From terrir at pascolibraries.org  Wed Jul 23 16:23:18 2008
From: terrir at pascolibraries.org (Terri Romberger)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:23:18 GMT
Subject: [readers-advisory] TBLC Reader's Advisory SIG 8/22/2008
Message-ID: <200807231623906.SM03460@[10.195.195.13]>

Friday,? August 22 we will be meeting at the Land O Lakes Library from 9am-12 noon.? Discussion will include Reader's Advisory Tools and a Summer Read. 
Please choose a Summer Read from the list below? "Summer Book Recommendations 2008" from npr.org or of course choose your own selection and come prepared to share.? Thanks and see you then.Summer Book Recommendations 2008NPR.org,May 23, 2008 ? 
Below you can find the complete list of recommended reading for Summer
2008. To print this list, choose the "Print Page" icon in the upper
righthand corner. Click on the titles to read an excerpt from the book.Recommended BooksRecommended by Nancy Pearl
(Carry-On Books to Take You Up, Up and Away)The Arrival, by Shaun Tan, Young Adult, hardcover, 128 pages, List Price: $19.99Bangkok 8, by John Burdett, Vintage, paperback, 336 pages, List Price: $13.95Chester, by M?lanie Watt, Kids Can Press, hardcover, 34 pages, List Price: $16.95The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, by Don Robertson, HarperCollins, paperback, 224 pages, List Price: $12.95An Infamous Army, by Georgette Heyer, Sourcebooks Landmark, paperback, 512 pages, List Price: $14.95Metzger's Dog, by Thomas Perry, Random House Trade Paperbacks, paperback, 336 pages, List Price: $13.95Sunshine, by Robin McKinley, Jove, paperback, 416 pages, List Price: $7.99The Thin Place, by Kathryn Davis, Back Bay Books, paperback, 304 pages, List Price: $13.99Too Close to the Sun, by Sara Wheeler, Random House, hardcover, 320 pages, List Price: $27.95Recommended by booksellers to Susan Stamberg
(Booksellers' Selections for Summer Afternoons)America America, by Ethan Canin, Random House, hardcover, 480 pages, List Price: $27.00City of Thieves, by David Benioff, Viking Adult, hardcover, 272 pages List Price: $24.95The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Dial Press, hardcover, 288 pages, List Price: $22.00The Legal Limit, by Martin Clark, Knopf, hardcover, 368 pages, List Price: $24.95Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, Vendela Vida, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $13.95My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekov to Munro, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides, Harper, hardcover, 608 pages, List Price: $24.95Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan, Algonquin Books, hardcover, 336 pages, List Price: $22.95Now You See Him, by Eli Gottlieb, William Morrow, hardcover, 272 pages List Price: $22.95The Prince of FrogTown, by Rick Bragg, Knopf, hardcover, 272 pages, List Price: $24.00The Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry, Viking Adult, hardcover, 304 pages, List Price: $24.95The Story of a Marriage, Andrew Sean Greer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover, 208 pages, List Price: $22.00  Today: 101 Ghazals, by Suzanne Gardinier, Sheep Meadow, paperback, 193 pages, List Price: $13.95 Trauma, by Patrick McGrath, Knopf, hardcover, 224 pages List Price: $24.95Wrack & Ruin, by Don Lee, W.W. Norton, hardcover, 336 pages, List Price: $23.95 What Happened to Anna K., by Irina Reyn, Touchstone, hardcover, 256 pages, List Price: $24.00Recommended fiction by Maureen Corrigan
(Fiction Picks for Your Mental Getaway)Exiles, by Ron Hansen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover, 240 pages, List Price: $23.00The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Don Robertson, HarperCollins, paperback, 224 pages, $12.95Lady of the Snakes, by Rachel Pastan, Harcourt, hardcover, 320 pages, List Price: $24.00The People on Privilege Hill, by Jane Gardam, Europa Editions, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $15.95The Sister, by Poppy Adams, Knopf, hardcover, 288 pages, List Price: $23.95Recommended nonfiction by Maureen Corrigan
