BOONE BRIDGE BOOKS HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE - 2009

Welsome to the 2009 Boone Bridge Books Holiday Gift Guide. The folks at Boone Bridge Books have handpicked an assortment of their favorite titles, and discounted the price 32% from list price!

For the cook

Cooking
James Peterson

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In an era of outfitted home kitchens and food fascination, it's no wonder home cooks who never learned the fundamentals of the kitchen are intimidated. Twenty years ago, James Peterson could relate, and so he taught himself by cooking his way through professional kitchens and stacks of books, logging the lessons of his kitchen education one by one. Now one of the country's most revered cooking teachers, Peterson provides the confidence-building instructions home cooks need to teach themselves to cook consistently with ease and success. COOKING is the only all-in-one instructional that details the techniques that cooks really need to master, teaches all the basic recipes, and includes hundreds of photos that illuminate and inspire. Cooking authority James Peterson's definitive, all-inclusive learn-to-cook cookbook. 600 hard-working recipes everyone should know how to make-from the perfect roasted chicken to bouillabaisse and apple pie. 1,500 instructional photos, showing exactly how recipes are made, teach food-literate novices to cook with confidence and more advanced cooks to expand their repertoire.

Best Non-fiction in 2009

National Parks: America’s Best Idea
Ken Burns

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The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind "The Civil War, Baseball, " and "The War"

America's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.

The authors recount the adventures, mythmaking, and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park system, and the enduring ideals that fostered its growth. They capture the importance and splendors of the individual parks: from Haleakala in Hawaii to Acadia in Maine, from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida, from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas. And they introduce us to a diverse cast of compelling characters--both unsung heroes and famous figures such as John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ansel Adams--who have been transformed by these special places and committed themselves to saving them from destruction so that the rest of us could be transformed as well."

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer

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The bestselling author of "Into the Wild," "Into Thin Air," and "Under the Banner of Heaven" delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey.

"Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.

In "Where Men Win Glory," Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account" "of the events and actions that led to his death.

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

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Winner of the prestigious Booker Mann Award for 2009.  

“There are no new stories, only new ways of telling them. Set during Henry VIII’s tumultuous, oft-covered reign, this epic novel . . . proves just how inspired a fresh take can be. [Mantel] is an author as audacious as Anne [Boleyn] herself, imagining private conversations between public figures and making it read as if she had a glass to the wall.” - People Magazine (four stars, People Pick)

In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of the half-made society of Henry the VIII’s Tudor England, on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.

Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger

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Author of one of the most beloved first novels in recent years (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Niffenegger returns with an unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, a novel about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life -- even after death.

 A Wonderfully Entertaining Read.

Best Children's Picture Books

All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon and Marla Frazee

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Through poetic verse and illustrations by a Caldecott Honor artist, a circle of family and friends shows the importance of all things, great and small, as readers follow them through a day, from morning until night. Full color.  A lush and beautiful book that will be a family favorite.

The Lion & the Mouse
Jerry Pinkney

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Jerry Pinkney is one of children’s literatures time honored artists. In award-winning art, this wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's trap. With vivid depictions of the landscape of the African Serengeti and expressively-drawn characters, Pinkney makes this a truly special retelling, and his stunning pictures speak volumes.