Rosenberg Library Friends in Deed

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction New York Times Book Review

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1	1	KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt.) The anchor of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.	3

2	2	BOOMERANG, by Michael Lewis. (W. W. Norton & Company.) A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.	2
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3	4	HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.	38
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4	6	UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House Publishing.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.	38
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5	3	SERIOUSLY ... I'M KIDDING, by Ellen DeGeneres. (Grand Central Publishing.) A collection of humor pieces from the stand-up comedian and talk-show host.	2

6		KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, by Anthony Bourdain. (Bloomsbury Publishing.) A memoir-exposé of the restaurant world.	1

7	9	THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown.) The story of a woman whose cancer cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951.	38
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8	7	MONEYBALL, by Michael Lewis. (W. W. Norton & Company.) How Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, has produced successful teams despite having one of the smallest payrolls in baseball.	5
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9	8	JACQUELINE KENNEDY: HISTORIC CONVERSATIONS ON LIFE WITH JOHN F. KENNEDY, . (Hyperion.) Recordings and transcripts of a seven-part interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in 1964.	5
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10	12	IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. (Crown.) This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis centers on the family of William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador there.	23
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11	11	A STOLEN LIFE, by Jaycee Dugard. (Simon & Schuster.) A woman tells of being kidnapped at the age of 11 and held prisoner for 18 years by a convicted rapist and his wife.	14
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12	5	THIS IS HERMAN CAIN!, by Herman Cain. (Threshold Editions.) The life and views of the Republican presidential candidate and former C.E.O. of Godfather’s Pizza.	2

13	10	THAT USED TO BE US, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) How America fell behind in the world it invented, and how it can come back.	6
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14	14	DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, by Candice Millard. (Knopf Doubleday.) The life and death by assassination (and medical malpractice) of President James A. Garfield.	4
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15	15	BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey. (Little, Brown.) A memoir from the former "Saturday Night Live" star and creator of "30 Rock."	27
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Also Selling

16. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

17. CONFIDENCE MEN, by Ron Suskind (HarperCollins)

18. CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown)

19. THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE, by Steven Pinker (Penguin Group)

20. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls (Simon & Schuster)

21. IT'S SO EASY, by Duff McKagan (Touchstone)

22. THE SWERVE, by Stephen Greenblatt (Norton)

23. THE QUEST, by Daniel Yergin (Penguin Group)

24. IN MY TIME, by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney (Threshold Editions)

25. RIN TIN TIN, by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster)

26. MEMOIR OF A MILK CARTON KID, by Tanya Nicole Kach with Lawrence Fisher (Tate Publishing)

27. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis (Norton)

28. AUSCHWITZ, by Miklos Nyiszli (Skyhorse)

29. THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION, by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Random House)

30. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, by Erik Larson (Knopf Doubleday)

31. WHY ME?, by Sarah Burleton (Sarah Burleton)

32. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON, by S. C. Gwynne (Simon & Schuster)

33. THE BOY WHO CAME BACK FROM HEAVEN, by Kevin Malarkey and Alex Malarkey (Tyndale)

34. SWEETNESS, by Jeff Pearlman (Penguin Group)

35. BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall (Knopf Doubleday)

About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the October 30, 2011 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 15, 2011.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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1		THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central Publishing.) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.	1

2	1	THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Penguin Group.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.	35
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3	3	THE AFFAIR, by Lee Child. (Delacorte.) For Jack Reacher, an elite military police officer, it all started in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up.	3

4		THE MARRIAGE PLOT, by Jeffrey Eugenides. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) Three Brown graduates in the early 1980s wrestle with love, religion and coming of age.	1

5	4	THE MILL RIVER RECLUSE, by Darcie Chan. (Darcie Chan.) Only one man knows an abused widow, which revealed will change many lives in her small Vermont town.	8

6	2	SHOCK WAVE, by John Sandford. (Penguin Group.) Virgil Flowers investigates bombings directed against a superstore chain seeking to open a store in a Minnesota river town.	2

