fiction | Bringing yesterday's sane wisdom into today's insane world. See also "Relax-- you may only have a few minutes left : using the power of humor to overcome stress in your life and work" |
| Larson, Arthur | Eisenhower: The President Nobody Knew | History | Uh, Eisenhower...the president... |
| Larson, Erik | Dead Wake | Non-fiction | The story of the Lusitania's sinking by a German U-boat has been told before, but this version features new details and the gripping immediacy that Larson is famous for. |
| Larson, Erik | Isaac's Storm | Non-fiction | On Sept 9, 1900 Galveston was laid to waste by the deadliest hurricane in history. |
| Larson, Erik | The Devil in the White City | Non-fiction | Creepy true story of serial killer at the 1893 World's Fair. |
| Larson, Jayne Amelia | Driving the Saudis | Memoir | Larson, an actress who once moonlighted as a chauffer, recounts the seven weeks she spent driving around the Saudi royal family in LA. What you think you know about wealth and privilege is just Disney claptrap compared to how the filthy rich actually live. |
| Larson, Leslie | Slipstream | Fiction | Over four rain-soaked weeks five downtrodden Los Angelenos, each grappling with a life-altering crisis, intersect each other's lives amid the empty bustle of LAX. Her exquisitely calibrated prose makes it clear that she knows these people to their bones. |
| Lasch, Christopher | The Minimal Self | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In times of uncertainty, individuals become obsessed with their own survival -- but at what cost? A National Book Award–winning author diagnoses the flaws of self-centered culture. |
| Laskin, David | The Children's Blizzard | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "Heartbreaking… reads like a thriller" (Entertainment Weekly): Learn about the devastating 1888 blizzard that claimed the lives of hundreds of poor European settlers. A "gripping chronicle of meteorological chance and human folly and error". |
| Lasson, Zac | Build a Brilliant Bug Out Bag and Beyond! | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The step by step approach means that it is easy to follow, meaning everyone can have a quality bug out gear prepared for when a disaster strikes. It tells you exactly what is in a bug out bag and gives you a list of bug out kit that you will need. None, of this bug out gear is expensive which means that everyone can actually have a bug out bag ready to go when disaster strikes. The book covers essential information such as : •The time to bug out •Where you bug out to •How to choose a bug out bag •Other essential bugging out kit •What items to pack and what to leave behind •Water •Food •Medical Supplies •Personal Items •Education •How to use technology to help •How to make use of caches to make your survival easier and more comfortable. The book comes complete with a bug out checklist at the end of each section so you can be ensured that you have all the kit assembled. The book also tells you the answers to some key questions: •How much water should you pack – the official guidelines are never enough •Why everyone should have certain essential bug out kit items •Where your safe location should be •What additional survival education you should consider •What foods you should eat •How to use a cache to its best potential |
| Laurain, Antoine | The Red Notebook | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Suggested by eBookDaily: Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street and feels impelled to return it to its owner. The bag contains no money, phone or contact information. But a small red notebook with handwritten thoughts and jottings reveals a person that Laurent would very much like to meet. Without even a name to go on, and only a few of her possessions to help him, how is he to find one woman in a city of millions? |
| Lawhead, Stephen R. | The Pendragon Cycle | Fantasy |
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| Lawless, Wendy | Chanel Bonfire | Memoir | Would Georgann Rea, their beautiful, gimlet-downing, social-climbing mother, be taking them to Schraft's today - or locking them in the closet. Movie over Mommie Dearest! |
| Lawson, Guy | War Dogs | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: Movie/TV. The True Story of How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History. |
| Lawson, Nigel | An Appeal to Reason | Science/Nature | Suggested By: Other. Suggested by the New York Times (144 pages). For a skeptical view of climate change, you might turn to Nigel Lawson's book. Lawson, the former secretary of state for energy under Margaret Thatcher, argues that though climate science does contain a measure of truth, it is mostly overstated -- in his view, any decrease in quality of life over the next 100 years would be modest, at most. And even if the most pessimistic environmental forecast were to prove true, Lawson believes, society would do what it has done for centuries: adapt. His standpoint is decidedly economic, laying out a case for why taking action now is both expensive and unwarranted. |
| Lawson, Nigella | Nigella Express | Cookbook | Ingredient lists tend to be small, but results are definitely impressive. |
| Lazar, Aaron Paul | Under the Ice | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. LeGarde mysteries book 9. After escaping her abusive husband, life is finally good for Camille LeGarde and her daughter, Shelby. She has a great relationship with her new husband, Gus, who also loves Shelby like his own child. But the LeGarde family's fragile oasis is shattered when the man of Camille's nightmares is released from prison. |
| Lea, C.J. and Catherine Lea | The Contestant | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Raymond is a serial killer - brilliant and resourceful. Once a respected behavioural analyst and profiler, a hit-and-run accident five years ago left him confined to a wheelchair, and now he grudgingly scratches out a living with online contests using fake or stolen identities. |
| Leahy, Christopher W. | The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife | Science/Nature | Nontechnical, yet pithy descriptions. Definitions of terms. Essays, but also cagalog-style information. Birdwatcher's calendar. Reviewed in "Science News". |
| Leahy, Robert L. | The Worry Cure | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Designed to address general worries as well as the unique issues surrounding some of the most common areas of worry--relationships, health, money, work, and the need for approval--The Worry Cure is for everyone, from the chronic worrier to the occasional ruminator. |
| Leavitt, David | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Non-fiction | Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer |
| Leavitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner | Freakonomics | Non-fiction | Do Sumo Westlers cheat? What do crack gangs and McDonald's have in common? |
| LeBey, Barbara | Family Estrangements: How They Begin, How to Mend Them, How to Cope With Them | Non-fiction | Written with clarity, intelligence, and deep compassion, Family Estrangements offers a penetrating and useful look at the common problems that can damage family relationships. |
| LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | Non-fiction | Full of compassion and detail, but also twitty women who choose men poorly. |
| LeBlanc, Nicole | Random Family | Non-fiction | A moving, gritty look at the hard-scrabble lives of several Bronx youngsters. |
| Lebovitz, David | The Sweet Life in Paris | Memoir | Pastry chef shares his experiences of moving to Paris. |
| Leckie, Ann | Ancillary Justice | SciFi | Suggested By: Other. BooksAndBars for April 2016. Ann Leckie's sociopolitical space opera almost singlehandedly breathed new cool into the stereotype of spaceships trundling through far-off systems amid laser battles.
