Staff Favorites

Sandy

“If the Creek Don’t Rise”

By Rita Williams

 

If the Creek Don't Rise- "Part adventure story, part painful memoir, fresh, fierce, and funny as hell. You'll cheer for Rita Williams!" -E. Lynn Harris

 

Paul

“Batman: Year One”

By Frank Miller

 

Eileen

“The Savage Detectives: A Novel”

By Roberto Bolano

 

The Savage Detectives  tells the story of two modern-day Detectives- Within this book, "Bolan Quixote's- the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself- on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our owns, The Savage Detectives is, in the words of El Pai The kind of novel Borges would have written...an original and magnificent book: funny, moving, important."

 

Dana

“Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”

By Elizabeth Gilbert

 

Eat Pray Love- One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy and Indonesia: "...Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

 

Gil

“Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy”

By Mary Stewart

 

Mike

“Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science”

By Atul Gawande

 

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science- "This book provides a wonderful, yet frightening glimps into the imperfect profession of surgery."

 

David

“The Cairo Trilogy: Place Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar street”

By Naguib Mahfouz

 

Rob

“His Majesty’s Dragon”

By Naomi Novik

 

Catherine

“My Lobotomy”

By Howard Dully

 

My Lobotomy is a memoir by a young man who was one of the last people in the United States to receive a lobotomy. It’s a fascinating story set in the San Francisco bay area about a boy whose stepmother could not cope with his hyperactive behavior and found one of the last doctors in the US who was performing lobotomies. I could not put it down

 

Peter

“Got Sun? Go Solar”

By Rex A. Ewing and Doug Pratt

 

Got Sun? Go Solar- Get Free Renewable Energy to power your Grid-Tied Home:  "Clear and concise, all the information needed by anyone who wants solar or wind energy, which should be everyone!"