7		SNUFF, by Terry Pratchett. (HarperCollins Publishers.) In this Discworld fantasy, the commander of Ankh-Morpork’s City Watch solves a crime while on vacation in the country.	1

8	6	LETHAL, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central Publishing.) A woman and a man accused of murder evade the authorities as they search for her dead husband’s secrets.	4

9	5	CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?, by Sophie Kinsella. (Random House Publishing.) A woman reveals the most intimate details of her life to a man who turns out to be the C.E.O. of the company for which she works.	2

10	7	THE ABBEY, by Chris Culver. (Chris Culver.) Against orders, a former homicide detective begins an investigation into his niece's murder.	8

11	8	CROSS FIRE, by James Patterson. (Grand Central Publishing.) Detective Alex Cross’s wedding plans are put on hold when an elusive gunman begins picking off crooked Washington politicians.	2

12	15	A KILLING TIDE, by P. J. Alderman. (P. J. Alderman.) An Oregon fire chief becomes entangled with a woman whose brother is a suspect in a deadly shipboard arson blaze.	2

13	9	KILL ME IF YOU CAN, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. (Little, Brown & Company.) A young man who finds a bag of diamonds is stalked by competing assassins.	7

14	11	THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern. (Knopf Doubleday.) Two young rivals at a magical circus become collaborators as they fall in love.	5
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15	13	SUICIDE RUN, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown & Company.) The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch is on the scene in three never-before-collected stories.	3

Also Selling

16. 1225 CHRISTMAS TREE LANE, by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

17. MIRACLE CURE, by Harlan Coben (Signet)

18. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House)

19. SARAH'S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s)

20. THE DOVEKEEPERS, by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)

21. NEW YORK TO DALLAS, by J. D. Robb (Penguin Group)

22. HEAT RISES, by Richard Castle (Hyperion)

23. THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain (Random House)

24. UNFINISHED BUSINESS, by Nora Roberts (Harlequin)

25. DON'T SAY A WORD, by Barbara Freethy (Penguin Group)

26. A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin (Random House)

27. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday)

28. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese (Knopf Doubleday)

29. A CLASH OF KINGS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House)

30. A STORM OF SWORDS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House)

31. ROOM, by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)

32. A FEAST FOR CROWS, by George R. R. Martin (Random House)

33. CHRISTMAS AT TIMBERWOODS, by Fern Michaels (Kensington)

34. SON OF STONE, by Stuart Woods (Penguin Group)

35. MILE 81, by Stephen King (Scribner)

About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the October 30, 2011 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 15, 2011.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Top 10 Books of 2010

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Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2010

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

LIFE by Keith Richards with James Fox. Written with uncommon candor, eloquence and humor, this electrifying memoir channels its author’s love of music, even as it creates an indelible portrait of the era when rock ’n’ roll came of age. It’s a book that does a high-def, high-velocity job of conjuring the past, be it the author’s small-town childhood or the madness that was life on the road with the Rolling Stones — a book in which Mr. Richards has magically translated the fierce emotion of his guitar playing to the page. (Little, Brown & Company, $29.99)
CLEOPATRA: A LIFE by Stacy Schiff. In her captivating new biography Ms. Schiff adroitly strips away the accretions of myth that have built up around the Egyptian queen and plucks off the imaginative embroiderings of Shakespeare, Shaw and Elizabeth Taylor. In place of history’s sex kitten Cleopatra stands revealed as a charismatic and capable politician — a historical figure way more complex and compelling than any fictional creation. (Little, Brown & Company, $29.99)
LETTERS by Saul Bellow. Edited by Benjamin Taylor. By turns cranky and charming, ruminative and cocky, Saul Bellow was a gifted and emotionally voluble letter writer. And this absorbing collection of his correspondence creates a sharp-edged self-portrait of the artist as a close spiritual relative of his heroes: a seeker and searcher, vacillating between the emotional poles of exuberance and depression; a self-made writer, adept at spinning his philosophical ideas and romantic ups and downs into fiction. (Viking, $35)
SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart. This super-sad, super-funny novel not only showcases its author’s super-caffeinated comic gifts, but also uncovers his abilities to write movingly about love and heartbreak. Set in the near future in a toxic New York City, this is a novel that manages to mash up an apocalyptic satire with a tragic romance and make the whole thing wondrously work. (Random House, $26)
FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen. The author’s most deeply felt novel yet, “Freedom” is both a gripping portrait of a dysfunctional family and a telling, wide-angled snapshot of our troubled times. The book showcases its author’s impressive literary tool kit — all the essential storytelling skills, along with lots of bells and whistles — and his ability to throw open a big, Updikean window on American middle-class life.(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28)
FRANK: THE VOICE by James Kaplan. This is a biography that reads like a novel, a portrait of Frank Sinatra that captures his gifts and contradictions: the tough guy known for his tender love songs; the ring-a-ding-ding Vegas sophisticate with an existential outlook on life; the jaunty heartthrob who turned his own heartache over Ava Gardner into classic torch songs. Mr. Kaplan does a nimble, brightly evocative job of tracing the development of Sinatra’s art, and his remarkable rise and fall and rise again before the age of 40. (Doubleday, $35)
CRISIS ECONOMICS: A CRASH COURSE IN THE FUTURE OF FINANCE by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm. Although Mr. Roubini’s pessimistic forecasts once earned him the sobriquet Dr. Doom, his predictions of fiscal disaster came frighteningly true in 2008, when the global financial system teetered on the edge of the abyss. In “Crisis Economics,” he uses his gifts as a teacher to give the lay reader a lucid and engrossing account of the causes and consequences of that great meltdown.(Penguin Press, $27.95)
THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY by Zachary Mason. This ingenious debut novel performs a series of jazzy, postmodernist variations on “The Odyssey,” imagining alternate fates for Homer’s characters and reinventing his hero’s relationships with his wife, his mistress and his comrades in arms. The book addresses Homer’s original themes — the dangers of pride, the protean nature of identity — while at the same time raising new questions about art and originality and the nature of storytelling. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24)
YOU ARE NOT A GADGET: A MANIFESTO by Jaron Lanier. A pioneer in the development of virtual reality and a Silicon Valley veteran, Mr. Lanier is a digital-world insider concerned with the effect that online collectivism and the current enshrinement of “the wisdom of the crowd” is having on artists, intellectual property rights and the larger social and cultural landscape. In taking on such issues, he’s written an illuminating book that is as provocative as it is impassioned. (Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95)
THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET by David Mitchell. Best known in the past for his experimental, puzzlelike fiction, Mr. Mitchell has turned his hand, this time, to creating a historical novel set in Edo-era Japan. His suspenseful and meticulously observed story of forbidden love — between a young Dutchman and a Japanese midwife, who is abducted by a mysterious group of monks — unfurls, musically, to become a meditation on East and West, superstition and science, tradition and change. (Random House, $26)

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Congrats to our Friends in Deed~

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Congratulations to Rosenberg Library’s Friends in Deed. Nominees for this award are selected on the basis of their outstanding volunteer service to our cherished Rosenberg Library during the past year.

Honorees may choose a specific title and author or request library staff to select a book in a particular subject area. Please contact Poom Taylor, Department Head in Technical Services, at ptaylor@rosenberg-library.org or call her at (409) 763-8854, ext. 140 regarding your selection.

Please comment on blog and add initials to the title selections. I will be posting more sources for titles and subjects on this blog.

