Martha Bayley Book Recommendations

Martha Bayley's Spring 2010 Reading Recommendations

 

On March 14, 2010, Martha gave her recommendations on spring reading.  Below those five recommendations, you can still find her recommendations from the fall of 2009.  The books can be checked out at the Library or can be bought at our local bookstore - Eagle Harbor Books (http://www.eagleharborbooks.com/).  The nine books were (click on the book cover to go to Amazon.com to read a review):

	Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel		Information Officer: A Novel by Mark Mills
	Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean Carroll		Remarkable Creatures: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier
	The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet
	Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller		Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst (local author)
	Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner		City of Thieves by David Benioff
	The Scent Trail: How One Woman's Quest for the Perfect Perfume Took Her around the World by Celia Lyttelton		The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
	The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace		Velva Jean Learns to Drive: A Novel by Jennifer Niven
	The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper