2006 Book List

2006 Book List - 41 - (starred items are recommendations)

	Title	Author	Comments
	An Unfinished Life	Spragg, Mark
	A Gesture Life	Change-rae, Lee	A Korean born Japanese WWII medic reveals his demons
	A Redbird Christmas	Flagg, Fanny
	Beneath a Marble Sky	Shors, John	The building of the Taj Mahal and the family behind it
	Burning Fence	Lesley, Craig	An Eastern Oregon author recounts his life without his father
	The Broker	Grisham, John	a lawyer coniver avoids death at the hands of his enemies
	Chasing Dayylight	O'Kelly, Eugene	a man dying of brain cancer conciously prepares for dying
	Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim	Sedaris, David	Essays on dysfunctional family life
	Extremly Loud & Incredibly Close	Foer, Jonathan Safran	Depressing novel of 9 year old's experience of losing Dad in Trade Center
*	Flags of our Fathers	Bradley, James	Story of the 6 men that raised the flag at Iwo Jima
	Frankenstein	Koontz, Dean	A modern re-telling series
	Fatal Burn	Jackson, Lisa	junk novel of fire and family
	Fearless Change	Rising, Linda	Identifying and utilizing patterns for easier communication of change
	Gods and Generals	Shirah, Joseph	Civil war generals prior to Battle of Gettysburg
	Golfing with God	Merullo, David	Witty metaphor of golf as life
	Haunted Bookshop	Morley, Christopher	Delicious mystery set in an old English used bookstore
	Heart of the World	Baker, Ian	Long story of quest to find Tibetan sacred center on Tsangpo River
	How to Expand Love	Dalai Lama	Guidance for loving and living
	It's Not About the Bike	Armstrong, Lance	Egotist recounts cancer fight and bike fame
	The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers	Falconer, Delia	Dreamy reflections by survivor of Custer's last stand
	Middlesex	Eugenides, Jeffery	A greek woman/man tells the story of her family and her life as a hermaphrodite
	Movin' On	Hofmeister, Ron & Barb	living and travelling full time in an RV
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Golden, Arthur	fictionalized account of young girl becoming a geisha
	The Namesake	Laheri, Jhumpa	Gogl, a first generation Indian Bengali, grow up in America
	Never Let Me Go	Ishiguro, Kazuro	Children bred as clones to be organ donors recount their story
	Our Endangered Values	Carter, Jimmy	A plea for moderation
	Plainsong	Harif, Kent	the intertwined lives of lonley souls
	Phule's Company	Asprin, Robert	First in series of sci-fi comedy of silly group of interglatic legionnaires
	The Painted Drum	Erdrich, Louise	A young woman brings past & present together thru an ancient Objawai drum
	People Who Sweat	Cholzzenoff, Robin	Middle ages adventurers doing things to be mdeiocre athletes
*	The Penelopiad	Atwood, Margaret	A contemporty telling from Penelope's viewpoint of waiting of Odysseus
*	The Planets	Sobel, Dava	A sceintis explains the discovery and myths of the planets of the solar system
	The Shadow of the Wind	Zafon, Carlos Ruiz	Young boy discovers a lost book and searches for its author
	Strip Tease	Hiaasen, Carl	Silly story of stripper reeking revenge on ex and a lecherous politician
	The Sound of Paper - Starting from Scratch	Cameron, Julia	Short essays on writing and creativity
	The Secret Hisotry	Tartt, Donna	Pretentious group of college spoiled brats commit murder with classic asides
	To Live Until We Say Goodbye	Kubler-Ross, E	Explanation of living until the last minute
	Tulip Fever	Moggach, Deborah	1600's in Holland and a love affair spirals into disaster
	The Wildest Dream - Biography of George Mallory	Gillman, Peter	Doomed mountaineer and expeditions to reach the summit of Everst
	Ya Ya's in Bloom	Weils, Rebecca	The past and current lives of Southern Louisiana girlfriends