Former Book Selections

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AUTHOR	TITLE
Campoy, F. Isabel	Tales our abuelitas told
Natl. Geographic	Natl. Geo. Enc. Of Animals
Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff	Joy of Cooking
May, Gerald G.	Wisdom of wilderness:…
Hanks, Reuel R.	Central Asia
Wilson, Derek	Charlemagne
Bearss, Edwin G.	Fields of Honor
Kagan, Robert	Dangerous Nation
Burnett, John F.	Uncivilized Beasts..
Hornsfischer, James D.	Ship of ghosts: the story of the USS…
Kuskin, Karla	Moon, have you met my mother?
Ibadi, Shirin	Iran Awakening:…
Forster, Jane	Window gardens
Benjamin, Sandra	Sicily: 3000 years of human history
Balcombe, Jonathan	Pleasurable Kingdom
Scotti, R. A.	Basilica…
Watson, Peter	Medici Conspiracy
Carter, Jimmy	Palestine: Peace not apartheid
Montville, Leigh	Big Bam: Life & Times of Babe Ruth
Wynne, Frank	I Was Vermeer
Gottlieb, Roger S.	A Greener Faith
Barrett, Wayne	Grand Illusion
Kurtz, Michael L.	JFK Assassination debates:…
Iles, Greg	True evil
Palmer, Alan	The Baltic
	Mark Twain: The complete interviews
Rich, Graham	All in one garden
Baquedano, Elizabeth	Aztec, Inca, & Maya
Lowell, Waverly B.	Architectural records: managing
	Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast
Gonzalez, Jovita	Life along the border
Camden, Laura L.	Mennonites in Texas
Payne, Richard	Texas Towns & the art of architecture
Kimmel, Jim	San Marcos: A River’s story
	Best American Poetry 2006
Curley, Stephen	Aggies by the sea
Jordan, Chris	In Katrina’s Wake
Baggett, Nancy	All-American Cookie Book
Zimmerman, Jean	Women of the House
Sherr, Lynn	Outside the Box
King, Joyce	Forgotten Hurricane
Reynold, Barbara	Dante: the poet, the political thinker, the man
Baker James A., III	Work hard, study…and keep out of politics
Hibbert, Christopher	Disraeli: the Victorian Dandy who became Prime Minister
Barnes, Hugh	Stolen Prince
Houpt, Simon	Museum of the Missing
Kelly, Ian	Beau Brummell: The Ultimate man of style
Lovell, Julia	The Great Wall: China against the world
Richardson, Robert D.	William James: In the Maelstrom of American …
Malgieri, Nick	Perfect light desserts
Burger, Joanna	Birds: A Visual guide
Crosby, Molly Caldwell	The American Plague: …
Ferguson, Niall	War of the World
Feelings, Tom	Middle Passage:..

Rosenberg Library Friends in Deed

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction New York Times Book Review

FICTION NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

Top 10 Books of 2010

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Congrats to our Friends in Deed~

Former Book Selections

Campoy, F. Isabel

Natl. Geographic

Joy of Cooking

Central Asia

Wilson, Derek

Charlemagne

Fields of Honor

Kagan, Robert

Dangerous Nation

Kuskin, Karla

Ibadi, Shirin

Forster, Jane

Benjamin, Sandra

Balcombe, Jonathan

Scotti, R. A.

Watson, Peter

Carter, Jimmy

Montville, Leigh

Wynne, Frank

Gottlieb, Roger S.

Barrett, Wayne

Kurtz, Michael L.

Iles, Greg

Palmer, Alan

Rich, Graham

Baquedano, Elizabeth

Lowell, Waverly B.

Gonzalez, Jovita

Camden, Laura L.

Payne, Richard

Kimmel, Jim

Curley, Stephen

Jordan, Chris

Baggett, Nancy

Zimmerman, Jean

Sherr, Lynn

King, Joyce

Reynold, Barbara

Baker James A., III

Hibbert, Christopher

Barnes, Hugh

Houpt, Simon

Kelly, Ian

Lovell, Julia

Richardson, Robert D.

Malgieri, Nick

Burger, Joanna

Crosby, Molly Caldwell

Ferguson, Niall

Feelings, Tom