Recordpub.com - One for the Books: WWII Internment of Japanese Americans

During World War II, the president of the United States signed an executive order to create the War Relocation Authority and designated the entire West Coast as a military area. All persons of Japanese descent within that area were ordered to pack up only what they could carry and were then transported to internment or "relocation" camps. Several recent books discuss these events, and they are all informative, moving, and evocative of the hardships and paranoia of the war years.

"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" is a debut novel by Jamie Ford. The story is set in two time periods -- 1942 and 1986 -- in Seattle, where the Panama Hotel stands on the border of Chinatown and Japantown. We see the events in the neighborhood through the eyes of Henry Lee, who is 12 in 1942. As a Chinese American boy during the war, Henry is constantly being beaten up by bullies because he looks Japanese, and to help stop the attacks, Henry's father gives him a pin to wear that reads "I am Chinese." Henry and his best friend, a Japanese girl named Keiko, are the only non-Caucasian students in their school, where they work in the kitchen to pay their tuition. To those around them, they are not Chinese enough, not American enough, not Japanese enough; the white kids call Henry "yellow" and the Chinese kids call him "white devil" for going to the white school. When the order to relocate is issued, "People had to leave everything behind; they could take only two suitcases each ... so they stored their valuable belongings in places like (the) hotel, the basements of churches, or with friends." Many of these personal possessions are discovered in 1986 in the basement of the hotel, which brings back memories for Henry, who recounts being separated from Keiko when her family is sent to a prison camp in Minidoka, Idaho, with about 10,000 other people.

I loved this excellent book and its memorable characters. And such heartbreak -- I cried when the two children were separated. "Sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward," says the adult Henry. "Some things just can't be fixed." Although I loved the ending, I didn't want the book to end; I wanted to follow Henry into the future. The book brings up conflicting feelings about what it means to be an American. I think it would be good for book clubs because of its timeless themes of family, love, loyalty, and prejudice.

For a true account of some of these same events, Mary Woodward gives us a tribute to her parents in the biographical "In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story." She discusses the 1942 evacuation of residents of Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, Wash. The Woodwards owned and published a weekly newspaper, the Bainbridge Review, from 1941 to 1963. "During World War II, they used the paper to speak out against the exclusion of their Japanese American friends and neighbors," writes the author. "After Pearl Harbor, many Bainbridge Nikkei (persons of Japanese descent) assumed the Issei (immigrants from Japan) would face internment. ... But no one expected the Issei's children would be imprisoned, since they were American citizens." She says the Review stood "virtually alone among newspapers in its opposition to the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans." When the notice to evacuate came, "All across the Island, hurried arrangements were ... made between the Nikkei and their Caucasian neighbors." One provided legal advice, another agreed to look after a family farm, others offered to store personal belongings. Walt and Milly hired one of the Nikkei teenagers as their "camp correspondent" at Manzanar War Relocation Center in the California desert, saying that "It was important that 'births, deaths, who got married, who is playing first base on the baseball team ... the usual news of a small community' be in the Review from camp every week, so other Islanders could keep up on the news of their neighbors." The "weekly news report reminded Islanders back home that they had some three hundred neighbors 'living elsewhere just now.' " The book has many wonderful photographs and sidebars with information on related topics.

Kiyo Sato offers a first-person account in her memoir, "Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream" (originally published as "Dandelion Through the Crack"). Kiyo is the oldest daughter in a Nikkei family of farmers in Sacramento, Calif. Her whole family works hard to level the land, create irrigation channels, build a barn and house, then plant, nurture and harvest the crops -- and we get to spend idyllic evenings with them as the children listen to their gentle, loving father tell stories. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, rumors fly about the dangerous "Japs" living in the U.S., preparing "to attack at any moment from the Japanese farms." She is understandably appalled: "We are spies, saboteurs, Japs, enemy aliens with buckteeth and slant eyes. It's the thing to do, to hate the Japs." A curfew is imposed; some of the older men are taken away; young men join tmy. "I wish we could move away, too, from this hate-filled world," she says, but "There is no place to go for help. No one cares, not even the churches, which profess Christian love." She is 19 when they arrive at the internment camp: "The only privacy I have is inside my small suitcase, under my cot. Here, I shower with half a dozen people, eat with 250 people, and sit in the community latrine with people I don't even know." She writes, "Here's the truth: I am now called a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights. I am a prisoner in a concentration camp in my own country." Eventually, the Japanese Americans have gardens, school, sports and church services in the camp. They find ways to express themselves artistically. Kiyo is released to go to college, where she encounters a mixture of generosity and ignorance, and her family is released to work on a sugar beet farm. But she remains bitter, and when she describes going "home" to California after almost four years, what she finds is heart-breaking.

