Brown Bag and a Book (2017) JANUARY A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Wandering by Hermann Hesse A Taste For Life by Laurie Harper Sherman’s March Atlanta to the Sea by David Nevin A Beautiful Mind (The Shooting Script) by Akiva Goldsman (DVD) A Brilliant Madness (DVD) Westworld Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria Arab Jazz by Karim Miske The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley Iron Age, Inc. Magazine Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty Edgar Lee Masters by Herbert Russell Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Bread Illustrated by America’s Test Kitchen A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau by Kevin Dann Fates and Traitors, A Novel of John Wilkes Booth by Jennifer Chiaverini History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat Ten Modern American Short Stories by David A. Sohn Lyndon B. Johnson by George Reedy The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew by Robert Benchley Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson A Sting In The Tale by Dave Goulson Plows, Plagues and Petroleum by William Ruddiman This Changes Everything: vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks I Know Why the Caged Sings by

February The Once and Future King by T.H. White Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Rielly The Road to Pearl Harbor 1941 by Richard Collier

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March The Wonder by Emma Donoghue State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir by Joel Grey Breakfast at Tiffany’s A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande When the Whole World Changed: Voices from Murphysboro, IL by Vickie Frost Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee We by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Visitor by Paul Vanni The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge Chuck Berry. Hail! Hail! Rock N Roll (DVD) David Attenborough Life Stories (audio book, narrated by the author) A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole by Diana Preston This Is Carbondale Produced by students in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts The Movie Goer by Walker Percy Max Reinhardt's Production of A Midsummer Nights Dream (movie) Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell The Three Faces of Eve (movie)

Wendy Schoof, Adult Program Coordinator at the Carbondale Public Library Phone: (618)457-0354, Website: carbondalepubliclibrary.org, Email: [email protected] Herbert Hoover: A Life by Glen Jeansonne The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home by Nina Stibbe The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown The Daily Show, The Book by Chris Smith American Craft (Magazine) The Crack in Space by Philip K Dick Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Elements of Style by E. B. White and William Strunk W.C. Fields Comedy Favorites Collection (DVD) Bluestone Perennials Spring 2017 (Magazine) E. E. Cummings: Collected Poems, 1922-1938 by E. E. Cummings

April The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh Choosing to Live the Blessing by John Trent The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Dakota Born Debbie Macomber Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende High and Dry by Richard Russo Intervention by Richard Russo Horseman by Richard Russo Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Singin’ in the Rain (DVD) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43 by The Library of Congress Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Endgame by Samuel Beckett The Tao of Bill Murray by Gavin Edwards Look Up by Jung Jin-Ho

Wendy Schoof, Adult Program Coordinator at the Carbondale Public Library Phone: (618)457-0354, Website: carbondalepubliclibrary.org, Email: [email protected] An Irish Christmas by Patrick Taylor Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge Treat Me, Not My Age by Mark Lachs, MD Major Dundee (DVD)

May The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing Howard Hughes (DVD) The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae by Euripides Countdown by Alan Weisman The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Growing Up Muslim by Sumbul Ali-Karamali Brothers in Arms, Best of Friends by William Guarnere Invincible Living by Guru Jagat Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You by Donna Decker The Artist & the Quilt Paperback by Charlotte Robinson The Haunting (DVD) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Record of A Friendship by Wilhelm Reich The Bell Witch: An American Haunting by Brent Monahan Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble Bloody Sam by Marshall Fine Screenagers (DVD) The Army of Shadows (DVD) Kitty Hawk and Beyond by Ronald Geibert Agnes Martin by Barbara Haskell

June Way Station by Clifford Simak (DVD) Stooges: The Men Behind The Mayhem The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw Bob Dylan: All the Songs, the Story Behind Every Track by Philippe Margotin A Reader’s Guide to Science Fiction by Baird Searles

