Previously Recommended Books

• A Person of Interest by Susan Choi 
  Intriguing story of a solitary, embittered math professor suspected of being the Unibomber.
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  This riveting tale of a Somali-born woman describes her escape while en route to a forced marriage and her subsequent life in the Western world.  She provides an insider's view of the Muslim treatment of women. 
• Day by A.L. Kennedy.  The story of a British man struggling to come to terms with his life and his memories after his release from a German P.O.W. camp.
• The Savage Dectectives by Roberto Bolano.  This book is by turns funny, sexy, and melancholy.  Follow the protagonist as he travels Mexico, Spain, Israel and Liberia.  This is the Chilean writer Bolano's masterpiece.
• Affluenza by Dave Wann.  Golden author David Wann has enjoyed national success with this study of over American over-consumption. Funny, insightful, and inspiring, it explores our tendency to want more "stuff," then need to work harder to pay for it and buy bigger houses to store it.
• Zig Zag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman by Nicholas Booth.  Eddie Chapman was a criminal, imprisoned by the English when the Germans occupied the channel islands.  He offered to work as a spy for Germany, then, while on a mission in England, reported what he knew to MI-5, the English secret service agency.  Despite their misgivings about him, the English then sent him back to Germany to spy for them.
• Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah - Biographical account of a 12 year old boy who was caught up in the civil war in Sierra Leone.
• A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle - Boyle's painfully comic vision of Southern California, set in 2025, as earth is well into its predicted ecological collapse.
• Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich - The changing life in a small South Dakota town as seen through the eyes of a German veteran of World War I.
• The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins - Fictionalized biography of photographer Edward Curtis, who captured the life of American Indians in the Southwest in the early 20th century.