Elaine Petrocelli was on the Ronn Owens Show on KGO on December 21st, where she and talk show host Ronn Owens discussed some recommended books. Here is a checklist of those titles. A more fully annotated page listing these books will be posted to the Book Passage website shortly.
GIFT BOOKS
Grantland
McSweeneys $19.95
call to place an order
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees
Nancy Hugo $29.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781604692198
Italian Racing Bicycles: The People, The Products, The Passion
Guido Rubino $39.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781934030660
The Conference of the Birds
Peter Sis/Rumi $29.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781594203060
Italian Baker (revised)
Carol Field $35.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781607741060
Pilgrimage ***
Annie Leibovitz $50.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375505089
NON-FICTION
Extra Virginity
Tom Mueller $25.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780393070217
The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation about America
Tom Brokaw $26.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781400064588
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert Massie $ 35.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780679456728
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
Elizabeth Letts, $26.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780345521088
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Adam Gopnik $25.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307593450
FICTION
The Language of Flowers
Vannessa Diffenbaugh $25.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780345525543
-- companion book
A Victorian Flower Dictionary
Mandy Kirkby, Vanessa Diffenbaugh $22.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780345532862
The Cat’s Table ***
Michael Ondaatje $26.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307700117
The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka $22.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307700001
The Drop
Michael Connelly $27.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780316069410
Love and Shame and Love ***
Peter Orner $24.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780316129398
Oracle of Stamboul
Michael David Lukas $13.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780062012104
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson $15.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307949493
Dead Love zombie fiction
Linda Watanabe McFerrin $14.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781933330907
The Hunter not yet released
John Lescroart $26.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780525952565
Anything by Daniel Silva – spy fiction
KIDS BOOKS AND BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS
Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents Travel Book
Michael DuBois, Katri Hilden, Jane Price
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208145
Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents London: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208169
Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents Paris: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208176
Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents New York: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208152
Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents Rome: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208183
Time Travelling Fashionista
Biana Turetsky $17.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780316105422
Inheritance ***
Christopher Paolini $27.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375856112
Book Thief
Markus Zusak $12.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375842207
Here Comes Grandma!
Janet Lord and Julie Paschkis $13.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780805076660
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
Sherri Duskey Rinker (Author), Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator) $16.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780811877824
Secrets at Sea
Richard Peck and Kelly Murphy $16.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780803734555
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
Chris Van Allsburg $24.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780547548104
The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater $17.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780545224901
The Emerald Atlas
John Stephens $17.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375868702
Bigger than a Bread Box
Laurel Snyder $16.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375869167
*** some autographed copies available
