]]> Jane Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:24:09 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=6128&BlogID=219&BlogPostID=11448 Fiction

Roberto Ampuero, The Neruda Case
Peter Carey, The Chemistry of Tears
Elin Hilderbrand, Summerland
Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Frances Itani, Requiem
Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
James Robbins, Blood Line
Harry Turtledove, Coup d'Etat
Lisa Unger, Heartbroke



Non-Fiction

Ross Chapin, Pocket Neighborhoods
Abigail Gehring, The Homesteading Handbook
Rob Hopkins, The Transition Company
Rachel Kaplan, Urban Homesteading
Christopher Koch, Consciousness
Brian Latell, Castro's Secrets
David Leff, Hidden in Plain Sight
Madeline Levine, Teach Your Children Well
Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egypt Code
David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
Edmund O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth



Biography

Peter Rader, Mike Wallace, A Life
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, Along the Way



Book on CD

Stephen Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business
Mark Haddon, The Red House
Charlaine Harris, Deadlocked
E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
E. L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
E. L. James, Fifty Hades Freer
Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake


Teen

Michael Grant, Fear: A Gone Novel
John Wilson, Death on the River
Garth Nix, A Confusion of Princes


DVD

The Artiste
The Deep Blue Sea
The Diamond Queen
Hatfields & McCoys
Sherlock
This Means War

]]> Jane Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:37:11 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=6128&BlogID=219&BlogPostID=11248 Fiction

Andrea Camilleri, The Age of Doubt
Richard Ford, Canada
Alan Furst, Mission to Paris
Mark Haddon, The Red House
Chris Knopf, Ice Cap:  A Mystery
The Harvard Lampoon, The Hunger Pains:  A Parody
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bones
John Irving, In One Person
Alexander McCall Smith, A Conspiracy of Friends
Toni Morrison, Home
Charles Todd, An Unmarked Grave


Non-Fiction

Jimmy Carter, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter
Stephen Colbert, I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)
Fodor's Scotland
Erin Freuchtel-Dearing, Natural Wooden Toys
Jack Hitt, Bunch of Amateurs
Peter Kaminsky, Culinary Intelligence
Will Jones, How To Read New York
Peter Meyers, Kindle Fire
David Pogue, Switching to the Mac
Leanne Prain, Hoopla:  The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
Dan Zevin, Dan Gets a Minivan



Biography

Alan Brinkley, John F. Kennedy
Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite
Leon Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix
Eloisa James, Paris in Love
Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone
Francis Slakey, To the Last Breath



Book on CD

Clive Cussler, The Storm
Richard Ford, Canada


Teen

Kathryn J. Atwood, Women Heroes of World War II
Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
Melissa De La Cruz, Lost in Time
Lauren Kate, Rapture
Elizabeth Scott, Miracle
Dan Wells, Partials



DVD

Coriolanus

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Fiction

Alex Adams, White Horse
Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby:  A Spenser Novel
M. C. Beaton, Death of a Kingfisher
Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds
Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present
Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole
Christopher Moore, Sacre Bleu
Herta Muller, The Hunger Angel
Andre Neuman, Traveler of the Century
Ann Perry, Dorchester Terrace
Amanda Quick, Crystal Gardens
Joseph Saramago, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy:  A Novel
Lionel Shriver, The New Republic


Non-Fiction

Richard Aldous, Reagan and Thatcher
Elisabeth Badinter, The Conflict:  How Modern Motherhood Undermines
    the Status of Women
Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away
Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory
Marin Goodavage, Soldier Dog
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
A.J. Jacobs, Drop Dead Healthy
Jonah Lehrer, I Imagine:  How Creativity Works
Rachel Maddow, Drift
Jonathan Sarna, Why General Grant Expelled the Jews
Ian Stewart, Taming the Infinite
Margaret Sullivan, The Jane Austen Handbook



Biography

Walter B. Borneman, The Admiral
Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Frank Deford, Over Time:  My Life as a Sportswriter
Rodney King, The Riot Within
Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candy, Plenty of Cake
Dan Rather, Rather Outspoken



Teen

R. J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
Karen Blumenthal, Steve Jobs
Kim Harrington, Clarity
Pete Hautman, The Obsidian Blade
Klutz, The Encyclopedia of Immortality, Vol. I and II
James Patterson, The Fire
Mark Shulman, Scrawl



DVD
Prairie Love

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Fiction

David Baldacci, The Innocent
Simon Brett, Guns in the Gallery
Harlan Coben, Stay Close
John Grisham, Calico Joe
Lauren Groff, Arcadia
Sanjay Gupta, Monday Mornings
Iris Johansen, What Doesn’t Kill You
Deborah Copaken Kagen, The Red Book
Philip Kerr, Prague Fatals
Ron Rash, The Cove
Lisa Scottoline, Come Home
Olen Steinhauer, An American Spy
Stuart Woods, Unnatural Acts



Non-Fiction

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Gina Barreca, ed., Make Mine a Double
Richard Freeman, The Mirror of Yoga
Philip Galanes, Social Q’s
Michael Gazzaniga, Who’s in Charge?
Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia
Rhonda Massingham Hart, Vertical Vegetables & Fruit
Kate Payne, The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
Barb Stuckey, Taste What You’re Missing
Larry E. Swedroe, Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make
Laura Vanderkam, All the Money in the World
John Whyte, Is This Normal?




