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Summer 2005 Reading List

Carla Cohen, Politics and Prose, Washington DC

Lizzie's War : A Novel (HarperSanFrancisco, Hardcover)
by Tim Farrington.

Baker Towers : A Novel (William Morrow, Hardcover)
by Jennifer Haigh.

The Confessions of Max Tivoli : A Novel (Picador, Paperback)
by Andrew Sean Greer.

Crossing California (Riverhead Books, Hardcover)
by Adam Langer.

The Hungry Tide : A Novel (Houghton Mifflin, Hardcover)
by Amitav Ghosh.

Small Island : A Novel (Picador, Paperback)
by Andrea Levy.

Midnight At The Dragon Café (Counterpoint Press, Paperback)
by Judy Fong Bates.

American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf, Hardcover)
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Freedom Just Around the Corner : A New American History: 1585-1828 (HarperCollins, Hardcover)
by Walter A. McDougall.

Them : A Memoir of Parents (Penguin Press HC, The, Hardcover)
by Francine du Plessix Gray.

Hello to All That : A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace (Henry Holt and Co., Hardcover)
by John Falk.

Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover)
by Rachel DeWoskin.

Audio books

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) (Recorded Books, Audio CD)
by Alexander McCall Smith.

Saturday (Recorded Books, Audio CD)
by Ian McEwan.

The Love Wife (Recorded Books, Audio CD)
by Gish Jen.

Collapse (Penguin Audio, Audio CD)
by Jared Diamond.

Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Harcourt, Hardcover)
by Umberto Eco.

Captain Alatriste (Putnam Adult, Hardcover)
by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

The Portrait (Riverhead Hardcover, Hardcover)
by Iain Pears.

Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque (Carroll & Graf, Hardcover)
by Paul Anderson.

Divided Kingdom (Knopf, Hardcover)
by Rupert Thomson.

The Traveler : A Novel (Doubleday, Hardcover)
by John Twelve Hawks.

Sky Burial : An Epic Love Story of Tibet (Nan A. Talese, Hardcover)
by Xinran.

Envy : A Novel (Random House, Hardcover)
by Kathryn Harrison.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : A Novel (Random House, Hardcover)
by Lisa See.

My Life In Cia: A Chronicle Of 1973 (Dalkey Archive Press, Paperback)
by Harry Mathews.

The Education of Arnold Hitler (Unbridled Books, Paperback)
by Marc Estrin.

Breath and Bones (Unbridled Books, Hardcover)
by Susann Cokal.

The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole : A Novel (Simon & Schuster, Hardcover)
by Stephanie Doyon.

Sheilah Egan, "A Likely Story" Children's Bookshop, Alexandria, VA

Animal Sounds (Golden Sturdy Book) (Golden Books, Board book)

Belly Button Book (Workman Publishing Company, Board book)
by Sandra Boynton.

Feely Bugs : To Touch and Feel Book (Bugs in a Box Books) (Little Simon, Hardcover)
by David A. Carter.

Who will I be? (Mirror Mirror) (Kingfisher, Board book)
by Christopher Inns.

Play, Baby, Play (Play, Baby, Play) (Cartwheel, Board book)
by Ann Blakeslee.

Go, Baby, Go (Cartwheel, Board book)
by Ann Blakeslee.

What Do You Do? (Little Simon, Board book)

Bee-bim Bop! (Clarion Books, Hardcover)
by Linda Sue Park.

Everybody Makes Mistakes (Dutton Juvenile, Hardcover)
by Christine Kole MacLean.

The Fairytale Cake (The Chicken House, Hardcover)
by Mark Sperring.

Good Morning, Digger (Viking Juvenile, Hardcover)
by Anne Rockwell.

The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence (Philomel, Hardcover)
by Judith St. George.

Reading Makes You Feel Good (Megan Tingley, Hardcover)
by Todd Parr.

Russell the Sheep (HarperCollins, Hardcover)

The Visit (Dial, Hardcover)
by Reeve Lindbergh.

If Frogs Made the Weather (Holiday House, Hardcover)
by Marion Dane Bauer.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) (Arthur A. Levine Books, Hardcover)
by J.K. Rowling and Mary GrandPre.

The Hidden Myths in Harry Potter : Spellbinding Map and Book of Secrets (St. Martin's Griffin, Hardcover)
by David Colbert.

Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Knopf Books for Young Readers, Hardcover)
by Christopher Paolini.

Best Foot Forward (Putnam Juvenile, Hardcover)
by Joan Bauer.

Gregor And The Curse Of The Warmbloods (Underland Chronicles) (Scholastic Press, Hardcover)
by Suzanne Collins.

Leven Thumps And The Gateway To Foo (Shadow Mountain, Hardcover)
by OBERT SKYE.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, Hardcover)
by Richard Yancey.

The Penderwicks : A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (Knopf Books for Young Readers, Hardcover)
by Jeanne Birdsall.

Angela Dodson, Executive Editor of Black Issues Book Review

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown, Hardcover)
by Malcolm Gladwell.

Small Island : A Novel (Picador, Paperback)
by Andrea Levy.

The Professor's Daughter : A Novel (Henry Holt and Co., Hardcover)
by Emily Raboteau.

The Icarus Girl : A Novel (Nan A. Talese, Hardcover)
by Helen Oyeyemi.

Freshwater Road (Agate , Hardcover)
by Denise Nicholas.

The Prophet of Zongo Street : Stories (Amistad, Hardcover)
by Mohammed Naseehu Ali.

The Interruption of Everything (Viking Adult, Hardcover)
by Terry McMillan.

47 (Little, Brown, Hardcover)
by Walter Mosley.

Let George Do It! (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Hardcover)
by George Foreman and Fran Manushkin.

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