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| LeClerc, Georges-Louis | All the World's Birds | Non-fiction | A combined edition of 36 Enlightenment-era volumes by famed naturalist LeClerc. $350, 670 page door-stop. Boasts plenty of ornithological faces, as well as brilliant, detailed reproductions of engravings by some French artist. |
| LeDuff, Charlie | Detroit: An American Autopsy | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist returns to his hometown to find a once-vibrant city in crisis. A New York Times bestseller "full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness" (Kirkus Reviews). |
| Lee, Don | The Collective | Fiction | Characters meet at Macalaster College! Three young artists form the Asian American Artists Collective. Heartbreaking, sex, and funny story about fractured friendships. |
| Lee, Harper | Go Set A Watchman | Fiction | Sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, set 20 years later. |
| Lee, Hyeonseo with David John | The Girl with Seven Names | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. At the age of 17, Hyeonseo Lee escaped from North Korea. This extraordinary true story follows her struggle for survival in a completely new land -- and her eventual return to the border to rescue her family. |
| Lee, Linda Francis | The Devil in the Junior League | Chick Lit | Not even the requisite happy ending can blunt Lee's deliciously sharp jabs at Texas blue bloods. |
| Lee, Nancy, Lonnie Schlein, and Mitchel Levitas | A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath | Non-fiction | A detailed visual, graphis, and written account of the WTC attacks in 2001. |
| Lee, Stephan | The Living | Post-Apocalyptic | Teen post-apocalyptic genre (that's a thing now!). Plot driven YA with characters worthy of John Green. Shy, a teenager working a summer job on a luxury cruise ship, finds himself at the epicenter of a series of mysterious disasters: earthquakes, tsunamis, a pandemic... |
| Lee, Tanith | Sabella | Fantasy | Recommended by Holly Black. The main character is a vampire. Descriptions so lush and rich that you can feel them yourself. Tanith Lee's writing is seductive: you'll want to live in that big house on the plateau and...do the stuff they do. |
| Lee, Tommy | Tommyland | Memoir | Motley Crue drummer recaps rise from scrawner outsider to badass rock star. The pages vibrate with Lee's crazy energy. |
| Leeks, Andy | As They Slept | Memoir | Infuriated by the snoozing passengers surrounding him, Andy posted a status declaring that sleeping on trains is a complete waste of time. Andy set out to write a book from start to finish on the daily commute to show a better use of the time. |
| Leeming, David | James Baldwin: A Biography | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Remembered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century and a dedicated civil rights activist, James Baldwin was a gifted man who passionately fought systemic oppression. A "highly perceptive, revealing biography" (Publishers Weekly) by Baldwin's friend and former secretary. |
| Lefcourt, Peter | The Dreyfus Affair | GLBT | Baseball star falls in love with his second baseman. |
| Legg, Brandt | The Last Librarian | SciFi | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Justar Journal book 1. In the year 2098, there is no more war, no more hunger and no more pollution. The world is secure and Earth's 2.9 billion people are healthy and happy. There is also only one remaining library that still houses physical books. In addition to the dusty volumes, the library holds many secrets. But the government has decided to shut it down and burn the contents. Unless an unlikely trio can save the books, humanity will lose more than just what is printed on those antique pages. |
| Lehane, Dennis | A Drink Before the War | Crime/Mystery | He's the Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone guy. "Dennis Lehane has done pretty well with the blue-collar Iris milieu of South Boston. A Drink Before the War (Kenzie-Gennaro 1994) Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie-Gennaro 1996) Sacred (Kenzie-Gennaro 1997) Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie-Gennaro 1998) Prayers for Rain (Kenzie-Gennaro 1999) Mystic River (2001) Shutter Island (2003) Coronado: Stories (2006) The Given Day (2008) |
| Lehane, Dennis | Live By Night | Fiction | From the New York Times bestselling master of suspense who wrote Mystic River and Shutter Island: Set in the crime-riddled Prohibition Era, this engrossing novel chronicles one man’s ascent from common criminal to bootlegger mastermind. |
| Lehr, Leslie | What a Mother Knows | Fiction | Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen, "I can say I've read the first chapter and it's intoxicating." |
| Leinbach, Michael D. | Bringing Columbia Home | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. The untold story of a lost space shuttle and her crew. On February 1st, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry and all seven astronauts on board were lost. |
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