On my blog, http://blogs.dixcdn.com/shine_a_light, I will post an additional book review related to this topic.

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As promised, I have posted on my blog an additional book review. It is on "Tallgrass" by Sandra Dallas, a novel that carries this same theme. Here's the link: http://blogs.dixcdn.com/shine_a_light/2009/03/27/wwii-internment-of-japanese-americans/

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LOCAL BOOK CLUBS:

The Book Discussion Group at the Randolph Library meets the first Monday of the month, except August, at 6:30 p.m. in the Randolph Senior Center. The group is open to everyone, and new members are always welcome. The library will stock copies of the books each month. Call the library at 330-325-7003.

Pierce-Streetsboro Library's Book Discussion Group meets regularly on the second Monday of each month at 6:45 p.m. in the library's meeting room. New members are always welcome to attend and participate in the discussion. The library is located at 8990 Kirby Lane in Streetsboro, next to the administrative offices of the Streetsboro City Schools. For more information, call the library at 330-626-4458.

The Book Discussion Group at the Mogadore Branch of the Akron-Summit County Library, 144 S. Cleveland Ave., 330-628-9228, meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays to discuss books as follows:

April 1: Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazari
May 6: Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregor
May 20: Caesar: Let the Dice Fly by Colleen McCulloug
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On Tuesday, March 31, the Kent Historical Society will be hosting a public program at the First Christian Church, 335 W. Main St., Kent, at 7 p.m. Dr. Frank P. Vazzano, noted historian and writer, will present a program about Martin L. Davey, who has a prominent place in Kent and Ohio history. Mr. Davey was the son of John Davey, founder of the Davey Tree Expert Company of Kent, and was instrumental in building the Davey company during its early years. Mr. Davey was elected mayor of Kent, elected to the U.S. Congress, and elected governor of Ohio. Dr. Vazzano will speak from his book about Davey, entitled "Politician Extraordinaire: The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey." Dr. Vazzano is a retired professor of history at Walsh University in North Canton and has written numerous articles for historical publications. The First Christian Church will offer a tour and relate the Davey family to the history of the church. For more information on the event, call Mary Ann Green at 330-678-2712
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from Shelf Awareness: New Titles Out March 24:

True Detectives: A Novel by Jonathan Kellerma
Pursuit by Karen Robard
It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather Armstron
Oh, Johnny: A Novel by Jim Lehre
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin

Now in paperback:

Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel by Anne Perr
Where Are You Now?: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark

New Titles Out March 31:

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fo
Long Lost by Harlan Cobe
Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts: An A-to-Z Guide with Detailed Instructions and Endless Inspiration by Martha Stewart Living Magazin
Lavender Morning: A Novel by Jude Deverau
The Lost Quilter: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini

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Publishers Weekly Best-sellers-Book
By The Associated Press

HARDCOVER FICTIO
1. "Handle with Care" by Jodi Picoult (Atria
2. "Corsair" by Clive Cussler, Jack DuBrul (Putnam Adult
3. "The Associate" by John Grisham (Doubleday
4. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown
5. "Run for Your Life" by James Patterson (Little, Brown
6. "Heart and Soul" by Maeve Binchy (Knopf
7. "Promises in Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam
8. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial
9. "Night and Day: A Jesse Stone Novel" by Robert B. Parker (Putnam
10. "One Day at a Time" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press
11. "Dead Silence" by Randy Wayne White (Putnam Adult
12. "Terminal Freeze" by Lincoln Child (Doubleday
13. "White Witch, Black Curse" by Kim Harrison (Eos
14. "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford (Ballantine Books
15. "Paths of Glory" by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin's Press)

