Staff Picks

Recommendations to YOU from our staff

Fran's Recommendations:

 

  • Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber--Buckle up for the ride of your life during prom night!  A teenage boy is kidnapped by an assassin.  The book will be published in October 2011.

  • Solomon:  The Lure of Wisdom by Steven Weitzman--A wonderful exploration of our perceptions of Solomon and wisdom.  Currently in print.

  • What Language Is:  What It Isn't and What It Could Be by John McWhorter--A delightful, nontechnical exploration of language in which you get to learn why Persian is simpler than Pashtun and English simpler than German, why Ebonics is a language and more. This book will be published in August 2011.  Coming soon to the CSU Bookstore!

  • For more of Fran's recommendations, please go to her blog,
Don's Recommendations:
  • At Home by Bill Bryson--A history of the rooms in your home.
  • Becoming Animal by David Abram
Mike's Recommendations:
  • Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy--Read up on the latest by a master of political thrillers and intrigues.
Maggie's and Camden's Recommendations for Kids:
  • View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Jody's Recommendations:
  • Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Iriving
Bridgette's Recommendations:
  • Bearing the Cross by David Garrow
  • Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
  • Of Thee I Sing by Pres. Barack Obama
Vani's Recommendations:
  • Beneath a Marble Sky by Jonathan Shors