• The Portrait by Iain Pears (library has both book and audio versions).

• The Daughter's Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick (2011).

• Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan. (library has audio version only).

• L.A. Noir: the struggle for the soul of America's most seductive cith by John Buntin.

• Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt (973.8 HUN). This book and the Kirkpatrick are about the same historical event

• Seduction by Catherine Gildiner. A novel about Freud by the author of the memoirs: Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls. (The library has both memoirs in Biographies).

• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.

• The Unbroken: a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. (940.54 HIL)

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. (943.08 LAR)

• The Vault: an Inspector Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell.

• Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes.

• The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine (his second autobiography) This is currently on the library's NEW shelf under Biographies.

• Any and all books by Maeve Binchy. (the library owns 17 titles).

• The Choir by Joanna Trollope. The library has under Fiction, TRO.

• Your Call is (not that) Important To Us: Customer service and what it reveals about our world and our lives by Emily Yellin.

• House of Holes by Nicholson Baker. A comic sex novel.

• Feathers: the evolution of a natural miracle by Thor Hanson, local author, who will speak at the library on Friday, December 2nd, 2011

• Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters) by Adam Kirsch

• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (also a 2 set movie)

• Lost City of Z by David Grann

• River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candace Millard

• Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears (this is this reader's TOP book)

• Too Close To the Falls by Catherine Gildiner

• Personal History by Katherine Graham

• The Complete Poetry of Samuel Hoffenstein (this gentleman wrote many movie scripts for Hollywood including: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Phantom of the Opera and The Wizard of Oz.

• Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth

• Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

• The Photograph by Penelope Lively

• Once Upon an Island by David Conover (about Wallace Island in Canada, now a provincial park, once a resort for the rich and famous)

• Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon (an Inspector Brunetti mystery taking place in Venice)

• Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam

• Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

• The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

• The Summer of My Greek Taverna by Tom Stone

• Woman Lit By Fireflies by Jim Harrison (three novellas)

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• True Grit by Charles Portis

• Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel

• Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (who writes "painless history" according to one reader)

• My Own Country by Abraham Verghese

• Little Bee by Chris Cleave

• Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes

• The Whale Warriors: the Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals by Peter Heller

• Garden of Beasts: a novel of Berlin, 1936 by Jeffery Deaver

• Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

• Founding Mothers: the Women Who Raised our Nation by Cokie Roberts

• Never Say Die: the Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age by Susan Jacoby

• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

• The Photograph by Penelope Lively

• Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties both by Catherine Gildiner

• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

• Lastingness: the Art of Old Age by Nicholas Delbanco

• A Mosque in Munich by Ian Johnson

• Portobello by Ruth Rendell

• The Islandman by Tomas O'Crohan and Robin Flower

There were twelve stalwart readers gathered around in a convivial circle tonight speaking of books, magazines and even a movie or two while eating raspberries, lemon cookies and sipping tea. Here is the list of discussed in the order in which they were mentioned ... ~Rosie

• Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, known for her audacity in this series in portraying Sherlock Holmes in a new light. This is the first in the series, which so far has eleven titles.

• Dewey, the Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

• Doggerel: poems about dogs by Carmela Ciuraru

• Washington: a life by Ron Chernow

• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

• The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut

• Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

• The Odyssey by Homer

• The Atlantic, July/August issue, article entitled "Brain on Trial"

• The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna (magical realism, Finnish style)

• Windhaven, Game of Thrones, Clash of Kings, Storm of Swords, Feast for Crows All by George R.R. Martin (sci fi)

• Family Album by Penelope Lively

• Whistling Season and its sequel: Work Song, as well as Eleventh Man, by Ivan Doig

• Pack of Cards by Penelope Lively

• Brother Sun, Sister Moon ( a Zeffirelli film from 1972 about St. Francis of Assisi)

• Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat

• How Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin

• Wesley the Owl: the remarkable love story of an owl and his girl by Stacey O'Brien

• Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (the second in the Maisie Dobbs series, which has eight titles so far)

• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

• What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman

• Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel (the third in a series of young adult novels)

• Is Sex Necessary? by James Thurber and E.B. White, (copyright 1929)

• The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison and the practice of the wild, edited by Paul Ebenkamp

• Resurgence Magazine, donated to the library by Ron Metcalf. This is a periodical from England which covers the ideas of E.F. Schumacher and related subjects, such as Buddhist economics.

• Consequences by Penelope Lively

• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing - poems by Alice Walker

• 2030: the real story of what happens to America by Albert Brooks (fiction, new shelf)

• The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson

• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Here are some of the books we discussed at June's Literary Salon. Discussion was particularly enlivened by Lopez summer residents, very well read, one who teaches writing to college students and knows Northwest authors. All in no particular order except as we discussed them. Feel free to email and ask about anything here. Lovely reading to you all ~ Rosie

• Making It Up by Penelope Lively

• Throne's Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Patton Walsh

• Consequences by Penelope Lively

• Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam

• The Laramie Project (a play) by Moisés Kaufman

• Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears

• Wild Life by Molly Gloss

• Hen's Teeth, Horse's Toes by Stephen J. Gould

• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

• Girl in the Green Glass Mirror (bio. about Richard Dadd, mad artist) by Elizabeth McGregor

• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: the true story of a thief, a detective and a literary obsession. by Alison Hoover Bartlett

• Red Breast by Jo Nesbo

• The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Paul Collins is NPR's literary "detective")

• Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal (reader will donate this to the library when she is done)

• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

• At Home by Bill Bryson

• Where God Put the West: movie making in the West by Betty L. Stanton

• Extra Lives: why video games matter by Tom Bissell

• Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand John Adams by David McCullough

• Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick (about the Wilkes' expedition and a cannibal king's capture)

• Nature, Form and Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima by his daughter Mira Nakashima (new shelf, 749.21)*

• Wake Up and Cook: Kitchen Buddhism in Words and Recipes, edited by Carole Tonkinson

• The Fifties by David Halberstam*

• The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: the Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whitely (a take it or leave it find)

• Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland*

• Art and Madness by Ann Roiphe (biography)*

• Dictionary of Troublesome Words

• The Well Educated Mind: a guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer

• Michael Peterson: Evolution: Revolution (essays about local artist's work) (708 MIC)*

Parenhood, Season 1 - Reviewed by Julie Summers

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) - Reviewed by Julie Summers

Living A Life That Matters - Reviewed by Mona Hall

The Schwarzbein Principal: The Truth about Losing Weight, Being Healthy and Feeling Younger - Reviewed by Mona Hall

Butterfly's Child - Reviewed by Barbara Marsh

Border Songs - Reviewed by Jules McLeland

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (book) and Tristram Shandy (film) - Reviewed by Stephen Carter

Nature Girl - Reviewed by Jules McLeland

The White Ribbon - A movie review by Mona Hall

Things Fall Apart - Reviewed by Stephen Carter

Year of the Flood - Reviewed by Stephen Carter

Victory - Reviewed by Stephen Carter

Colossus of Maroussi - Reviewed by Mona Hall

War and Peace and The Last Station - reviewed by Stephen Carter

Decision Points - reviewed by Judy Washburn

Jane Eyre - reviewed by Mona Hall

The Kitchen House - reviewed by Martha Garcia

Merle's Door - reviewed by Deb Rhoades

Parking Lot Movie - reviewed by Deb Rhoades

Operation Mincemeat - reviewed by Tina Katzenberger

City of Shadows - reviewed by Tina Katzenberger