HARDCOVER NONFICTIO
1. "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment" by Steve Harvey (Amistad
2. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown
3. "A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lion" by Anthony Bourke, John Rendall (Broadway
4. "The Yankee Years" by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (Doubleday
5. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion
6. "House of Cards" by William D. Cohan (Doubleday
7. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words
8. "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" by David Grann (Doubleday
9. "Flat Belly Diet" by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass (Rodale Books
10. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central
11. "Peaks and Valleys" by Spencer Johnson, M.D. (Atria
12. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press
13. "My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up" by Russell Brand (Collins
14. "Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus Are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World" by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale
15. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill OReilly (Broadway)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
1. "The Whole Truth" by David Baldacci (Vision
2. "Hold Tight" by Harlan Coben (Signet
3. "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine
4. "Danger in a Red Dress" by Christina Dodd (Signet
5. "The Appeal" by John Grisham (Dell
6. "Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown (Pocket
7. "Plague Ship" by Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul (Berkley
8. "Lost Souls" by Lisa Jackson (Zebra
9. "The Grand Finale" by Janet Evanovich (Harper
10. "The MacKade Brothers: Rafe And Jared" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette
11. "Maverick" by Lora Leigh (St. Martin's Press
12. "Montana Creeds: Dylan" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN
13. "Small Favor" by Jim Butcher (Roc
14. "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella (Dell
15. "Chasing Darkness" by Robert Crais (Pocket)

TRADE PAPERBACK
1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media
2. "Watchmen" by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons (DC Comics
3. "The Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan (Voice
4. "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink (Vintage
5. "Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin
6. "Firefly Lane" by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin
7. "Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide" by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding (Rodale Books
8. "Sundays At Tiffany's" by James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet (Grand Central Publishing
9. "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House
10. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press
11. "Eat This, Not That!" by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding (Rodale Books
12. "What to Expect When You're Expecting" by Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel (Workman Publishing Group
13. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead
14. "Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan" by Suze Orman (Spiegel & Grau
15. "The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter 2009" by Alan Borushek (Family Health Publications)

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USA Today Best-sellers-Book
By The Associated Pres
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback

1. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (F-P
2. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (F-P
3. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (F-H
4. "Twilight: Director's Notebook" by Catherine Hardwicke (Little, Brown for Young Readers) (NF-H
5. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (F-H
6. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media) (F-P
7. "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment" by Steve Harvey (Amistad) (NF-H
8. "Max" by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) (F-H
9. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) (F-H
10. "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (DC Comics) (F-P
11. "Hunted" by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Press) (F-H
12. "Handle with Care: A Novel" by Jodi Picoult (Atria) (F-H
13. "The Whole Truth" by David Baldacci (Vision) (F-P
14. "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink (Vintage) (F-P
15. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-H
16. "Marked" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P
17. "The Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan (Voice) (NF-P
18. "Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) (NF-P
19. "Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion" by Mark Cotta Vaz (Little, Brown Young Readers) (NF-P
20. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) (F-H
21. "Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution" by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale Press) (NF-P
22. "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick (B&H) (NF-P
23. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) (NF-H
24. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) (F-H
25. Corsair" by Clive Cussler, Jack DuBrul (Putnam Adult) (F-H
26. "Firefly Lane" by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P
27. "A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lion" by Anthony Bourke, John Rendall (Broadway) (NF-H
28. "Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook 2" by Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, James Wyatt (Wizards of the Coast) (NF-H
29. "Secrets" by Jude Deveraux (Pocket) (F-P
30. "Betrayed" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P
31. "Hold Tight" by Harlan Coben (Signet) (F-P
32. "The Associate" by John Grisham (Doubleday) (F-H
33. "The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief" Peter Lerangis (Scholastic) (F-H
34. "Run for Your Life" by James Patterson (Little, Brown) (F-H
35. "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates (Vintage) (F-P
36. "Chosen" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P
37. "Sundays At Tiffany's" by James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet (Grand Central Publishing) (F-P
38. "Untamed" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P
39. "The Clique: P.S. I Loathe You" by Lisi Harrison (Poppy) (F-P
40. "Fruits Basket, Volume 22" by Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop) (F-P
41. "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine) (F-P
42. "The Appeal" by John Grisham (Dell) (F-P
43. "The Yankee Years" by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (Doubleday)(NF-H
44. "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)(F-P
45. "House of Cards" by William D. Cohan (Doubleday) (NF-H
46. "Magic Tree House 41: Moonlight on the Magic Flute" by Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca (Random House Books for Young Readers) (F-H
47. "Evermore" by Alyson Noel (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P
48. "Eat This Not That!" by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale) (NF-H
49. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)(NF-H
50. "Miles to Go" by Miley Cyrus (Disney Hyperion)(NF-H
Reporting stores include: Amazon.com, B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble.com, Barnes & Noble Inc., Books-A-Million and Bookland, Booksamillion.com, Borders Books & Music, Bookstar, Bookstop, Brentano's, Davis Kidd Booksellers in Nashville, Jackson, Memphis, Tenn., Doubleday Book Shops, Hudson Booksellers, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Cleveland), Powell's Books (Portland, Ore.), Powells.com, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, Conn.), Schuler.

