Librarian presents 38 books for holiday gifts
Looking for the perfect holiday gift? Give a book, says Jane Sharpe, McDaniel Associate Librarian Emerita, during her much anticipated annual Books Sandwiched In presentation of suggested books for holiday gift giving.
This year’s holiday gift list featured books for toddlers, children, teens and adults, fiction and non-fiction, history and cookbooks. Most were published in 2011 – and every one was read by Sharpe before it earned her gift approval.
Jane Sharpe’s Holiday Book Gift List
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
The Winter Palace: a novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
The Next Always: (Book one of the Inn Boonsboro trilogy) by Nora Roberts
She-wolves: the women who ruled England before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster by Joshua Kendall
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, terror and an American family by Erik Larson
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
Boomer Days by Gus Russo
And the Rest is History by Marlene Wagman-Geller
Annapolis: City on the Severn: a history by Jane Wilson McWilliams
The Untold Civil War: exploring the human side of war by James Robertson–ed. Neil Kagan
Carroll County – Then & Now by Catherine Baty & Jerry Trescott
Debbie Macomber’s Christmas Cookbook by Debbie Macomber
The Neelys’ Celebration Cookbook by Patrick Neely & Gina Neely
Momofuku Milk Bar by Christina Tosi
I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was) by Bill Cosby
If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t) by Betty White
If Cats Could Talk: the meaning of meow by Michael Fertig
Weird But True 3! : 300 Outrageous facts by National Geographic Children’s Books
Everything on It by Shel Silverstein
Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson & Chris Tebbetts
Home for the Holidays (The Mother Daughter Book Club) by Heather Vogel Frederick
Wonderstruck: a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick
The Aviary by Kathleen O’Dell
Can You See What I See?: Toyland Express by Walter Wick
The Wizard of Oz – Scanimation by Rufus Butler Seder
You Are What You Eat and Other Mealtime Hazards by Serge Bloch
If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff & Felicia Bond
Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak
Strega Nona’s Gift by Tomie de Paola
Home for Christmas by Jan Brett
The Magical Christmas Horse by Mary Higgins Clark, Illus. Wendell Minor
One Night in Bethlehem by Jill Roman Lord, Illus. Paige Keiser
My Little Maryland ABC by Cliff Read Books
Dragons & Monsters by Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda