Staff Favorites (Reviews of Books, DVDs, CDs)
Fiction
   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer
   Killer Angels, The / Michael Shaara
   Mom’s Cancer / Brian Fies
   Nervous Conditions / Tsitsi Dangarembga
Non-Fiction
   As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s / Karal Ann Marling
   Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation’s Most Ordinary Citizen / Kevin O’Keefe
   Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy / Matthew Scully
   Enrique's Journey / Sonia Nazario
   Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the Way We Cooked / Joanne Lamb Hayes
   Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? A Professor And a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion,    Naturalism & Christianity / Preston Jones
   Let Yourself Be Loved / Phillip Bennett
   On Being a Christian / Hans Küng
   Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America / Laura Shapiro
   Stray Shopping Carts / Julian Montague
   Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin
   The Storyteller's Daughter / Saira Shah
   The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time (Murray Library has most of them!)
Films
   After-life (directed by Hirokazu Koreeda)
   Life is Beautiful (directed by Roberto Benigni)
   Blood Diamond (directed by Edward Zwick)
Music
   Essentials / Ellis Paul
Memoirs/Autobiographies, etc.
   Bookseller of Kabul, The / Åsne Seierstad
   Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood / Alexandra Fuller
   Mountains beyond Mountains / Tracy Kidder
   Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest / Ruth Wiebe
   Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time / Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin