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After twenty years of being a husband-and-wife operation, we finally have a staff!  So now we present to you a varied table of recommendations of new, recent, and older titles.

Jeff Wood

  • How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
  • Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? by Pierre Bayard
  • Seductive Cinema:  The Art of Silent Film by James Card
  • dvd:  The Hands of Orlac (1924)
  • Played Out:  The Jean Seberg Story by David Richards
  • dvd:  Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
  • Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Alone by Carlos Fuentes
  • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  • Guns at the Forks by Walter O'Meara
  • Queen of Scots:  The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
  • Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg
  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • The Day of Judgement by Salvatore Satta
Betsy Wood
  • Complete Notes From Singapore:  The Omnibus Edition by Neil Humphreys
  • Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse
  • Luck of the Bodkins by P.G. Wodehouse
  • An Owl on Every Post by Sonora Babb
  • Reading the Rocks:  An Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud
  • The Orange Tree by Mildred Walker

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Abby Reed, 2005-2006 Employee of the Year

Abby Reed
  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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Ellie Strand

Ellie Strand
  • Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
  • Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
  • The Shadow Lines by Amitov Ghosh
  • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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Lauren Henson
  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
  • Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  • Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Kara Eatman, 2006-2007 Employee of the Year

Kara Eatman

  • Gandhi, An Autobiography:  The Story of My Experiments with the Truth by Mohandas Gandhi
  • What is the What by Dave Eggers
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Lions, Tigers, and Crocks, Oh My:  A Pearls Before Swine Collection by Stephen Pastis
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

 

Claire Wilson
  • Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
  • Miriam's Song by Miriam Mathabane
  • Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
  • Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
  • October Sky by Homer Hickam

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Claire Wilson

Katherine Schlusser
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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Brooke Marlin
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  • The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  • The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

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Grace Moore
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  • Saturday by Ian McEwan
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Turtle Tracks by Sally Harman Plowden
  • Ready Made magazine

Be sure to check out Grace's website of handcrafts:  http://littlewren.etsy.com

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Laura Cleveland
The Pleasures of the Damned:  Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski
Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Elise Bricker
  • Lives of the Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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