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BOOKS TALKED ABOUT ON ABOUT
BOOKS IN 2007
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AUTHOR |
TITLE |
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January 6 |
Erik Larson |
Thunderstruck |
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Devil in the White City |
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January 13 |
Jeanne Martinet |
Art of Mingling |
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January 20 |
Father George McDaniel |
A Great Lasting Beginning |
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January 27 |
Norah Vincent |
Self-Made Man |
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February 3 |
Leonard Barkin |
Satyr Square |
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Unearthing the Past |
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February 10 |
Ian Sansom |
The Case of the Missing
Books |
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The Truth About Babies |
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Impartial Recorder |
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February 17 |
Paul Barrett |
American Islam |
Books recommended:
By Michael McBride
Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
Leo Edward
Jerry Todd books (16 titles)
Judy Schachner
Skippyjon Jones
Robert Van Gulik
Chinese Gold Murders
C. S.
Lewis The Great Divorce
Edward Burger and
Michael Starbird The Heart of Mathematics
BOOKS TALKED ABOUT ON ABOUT
BOOKS/2006
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AUTHOR
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TITLE
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January
6/9
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January
13/19
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Marjorie
Lamp Mead
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A Reader’s
Guide to through the Wardrobe
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C.S. Lewis
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Silver
Chair
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Elisabeth
Sifton
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The
Serenity Prayer
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Ken Wilbur
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A Brief
History of Everything
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Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
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Freakonomics
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January
20/22
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Gunda Davis
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Pumpkin
Soup and Shrapnel
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January
27/20
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Joy Hakim
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The Story
of Science
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Randall
Silvis
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North of
Unknown
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February
3/5
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Elizabeth
Brundage
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The
Doctor’s Wife
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S. E.
Hinton
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Outsiders
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Orhan Pamuk
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Snow
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World
Lives, Prairie Living
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February
10/12
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Michael Benanav
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Men of
Salt
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Bruce Chatwin
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The Songlines
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T. E.
Lawrence
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Seven
Pillars of Wisdom
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John
Lawton
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A Little
White Dream
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John Berry
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The Great
Influenza
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Tom Lewis
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The
Hudson
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February
17/19
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Kitchen
Sisters
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Hidden
Kitchens
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Mark Kulansky
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Salt
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Robert Bly
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Sibling
Society
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Robert Bly
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The Winged
Energy of Delight
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(Video)
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Death of
the Dream
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Robert Bly
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The Man in
the Black Coat
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Robert Bly
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This Body
id Made of Camphor and Gopherwood
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February
24/26
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Sara Rath
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Star
Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages
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Daphne DuMaurier
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Rebecca
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Charlotte
Bronte
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Jane Eyre
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March 3/5
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Jim Fay
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Parenting
with Love and Logic
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March
10/12
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James
Swanson
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Manhunt
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March
17/19
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David
Kearns
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When Hell
Freezes Over
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March
24/26
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Belinda Rathbone
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The Guynd
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Mary Simeti
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On
Persephone’s Island
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March
31/April 2
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Cynthia
Carr
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Our Town
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April 7/9
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Robert
Wolfe
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Playing
with Fish
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April
14/16
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Meg
Mullins
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The Rug
Merchant
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April
21/23
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Dominic
Smith
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The
Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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April
28/30
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Allegra Goodman
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Intuition
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May 5/7
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Scott
Russell Sanders
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A Brief
History of Awe
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May 12/14
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Myriam Cyr
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Letters of
a Portuguese Nun
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May 19/21
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Giedrius Subacius
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Upton
Sinclair: the Lithuanian Jungle
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May 26/28
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Christine
Conrad
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Mademoiselle Benoit
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June 2/4
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Suzanne Marrs
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Eudora Welty: a biography
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June 9/11
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Peter Hessler
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Oracle
Bones
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June 16/18
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Lisa
Phillips
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Public
Radio: Behind the Voices
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June 23/25
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Debra Dean
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Madonnas of Leningrad
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July 7/9
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Robert Hellenga
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Philosophy
Made Simple
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July 14/16
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Chef Billy
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Cooking
Light Pasta
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Cooking
Light Soup
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Cooking
Light Chicken
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July 21/23
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Zachary
Jack
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Black
Earth and Ivory Tower
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Walter
Thomas Jack
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The Furrow
and Us
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July 28/30
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Michele
Scott
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Murder
Uncorked
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August 4/6
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Eric Blehm
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The Last
Season
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August
11/13
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Lewis Buzbee
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The
Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
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August
18/20
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Rebekah Presson Mosby
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Poetry on
Record
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Poetry
Speaks
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August
25/27
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Michael Standaert
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Skipping
Towards Armageddon
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Amy Frykhold
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Rapture
Culture
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September
1/3
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Dr. AnnCrowley
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Favorite
Recipes from Iowa’s Bed and Breakfasts
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September
8/9
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Eva
Hoffman
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Lost in
Translation
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Andre Aciman
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Out of Egypt
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Saul
Bellow
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Mr. Sammler’s Plante
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Moacyr Scliar
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The
Centaur in the Garden
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Allegra Goodman
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Kaaterskill Falls
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September
15/17
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Paul Toutonghi
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Red
Weather
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September
22/24
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September
29/October 1
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Debra Marquart
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The
Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere
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October
6/8
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Camille
Dungy
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What to
Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
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October
13/15
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John Green
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Looking
for Alaska
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An
Abundance of Katherines
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Marcus Zusak
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The Book Theif
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Fighting
Ruben Wolfe
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