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2007 Winter

This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review

Fiction

Image of The Air We Breathe: A Novel
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages

Image of Grub
Author: Elise Blackwell
Publisher: The Toby Press (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 355 pages

Image of Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages

Image of Orpheus Lost: A Novel
Author: Janette Turner Hospital
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages

Nonfiction

Image of The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Author: Diane Ackerman
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages

Image of Other Colors: Essays and a Story
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Knopf (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

Young Adult Literature

Image of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie, Sherman)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

Candida Mannozzi
Owner, Candida's World of Books

Travel or Gift Books

Image of Lonely Planet 2008 Bluelist (Lonely Planet's Bluelist)
Author: Lonely Planet Publications
Publisher: Lonely Planet (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 228 pages

Image of Lonely Planet The Africa Book (General Pictorial)
Author: Matt Phillips
Publisher: Lonely Planet (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 264 pages

Image of The Asia Book (General Pictorial)
Author: China Williams
Publisher: Lonely Planet (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 464 pages

Image of A Little Bit of Paris
Author: Jean-Jacques Sempe
Publisher: Universe (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 128 pages

Image of Africa
Author:
Publisher: Taschen (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 335 pages

Image of The Grand Tour
Author: Harry Seidler
Publisher: Taschen (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 575 pages

Fiction

Image of The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Modern Library)
Author: Ghalib Lakhnavi, Abdullah Bilgrami
Publisher: Modern Library (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 992 pages

Image of Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
Author: Leonie Swann
Publisher: Flying Dolphin Press (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 344 pages

Image of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel
Author: Xiaolu Guo
Publisher: Nan A. Talese (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Non-Fiction/Humor

Image of The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: McSweeney's (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 48 pages

Image of How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer
Author: Vic Darkwood
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Kids' Books

Image of Christmas Around the World: A Pop-Up Book
Author: Chuck Fischer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 12 pages

Image of The Great Race
Author: Dawn Casey, casey Dawn
Publisher: Barefoot Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Image of Riddle of the Nile
Author: Deborah Nash
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Dinah Paul
Owner, A Likely Story Children's Bookstore

Image of Who's That Baby?: New-Baby Songs
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: HarperCollins (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Image of Walk Two Moons
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: HarperCollins (1996)
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages

Image of Ruby Holler (Joanna Cotler Books)
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: HarperCollins (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 336 pages

Image of Half Magic
Author: Edward Eager
Publisher: Sandpiper (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 208 pages

Image of Knight's Castle
Author: Edward Eager
Publisher: Odyssey Classics (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 208 pages

Image of The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages

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

Image of Winter Babies Wear Layers (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book)
Author: Michelle Sinclair Colman
Publisher: Tricycle Press (2007)
Binding: Board book, 20 pages

Image of Living Color
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Image of I'm The Biggest Thing in the Ocean
Author: Kevin Sherry
Publisher: Dial (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Image of The Nixie's Song (Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1)
Author: Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages

Image of The Castle Corona
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: HarperCollins (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages

Image of If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages

Todd Stewart,
Vertigo Books

Fiction

Image of The Bone People: A Novel
Author: Keri Hulme
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1986)
Binding: Paperback, 464 pages

Image of Mr. Darwin's Shooter
Author: Roger MacDonald
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 384 pages

Image of Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories
Author: Jim Shepard
Publisher: Knopf (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages

Image of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

Image of De Niro's Game
Author: Rawi Hage
Publisher: Steerforth (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 280 pages

Image of The Pirate's Daughter
Author: Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Publisher: Unbridled Books (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 432 pages

Image of Mister Pip
Author: Lloyd Jones
Publisher: The Dial Press (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages

Nonfiction

Image of All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present
Author: Aaron McGruder
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 280 pages

Image of The Slave Ship: A Human History
Author: Marcus Rediker
Publisher: Viking Adult (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

Image of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
Author: Francisco Goldman
Publisher: Grove Press (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages

Image of Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell
Author: Adrienne L. Childs
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 128 pages

Image of Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
Author: Cait Murphy
Publisher: Smithsonian (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

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