What We're Reading

What We’re Reading reviews showcase some of the leisure books that YBP employees from departments around the company have been reading, and usually, enjoying. Many of our staff like nothing more than to share their opinions about books. We hope you enjoy their comments.

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