Biography

Hugh Brewster, Gilded Lives, Fatal Journey
Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Howard Frank Mosher, The Great Northern Express
John Ramsey, The Other Side of Suffering



Teen

Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments
Ally Condie, Matched
Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me
April Henry, Girl, Stolen
Carl Hiaasen, Chomp
D.J. MacHale, Morpheus Road:  The Blood
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Alexander Gordon Smith, Escape from Furnace:  Fugitives
David Weber, A Beautiful Friendship



Books on CD

Deepak Chopra, Spiritual Solutions
Rachel Maddow, Drift




DVD

A Dangerous Mind
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
King of Devil’s Island
War Horse
We Bought a Zoo

]]> Jane Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:09:59 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=6128&BlogID=219&BlogPostID=10801 Fiction
A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok:  The End of the Gods
Vince Flynn, Kill Shot
Alex George, A Good American
Noah Hawley, The Good Father
J.A. Jance, Left for Dead
Hari Kunzru, Gods Without Men
Donna Leon, Beastly Things
Christopher Moore, Sacre Bleu
James Patterson, Guilty Wives
Lief G.W. Persson, Another Time, Another Life
Kim Scott,That Deadman Dance
Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
David Snodin, Iago
Joseph Wambaugh, Harbor Nocturne


Non-Fiction
Susan Cain, Quiet
George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral
Robert Dinwiddie, Violent Earth
Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight
Eric Klinenberg, Going Solo
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink
Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Marcy Smith, The Best of Crochet
Louise Taylor, The Ceramics Bible
Kate Whouley, Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
Jeffrey Zaslow, The Magic Room


Biography
Jean H. Baker, Margaret Sanger
Julia Fox, Sister Queens
Karen Gravano, Mob Daughter
Anne LaMott, Some Assembly Required
Alexander Masters, Simon:  The Genius in the Basement


Teen
Megan Crewe, The Way We Fall
Sara Wilson Etienne, Harbinger
Beth Revis, A Million Suns
Sara Ryan, Empress of the World
Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick
Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful


Books on CD
Peggielene Bartels, King Peggy
George Dyson, Turings's Cathedral
Noah Hawley, The Good Father
Tami Hoag, Down the Darkest Road
Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number
Matthew Pearl, The Technologists
Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift


DVD
Before Your Eyes
The Broken Tower
Courageous
A Dangerous Method
The Elephant in the Room
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American version)
Hugo
Melancholia
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Worst in Show

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Fiction
Niccola Ammaniti, Me and You
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here but All of Us
Alex Berenson, The Shadow Patrol
Dan Charon,Stay Awake
Frank Delaney, The Last Storyteller
Jonathan Kellerman, Victims
Thomas Mallon, Watergate, A Novel
Matthew Pearl, The Technologists
Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
J. D. Robb, Celebrity in Death
Peter Sis, The Conference of the Birds
Ellen Ullman, By Blood



Non-Fiction
Raymond Bonner, Anatomy of Injustice
William J. Broad, The Science of Yoga
Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bebe
Russ Feingold, While America Sleeps
Jessica Fellows, The World of Downton Abbey
Dave Isay, All There Is
Sebastian Seung, Connectome
Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century
Philip Taubman, The Partnership
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles
David C. Unger, The Emergency State
Tim Weiner, Enemies:  A History of the FBI
Alic Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon



Biography
Mimi Alford, Once upon a Secret
Stacy A. Cordery, Juliette Gordon Low
Chris Kyle, American Sniper
Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower:  In War and Peace



Teen
Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
Beth Fantaskey, Jessica Rules the Dark Side
Adrain McKinty, Deviant
Lisa McMann, Dead to You
Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club
Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen (3)--End of Days



Books on CD
Bill Clinton, Back to Work
P. D. James, Death Comes to Pemberley
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Faye Kellerman, Gun Games
Jo Nesbo, The Leopard
Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen
Tim Weiner, Enemies:  A History of the FBI



DVD
Abduction
The Guard
Luther
Luther, Season 2
Martha March May Marlene
Mighty Macs
Tower Heist
The Way
The Whistleblower
Whitechapel:  The Ripper Returns

]]> Jane Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:50:12 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=6128&BlogID=219&BlogPostID=10451 Fiction
Alice Albinia, Leila's Book
Dave Barry, Lunatics
Simon Brett, Bones Under the Beach Hut
Robert Crais, Taken
H. Terrell Griffin, Collateral Damage
Tessa Harris, The Anatomist's Apprentice
Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man
Stuart O'Nan, The Odds
Edward St. Aubyn, At Last
Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
Larry Watson, American Boy



Non-Fiction
John M. Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2.0
Vicki Goldberg, The White House
Billy Graham, Nearing Home
Andrea Hiott, Thinking Small
Ellie Krieger, Comfort Food Fix
Jamie Oliver, Meals in Minutes
Clara Parkes, The Knitter's Book of Socks
Steven Jay Schneider, 1001 Movies
David Sparks, iPad at Work
University of Chicago, The Chicago Manual of Style



Biography
Natalie Dykstra, Clover Adams
Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, The Real Romney
Eric Weiner, Man Seeks God



Teen
Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray
Sarah Shepard, Never Have I Ever



Books on CD
Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
Matthew Reilly, Scarecrow Returns



DVD
Anonymous
Dream House
Drive
The Elephant in the Living Room
Green Lantern
The Ides of March
Moneyball
The Other F Word
Real Steal
When Rome Ruled

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