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Staff Book Picks

 

One of Laura's favorite authors is Jostein Gaarder. She recommends The Solitaire Mystery, which has been described as a bedtime story for grown-ups.

 

 

 

Laura also likes Tim Robbins' work. She loves to turn our readers on to Still Life With Woodpecker.

 

One of Pat's favorite books is Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance.  She almost missed a final exam while trying to get to the end of this captivating story.

 

 

Genie's all time favorite book is Harper Lee's

To Kill a Mockingbird, which has been published most recently in a handsome 40th anniversary edition.

 

Diane highly recommends Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz, in which the author takes his readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the adventures of Captain Cook's.

 

 

Island of the Lost comes highly recommended by Michael - the newest employee of Books & Crannies. In the winter of 1864, five seamen aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the remote and icy Auckland Island, 285 miles south of New Zealand... There is so much more to this book. Stop by and ask me about its values.

 

A Summer of Hummingbirds.

A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War.

This book has something for everyone.

Ask Michael about this one.

 

 

 

Life Changing, You'll never be the same after reading this exceptional book.

 

People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks did her research on this one. Going back through time will reveal all the people this one book affected. This accurate novel is also a love story and a mystery. It will keep you captivated.

One of Laura's favorite.

 

Poisonwood Bible

A novel told from five points of view is unique, but the Poisonwood Bible is much more. The Price family moves to the Belgian congo in 1959, a time when the countries of Africa were changing hands and chaos was the rule.  Nathan Price, a husband, father of four girls, and a Baptist Minister, tries to mediate all of Africa.

 

The Alchemist

"My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."