Holiday Book Show/FM90.1 Radio West

Looking for a book to buy for a gift or to curl up with during the holiday season. Listen to the 12/10/07 Radio West Show

Doug Fabrizio
Radio West

Whether this weekend's snow solidified your holiday spirit, or put you in the mood to curl up in a cozy corner with a great piece of writing, you'll want to tune in for RadioWest's holiday book show. Betsy Burton of The King's English, Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books and Catherine Weller of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore bring their favorite picks of the season.

Children's Books: Betsy Burton, Catherine Weller, Ken Sanders
Adult Titles: Catherine Weller, Betsy Burton, Ken Sanders
Listeners' Picks

Children's Books

Betsy Burton, The King's English

Picture Books

Daddo, Andrew: Goodnight Me, (illustrated by Emma Quay)
DiCamillo, Kate: Great Joy, (illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline)
Morris, Jackie: The Snow Leopard

Young Children's Chapter Books
Higgins, F. E.: The Black Box Secrets
Pennypacker, Sara: The Talented Clementine
Fellows, Julian: The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys

Young Adult

Alexie, Sherman: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, (Illustrated by Ellen Forney)
Wizner, Jake: Spanking Shakespeare, (Illustrated by Richard Ewing)

Catherine Weller, Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore

Compestine, Ying Chang: Revolution is not a Dinner Party
Deedy, Carmen Agra: Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
Lennon, Joan: Questors
Mason, Prue: Camel Rider
Sis, Peter: The Wall

Ken Sanders, Ken Sanders Rare Books

Buehner, Caralyn & Mark: Snowmen at Night Snowmen at Christmas, Snowmen Pop-Up Book, Escape of Marvin the Ape and Taxi Dog
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland & Through The Locking Glass, (Illustrated by Anne Bachelier)

Adult Books

Catherine Weller, Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore

Fiction
Chabon, Michael: Gentlemen of the Road
Clarke, Brock: An Arsonists Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
Wood, Danielle: Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girl

Nonfiction

Bagley, Pat: Bagley's Utah Survival Guide
Bell, Charlotte: Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life: A Guide for Everyday Practice
Bittman, Mark: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
Cathcart, Thomas: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Childs, Craig: The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
Donwood, Stanley & Dr. Tchock: Dead Children Playing: A Picture Book
James, Vanessa: Shakespeare's Geneologies: Plots and Illustrated Family Trees for All 42 Works
Musselman, Lyton John: Figs, Dates, Laurel and Myrrh: Plants of the Bible and Quran
Nuzum, Eric: The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
Phaidon: 30,000 Years of Art: The True Story of Human Activity Across Time and Space
Sacks, Oliver: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Till, Tom: Utah: The Light Fantastic

Betsy Burton, The King's English

Fiction

Barrett, Andrea: The Air We Breathe
Bennett, Alan: The Uncommon Reader
Campbell, Gordon: Missing Witness
Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Haddon, Mark: A Spot of Bother
Harris, Robert: The Ghost
Hospital, Janette Turner: Orpheus Lost
Johnson, Denis: Tree of Smoke
McNamer, Deirdre: Red Rover
Russo, Richard: Bridge of Sighs
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace, translated by Richard Pevear and Lirissa Voplokhonsky

Nonfiction

Bagley, Pat: Bagley's Utah Survival Guide
Beletsky, Les: Birdsongs from Around the World
Brown, Peter and Kent Haruf: West of Last Chance
Bryson, Bill: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Eco Umberto (ed.): On Ugliness
Griggs, Brandon: Utah Curiosities
Isaacson, Walter: Einstein: His Life and Universe
Lardinois, Bridgette: Magnum, Magnum
Stegner, Page (ed.): The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner
Trimble, Steve and Scott Smith: Salt Lake Impressions
Waters, Alice: Chez Panisse
Waters, Alice: The Simple Art of Food

Ken Sanders, Ken Sanders Rare Books

Fiction

McCarthy, Cormac: The Road
McCarthy, Cormac: No Country for Old Men

Nonfiction

Bagley, Pat: Bagley's Utah Survival Guide
Bell, Leia: This Business of Ferrets
Denton, Craig: Bear River Last Chance to Change
Dimock, Brad: A Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River
Durrant, Jeffrey: Struggle Over Utah's San Rafael Swell. Wilderness, National Conservation Areas & National Monuments
Jessop, Carolyn: Escape
Larson, Stan & Samuel Passey (eds): The William McLellin papers 1854-1880
Marquardt, H. Michael: Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Russell, Renny: Rock Me On The Water: A Life On The Loose
Steensma, Robert C.: Wallace Stegner's Salt Lake City
Swanson, Fred: Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons
Thompson, Anita: Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Toscano, Paul James: The Sacrament of Doubt
Vandenbosch, Robert & Susan: Nuclear Waste Stalemate: Political & Scientific Controversies