Book choices – past and upcoming Updated: May 2016
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Aug 2007
The Tulip: The Story of the Flower That Has Made Men Mad
by Anna Pavord
Sept 2007
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Oct 2007
Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierestad & Ingrid Christoperson
Nov 2007
Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Dec 2007
Einstein’s Universe
by Nigel Calder, Albert Einstein
Jan 2008
A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
Feb 2008
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace.....OneSchool at a Time
by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
March 2008
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
byTony Horwitz
April 2008
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
May 2008
The team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
June 2008
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
July 2008
Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening
by Daniel Gottlieb
Aug 2008
Charlie Wilson’s War : The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by George Crile
Sept 2008
Stumbling On Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert (Vintage)
Oct 2008
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Nov 2008
Isaac’s Storm
by Erik Larson
Dec 2008
In Pursuit of the Common Good Twenty-Five Years of Repairing the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
by Paul Newman, A. E. Hotchner
Jan 2009
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
by Barbara Goldsmith
Feb 2009
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Paperback)
by Slavomir Rawicz (Author)
Mar 2009
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
Apr 2009
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (Paperback)
by Alfred W. Crosby
May 2009
The Mother Tongue
By Bill Bryson
June 2009
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
July2009
The Black Swan
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aug 2009
The Zookeeper’s Wife,
by Diane Ackerman.
Sept2009-
The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography
by Margaret Lane
Oct 2009
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt.Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Nov 2009
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
by Randy Shilts
Dec 2009
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
By Eric Weiner
Jan2010
Longitude
By Dava Sobel
Feb2010
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely.
Mar2010
John Muir : nature's visionary
by Gretel Ehrlich.
Apr2010
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by TempleGrandin
May2010
Botany of Desire
By Michael Pollan
June2010
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
by Gad Beck
July2010
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
by George Johnson
Aug2010
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by Mark Obmascik
Sept2010
Return to the little kingdom : Steve Jobs, the creation of Apple, and how it changed the world
By Michael Moritz.
Oct2010
Something happened : a political and cultural overview of the seventies
ByEdward D. Berkowitz
Nov2010
The Ghost Map
by Steven Johnson
Dec2010
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage.
Jan2011
Fanatic : ten things all sportsfans should do before they die
by Jim Gorant.
Feb2011
The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence
Gavin de Becker
Mar2011
High steel : the daring men who built the world's greatest skyline
by Rasenberger, Jim
Apr2011
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis
by Daniel Carlat
May 2011
Anne Frank Remembered
by Miep Gies
June 2011
Plastic fantastic : how the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world
by Eugenie Samuel Reich
July 2011
The art of conversation : a guided tour of a neglected pleasure.
by Blyth, Catherine.
Aug 2011
Shadow divers : the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of WW II
by Kurson, Robert.
Sept 2011
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature," by Daniel J. Levitin
Oct 2011
As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl by Colapinto, John,
Nov 2011
"The Big Short," by Michael Lewis
Dec 2011
OJIBWE IN MINNESOTA", by Anton Treuer
Jan 2012
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much,"
by Allison Hoover Bartlett Ramsey
Feb 2012
How we live and why we die : the secret lives of cells
by Lewis Wolpert
March 2012
Life in a Medieval Village
by Joseph & Frances Gies
April 2012
"The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival,"
by John Vaillant
May 2012
Where Good ideas come from
by Steven Johnson—
June 2012
Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers
July 2012
The Wizard of Menlo Park
by Randall Stross.
Aug 2012
Connected How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do.
By Nicholas Christakis MD, PhD and James Fowler PhD
Sept 2012
1066
By W. Davic Howarth
Oct 2012
Talent is Overrated
by Geoff Colvin
Nov 2012
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So,"
by Mark Vonnegut."
Dec 2012
Kevin Kling Holiday Inn
Jan 2013
$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
by Christopher Steiner
Feb 2013
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
By W. Robert Burton
Mar 2013
"A Brain Wider Than the Sky
by Andrew Levy
Apr 2013
You Just Don't Understand Women & Men in Conversation
by Deborah Tannen
May 2013
Visions of Tomorrow - Science Fictions Predictions That Came True
By Tom Easton
June 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
July 2013
American Nations : a history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America
by Colin Woodard.
Aug 2013
Kon-Tiki: Six Men Cross the Pacific on a Raft
Thor Heyerdahl
Sept 2013
Moonwalking with Einstein : the art and science of remembering everything by Joshua Foer.
Nov 2013
The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times Arlie by Russell Hochschild (Holt)
Dec 2013
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
Jan 2014
Assassination Vacation Vowell,Sarah
Feb 2014
Encounters with the Archdruid by McPhee, John
March 2014
Nothing to envy ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.
April 2014
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.
May 2014
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
June 2014
Reinventing Knowledge From Alexandria to the Internet by Ian F. McNeely
July 2014
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Aug 2014
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution By: Brian Kilmeade, by Don Yaeger
Sept 2014
Two Years on the Yangtze Paperback – 2006 by Peter Hessler
Oct 2014
Ishi in two worlds : a biography of the last wild Indian in North America. By Kroeber, Theodora
Nov 2014
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dec 2014
Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Olderby Wendy Lustbad
Jan 2015
The Innocents Abroad - Part 1 by Mark Twain.
Feb 2015
Canoeing with the Cree 206 pgs byEric Sevareid
March 2015
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film byPatton Oswalt
April 2015
Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
May 2015
The Book That Changed My Life by Roxanne Coady
June 2015
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery by Albert Marrin
July 2015
Wallflower at the Orgy By Nora Ehpron
Aug 2015
The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
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