My very own book display!

The library where I work is doing a series of displays of various staffers' favorite book picks--and this week is my week! I can't describe what a great feeling it is to walk through the lobby and see so many of my favorite books all together!

Here is the list of titles--for me to remember always and for anyone else who is curious.

FICTION

Baker, Nicholson              The everlasting story of Nory

Burns, Olive Ann              Cold Sassy Tree

Bynum, Sarah                   Ms. Hempel Chronicles

Dallas, Sandra                   The Persian Pickle Club

Gaskell, Elizabeth             Cranford

White, Bailey                    Quite a year for plums

NONFICTION

Book Lust to Go: recommended reading for travelers, vagabonds, and dreamers  / Pearl

Why do clocks run clockwise? An Imponderables Book / Feldman

Why don’t cats like to swim? An Imponderables Book / Feldman

On Looking: eleven walks with expert eyes / Horowitz

Find the Good: unexpected life lessons from a small town obituary writer  / Lende

Tasting and touring Michigan’s homegrown food / Beeler

The Hundred Dresses: The most iconic styles of our time / McKean

How the Post Office created America / Gallagher

The Story of English in 100 words / Crystal

Etymologicon / Forsyth

Founding Grammars / Ostler

Dawn light: Dancing with Cranes and other ways to start the day /  Ackerman
Hunt for Vulcan / Levinson 

The Cloud book: how to understand the skies / Hamblyn

Collecting rocks and crystals: Hold the treasures of the earth in the palm of your hand / Farndon

Last Chance to See / Adams [author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]

Attracting butterflies to your garden / Tampion

Mend it Better / Roach

Hand mending made easy: save time and money / Ides

Alice, Let’s Eat / Trillin

Art before breakfast / Gregory                

Microcrafts / McGuire

The stick book / Schofield

Yellow Owl’s Little Prints / Schmidt

Little Ribbon Patchwork and Applique / Title main entry 

How to read literature like a professor / Foster

The Ode Less Travelled / Fry

Art and Love  / Title main entry

Ink Trails: Michigan’s famous and forgotten authors / Dempsey [When Ray and I worked at the Western Herald, Dave Dempsey was our  editor-in-chief.]

The story of Charlotte’s Web / Sims

The Egg and I / MacDonald

What matters in Jane Austen? / Mullan    

My life in France / Child

Something incredibly wonderful happens  [Oppenheimer]

Hometown appetites: The story of Clementine Paddleford, the forgotton food writer who chronicled how America ate [Paddleford]

Encyclopedia of an ordinary life / Rosenthal

Names on the land / Stewart

How the states got their shapes / Stein

Little Heathens / Kalish