Friday, December 11, 2009

Brenna's New Book List

The girl who played with fire―Stieg Larsson

The girl with the dragon tattoo―Stieg Larsson

Arctic chill: a thriller―-Arnaldur Indriđason

Process of elimination―Robert Stricklin

The lost symbol: a novel―Dan Brown

The Lacuna: a novel―Barbara Kingsolver

Because of Winn-Dixie―Kate DiCamillo

The vine of desire―Chita Banerjee Divakaruni

Now voyager―Olive Higgins Prouty

Going rouge: an American life―Sarah Palin

Say you’re one of them―Uwem Akpan

What the dog saw and other adventures―Malcolm Gladwell

How not to look old: fast and effortless ways to look 10 years younger, 10 pounds lighter, 10 times better

The pioneer woman cooks: recipes from an accidental country girl

Super freakonomics: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance

Eating animals―Jonathan Safran Foer

The evolution of obesity

The vegetarian feast

The pornography of meat

The sexual politics of meat: a feminist-vegetarian critical theory

America’s war on sex: the attack on law, lust and liberty

Infidelity: a survival guide

Sex trafficking: the global market in women and children

Real enemies: conspiracy theories and American democracy, World War I to 9/11

Almost Catholic: an appreciation of the history, practice, and mystery of ancient faith

Mother of God: a history of the Virgin Mary

The Gospel according to the Jews and pagans: the historical character of the Gospel established from non-Christian sources

Praying with our hands: 21 practices of embodied prayer from the world’s spiritual traditions

Making the most of your life: eight motivational stories and essays

La vida real: true stories of Latino students today

Animal rescue

Boston 2009

What every American should know about Europe: the hot spots, hotshots, political muck-ups, cross-border sniping, and cultural chaos of our transatlantic cousins

Visual bilingual: dictionary Mandarin Chinese English

Reading and writing Chinese: a comprehensive guide to the Chinese writing system―simplified character edition

Reading and writing Chinese: a comprehensive guide to the Chinese writing system―traditional character edition

Reinventing cinema: movies in the age of media convergence

Cleopatra: last queen of Egypt

Goddess: the explosive memoir of one of the world’s most beautiful-and infamous-transsexuals―Raquel Reyes

The sexual perspective: homosexuality and art in the last 100 years in the West

Mark 947: a life shaped by God, Gender and force of will―Calpernia Sarah Addams

Pholomolo: no man no woman―Veronique Renard

The complete guide to transgender in the workplace

From square one: a meditation, with digressions, on crosswords

The everyday guide to special education law: a handbook for parents, teachers and other professionals

The complete idiot’s guide to choosing a pet

Realism: movements in modern art