9:00 Monday, December 1, 2014
Even though we're surrounded by technology people still love receiving books as gifts and still love to read actual books. So, we've invited three people who really know what's out there to talk about some of the hot books for the holidays, and about some books and authors who may not be on your radar but who should be.
Guests
Linda Raymond - Associate Director, Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library
Dannye Powell - Charlotte Observer Book Editor
Sally Brewster - Owner, Park Road Books
Book Recommendations
From Sally Brewster:
BIOGRAPHY:
Napoleon: A Life
By Andrew Roberts
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
By SC Gwynne
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life
by Sophia Loren
Victoria: A Life
by A.N. Wilson
Cookbooks:
Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi
by Yotam Ottolenghi
Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
by Ina Garten
Heritage
by Sean Brock
Christmas Books:
Christmas Wish
by Lori Evert
Santa is Coming To Charlotte
by Steve Smallman
Everything I Need to Know About Christmas I Learned From a Golden Book
by Diane Muldrow
Fiction
Skink: No Surrender by Carl Hiassen
Booklist (07/01/2014):
Something Rich & Strange By Ron Rash
Booklist (11/15/2014):
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
Booklist (04/15/2014):
From Dannye:
Something Rich and Strange: Collected Stories
by Ron Rash
Crazy
by Linda Vigen Phillips
Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
Half of What I Say Is Meaningless
Essays by former poet laureate Joseph Bathanti
Tidying up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
by Marie Kondo
The Kennedy Wives :Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family
by Amber Hunt and David Batcher.
From Linda:
Risky Undertaking: A Buryin' Barry Mystery (Buryin' Barry Series)
by Mark de Castrique
The Map to Everywhere
by Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis
Horrorstor
by Hendrix, Grady
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon edited by Leslie S. Klinger and Laurie R. King
Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas: Being a Jane Austen Mystery by Stephanie Barron
The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Zevin
TEENS:
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Popular Children’s books:
The Day the Crayons Quit
by Drew Daywalt
Waiting is Not Easy
by Mo Willems
Little Blue Truck’s Christmas
by Alice Schertle
Llama Llama Jingle Bells
by Anna Dewdney
ales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After
by Rachel Renee Russell
Against the Tide
by Tui T Sutherland
The Contract
by Derek Jeter
Enzo Races in the Rain
by Garth Stein