Lists of Bests: Skokie Public Library Staff Picks 2003 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/34565 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:38:18 GMT en-us 0 50 90 50 0 How to be good. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2203109 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2203109"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/3426615355.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Hornby</div> Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/322304 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/322304"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060988274.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McGilligan</div> The Whore's Child : and Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8747 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8747"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375411682.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by RICHARD RUSSO</div> Without Reservations - The Travels Of An Independent Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2390180 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Steinbach</div> The Devil Wears Prada http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/976234 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/976234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307275558.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lauren Weisberger</div> How to Be Alone: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6407 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6407"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312422164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1063903242_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> The Story of My Father: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411717 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411717"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345455444.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Miller</div> My Grandfathers Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/403238 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/403238"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573228567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Naomi Remen</div> Gettysburg http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1345009 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1345009"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0618485384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084248829_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen W. Sears</div> A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1534909 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1534909"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812972430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1069875767_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnold Weinstein</div> Fabulous Small Jews http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167975 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167975"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618446583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Epstein</div> Middlesex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781511 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11fJs0izZAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> The Namesake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60537 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60537"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006551807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jhumpa Lahiri</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25591 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25591"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297106X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> Bibliophilia : A Novella And Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29910 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29910"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1559707216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Griffith</div> What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6405 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zoe Heller</div> Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037571457X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Blankets: An Illustrated Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2789771 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319816 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Brashares</div> Breakfast with Scot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264860 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264860"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582431264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Downing</div> The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches (Live Girls) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31701 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31701"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580050719.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayun Halliday</div> All Over Creation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423346 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330490273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth L. Ozeki</div> Believing it All : What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast and Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/866407 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/866407"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316690155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marc Parent</div> Chasing the Dime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13219 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13219"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/044661162X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Connelly</div> To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477534 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477534"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0006Q1URK.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Evanovich</div> The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64591320_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Larson</div> The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13197 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13197"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446610224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Patterson</div> Fall on Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216577 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216577"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743466527.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann-Marie MacDonald</div> The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060586370.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann-Marie MacDonald</div> Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9336 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9336"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375755195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Billy Collins</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336836 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007136358.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Erdrich</div> The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2718148 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander McCall Smith</div> Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341310 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341310"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0953522709.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121252361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Stewart</div> Rodzina http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/616917 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/616917"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/044041993X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134064747_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Cushman</div> Time Stops for No Mouse (Hermux Tantamoq Adventure) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20154 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20154"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0698119916.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056467829_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Hoeye</div> Property http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/585506 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/585506"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375713301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valerie Martin</div> The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619562 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619562"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroll Spinney</div> Secrets of a Tabloid Reporter...My Twenty Years on the National Enquirer's Hollywood Beat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832893 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832893"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0972220801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056513225_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Sternig</div> Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58856 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312315619.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Conason</div> War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28927 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28927"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034639.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Hedges</div> Bushwacked: Life in George W. Bush's America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254814 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254814"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0736694285.01-A271XUTPZHLDM9._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Molly Ivins</div> In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28882 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28882"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Kriwaczek</div> Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8895 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8895"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375501568.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by ELAINE PAGELS</div> The Secret Life of Bees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785377 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Monk Kidd</div> Shutter Island http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9634 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038073186X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dennis Lehane</div> Lucia, Lucia: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963545 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963545"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345472446.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adriana Trigiani</div> Maisie Dobbs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2639745 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2639745"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0719566223.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacqueline Winspear</div> The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (The Best American Series (TM)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17209 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17209"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618246967.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Blue Flower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11375 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11375"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395859972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div>