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Wall Street Journal Best-sellers-Book
By The Associated Press

FICTIO
1. "Max" by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company
2. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
3. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
4. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet
5. "Hunted" by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Press
6. "Handle with Care: A Novel" by Jodi Picoult (Atria
7. "Corsair" by Clive Cussler, Jack DuBrul (Putnam Adult
8. "The Associate" by John Grisham (Doubleday
9. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown
10. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books
11. "The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief" by Peter Lerangis (Scholastic
12. "Run for Your Life" by James Patterson (Little, Brown
13. "Graveyard book" by Neil Gaiman, Dave Mckean, illustrator (HarperCollins
14. "Heart and Soul" by Maeve Binchy (Knopf
15. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)

NONFICTIO
1. "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment" by Steve Harvey (Amistad
2. "Twilight: Director's Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer" by Catherine Hardwicke (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
3. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown
4. "Players Handbook 2: A 4th Edition D&D Core Rulebook" by Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, James Wyatt (Wizards of the Coast
5. "House of Cards" by William D. Cohan (Doubleday
6. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press
7. "A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lion" by Anthony Bourke, John Rendall (Broadway
8. "The Yankee Years" by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (Doubleday
9. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion
10. "Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" by David Grann (Doubleday
11. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Simon & Schuster
12. "Succession: Are You Ready?" by Marshall Goldsmith (Harvard Business Press
13. "Miles to Go" by Miley Cyrus (Disney Hyperion
14. "The Ultramind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First" by Mark Hyman (Scribner
15."My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up" by Russell Brand (Collins)

The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com
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The following authors are making the media rounds, talking about their books:

