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The WNBA Book-shelf
Welcome to the WNBA Book-shelf!
WNBA Member Books
WNBA invites readers to visit its national Web site to discover books authored by WNBA members.
WNBA Chapter Book Clubs/Reading Groups
Compiled by the WNBA-Nashville chapter in conjunction with its summer reading and discussion series co-sponsored by Beaman Library/Lipscomb University.
2010
"Themes of War"
Fiction
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (Anchor Books)
Shiloh by Shelby Foote (Vintage)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Mariner Books)
Shoulder the Sky by Anne Perry (Ballantine Books)
Nonfiction
We Band of Angels: The Untold Stories of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth Norman (Atria)
WNBA Nashville Series 2010 (PDF)
2009
"Books Beyond Our Borders: Reading and Writing About Other Cultures"
Fiction
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books)
The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi (Ballantine)
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy, 1) by Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor)
Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said (Anchor)
WNBA Nashville Series 2009 (PDF)
2008
"Food for Thought: Reading and Writing About Food"
Fiction
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Anchor)
Nonfiction
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin (HarperPerennial)
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme (Anchor)
The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader by M.F.K. Fisher (Counterpoint)
A Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (Picador)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Penguin)
Special Interest and Themes
World Connections — Afghanistan
Fiction
Paradise Trilogy: Companions of Paradise by Thalassa Ali (Bantam)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade)
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (Anchor)
Annisa: Daughter of Afghanistan by Kathleen MacArthur (Lulu.com)
The End of Manners by Francesca Marciano (Pantheon)
Nonfiction
However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls & a Journey Home by Awista Ayub (Hyperion)
Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by John Follain (Harper Paperbacks)
The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert (First Second)
Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones (Metropolitan Books)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriquez and Kristin Ohlson (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Back Bay Books)
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart (Harvest Books)
Science
Nonfiction
"Outstanding Science Books by Women Authors" (PDF), compiled by SB&F, the review journal of American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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