Elephants and Ants: Jacob's "9th" Birthday

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Jacob's "9th" Birthday

February 17, 2009 was Jacob's 9th birthday. On the Sunday before his birthday, we celebrated by going to see "Under the Sea" at the IMAX in Indianapolis. Doug and I took Jacob, Morgan and Wyatt. It was a really good documentary of life under the sea near the coral reefs off of Indonesia and Australia. Then we met Josh and Annie and Sage at the Spaghetti Factory for a mid-day lunch complete with ice cream. Afterwards, we came back to my house so we could talk to Ana and Damien over skype in Australia. Jacob said at the end of the day, "I really had fun today!"

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Books I Have Read

First Entry was 2008. Due to a glitch in this gadget, at this point I had to start adding entries at the bottom below 2008. That is where my books continue. 8. The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
7. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
6. Into the Roaring Fork by Jeff Howe
5. Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
4. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
3. Tracks, A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
2. The Impossible First, From Fire to Ice - Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady
1. The Plague by Albert Camus
2021
25. Hidden Valley Road, Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
24. Rez Life by David Treuer
23. The Three Of Us by Julia Blackburn
22. Cold by John Smolens
21. How It Feels To Be Adopted by Jill Krementz
20. Just Mercy, a story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
19. A Song For The River by Philip Connors
18. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave by Henry Bibb
17. Too Much and Never Enough, How May Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
16. Rage by Bob Woodward
15. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
14. A Girl's Guide to the Outback by Jessica Kate
13. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
12. House Lessons, Renovating a Life by Erica Bauermeister
11. BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker
10. The Binding by Bridget Collins
9. Five Million Steps on a Journey of Hope, Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail by Bob "Buckeye Flash" Grau
8. Looking Back by Dorothy Miller
7. The Boy on the Wooden Box, How the impossible became possible...on Schindler's list, A Memoir by Leon Leyson
6. The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
5. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
5. Cover Me In Darkness by Eileen Rendahl
4. The Crossings by Barry Kienzle
3. Tony & Susan by Austin Wright
2. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
1. Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
2020
24. Blowout, corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on earth by Rachel Maddow
23. The Librarian of Auschwitz, based on the true story of Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus by Antonio Iturbe
22. My Name is Isaac, The story of a free person of color by Rock Foster
21. From the Faraway Nearby, Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon by Christopher Merrill and Ellen Bradbury
Georgia, a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe by Dawn Tripp
20. Life After Suicide, finding courage, comfort & community after unthinkable loss by Jennifer Ashton, M.D.
19. Another Country, navigating the emotional terrain of our elders by Mary Pipher
18. Land of my Heart by Tracie Peterson
17. The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman
16. Rhett Butler's People, The Authorized novel based on Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With The Wind" by Donald McCaig
15. Racing Winter on the Pacific Crest Trail by Kyle Rohrig
14. A Stolen Life, a memoir by Jaycee Dugard
13. One Woman's River, A Solo Source-to-Sea Paddle on the Mighty Mississippi by Ellen Kolbo McDonah
12. The Steamboat Shuffle by Michael Capek
11. Let Me Lie by Clare MacKintosh
10. Hidden City by Jim DeBrosse
9. Red House by Sarah Messer
8. The Jazz Bird by Craig Holden
7. The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
6. Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster
5. A Voice from the Field by Neal Griffin
4. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
3. The Heart of Happy Hollow by Paul Laurence Dunbar
2. A Woman in Bed by Anne Finger
1. Unwanted, a murder mystery of the Gilded Age by Andrew Young
2019
23. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
22. I'm Not Leaving by Carl Wilkens
21. Slaughter-House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20. l'appart, the delights and disasters of making my Paris home by David Lebovitz
19. Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
18. Twilight People, One Man's Journey to Find His Roots by David Houze
17. The Secret Holocaust Diaries, the untold story of Nonna Bannister by Nonna Bannister
16. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
15. Vas You Ever In Zinzinnati? by Dick Perry
14. The Round of a Country Year, a Farmer's Day Book by David Kline
13. The Oregon Trail, a new American journey by Rinker Buck
12. Freedom Light, Underground Railroad Stories From Ripley, Ohio by Edith Gaines
11. Chapters from the Farmhouse Journal, Tales of Synchronicity and Grace by Laura Lander
10. Facing the Extreme, one woman's story of true courage, death-defying survival, and her quest for the summit by Ruth Anne Kocour
9. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
8. The Line Becomes a River, Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu
7. Dead People Suck, a guide for survivors of the newly departed by Laurie Kilmartin
6. Jubilee by Margaret Walker
5. The Nazi Officer's Wife, how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin
4. Bluegrass, a true story of murder in Kentucky by William Van Meter
3. The Ice Road, an epic journey from the Stalinist labor camps to freedom by Stefan Waydenfeld
2. Fire and Fury, inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
1. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
2018
26. Coming to My Senses, the making of a counterculture cook by Alice Waters
25. Australian Bush Ballads
24. The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
23. French Dirt, The story of a garden in the south of France by Richard Goodman
22. Tea Wisdom, Inspirational quotes and quips about the world's most celebrated beverage by Aaron Fisher
21. A Mind to Stay, White Plantation, Black Homeland by Sydney Nathans
20. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
19. Leaving Barney by Bette Ann Moskowitz
18. Easst of the Mountains by David Guterson
17. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
16. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
15. Liar Temptress Soldier Spy, Four women undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
14. City of Thorns, nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp by Ben Rawlence
13. The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck
12. Lucy's Story, Right Choices But Wrongs Still Left by Larry Hamilton
11. Urban Dwellings, a Cincinnati Love Song by Katherine Durack
10. On Thin Ice, an epic final quest into the melting Arctic by Eric Larsen
9. Refuge from the Deluge: On Being Railroaded by Larry Hamilton
8. Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon
7. The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless
6. to be sung underwater by Tom McNeal
5. Wrong About Japan, a Father's Journey With His Son by Peter Carey
4. My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid
3. Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
2. Atonement by Ian McEwan
1. In the Heart of the Sea, the tragedy of the whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
2017
22. Cast Away, True stories of survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
21. It's What I Do, A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
20. The Maximum Security Book Club, Reading Literature in a Men's Prisoon by Mikita Brottman
19. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
18. To Fight in Silence by Eva-Lis Wuorio
17. Summit by Harry Farthing
16. Sunflowers, a novel of Vincent Van Gogh by Sheramy Bundrick
15. I Had To Survive, how a plane crash in the Andes inspired my calling to save lives by Dr. Roberto Canessa and Pablo Vierci
14. Dinner with Edward, a story of an unexpected Friendship by Isabel Vincent
13. Lassoing the Sun, a year in America's National Parks by Mark Woods
12. The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai
11. The life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing by Marie Kondo
10. Bill and Hillary, the Politics of the Personal by William H. Chafe
9. People of the Earth by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
8. People of the Morning Star, a novel of North America's forgotten past by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
7. The Cost of Hope, the story of a marriage, a family, and the quest for life by Amanda Bennett
6. Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
5. When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
4. Cane River by Lalita Tademy
3. Many Roads Taken, real stories about Life-Changing Days by Losantiville Society of Writers
2. The Wilderness of Ruin, A tale of madness, Boston's great fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer by Roseanne Montillo
1. Victoria's Secret by Lida Bell Lunt
2016
27. The Making of Home, The 500-year story of how our houses became our homes by Judith Flanders
26. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
25. The Hare with Amber Eyes, A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
24. Eliza and the House that Jack Built by Albert Wass
23. One Thousand White Women, The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
22. Ruth's Journey, a novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Donald McCaig
21. Ruth Maier's Diary, a young girl's life under Nazism edited by Jan Erik Vold
20. Hold Still Sally Mann by Sally Mann
19. Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan, an Armenian Boy's Memoir of Survival by Aram Haigaz
18. Crazy for the Storm, a memois of survival by Norman Ollestad
17. My Lost Summer, a memo by Elizabeth Evans Fryer
16. After Auschwitz, A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss
15. River Ice by David Martin
14. Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
13. King of Kin by Rilla Askew
12. In a Far Country, the true story of a mission, a marriage, a murder and the remarkable reindeer rescue of 1898 by John Taliaferro
11. The Black Country, a novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad by Alex Grecian
10. Letters From Steven, Stories from the first solo walk around the world by Steven M. Newman
9. The Bookman's Tale, a Novel of Obsession by Charlie Lovett
8. Life on Thin Ice by Robert Leo Greiwe
