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Jordan Rich Show Summer 2006 Book List

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BONNIE THE BOOKLADY'S LIST

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As I celebrate my 10th year on-air at WBZ, I’m proud to offer you the 20th book list. Here you’ll find a great variety of suggestions from my vast audience. There are romance novels, mysteries, suspense thrillers, science fiction, biographies, history, science, religion and more. I have made it easy again with on-line links. Just about everything is in print and available at your local library or book store. If it is not on the shelves, just ask for it. Enjoy the summer, read to your heart’s content and as always, Thanks for listening!

AUDIENCE SUGGESTIONS

Faust Among Equals (humor)
by Tom Holt

Silver Lies (mystery in the Old West)
by Ann Parker

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch (baseball fantasy)
by George Plimpton

The Philosopher’s Stone (novel of spirituality and the occult)
by Colin Wilson

Dead Man’s Poker (mystery surrounding the poker championships)
by James Swain

Barometer Rising (history of the Halifax explosion 1917)
by Hugh MacLennan

Whose Land? Whose Promise? (the Mid East Israeli-Palestinian issue)
by Gary M. Burge

Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed (religious history)
by Laurence Gardner

Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion (self-help)
by George Thompson

If I Never Get Back (baseball and time travel fantasy)
by Darryl Brock

Caught Stealing (a fun suspense-chase novel)
by Charlie Huston

City of God (novel)
by E.L. Doctorow

Among the Hidden (Part of the Shadow Children Series for young readers – science fiction)
by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Lindbergh (biography)
by A. Scott Berg

The Settling Accounts Series (series of books about an alternate future history of World War II)
by Harry Turtledove

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
by Douglas Brinkley

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The Education of a Coach (biography of New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick)
by David Halberstam

Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House (history/biography)
by Godfrey Hodgson

Stripah Love (about fishing, New England, quirky characters-humor)
by Stephen Hunter Morris

Italian Without Words (just as it sounds, a dictionary of Italian gestures and what they mean)
by Don Cangelosi

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (science, technology and spirituality)
by Ray Kurzweil

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (science)
by Brian Greene

The Gospel According to Larry (for young readers)
by Janet Tashjian

The Six Armies of Normandy from D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
by John Keegan

Desperate Networks: Starring Katie Couric, Les Moonves, Simon Cowell, Dan Rather, Jeff Zucker, et al (discussion of TV trends)
by Bill Carter (Bill also wrote The Late Shift)

With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830
by Leroy Ashby

Never Let Me Go (science fiction)
by Kazuo Ishiguro

If God is Love: Redefining Grace in an Ungracious World (religion/spirituality)
by Philip Gulley

The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Shepard Murder Case (true crime)
by James Neff

Patton: A Biography
by Alan Axelrod

A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath (true crime)
by Jeanine Cummins

Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse
by Mike Vaccaro

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BONNIE, THE BOOK LADY'S SUGGESTIONS

(Bonnie has been co-hosting the book show from her home in Ohio for the past seven years. She reads voraciously and recently began hosting her own radio show for blind listeners on the web)

The Best Seat in the House: A Father, A Daughter, A Journey Through Sports
by Christine Brennan

The Memory of Old Jack
by Wendell Berry

Portrait of Jennie
by Robert Nathan

City of Angels (part of the Shannon Saga series)
by Tracie Peterson

Return Trips (short story collection)
by Alice Adams

Summer’s Child
by Luanne Rice

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (humorous essays)
by David Sedaris

Between Sisters
by Kristin Hannah

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And now a few from yours truly…

Hidden (sweeping novel of the 1920’s)
by Victoria Lustbader

Gravedigger (touching family stories)
by Peter Grandbois