Recent Additions to Leisure Reading Collection
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About Grace: A Novel by Anthony Doerr

Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White

All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross

Amagansett by Mark Mills

Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins

Before You Know Kindness: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres

A Bit on the Side: Stories by William Trevor

Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver

Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

Chain of Command: the Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh

Chronicles, Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan

The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests are Leading us to Miseducate our Children, Mismanage our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves by Annie Murphy Paul

The Darling by Russell Banks

Darwin's Wink: A Novel of Nature and Love by Alison Anderson

Delights & Shadows: Poems by Ted Kooser

The Double by Jose Saramago; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Double Shot (Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries) by Diane Mott Davidson

The Egyptologist: A Novel by Arthur Phillips

The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson

Fire Point: A Novel of Suspense by John Smolens

The First Desire: A Novel by Nancy Reisman

Florence of Arabia: A Novel by Christopher Buckley

Four Souls: A Novel by Louise Erdrich

Frank Lloyd Wright by Ada Louis Huxtable

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes edited by Ruth Reichl

The Hamilton Case: A Novel by Michelle de Kretser

Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang by Grant Barrett

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

Honored Guest: Stories by Joy Williams

I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Anonymous

The Inner Circle by T. Coraghessan Boyle

John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Richard Rhodes

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Kansas 24/7 created by Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs

The KOM League Remembered by John G. Hall

Letter from America, 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke

Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991 by Norman Sherry

Line of Beauty: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst

Links by Nuruddin Farah

Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlings Mystery by Walter Mosley

Loosing My Espanish: A Novel by H.G. Carrillo

Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs

Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich

Mr. Timothy: A Novel by Louis Bayard

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories... by Susan Orlean

Nightingales: the Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill

Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace

Old School: A Novel by Tobias Wolff

Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner

The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone

Persepolis 2: [the Story of a Return] by Marjane Satrapi

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble

Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980 by Bob Colacello

Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro

Sammy's Hill: A Novel by Kristin Gore

The Secret Goldfish: Stories by David Means

Skinny Dip: A Novel by Carl Hiaasen

Snow by Orhan Pamuk; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Mystery by Jasper Fforde

The Sound of Paper: Starting from Scratch by Julia Cameron

Strange but True by John Searles

The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin

Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater

The Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward

Villages by John Updike

Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems by Franz Wright

War Trash: A Novel by Ha Jin

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd

 


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