Each year the Bainbridge Library has a Volunteer Recognition Brunch and celebration. A special part of that celebration is Martha Bayley's latest recommendations on books. This year she reviewed nine books in just enough detail to whet all our appetites. The books can be checked out at the Library or can be bought at our local bookstore - Eagle Harbor Books (
http://www.eagleharborbooks.com/). The nine books were (
click on the book cover to go to Amazon.com to read a review):
 | Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller |  | Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst (local author) |
 | Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner |  | City of Thieves by David Benioff |
 | The Scent Trail: How One Woman's Quest for the Perfect Perfume Took Her around the World by Celia Lyttelton |  | The Black Tower by Louis Bayard |
 | The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace |  | Velva Jean Learns to Drive: A Novel by Jennifer Niven |
 | The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper | | |
To read Martha Bayley's Recommendations last Christmas: click here
FOL Volunteers & Bainbridge Library Staff Reading Picks:
The Sparrow, The Children of God, A Thread of Grace, and Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell, all recommened by Eleanor WheelerMonsignor Quixote, by Graham Greene,
Embers, by Sandor Marai,
Imagining Argentina, and Naming of the Spirits by Lawrence Thornton, all recommended by Liv Cartwright.
History of Love, by Nicole Krauss,
The Hummingbird’s Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea, and Philip Ross’s
Everyman, were three that Betsy Bidinger enjoyed and recommends.
Linda Meier recommends almost anything by author Pico Iyer including his latest book,
The Open Road, and his video
Night in Katmandu.
Charles Browne lists three books as among his favorites -
The Last Place on Earth, by Roland Huntford,
Uttermost Part of the Earth, by E. Lucas Bridges, and
Alla en la Patagonia, by Maria Brunswig de Bamberg.
Rosalind Renouard recommends Dava Sobel’s
Galileo’s Daughter and if you’re a sea story lover, Patrick O’Brian’s novels are a lot of fun.
Pat Miller: Two books by Ward Just:
The Translator and
A Dangerous Friend. Also
One Million Words and Counting, The Making of the OED, by Simon Winchester and Simon Singh’s
Big Bang as well as Dava Sobel’s book,
The Planets. Finally, if you’re ready for a break from scientific detail, check out any of the Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear (but it’s best to start with the first).
Delores Bussel recommends
The Lost German Slave Girl, by John Bailey and the
Miracle of St. Anna, by James McBride.