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Reviewer Steve Kochersperger
May 7 & 11,j 2008
Pennsylvania Speculator and Patriot: The Entrepreneurial John Nicholson 1757-1800 by Robert Arbuckle (Pennsylvania State University Press)
If you were asked to name famous Pennsylvanians, you might list William Penn, and Ben Franklin. You probably wouldn't think of John Nicholson. The life of the Commonwealth's colonial Comptroller General makes for fascinating reading, though, with implications in today's economic climate. Nicholson was a notorious land speculator, with shady dealings so vast, it took forty years after his death to unravel the mess.
Reviewer Steve Kochersperger is the postmaster at Julian.
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Reviewer Alan Jalowitz
April 23 & 27, 2008
So I Will Till the Ground by Gregory Djanikian (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
For National Poetry Month. here's a selection by a Pennsylvania poet, from a Pennsylvania press. Award-winning poet Gregory Djanikian confronts the horror of the Armenian genocide of 1915; his poems also relate his boyhood in Egypt and his eventual emigration to the United States, where he grew up in Williamsport, PA.
Reviewer Alan Jalowitz teaches English at Penn State University Park.
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So I Will Till the Ground by Gregory Djanikian (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
Going Local: an Adventurer's Guide to Unique Eats, Cool Pubs, and Cozy Cafes, by Ken Hull
Dough: a Memoir by Mort Zachter (HarperCollins 2008)
Deadline by Chris Crutcher (HarperTeen 2007)
A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry by Marjorie Maddox (Wordsong, 2008)
Books For Women's History Month
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Pennsylvania Women by Kate Hertzog (Twodot Books, 2007)
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway (Charles Scribners' Sons, 1929)
The Last Street Novel, by Omar Tyree (Simon and Schuster, 2007)
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl, by Kate McCafferty (Penguin, 2002)
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ismael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
Bellefonte and Early Airmail: 1918-1927 by Kathleen Wunderly (American Philatelic Society)
The Coldest Winter Ever, by Sister Souljah (Pocket Books, 2000)
When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka (Penguin Books, 2004)
Bang Bang by Lynn Hoffman (Kunati, Inc., 2007)
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (Mariner Books, 1982)
Elegy for Sam Emerson [Encore] by Hilary Masters (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006)
Moonlight Hotel [Encore] by Scott Anderson (Doubleday, 2006)
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins, 2006)
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage, by Martin W. Sandler (Sterling, 2006)
The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy, by Joan Quigley (Random House, 2007)
Some Heaven, by Todd Davis Michigan State University Press, 2007
Lois on the Loose by Lois Pryce (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007)
Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott (Random House, 2007)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, 2007)
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor Books, 1991)
No Dogs Allowed by Bill Wallace (Holiday House, 2004)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, 2006)
Project Everlasting by Mathew Boggs and Jason Miller (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel by Kiran Desai (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)
What to Eat by Marion Nestle (North Point Press, 2007)
Sold, by Patricia McCormick (Hyperion, 2006)
Custard's Last Stand by Tamar Myers (Signet, 2004)
Elegy for Sam Emerson by Hilary Masters (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006)
The Gift of Valor Random House
Giovanna's 86 Circles, by Paola Corso (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night by James Patterson (Mira, 2006)
Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet (Free Press, 2007)
Wislawa Szymborska, Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997 (Harcourt, 1998)
Hurricane Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita, edited by Phllip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout
Hometown for an Hour, by Jennifer Rose (Ohio University Press, 2006)
The Colonel and Little Missie by Larry McMurtry (Simon and Schuster, 2005)
The Intuitionist: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead - (Anchor Books, 1999)
Assassin's Gallery, by David L. Robbins (Bantam, 2006)
The Guy Not Taken: Stories by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, 2006)
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paul Coelho (HarperCollins, 2005)
Three PictureBook Biographies for Black History Month
Groundhog Day by Don Yoder (Stackpole Books 2003)
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
Jimmy Stewart, A Biography, by Marc Eliot (Harmony 2006)
Run-up to the Punch Bowl, by John Nolan (X-Libris, 2006)
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1996)
Moonlight Hotel by Scott Anderson (Doubleday, 2006)
Just a Whisper Away by Lauren Nichols (Harlequin/Silhouette Intimate Moments, 2006)
Here, Bullet, by Brian Turner (Alice James Press, 2005)
Zorro: A Novel, by Isabel Allende
The Doll People by Ann Martin and Laura Goodwin (Hyperion, 2000)
The Giniralla Conspiracy, by Nihal de Silva (Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2005)
Dirt and All Its Dense Labor, by Gabriel Welsch
A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson (Broadway, 1999)
Weeknights at the Cathedral, by Marjorie Maddox
Roadside Giants Brian and Sarah Butko (Stackpole Books, 2005)
Backpacking Pennsylvania [Encore], by Jeff Mitchell, published by Stackpole Books (2005)
Racing the Sun by Paul Pitts (An Avon Camelot Book, 1988)
Rum Punch and Revolution, by Peter Thompson (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
Electric Michaelangelo by Sarah Hall (Faber and Faber, 2004)
Zoe Sophia in New York: The Mystery of the Pink Phoenix Papers (Chronicle Books, 2006)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, published by Broadway, 1979
Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferigno (Scribner, 2006)
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth (Harper Perennial, 1994)
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Books, 2005)
Roadside Giants by Brian and Sarah Butko (Stackpole Books, 2005)
Flush [Encore], by Carl Hiaasen, published by Knopf, 2005
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, published by Harvest Books (2004)
Backpacking Pennsylvania, by Jeff Mitchell, published by Stackpole Books (2005)
Rebel Angels, by Libba Bray, published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers (2005)
A Wreath for Emmet Till, by Marilyn Nelson, published by Houghton Mifflin (2005)
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, published by Putnam Juvenile (2005)
Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins, published by Greenwillow (2005)
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell, published by Little Brown, 2005.
The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum, published by St. Martin’s Press, 2006
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, published by Little, Brown, 2005
Weird Pennsylvania , Your Travel Guide to America's Best Kept Secrets [Encore]
Flush by Carl Hiaasen, published by Knopf, 2005
The Areas of My Expertise: A Complete World Almanac by John Hodgman, published by Dutton (2005)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
What’s the Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania
Norman Rockwell: A Life, by Laura Claridge, published by Random House, 2001
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Weird Pennsylvania , Your Travel Guide to America's Best Kept Secrets
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue
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