Roberta's Picks

Roberta's Picks

I like fiction and nonfiction equally and for different reasons, I suppose. What really matters to me is good writing, and that of course is to be found in all disciplines. Lately I’ve been reading less fiction but loving it more. Two current favorite novels are Mink River by Brian Doyle and Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. In the nonfiction world, Rebecca Skloot’s science story The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks rocked my world.  I always read Oliver Sacks. I’m currently steeped in memoir by M.F.K. Fisher. I love everything that Molly Gloss and Robin Cody write. Two books I make everyone read are J.R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar and Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. I’m always reading a mystery and a cookbook.

H Is for Hawk By Helen MacDonald Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802124739
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Grove Press - March 8th, 2016

Finally out in paperback!


When Breath Becomes Air By Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese (Foreword by)
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812988406
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Random House - January 12th, 2016

Mink River By Brian Doyle Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780870715853
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Oregon State University Press - October 1st, 2010

Cutting for Stone By Abraham Verghese Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780375714368
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Vintage - January 26th, 2010

The Hearts Of Horses By Molly Gloss Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780547085753
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Harper Perennial - December 8th, 2008

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781400052189
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Crown - March 8th, 2011

Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest By Robin Cody Cover Image
$18.95
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780870715839
Published: Oregon State University Press - March 15th, 2010

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain By Oliver Sacks Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781400033539
Availability: Backordered. There will likely be a delay in getting this book
Published: Vintage - September 23rd, 2008

The Tender Bar: A Memoir By J. R. Moehringer Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780786888764
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Hachette Books - August 1st, 2006

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures By Anne Fadiman Cover Image
$15.00
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780374525644
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 1st, 1997