Reading Suggestions

GIFT BOOK IDEAS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
2008

 

                 

Just After Sunset by Stephen King. 
Short stories from the master about that spooky time of day when our secret fears meet the evils lurking in the dark.

Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. 
Gruesome details and extreme suspense fill the latest in the series about crime fighter/medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.

Treasure by Iris Johansen. 
Historical romance and mystery set in 12th-century England with castles, assassins, star-crossed lovers and a quest for the secret of immortality.

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Sheffer.
A sweet & sentimental tribute to the written word based on an exchange of letters about a book club during the German occupation of the British Channel Islands in WWII.

Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card. 
Sci-Fi series hero Andrew Wiggin, known as Ender the Savior of Earth, considers the ethical impact of his life.

Ballistics by Billy Collins. 
Accessible poetry that resonates with everyday life, engages with detail and amuses with playful wit.

The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.  The evolution of finance from ancient Mesopotamia to the present by the Harvard historian who recognizes the dangers leading to the current crisis.

Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes by Daniel L. Everett. 
Three decades of fieldwork among a tribe of hunter-gatherers in Brazil reveals new theories of language and thought and changes the beliefs of the author in this mind-shaking & insightful account.

Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever by Frank Gifford. 
Local legend looks back with an insider’s point of view at the Giants/Colts game and the drama of sudden death overtime.

Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder.   
Complete access to the most fascinating American success story of our time and how he has become who and what he is.

Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin & Eleanor by Curtis Roosevelt. 
Coming-of-age in the Roosevelt White House in an intimate memoir about a public childhood.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham.
Details of Jackson’s personality, his household, his “kitchen cabinet” and his political trials are woven together in a broad portrait of tumultuous times overseen by this pivotal president in our nation’s story.

Le Corbusier: a Life by Nicholas Fox Weber. 
Single-minded, brilliant, elusive, maligned in life and worshipped after death, this prophet of architecture and urban planning is revealed in all his eccentricities.

 

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