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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 2, 2012 One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
January 26, 2012 Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
January 19, 2012 97 Orchard: an edible history of five immigrant families in one New York tenement by Jane Ziegelman
January 12, 2012 When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
January 5, 2012 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
December 8, 2011 The Emperor of all Maladiew: a biography of cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
December 1, 2011 Four Kitchens: my life behind the burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris by Lauren Shockey
November 17, 2011 Childhood Under Siege by Joel Bakan
The Steal by Rachel Shteir
November 10, 2011 The Water Seeker by Kimberly Willis Holt
November 3, 2011 Seeking Peace: chronicles of the worst Buddhist in the world by Mary Pipher
October 27, 2011 The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
October 20, 2011 Battle of the Books & Fall Fundraiser Show
October 13, 2011 Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
October 6, 2011 Next to Love by Ellen Feldman
September 29, 2011 Just Tell Me What to Eat! by Timothy S. Harlan, MD
September 15, 2011 Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
September 8, 2011 Then Came You: a novel by Jennifer Weiner
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
September 1, 2011 Nothing Daunted: the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
by Dorothy Wickenden
August 24, 2011 Out Standing in My Field by Patrick Jennings
August 18, 2011 Good Boss, Bad Boss...how to be the best and learn from the worst by Robert I. Sutton, PhD
August 11, 2011 The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy
June 30, 2011 Night Road by Kristin Hannah
June 23, 2011 Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
June 16, 2011 Dick Van Dyke: my lucky life in and out of show business - a memoir
June 9, 2011 Promise Me: how a sister's love launched the global movement to end breast cancer by Nancy G. Brinker
June 2, 2011 Crazy U: one dad's crash course in getting his kid into college by Andrew Ferguson
May 26, 2011 Reality is Broken: why games make us better and how they can change the world by Jane McGonigal
May 19, 2011 Orange is the New Black: my year in a women's prison by Piper Kerman
May 12, 2011 Little Heathens: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
April 28, 2011 The Accidental Billionaires: the founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
April 21, 2011 And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman
April 14, 2011 Unbroken: a WWII story of survival, resilience, and redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
March 31, 2011 My Korean Deli: risking it all for a convenience store by Ben Ryder Howe
March 24, 2011 The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
March 17, 2011 Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
March 10, 2011 Heartbroke Bay: a novel of Alaska by Lynn D'Urso
March 3, 2011 My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
February 10, 2011 Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany by Alastair Duncan; Martin Eidelberg; Neil Harris
February 3, 2011 Buzz: a year of paying attention by Katherine Ellison
January 20, 2011 Gluten-free Girl and the Chef: a love story with 100 tempting recipes by Shauna James & Daniel Ahern
January 13, 2011 A Secret Gift: how one man's kindness - and a trove of letters - revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression by Ted Gup
January 6, 2011 Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures by Robert K. Wittman

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