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A Salmagundi of Good Reading
A Salmagundi of Good Reading
Gere Branch Books Talk, May 7, 2007
guest presenter Pam Boesinger
Autobiographies and Biographies
The inklings
by Humphrey Carpenter [920.9 Car]Geisha
by Liza Dalby [952 Dal]Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life
by William Griffin [B L576gr]C.S. Lewis
by A.N. Wilson [B L576w]Furthermoore: Interludes in an Accompanist’s Life
by Gerald Moore [Music 786.2 Moo]Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
by Jacques Pepin [641.509 Pep]A Very Private Eye
by Barbara Pym [B P995]Eleanor Roosevelt [in 2 volumes]
by Blance Wiesen Cook [B R664c]Portrait of a Marriage
by Nigel Nicolson [B Sa06n]Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
by Victoria Glendenning [B Sa06y]Vita’s Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West
by Jane Brown [635 Bro]“Good Eats”
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
by Jeffrey Alford [641.595 qAsiYa]The Big Oyster: History on the Half-Shell
by Mark Kurlansky [594.4 Kur]Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky [333.956 Kur]Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky [333.856 Kur]Food in History
by Reay Tannahill [641.3 Tan 1989]Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats
by Raymond Sokolov [641.013 Sok]With the Grain
by Raymond Sokolov [641.634 Sok]Miscellaneous Non-Fiction
Islam
by Karen Armstrong [297 Arm]Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
by John Boswell [362.7 Bos]The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
by Thomas Dormandy [616.995 Dor]Influenza 1918
by Lynette Iezzoni [614.49 Iez]Flu
by Gina Kolata [614.518 Kol]No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
by Anne L. Macdonald [746.43 Mac]Fiction
General Danced at Dawn
by George Macdonald FraserA Sort of Samurai
by James MelvilleThe Skull Mantra
by Eliot Pattison