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PORTSMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

Summer 2008

Current Fiction Favorites

The Last Town on Earth
by Thomas Mullen

Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard

The Night Following by Morag Joss

Pretty Birds by Scott Simon

Run by Ann Patchett

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy

Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris

The View from the Seventh Layer
by Kevin Brockmeier

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

Winterwood by Patrick McCabe

The Woman Who Waited
by Andrei Makine

NONFICTION BOOKLIST

Religion and Philosophy

Digging In by Robert Benson

Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

Talking About Death Won’t Kill You
by Virginia Morris

Current Issues

Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Science and Nature

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

The Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey

The Path by Chet Ramo

Stiff by Mary Roach

Food

Candyfreak by Steve Almond

Heat by Bill Buford

Kitchen Literacy by Ann Vileisis

The Omnivore’s Dilemma
by Michael Pollan

A Thousand Days in Tuscany
by Marlena De Blasi