(Better than Sliced Bread: Summer's Best Nonfiction)The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw, FSG, hardcover, 224 pages, List Price: $23.00Inventing Niagaraby Ginger Strand, FSG, hardcover, 352 pages, List Price: $25.00Minders of Make-Believe by Leonard S. Marcus, Houghton Mifflin, hardcover, 416 pages, List Price: $28.00Recommended first books by Rick Kleffel
(Nine First Books that Make a Lasting Impression) The Boat, by Nam Le, Knopf, hardcover, 288 pages, List Price: $22.95A Cure for Night, by Justin Peacock, Doubleday, hardcover, 352 pages, List Price: $24.95Freddie & Me, by Mike Dawson, Bloomsbury USA, paperback, 304 pages, List Price: $19.99The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, by Galen M. Beckett, Spectra, hardcover, 512 pages, List Price: $23.00One More Year, by Sana Krasikov, Spiegel and Grau, hardcover, 240 pages, List Price: $21.95The Other, by Thomas Tryon, Millipede Press, hardcover, 290 pages, List Price: $95.00Petite Anglaise, by Catherine Sanderson, Spiegel and Grau, hardcover, 304 pages, List Price: $24.95Pretty Is What Changes, by Jessica Queller, Spiegel and Grau, hardcover, 256 pages, List Price: $24.95The Wolfman, by Nicholas Pekearo, Tor Books, hardcover, 288 pages, List Price: $23.95Recommended summer cookbooks by T Susan Chang
(The 10 Best Cookbooks for Summer)Blue Eggs & Yellow Tomatoes, by Jeanne Kelley, Running Press, hardcover, 352 pages, List Price: $35.00Fish Without a Doubt, by Rick Moonen and Roy Finamore, Houghton Mifflin, hardcover, 448 pages, List Price: $35.00Gelato!, by Pamela Sheldon-Johns, 10 Speed Press, paperback, 111 pages, List Price: $14.95Grill It!, by John Willoughby and Chris Schlesinger, hardcover, 352 pages, List Price: $25.00Mediterranean Fresh, by Joyce Goldstein, W.W. Norton, hardcover, 320 pages, List Price: $30.00Raising the Salad Bar, by Catherine Walthers, Lake Isle Press, paperback, 272 pages, List Price $19.95101 Sangrias & Pitcher Drinks, by Kim Haasarud, Wiley, hardcover, 128 pages, List Price: $16.95Screen Doors & Sweet Tea, by Martha Hall Foose, Clarkson Potter, hardcover, 256 pages, List Price: $32.50Simply Organic, by Jesse Ziff Cool, Chronicle Books, paperback, 248 pages, List Price: $24.95Summer Gatherings, by Rick Rodgers, William Morrow, hardcover, 176 pages, List Price: $17.95Recommended by Alan Cheuse
(Summer Books to Feed Your Literary Addiction)America America, by Ethan Canin, Random House, hardcover, 480 pages, List Price: $27.00Armageddon in Retrospect, by Kurt Vonnegut, Putnam Adult, hardcover, 240 pages, List Price: $24.95The Boat, by Nam Le, Knopf, hardcover, 288 pages, List Price: $22.95Havanas in Camelot, by William Styron, Random House, hardcover, 176 pages, List Price: $23.00The Invention Of Everything Else, by Samantha Hunt, Houghton Mifflin, hardcover, 272 pages, List Price: $24.00Language for a New Century, edited by Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar and Nathalie Handal, W. W. Norton, paperback, 560 pages, $27.95Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i, by Susanna Moore, Grove Atlantic, hardcover, 208 pages, List Price; $19.95The Messiah, by Marek Halter, The Toby Press, hardcover, 350 pages, List Price: $24.95Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan, Little, Brown and Company, hardcover, 368 pages, List Price: $23.99Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen, Modern Library, hardcover, 912 pages, List Price: $40.00A Summer of Hummingbirds, by Christopher Benfey, The Penguin Press, HC, hardcover, 304 pages, List Price: $25.95Walking the Wrack Line, by Barbara Hurd, University of Georgia Press, hardcover, 160 pages, List Price: $22.95?Land O'Lakes Branch Library
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