--Peter Walsh, Enough Already! Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best Yo
--Mario Batali, co-author of Spain... A Culinary Road Trip
--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Povert
--David Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed Americ
--Cheryl Forberg, co-author of The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start: Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Start Living the Biggest Loser Lifestyle Today!
--Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the Worl
--Zoe Heller, author of The Believer
--Herb Kent, The Cool Gent: The Nine Lives of Radio Legend Herb Ken
--Jeff Foxworthy, Silly Street
--Bethenny Frankel, Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dietin
--Tony Dungy, Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance
--General Richard Myers, author of Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Securit
--Jean Chatzky, author of The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Time
--Steve Lopez, author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Musi
--Gwen Ifill, author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obam
--Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Boo
--Franz Wisner, author of How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groo
--Drew Pinsky, author of The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing Americ
--Leslie H. Gelb, author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Polic
--Montel Williams, author of Living Well Emotionally: Break Through to a Life of Happiness
--David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
--Alice Waters, Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Ide
--Cynthia M. Bulik, Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Sto
--Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracle
--Thomas Cahill with A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green
--John Quiones, author of Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choice
--Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
--Leslie Gelb, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Polic
--Mary Pat Kelly,Galway Ba
--Jan Wong, author of A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Stor
--Joy Bauer, author of Joy's Life Diet: Four Steps to Thin Foreve
--Joan Rivers, author of Murder at the Academy Award
--Nandan Nilekani, author of Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Natio
--Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World
--James Balog, Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Repor
--Joy Behar, author of Sheetzucacapoopoo: Max Goes to the Dog
--Kevin Powell, author of The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Lif
--Solveig Eggerz, author of Seal Woma
--Amy Dickinson, author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised The
--Frank Bidart, author of Watching the Spring Festival: Poem
--Jaime Pressly, author of It's Not Necessarily Not the Truth: Dreaming Bigger than the Town You're Fro
--Richard Zoglin, author of Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
--Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art Worl
--Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proul
--Auden Schendler, Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolutio
--Tricia Rose, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
--Zoe Heller, author of The Believer
--Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Wintergirl
--Gail Blanke, author of Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Lif
--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decid
--Bruce Chadwick, author of I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Natio
--Felix Rohatyn, author of Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why it Must Rebuild No
--Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Plane
--Rashid Khalidi, author of Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
--Tim Green, author of Baseball Grea
--Steve Harvey, author of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitmen
--Michael D'Antonio, Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner,and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angele
--Bruce Weber, As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpire
--Anthony Bourke and John Rendall, authors of A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lio
--Cheryl Forberg, co-author of The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start: Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Start Living the Biggest Loser Lifestyle Today
--Mike Davis, In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empir
--Sunny Schwartz, author of Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to Al
--Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim Worl
--Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About I
--Chelsea Handler, author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelse
--Jodyne L. Speyer, author of Dump 'Em: How to Break Up with Anyone from Your Best Friend to Your Hairdresse
--Alyssa Milano, author of Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanati
--E. Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slaver
--Jehan Sedat, author of My Hope for Peac
--Mary Tyler Moore, Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
--Dallas Jessup, Young Revolutionaries Who Rock: An Insider's Guide to Saving the World One Revolution at a Tim
--Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continent
--Nandan Nilekani, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Natio
--Nathaniel Frank, author of Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens Americ
--Mark Rudd, author of Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weather Undergroun
--Jeff Pearlman, author of The Rocket That Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortalit
--Isabel Gillies, author of Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Stor
--Emily Yellin, author of Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us: Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Live
---Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
--Lynne Greenberg, The Body Broken: A Memoi
--Bonnie Morris, author of Revenge of the Women's Studies Professo
--Donovan Campbell, author of Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhoo
--Robert Shogan, author of No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politic
--Dr. Keith Black, Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracle
--Bob Greene, author of The Best Life Die
--Curtis Stone, author of Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone: Recipes to Put You in My Favorite Mood
--Julie Chrystyn, author of The Secret to Life Transformation: How to Claim Your Destiny Now!
--Jim Lehrer, author of Oh, Johnny: A Nove
--Robin Romm, author of The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Week
--Isabel Gillies, Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Stor
--Emily Yellin, Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us: Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Live
--Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Afric
--Luke Bergman, Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American Cit
--Alva No, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousnes
--William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Stree
--Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It
--Susie Orbach, author of Bodies: Big Ideas/Small Book
--Gordon Hempton, author of One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
--Candy Spelling, author of Stories from Candylan
--Joe Torre, author of The Yankee Years
--Steven Rinella, author of American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Ico
--Tanya Lee Stone, author of Almost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Drea
--Adam Gopnik, author of Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

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Here are links to other recent One for the Books columns. More links are available on my blog at http://blogs.dixcdn.com/shine_a_light/one-for-the-books/

Book Club Recommendations -- http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4545419

Lighter Goodies -- http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/453533

Slavery -- http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4525809

Memoirs of Women Searching -- http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4515783

Return to Amish Country -- http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/451127

President-elect Barack Obama -- http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/450179

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