Books to Know – Top 10 List – April 2012
April 1, 2012
Miriam Laufer
Book Critic
Books to Know Top 10 List
1. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by Anthony Shadid, 2012
The late New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid chronicles his return to his ancestral home in Lebanon. Shadid formerly covered the Middle East for the Washington Post, for which he won two Pulitzer Prizes. As he works to restore the house his great-grandfather built, he recalls his family’s history and the present tensions in the [...]
Books to Know – Top 10 List – March 2012
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March 1, 2012
By Miriam Laufer
News Writer
Books – Top 10 List
1. How to Be Black
by Baratunde Thurston, 2012
Baratunde Thurston, digital director of The Onion and co-founder of the blog Jack & Jill politics, explains how to be black, including how to perform such stereotypical roles as “The Black Friend” and “The Black Employee.” Thurston’s satire is an incisive, personal account of what it means to be black in our society and a great starting point for a conversation about African-American [...]
Books to Know – Top 10 List – February 2012
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1. King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
by Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman, Feb 21, 2012
Peggielene Bartels moved from Ghana to Washington D.C. in her early twenties to work as a secretary at Ghana’s embassy. Years later, she received a call that she had been chosen as her uncle’s heir to be king of a small village in Ghana. This memoir recalls the first couple years of [...]
Books to Know – Top 10 List – January 2012
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1. Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans (Read the interview with author Captain Charles Moore)
by Captain Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips, 2011
2. 11/26/63
by Stephen King, 2011
A high school English teacher travels back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Stephen King’s latest seems like a departure from horror and hard-boiled tales. Yet, his powers of suspense are undoubtedly at work here and there’s [...]
Books to Know – Top 10 List – December 2011
December 1, 2011
By Miriam Laufer
News Writer
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1. So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life
by Charles J. Shields, 2011
2. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable, 2011
Marable, professor of history and African-American studies at Columbia University, completed this biography of Malcolm X before his death on April 1. A finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, the new biography traces not only the familiar tale of Malcolm Little’s rise to prominence, but provides never-before-seen [...]
Books to Know – Top 10 List – November 2011
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November 2, 2011
Miriam Laufer
News Writer
Books: Top 10 List
1. Elizabeth I
by Margaret George, 2011
2. Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson, 2011
Jobs’ recent death has brought widespread mourning. Simon & Schuster moved up the publication date for Isaacson’s biography on Jobs. The book was written over two years, including interviews with Jobs, his colleagues, family members, and rivals.
3. The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
by Eric Rasmussen, 2011
Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen chronicles his mission to track down and [...]
Books to Know-Top 10 List-October 2011
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October 1, 2011
Miriam Laufer
News Writer
Books: Top 10 List
Amy Tan Is Not a Courtesan
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
That’s right, folks, you heard it here first. Although Amy Tan’s upcoming book The Valley of Amazement is self-described as “racy,” she declares it is “not autobiographical.” Amy Tan is known for her fiction’s insightful exploration of the relationships between mothers and daughters, and some of that material is based on her own experience. From the audience at George Mason University’s [...]
Books to Know-Top 10 List-September 2011
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September 1, 2011
Jordan Schatz
Reporter/News Writer
Books: Top 10 List
1. Prime Time: Love, Health, Fitness, Friendship, Spirit-Making the Most of All of Your Life
By Jane Fonda, 2011
Academy Award winning actress Jane Fonda, 73, tackles life in her latest book, letting readers everywhere know that the best years are the mature years. In Prime Time, Fonda informs her readers how to make the most of the life in way that keeps you happy and healthy.
2. Living Large In Lean [...]
Books To Know–Top 10 List–August 2011
August 1, 2011
Jordan Schatz
Reporter/News Writer
Books: Top 10 List
1. Unlikely Brothers
By John Prendergast and Michael Mattocks, 2011
Unlikely Brothers documents the unlikely relationship between twenty-year-old John Predergast and Michael Mattlocks, a seven-year-old living in a crime-ridden neighborhood in Washington D.C. Prendergast decides to become a Big Brother to Mattlocks and the book, co-authored by both men, offers two unique perspectives of both their experiences.
2. Found: A Daughter’s Journey Home
By Tatum O’ Neal and Hilary Liftin, 2011
Academy Award-winning actress Tatum [...]
Books To Know–Top 10 List–July 2011
July 1 ,2011
Jordan Schatz
Reporter/News Writer
Books: Top 10 List
FEATURED BOOK:
Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl, and Why You Should Too
By Louann Lofton
Author and former editor-in-chief at The Motley Fool, Louann Lofton remembers her early experiences with money, which left an indelible mark on her life and her choice of a future career. Those experiences played an integral role in deciding to pen her new book “Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl, and Why You Should Too.” Lofton [...]
Books to Know Top 10 List – June 2011
June 1, 2011
Jordan Schatz
Reporter/News Writer
Books: Top 10 List
Featured Book:
Innocent Spouse
By Carol Ross Joynt
What would you do if, just weeks after your spouse’s sudden death, you found out he was keeping secrets? Big secrets. Secrets that could cost you millions of dollars—and brand you as a criminal. Innocent Spouse is an eye-opening memoir that asks a provocative and disturbing question: Is it possible to really know and trust someone, even your spouse?
Carol Ross Joynt was a successful television [...]
Books to Know Top 10 List-May 2011
April 30, 2011
Jordan Schatz
Reporter/News Writer
Books: Top 10 List
Featured Book:
Journey to You
(Purchase on Amazon.com)
By Steve Olsher
Steve Olsher, founder of The Reinvention Workshop and host of Reinvention Radio, reveals the principles and exercises he’s field-tested for over 20 years in this life-changing and transformative book that guides you to become who you were born to be. Winner of the prestigious USA Book News’ “Self-Help Book of the Year Award,” Journey To You has been described as “What Color Is Your [...]