7. Against Us,The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World by Jim Sciutto
6. The Clouds Beneath the Sun by Mackenzie Ford
5. Down River by John Hart
4. The Gift of Adversity, The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections by Norman E. Rosenthal
3. Love and Terror by Dorothy Weil
2. A Covert Affair, Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS by Jennet Conant
1. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2015
45. Edge of Eternity, Book three of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
44. The Shadow of the Wind, a novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
43. Hitler's Furies, German women in the Nazi killing fields by Wendy Lower
42. The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors, a tale of architectural choice and craftsmanship by Henry Petroski
41. A 1,000 Mile Great Lakes Walk, One Woman's Trek Along the Shorelines of All Five Great Lakes by Loreen Niewenhuis
40. A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith
39. Fiva, an adventure that went wrong by Gordon Stainforth
38. I Am Malala, How one girl stood up for education and changed the world by Malala Yousafzai
37. Anna Hubbard, Out of the Shadows by Mia Cunningham
36. Harlan Hubbard and the River, A Visionary Life by Don Wallis
35. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
34. On Looking, Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
33. Whiteout by Ken Follett
32. She Left Me The Gun, my mother's life before me by Emma Brockes
31. Grandma Gatewood's Walk, the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery
30. Beyond the River, the untold story of the heroes of the underground railroad by Ann Hagedorn
29. Soldier Girls, the battles of three women at home and at war by Helen Thorpe
28. Mint Julep (Day One) as told to Gracie Buckhalter by Nita Clarke
27. The Secret Rescue, an untold story of American nurses and medics behind Nazi lines by Cate Lineberry
26. Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
25. The Ledge, an adventure story of friendship and survival on Mount Rainier by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
24. Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton
23. Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
22. The Town That Food Saved, how one community found vitality in local food by Ben Hewitt
21. Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
20. Fire by Sebastian Junger
19. History of a Suicide, my sister's unfinished life by Jill Bialosky
18. My Story by Elizabeth Smart
17. Tears in the Snow, a true story of love, courage and danger by Arnie Wilson
16. First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria, How a Peace Corps poster boy won my heart and a third-world adventure changed my life by Eve Brown-Waite
15. Winter of the World by Ken Follett
14. Gap Creek, The Story of a Marriage by Robert Morgan
13. Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
12. The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
11. Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening, How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart by Carol Wall
10. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
9. Washed Away, How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed it Forever by Geoff Williams
8. Alone on the Ice, the greatest survival story in the history of exploration by David Roberts
7. Helga's Diary, a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp by Helga Weiss
6. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
5. Her by Christa Parravani
4. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader by Stowe-Day
3. Ship Fever, stories by Andrea Barrett
2. Letters From New Orleans by Rob Walker
1. The Last Season by Eric Blehm
2014
39. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
38. Enslaved by Ducks, How one man went from head of the household to bottom of the pecking order by Bob Tarte
37. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
36. The Backyard Parables, Lessons on Gardening, and Life by Margaret Roach
35. To Everything There Is A Season by Robert A. Christopher
34. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
33. Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
32. My One Square Inch of Alaska by Sharon Short
31. The History of Us by Leah Stewart
30. The Cactus Eaters, How I Lost my mind - and almost found myself - on the Pacific Crest Trail by Dan White
29. The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
28. Pinkhoneysuckle by Barbara Everett Heintz
27. All Woman & Springtime by Brandon W. Jones
26. Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, OHIO
25. Whisper Your Name into My Ear, a memoir of survival by Marguerite Levy-Feibelman
24. Wooden Shoe Hollow, Charlotte Pieper's Cincinnati German Novel
23. A Fine Morning, Stories of a Cincinnati Childhood by Carol Rainey
22. The Eyes of Willie McGee, A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Aalex Heard
21. While they Slept, an inquiry into the murder of a family by Kathryn Harrison
20. Roar of the Heavens by Stefan Bechtel
19. The Soloist by Mark Salzman
18. the power of one by Bryce Courtenay
17. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
16. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
15. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller
14. The Lost German Slave Girl : The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom by John Bailey
13. The Barn House, Confessions of an Urban Rehabber by Ed Zotti
