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Holiday Book Call-in

Books discussed on today's program:

Then We Came to The End by Joshua Ferris
Hiding Out by Jonathan Messinger
Alternation: Transform. Embellish. Customize by Shannon Okey and Alexandra Underhill
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Walks Around Akron: Rediscovering A City in Transition by Russ Musarra and Chuck Ayers
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace by Greg Mortenson
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Skyscraper by Lynn Curlee
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Mega-Beasts by Robert Sabuda
Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas by Pauline Chen
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Escape by Caroline Jessop and Laura Palmer
30,000 Years of Art by Editors of Phaidon Press
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations by Vincent Virga and Library of Congress
1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Akroyd and Peter Boxall
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil by Inga Muscio
The Wild Braid by Stanley Kunitz
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers and Mary Shepard
Magic Treehouse books by Mary Pope Osborne
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
A Treetop Bird Family by Loretta Magden (local)
Father Joe by Tony Hendra
A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy by Sara Bongiorni
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Our Way of Life by Ray McNiece (local)
Stingray by Michael Salinger (local)
How to Enter Vaudeville by Frederic La Delle
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution and the Search for Peking Man by Amir Aczel
The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

This list is also available on the Cuyahoga County Public Library's web site.

Dave DeOreo is coordinating producer for Ideastream Public Media’s arts and culture team.