What We Liked This Year
Staff Picks: Best of 2010
Ann Kauffman
Head of Reference Services
The hundred-foot journey: a novel by Richard Moraid
Marriage and other acts of charity: a memoir by Kate Braestrup
The Sheen on the Silk: a novel by Anne Perry
Making Toast: a Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt
Lunch in Paris: a love story, with recipes by Elizabeth Bard
Linda Neff
Reference Services
Making Toast: a Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt
All Facts Considered: The essential library of inessential knowledge by Kee Malesky
Barefoot Contessa, how easy is that?: Fabulous recipes & easy tips by Ina Garten
Live at the Troubadour (CD) by Carole King
Vonda Litwiller
Reference Services
Faithful Place by Tana French
Medium Raw: a Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD)
Possum Living by Dolly Freed
Wanda Martin
Reference Services
Poetry Speaks Who I Am by Various Authors
The quiet book by Deborah Underwood
Switching on the moon : a very first book of bedtime poems
Fly Guy meets Fly Girl! by Tedd Arnold.
Phyllis Beck
Reference Services
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Room: a novel by Emma Donoghue
Every Last One: a novel by Anna Quindlen
52 loaves: one man’s relentless pursuit of truth, meaning, and a perfect crust by William Alexander
The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass
JARED COLLINS
Audio Visual Services
Dirty Side Down (CD) by Widespead Panic
Rush, beyond the lighted stage (DVD) by Rush
Transatlantic RPM (CD) by Incognito
The Disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements by Sam Kean
Margaret Kownover
Head of Children’s Services
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald by Roxane Orgill
Mirror Mirror: a Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer
Teaching What Really Happened: How to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history by James W Loewen
The Buffalo are Back by Jean Craighead George
Katrina Maust
Adult & Young Adult Services
Decoded by Jay-Z
At Home: A Short History of a Private Life by Bill Bryson
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Bluebird: Women and the new psychology of happiness by Ariel Gore
The Happiness Project: or, why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun by Gretchen Craft Rubin
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Michael Miller
Adult & Young Adult Services
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag by C Alan Bradley
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
At Home: A Short History of a Private Life by Bill Bryson
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Tabi Berkey
Adult & Young Adult Services
The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey
Another Pan by Daniel Nayeri
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Zombies vs. Unicorns: Black vs. Larbalestier by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black
Jekel loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey
LYNNE GRAN
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State Fair by Earlene Fowler
