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Week of April 2, 2007
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Mon Books!
Antonia Leotsakos of Pages For All Ages Bookstore in Savoy and
Iryce Baron, Instructor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois

Tonia's List:
Travels In The Scriptorium: A Novel, Paul Auster (Henry Holt And Company)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy, Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Candlewick Press)
The Female Thing, Laura Kipnis (Pantheon Books)
Don't Get Too Comfortable, David Rakoff (Broadway Books)
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan: A Novel, Lisa See (Random House)
Love Is A Mix Tape: Life And Loss, One Song At A Time
, Rob Sheffield (Crown Publishing)
The Glass Castle
, Jeannette Walls (Scribner)

Iryce's List:                        Brideshead Revisited:  The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, Evelyn Waugh (Little Brown and Company)
Imaginary Men,
Anjali Banerjee (Downtown Press)
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (Viking)
I Don't Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson (Anchor, Reprint Edition)
Bridget Jones:  The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding (Penguin)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares (Delacorte Press)
 

Books!
Antonia Leotsakos of Pages For All Ages Bookstore in Savoy and
Kelly Strom, Circulation Manager at the Champaign Public Library


Kelly's List:
Rosie Dunne, Cecelia Ahern (Hyperion)
It's OK If You're Clueless And Twenty-Three More Tips For The College Bound, Tony McMillan (Viking)
Feather Crowns, Bobbie Ann Mason (HarperCollins)
Fat Bald: A Novel, Leslie Stella (Grove Press)
Weird Illinois: Your Travel Guide To Illinois' Local Legends And Best Kept Secrets
, Troy Taylor (Sterling)
Drive Me Crazy
, Nancy Warren (Kensington Publishing Corp.)


Listener and Additional Guest Recommendations:
Did You Say Chicks?! Smile When You Say That, and Chicks 'N Chained Males, Esther Friesner (both by Baen Publishing)
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Simon Winchester (Harper Perennial)
Couldn't Keep It to Myself:  Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters), Wally Lamb (Regan Books)
Eifelheim, Michael Flynn (Tor Books)
The Last Kashmiri Rose, Barbara Cleverly (Delta)
Wintersmith, Terry Prachett (Harper Teen)
You Suck: A Love Story, Christopher Moore (William Morrow)
Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, Barbara Neely (Penguin, non-classics)
The Hummingbird's Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea (Penguin, non-classics)
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, Gina Nahai (Washington Square Press)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Marakami
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Harper Perennial)
The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Mysteries, Alexander McCall Smith
Jane Austen Mysteries, Stephanie Barron
Ellie Haskell Mysteries, Dorothy Cannell
Marti MacAlister Mysteries, Eleanor Taylor Bland
V.I. Warshawski Mysteries, Sara Paretsky
Thursday Next Mysteries, Jasper Fforde

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Tues Car Care
Rick, Karch, Owner of Rick’s Automotive Service, Champaign
 
THE BEST OLD MOVIES FOR FAMILIES: A GUIDE TO WATCHING TOGETHER
Ty Burr, Film Critic for The Boston Globe
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Wed Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
 
THE DEATH PENALTY: ITS INCEPTION, EFFICACY, AND FUTURE
Austin Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College
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Thurs The Growing Divergence Of English Dialects In North America
William Labov, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania
HEZBOLLAH: A SHORT HISTORY
Augustus Richard Norton, Professor of International Relations at Boston University
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Fri Rethinking The Cold War In The Middle East
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and the Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University
THE CIGARETTE CENTURY: THE RISE, FALL, AND DEADLY PERSISTENCE OF THE PRODUCT THAT DEFINED AMERICA
Allan M. Brandt, the Amalie Moss Kass Professor of History of Medicine at Harvard University Medical School and a Professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard University
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