12. Running to the Mountain, a Midlife Adventure by Jon Katz
11. and I shall have some peace there, trading in the fast lane for my own dirt road by Margaret Roach
10. Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
9. Maphead by Ken Jennings
8. Survivor by Mark Burnett
7. Chronicles of the Coe Colony by Samuel S. Coe
6. Little House Off The Grid, Our Family's Journey to Self-Sufficiency by Michelle and Cam Mather
5. A Family Farm, Life on an Illinois Dairy Farm by Robert L. Switzer
4. Local Wonders, Seasons in the Bohemian Alps by Ted Kooser
3. The Know-It-All, One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J.Jacobs
2. The Book That Changed My Life, 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That matter Most to Them, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen
1. The Books That Mattered, A Reader's Memoir by Frye Gaillard
2013
31. The Fat of the Land, The Obesity Epidemic and How Overweight Americans Can Help Themselves by Michael Fumento
30. Don't Erase Your Dreams by Joe Wesley Cooper
29. The First Casualty by Ben Elton
28. Long Road Down: An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa by Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
27. Bent's Fort by David Lavender
26. George Washington Carver, Scientist & Symbol by Linda O. McMurry
25. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
24. Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico (The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847) by Stella M. Drumm
23. Santa Fe and Taos, The Writer's Era 1916-1941
22. If Mountains Die, a New Mexico Memoir by John Nichols
21. Mornings in Mexico by D.H. Lawrence
20. Edge of Taos Desert, an escape to reality by Mabel Dodge Luhan
19. Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss
18. The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, The Emotional World of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
17. More Room in a Broken Heart, The True Adventures of Carly Simon by Stephen Davis
16. The Orchard, a memoir by Theresa Weir
15. Forgotten Fatherland, The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre
14. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
13. Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay by Mira Kirshenbaum
12. How Georgia Became O'Keeffe, Lessons on the Art of Living by karen Karbo
11. The Watch, Stories by Rick Bass
10. Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Indiana
9. Sisters on the Bridge of Fire, One Woman's Journey in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan by Debra Denker
8. Black Boy by Richard Wright
7. Hell or High Water, Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River by Peter Heller
6. Talking to High Monks in the Snow, An Asian American Odyssey by Lydia Minatoya
5. Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
4. South of Broad by Pat Conroy
3. In Our Strange Gardens by Michel Quint
2. A Woman's Europe by Marybeth Bond
1. The Hunter, the Hammer, and Heaven, Journeys to Three Worlds Gone Mad by Robert Young Pelton
2012
16. Life List, A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds by Olivia Gentile
15. The Dirty Life, A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball
14. The Woman Who Walked To Russia by Cassandra Pybus
Now reading: The Neighborhood Project, Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time by David Sloan Wilson
12. Scanned: A Year in the Village of Eternity, The Lifestyle of Longevity in Campodimele, Italy by Tracey Lawson
11. Half In Love (surviving the legacy of suicide) by Linda Gray Sexton
10. Not Dead Yet, A Feisty Bohemian Explores the Art of Growing Old by Herbert Gold
9. When the World Calls, The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and its First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler
8. Now reading: A Blessing of Toads, A Gardener's Guide to Living with Nature by Sharon Lovejoy
7. Crossers by Philip Caputo
6. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
5. Alex & Me, How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence - and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg
4. At Home by Bill Bryson
3. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
2. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
1. One Book Many Brisbanes, an anthology of Brisbane stories
2011
8. Real Food, What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck
7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
6. Global Woman, Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich & Arlie Russell Hochschild
5. No Impact Man, the Adventures of a Guilty Liberal who attempts to Save the Planet by Colin Beavan
4. Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
3. Stones into Schools, Promoting Peace with Books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson
2. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
1. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
2010
24. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
23. A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally
22. However Tall the Mountain by Awista Ayub
21. What we eat when we eat alone by Deborah Madison & Patrick McFarlin
20. The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
19. "Shade of the Raintree, The Life & Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County" by Larry Lockridge
18. Deep Economy, The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
17. Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr.
