Staff Favorites (Books, Films, Music)
 
Cherie Fieser
   Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy / Matthew Scully
Brian Frank
   Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin   
   Killer Angels, The / Michael Shaara 
Amy James
   Mom’s Cancer / Brian Fies
   Stray Shopping Carts / Julian Montague
   Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? A Professor and a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity / Preston Jones
   Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America / Laura Shapiro
Jonathan Lauer
   On Being a Christian / Hans Küng
   Let Yourself Be Loved / Phillip Bennett
Beth Mark
   Nervous Conditions / Tsitsi Dangarembga
   Of this Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest / Tsitsi Dangarembga
   Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time / Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Lawrie Merz
   After-life (directed by Hirokazu Koreeda)
   Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood / Alexandra Fuller
   Bookseller of Kabul, The / Åsne Seierstad
   Mountains beyond Mountains / Tracy Kidder
   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer
Sara Pike
   Essentials / Ellis Paul
   Life is Beautiful (directed by Roberto Benigni)
Beth Transue
   Enrique's Journey / Sonia Nazario
   Storyteller's Daughter / Saira Shah
Janet Vogel
   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
   Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the Way We Cooked / Joanne Lamb Hayes
   Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America / Laura Shapiro
Shawna Raymond
   Blood Diamond / Edward Zwick