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Booktalk Archive

A list of books reviewed by host Charlotte Glover every
Thursday from 6:30-7:00pm on KRBD radio FM 105.9.

Date Title, author
February 25, 2010 This Book is Overdue: how librarians and cybrarians can save us all by Marilyn Johnson
February 18, 2010 High Society: the life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto
February 11, 2010 Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
February 4, 2010 Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: a memoir of going home by Rhoda Janzen
January 28, 2010 Half the Sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
January 14, 2010 I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: a memoir by Giulia Melucci
January 7, 2010 True Compass: a memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
Going Rogue: an American Life by Sarah Palin
December 31, 2009

Booktalk's Best of 2009:
Fiction:

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Half Broke Horses: a true life novel by Jeannette Walls
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Nonfiction:
Home Game by Michael Lewis
Happens Every Day: an all-too-true story by Isabel Gillies
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Half the Sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by Nicolas D. Kristof & Sheryl Wu Dunn
The Food of a Younger Land: a portrait of American food by Mark Kurlansky
Nurtureshock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

December 24, 2009 Angel Pig & the Hidden Christmas by Jan L. Waldron
The Family Read-Aloud Holiday Treasury
selected by Alice Low
Merry Christmas, Merry Crow
by Kathi Appelt
December 17, 2009 Half Broke Horses: a true-life novel by Jeannette Walls
December 10, 2009 The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
December 3, 2009 Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
November 26, 2009 Happy Thanksgiving - no Booktalk
November 19, 2009 Cherries in Winter: my family's recipe for hope in hard times by Suzan Colon
November 12, 2009 A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
October 22, 2009 Fundraising for KRBD
October 15, 2009 My Abandonment by Peter Rock
October 8, 2009 Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her by Robin Gerber
October 1, 2009 Stuffed: an insider's look at who's really making America fat by Hank Cardello
September 24, 2009 Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
September 17, 2009 Eat My Globe: one year to go everywhere and eat everything by Simon Majumdar
A Homemade Life: stories and recipes from my kitchen table by Molly Wizenberg
September 10, 2009 Hot Coffee and Other Wild Goose Tales by Gary McWilliams
September 3, 2009 The Unlikely Disciple: a sinner's semester at America's holiest university by Kevin Roose
August 27, 2009 Paul Newman: a life by Shawn Levy
August 20, 2009 Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen
A Flickering Light by Jane Kirkpatrick
August 13, 2009 South of Broad by Pat Conroy
July to August 13 Booktalk will be taking a break
July 2, 2009 The Glacier Wolf: true stories of life in Southeast Alaska by Nick Jans
June 25, 2009 A Lucky Child: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy by Thomas Buergenthal
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
June 18, 2009 I Love a Man in Uniform: a memoir of love, war, and other battles by Lily Burana
June 11, 2009 Home Game by Michael Lewis
June 4, 2009 Scratch Beginnings: me, $25, and the search for the American Dream by Adam Shepard
May 21, 2009 Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
May 14, 2009 Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
May 7, 2009 A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
April 30, 2009 Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
April 16, 2009 A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes
April 9, 2009 Animals Make Us Human: creating the best life for animals by Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
April 2, 2009 Food Matters: a guide to conscious eating by Mark Bittman
Annie Leibovitz At Work
March 26, 2009 Almost Home by Pam Jenoff
March 12, 2009 This Is How It Happened by Jo Barrett
Happens Every Day: an all-too-true story
by Isabel Gillies
March 5, 2009 Still Alice by Lisa Genova
February 26, 2009 Home Schooling: a family's journey by Gregory & Martine Millman
All the Way Home: building a family in a falling-down house by David Giffels
February 19, 2009 Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
February 12, 2009 Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
February 5, 2009 Olive Kitteridge: a novel in stories by Elizabeth Strout

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