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'Reading List 2008' by Lmcshane

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Description: I am a public librarian, who once worked in the hallowed halls of our system's Main Library and never got the chance to read, despite less public interaction. Now, that I have migrated to one of our bustling branch libraries, I read more (on my own time) than I have in my whole life. Go figure?!
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1.
Wedding of the waters : the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation
by Peter L Bernstein
 Book
Language: English
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2005.
2.
The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism
by Naomi Klein
 Book
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt , 2007.

Notes:
Too depressing...but amazing documentation of just how bad our government can be.
3.
The good guy
by Dean R Koontz
 Book : Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2007.

Notes:
Very good to read in light of Naomi Klein's book. Evil people find ways to justify themselves.
4.
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
 Book : Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.

Notes:
Brilliant. Not just a fictional work, a literary work.
5.
The long emergency : surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
by James Howard Kunstler
 Book
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2005.
6.
World made by hand
by James Howard Kunstler
 Book : Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2008.

Notes:
Good old fashioned cautionary tale with moral implications.
7.
Bliss to you
by Dean R Koontz
 Book
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Hyperion, ©2008.

Notes:
I love it. It cracks me up and we all need to laugh.
8.
Pardon my Spanglish : one man's guide to speaking the habla : ¡porque because!
by Bill Santiago
 Book
Language: English
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Quirk ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2008.
9.
Death comes for the archbishop ...
by Willa Cather
 Book : Fiction : eBook
Language: English
Publisher: New York, A.A. Knopf, 1927.

Notes:
Catholic church, medieval hierarchy, Laura Bush's favorite book...need I say more?
10.
The reluctant fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
 Book : Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, ©2007.

Notes:
Brilliant. So timely.
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