Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Spring books

What are your favorite reads for spring? You can post your recommendations in the comments.

Here are a few new and old books at the library featuring baseball, gardens, and other things that remind us of spring:

Fiction:
The Constant Gardener, by John le Carre
Call number: F le Carre

Shoeless Joe, by W. P. Kinsella
Call number: F Kinsella/pb

The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of 20th Century Short Fiction About Gardens and Gardeners, edited by Michelle Slung
Call number: SC Garden

Nonfiction:
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, by Linda Lear
Call number: B Potter (New Biography)

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, by Jonathan Eig
Call number: 796.357 Eig (New Nonfiction)

The Artful Cupcake: Baking & Decorating Delicious Indulgences, by Marcianne Miller
Call number: 641.8653 Mil

For younger readers:
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Call number: J Burnett

Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce
Call number: J/pb Pearce

Summerland, by Michael Chabon
Call number: JH Chabon

What are your suggestions?