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Holiday Book Suggestions

Holiday Gift image and link to Around Noon websiteListen to WCPN  for the full program as Cuyahoga County Public Library Executive Director, Sari Feldman, Suzanne DeGaetano from Mac's Backs Paperbacks on Coventry, and Karen Long the book editor for The Plain Dealer discuss great books of 2007 with Dee Perry on Around Noon.

 

Adult Fiction | Adult Nonfiction | Coffee-table Books 


Juvenile Nonfiction | Juvenile Fiction | More 

 

Fiction

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The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian
 

by Sherman Alexie

 

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The Archivist's Story 

by Travis Holland

 


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The Book of Lost Things 

by John Connolly

 

 

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Coal Black Horse 

by Robert Olmstead
(local area author)

 

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Fair and Tender Ladies

by Lee Smith

 

 

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Then We Came to The End 

by Joshua Ferris

Listen to PODCAST 


 

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A Thousand Splendid Suns 

  by Khaled Hosseini

 

 

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The Uncommon Reader
A Novella

by Alan Bennett

 

 

Nonfiction

 

Book cover and link to catalogAlternation: Transform. Embellish. Customize

by Shannon Okey and
Alexandra Underhill
(local authors) [on order]


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Collapse:
How Societies Choose
to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

 

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Escape 

  by Caroline Jessop
    and Laura Palmer

 

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Father Joe:
The Man Who Saved My Soul

  by Tony Hendra

 

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The Jesuit and the Skull: 
Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man

by Amir Aczel

 

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A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  by Ishmael Beah

 

 

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The Phenomenon of Man 

  by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[translated by B. Wall]

 


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The Shock Doctrine:
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

  by Naomi Klein

 


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Tales of a Female Nomad: 
Living at Large in the World

by Rita Golden Gelman

 


Book cover and link to catalogThree Cups of Tea:
One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism & Build Nations
...One School at a Time

by Greg Mortenson

 

Book cover and link to catalogA Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy

by Sara Bongiorni

Coffee Table Books

 

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1,001 Books You Must
Read Before You Die
 
 

edited by Peter Akroyd
and Peter Boxall

 

 

Book cover and link to catalogCartographia:
Mapping Civilizations
 

by Vincent Virga and
The Library of Congress
[on order]

 

 

 

 

 

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30,000 Years of Art:
The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space

edited by Phaidon Press
[on order]

Juvenile Nonfiction

 

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Encyclopedia Prehistorica:
Mega-Beasts 

by Robert Sabuda

 


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Skyscraper 

  by Lynn Curlee


 

 

 

 

 

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Jazz on a Saturday Night 

  by Leo and Diane Dillon

Juvenile Fiction

 

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Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
 

by Lewis Carroll

 

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Invention of Hugo Cabret
A Novel in Words and Pictures

by Brian Selznick

 


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Magic Tree House Series 

  by Mary Pope Osborne

 

 

 

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Mary Poppins 

by P.L. Travers

 

 

Book cover and link to catalogPeiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas 

by Pauline Chen
(local author; set in Cleveland)
[on order]

 

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The Story of Doctor Dolittle 

  by Hugh Lofting

 

 

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A Wrinkle in Time 

by Madeline L'Engle

 

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Additional books mentioned


Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil
by Inga Muscio

Hiding Out
by Jonathan Messinger

How to Enter Vaudeville
by Frederic La Delle

Our Way of Life — poetry
by Ray McNeise (local author)

Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch 
by Lynda Harris

(check your local bookstore)


Stingray
  poetry
by Michael Salinger (local author)

A Treetop Bird Family 
by Loretta Magden (local author)

Walks Around Akron:
Rediscovering A City in Transition
 
by Russ Musarra and Chuck Ayers
(local authors)

The Wild Braid  poetry
by Stanley Kunitz

 

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