2006 Summer | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

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2006 Summer

Recommendations for the best reads of the summer from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Dinah Paul, Owner, A Likely Story Children's Bookstore

Picture books/Younger Readers

Image of Lilly's Big Day
Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Image of John, Paul, George & Ben (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
Author: Lane Smith
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Image of Bear's New Friend
Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Image of Olivia Forms a Band
Author: Ian Falconer
Publisher: Atheneum (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 50 pages

Image of Walk On!: A Guide for Babies of All Ages
Author: Marla Frazee
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Image of This Little Piggy with CD: Lap Songs, Finger Plays, Clapping Games and Pantomime Rhymes
Author:
Publisher: Candlewick (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 80 pages

Image of Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (Read & Hear)
Author:
Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 112 pages

Image of If I Built a Car
Author: Chris Van Dusen
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Image of Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Author: Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu
Publisher: Scholastic Press (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Older Readers

Image of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 228 pages

Image of Heat
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Philomel (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 220 pages

Image of Gossamer
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 144 pages

Image of The Wright 3
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Press (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 318 pages

Image of The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
Author: Richard Yancey, Rick Yancey
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 375 pages

Image of Fly by Night
Author: Frances Hardinge
Publisher: HarperCollins (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 496 pages

Paperbacks

Image of The Star of Kazan
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher: Puffin (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 416 pages

Image of Hoot
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages

Image of Peter and the Starcatchers
Author: Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry
Publisher: Disney Editions (2004)
Binding: Hardcover, 464 pages

Barbara Hoffert, Editor, Library Journal Book Review

Image of The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Author: Olga Grushin
Publisher: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 354 pages

Image of The Brief History of the Dead: A novel
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Pantheon (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages

Image of Back to Wando Passo: A Novel
Author: David Payne
Publisher: William Morrow (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

Image of Alentejo Blue: Fiction
Author: Monica Ali
Publisher: Scribner (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

Image of A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 784 pages

Image of Tenderwire
Author: Claire Kilroy
Publisher: Harvest Books (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 312 pages

Image of Winter's Bone: A Novel
Author: Daniel Woodrell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 208 pages

Image of A Woman in Jerusalem
Author: A. B. Yehoshua
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Image of The Brambles
Author: Eliza Minot
Publisher: Knopf (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Carla Cohen, Co-Owner, Politics and Prose

Image of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages

Image of Let Me Finish
Author: Roger Angell
Publisher: Harcourt (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages

Image of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Author: Franklin Foer
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages

Image of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup
Author: Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 416 pages

Image of The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel
Author: Alan Furst
Publisher: Random House (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages

Image of The Night Gardener
Author: George Pelecanos
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

Image of No Good Deeds: A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)
Author: Laura Lippman
Publisher: William Morrow (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages

Image of Blow the House Down: A Novel
Author: Robert Baer
Publisher: Crown (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Image of The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
Author: Ron Suskind
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

Image of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Publisher: Vintage Books (2006)
Binding: Perfect Paperback, 721 pages

Image of The Bowl Is Already Broken: A Novel
Author: Mary Kay Zuravleff
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 432 pages

Bridget Warren, Chief of Public Relations & Programming, Prince George's County Memorial Library System

Image of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
Author: June Cross
Publisher: Viking Adult (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages

Image of Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop
Author:
Publisher: Akashic Books (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 250 pages

Image of The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Author: Minister Faust
Publisher: Del Rey (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 544 pages

Image of A Million Nightingales: A Novel
Author: Susan Straight
Publisher: Pantheon (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages

Image of Baby Brother's Blues: A Novel
Author: Pearl Cleage
Publisher: One World/Ballantine (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages

Image of Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
Author: Stanley Crouch
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages

Image of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor
Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 496 pages

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