What We're Reading

What We’re Reading reviews showcase leisure books that YBP employees have been reading. We hope you enjoy their commentary.


August 2010
Oprah: A Biography

April 2010
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

March 2010
Futurotextiel: Surprising Textiles, Design & Art
The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun)

February 2010
Forbidden Fruit: the History of Women and Books in Art
Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

January 2010
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

December 2009
The Death of Bunny Munro

November 2009
Brooklyn: A Novel

October 2009
Ghosts
Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food

July 2009
Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Pygmy

June 2009
Barbie and Ruth: the Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her
Indian Textiles

May 2009
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World

April 2009
World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

March 2009
Existentialism: For Beginners

February 2009
Deniability
Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books

January 2009
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan

December 2008
Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists
They Made Their Mark: An Illustrated History of the Society of Woman Geographers

October 2008
Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-The Building of the Panama Canal

September 2008
Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600

August 2008
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

July 2008
Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

June 2008
America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation
The Complete Pompeii

March 2008
Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries
Exposed: the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products: Who's at Risk and What's at Stake for American Power
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
Sharing the Harvest: a Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

February 2008
Black Magic
Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

January 2008
Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

December 2007
Russian Textiles: Printed Cloth for the Bazaars of Central Asia
New Worlds: Extrasolar Planets

November 2007
28: Stories of Aids in Africa
American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland
Jean Muir: Beyond Fashion

October 2007
Philadelphia 1777: Taking the Capital
Sacred Games

September 2007
Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife
Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey through the Solar System

August 2007
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice

July 2007
Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
The Tale of the Children of Hurin

June 2007
Molecular Gastronomy

May 2007
Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007
Thunderstruck
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog

April 2007
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt

March 2007
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
The Seventy Great Journeys in History
Using Pop Culture to Teach Information Literacy: Methods to Engage a New Generation

February 2007
Fire in the City: Savonarola in Renaissance Florence
Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore

January 2007
Roar of the Heavens
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Terrifying Epidemic -and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World