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EIGHT FORTY-EIGHT

Al Gini's Holiday Book Bag

Originally broadcast December 16, 2004

Resident philosopher Al Gini stops by to recommend 11 books he thinks would make great gifts for friends, for family, or for yourself!

Fiction

  

Nonfiction
Justin Cronin, The Summer Guest (The Dial Press, 2004)   Bernard M. Corbett and Paul Simpson, The Only Game That Matters: The Harvard/Yale Rivalry (Crown, 2004)
     
Nuruddin Farah, Links (Riverhead Books, 2004)   Aidan Hartley, The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003)
     
Moses Isegawa, Snakepit (Knopf, 2004)   Carl Honore, In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (HarperSanFrancisco, 2004)
     
Ernesto Quinonez, Chango's Fire (Rayo, 2004)   Mark C. Ross, Dangerous Beauty—Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide (Miramax Books, 2003)
     
Lisa Reardon, The Mercy Killers (Counterpoint Press, 2004)    
     
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)    
     
Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club (Pantheon, 2004)    

 
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