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July One Wild Bird at a Time by Bernd Heinrich Battleship Potemkin (Classic Film) The Fall by Albert Camus Pantsuit Nation edited by Libby Chamberlain Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams (Audiobook) Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo White Teeth by Zadie Smith What the Dead Know by Laura Lipmann Flashing on the Sixties Photographs by Lisa Law Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K Massie Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz The Shining (DVD) Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body by Jo Marchant Selected Poems by Robert Lowell East Alton, Illinois (Images of America Series) by Jason D. Bricker The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder by Henry Miller Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Wendy Schoof, Adult Program Coordinator at the Carbondale Public Library Phone: (618)457-0354, Website: carbondalepubliclibrary.org, Email: [email protected] Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories by Robert Shapard Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America) by Ulysses S. Grant The Great Pictures 1948 by Clifton C. Edom The Lobster (DVD) You Don’t Look Your Age… And Other Fairy Tales by Sheila Nevans Bullshit by Mark Pateres The Far Field Last Poems by Theodore Roethke : The Man Who Invented Rock ‘N’ Roll by Peter Guralnick Moosewood Restaurant New Classics by Moosewood Collective This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell This is Spinal Tap (DVD) Waiting for Guffman (DVD) Best in Show (DVD) The Mighty Wind (DVD) For Your Consideration (DVD) The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry by Richard Ellmann Still Life by Louise Penny Artist in His Study by Behrends Collected Shorter Plays by Eugene O’Neill The Civil War: War’s Aftermath by Richard Murphy

August The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot One Bird at a Time by Bernd Heinrich No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein A Choice of Gods by Clifford Simak Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Cactus Air by Thomas Miller, Jr. Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

Wendy Schoof, Adult Program Coordinator at the Carbondale Public Library Phone: (618)457-0354, Website: carbondalepubliclibrary.org, Email: [email protected] A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman The Dialectics of Liberation by David Cooper Uneasy Rider by Paul Vanni Hank Williams: Snapshots From The Lost Highway by Colin Escott The Untouchables by Eliot Ness The Untouchables Season 1 & 2 (DVD) The Will to Doubt by Bertrand Russell Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult Radio (DVD) Bleak House by Charles Dickens See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt The March to Tunis by Alan Moorehead I am the Clay by Chaim Potok Fair is Our Land by Samuel Chamberlain

September Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil Tony and Susan by Austin Wright War Fever by J. G. Ballard Giant of the Senate by The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy The Second Reader of the School and Family Series by Marcius Willson Sitcom: A History of 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community by Saul Austerlitz The Archangel Caper by David Hunter Format & : Paul Goodman Critiques the Media by Paul Goodman The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett The Late Show by Michael Connelly Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown The Day of the Jackal (DVD) How Not To Kill Your Houseplant by Veronica Peerless The Gathering by Anne Enright The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford

October: Eventide by Kent Haruf

Wendy Schoof, Adult Program Coordinator at the Carbondale Public Library Phone: (618)457-0354, Website: carbondalepubliclibrary.org, Email: [email protected] The Bad‑ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer Red Notice by Bill Browder Sea Fights and Shipwrecks by Hanson W. Baldwin Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James If the Creek Don’t Rise by Leak Weiss Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast Three Theban Plays by Sophocles My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Ridiculous Riddles by Duncan Emrich Letter to the Past by George Woodcock Best Loved Fables of by Joseph Jacobs Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood A Room with a View by EM Forster Aunt Dimity Digs In by Nancy Atherton Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas by John Grossman The Sixth by Elizabeth Kolbert Dodging Extinction by Anthony Barnosky Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas by Hunter Thompson Lion by Saroo Brierley Adulting by Kelly Brown The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton Elsewhere by Richard Russo The Pearl by John Steinbeck Mr. Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison by Dylan Jones Giant of the Senate by Al Franken How many Bugs in a Box? By David Carter The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Panzler

November Blitt: In One Eye and Out the Other by Barry Blitt Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Feminine Beauty by The Universal Composer Beethoven by Edmund Morris Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski (DVD)

Wendy Schoof, Adult Program Coordinator at the Carbondale Public Library Phone: (618)457-0354, Website: carbondalepubliclibrary.org, Email: [email protected] The Bad Seed by William March The Bad Seed by Jory John You Are Here, Around the World in 92 Minutes by Siddhartha by Harmann Hesse The Buddy Holly Story by John Tobler Illinois Impressions by Scott Avetta Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned by John Farrell The Perfect Crime (DVD) Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson by Dianne Lake Chasing Light by Amanda Lucidon The Winter of our Discontent by John Steinbeck All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Photojournalism by Mary Mark The Great Dissent by Thomas Healy Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin A Shape in Time and Space by Michael J. McNerney Great Writers: John Steinbeck (DVD) An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor Second Wind by Dick Francis Rats by Robert Sullivan Lincoln by Edward Steers, Jr. Collected Novellas by Gabriel Marquez A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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