16. May not finish: Food Politics, How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
15. Swimming with Frogs, Life in the Brown County Hills by Ruth Ann Ingraham
14. Best Nightmare on Earth, A Life in Haiti by Herbert Gold
13. Two Gardeners, A Friendship in Letters edited by Emily Herring Wilson
12. Elephant Run by Roland Smith
11. Voices from the Mountains by Stephen Venables
10. The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
9. Wish You Well by David Baldacci
8. One Square Inch of Silence by Gordon Hempton
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. House and Philosophy, Everybody Lies by Henry Jacoby
5. Granta, The New Nature Writing
4. The Snoring Bird, My Family's Journey through a Century of Biology by Bernd Heinrich
3. Off the Map, Bicycling Across Siberia by Mark Jenkins
2. Abraham Lincoln, Great American Historians on our Sixteenth President by editors Brian Lamb and Susan Swain
1. The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
2009 Favorite for the year: One Square Inch of Silence
11. World Without End by Ken Follett
10. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
9. Descartes Bones, A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
8. The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
7. Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
6. A Private History of Awe by Scott Russell Sanders
5. Under the North Star by Vaino Linna
4. The Lost, a Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
3. Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
2. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
2008: 1. Wild, An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths
2021
9. A Long Fatal love Chase by Loouisa May Alcott
10. Australia From The Back of a Camel, Adventures with Grandchildren by Allen L. Johnson
11. The Gathering Wind, Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea by Gregory A. Freeman
12. A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
13. The Bookkshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
14. Urban Gardener by Elspeth Thompson
15. To Fight in Silence by Eva-Lis Wuorio
16. Terezin, Voices From the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson
17. The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore
18. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
19. Braving It, A father, a daughter, and an unforgettable journey into the Alaskan wild by James Campbell
20. Troubled, The Failed Promise of America's Behavioral Treatment Programs by Kenneth R. Rosen
21. The Good Germans, Resisting The Nazis 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
22. Finding Freedom, a Cook's story remaking a life from scratch by Erin French
23. Jackson, 1964 And other dispatches from Fifty years of reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin
24. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
25. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
26. Running North, A Yukon Adventure by Ann Mariah Cook
2022
1. The Band That Played On by Steve Turner
2. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
3. In An Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
4. Missing Lucile by Suzanne Berne
5. The Boy at the Museum by Tamera Lenz Muente
6. A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
7. O Pioneers by Willa Cather
8. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
9. Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
10. The Unanswered Letter, One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell
11. The Push by Ashley Audrain
12. The Inverted Forest by John Dalton
13. Delta Time, A Journey Through Mississippi by Tony Dunbar
14. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
15. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
16. Cane River by Lalita Tademy
17. Arctic Homestead by Norma Cobb & Charles Sasser
18. I Give It to You by Valerie Martin
19. Hiking Without Dave by CW Spencer
20. Slaughter-House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
21. Things Could Get Ugly by Gary Reed
22. Somerset Homecoming, Recovering a Lost Heritage by Dorothy Spruill Redford
23. Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
24. Three Sisters by Heather Morris
2023
1. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2. Dear White Friend, The Realities of Race, the Power of Relationships and Our Path to Equity by Melvin J. Gravely, II
3. The Girls Who Went Away, the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
4. A Place in the World, Finding the Meaning of Home by Frances Mayes
5. Buses Are A Comin" by Charles Person
6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
7. A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeff by Anita Pollitzer
8. Dixie Rising, How the South Is Shaping American Values, politics, and Culture by Peter Applebome
9. Edge of Taos Desert, an Escaape to Reality by Mabel Dodge Luhan
10. A Journey for Willow by Mary Bennett
11. Into the Valley, the Settlers by Rosanne Bittner
12. Nana's Shoes, a story of a family's faith, hope and courage in a time of ethnic cleansing by Aisa Softic
13. Lethal by Sandra Brown
14. Biting the Dust, The Wild Ride and Dark Romance of the Rodeo Cowboy and the American West by Dirk Johnson
15. The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
16. In the River Sweet by Patricia Henley
17. The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood
18. Speak You Also, A Survivor's Reckoning by PaulSteinberg
19. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
20. A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
21. Washed Away by Geoff Williams
22, A Madman's Will by Gregory May
2024
1. Where Soldiers Fear to Tread, A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival by John S. Burnett
2. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
3. Children and Fire by Ursula Hegi
4. The Jazz Bird by Craig Holden
5. The Schoolmaster's Daughter, A Novel of the American Revolution by John Smolens
6. Georgia O'Keeffe at Home by Alicia Inez Guzman
7. Life is so daily in Cincinnati by Mary Pledge Peterson
8. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
9. Beautiful Trauma by Rebecca Fogg
10. The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
11. Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites
12. Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites
13. After Annie by Anna Quindlen
14. Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz
15. Between Two Suns, The Berean Experience by Larry Hamilton and Christina DeLaet

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