Staff Picks: Staff Picks

1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart

Alone Together by Sherry Turkle

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America by Katherine Beckett; Steven Kelly Herbert

Beyond Nature's Housekeepers by Nancy C. Unger

The Brides of March : Memoir of a Same-sex Marriage by Beren deMotier

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Corfu Trilogy by Durrell, Gerald

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Diving into the Wreck 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich

The Dreaded Feast by Taylor Plimpton (Editor); Michele Clarke (Editor); P. J. O'Rourke

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow

Driftless by David Rhodes

Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case by David E. Stannard

Hope by Shalom Auslander

The Horizontal World by Debra Marquart

The Last Holiday by Gil Scott Heron

Law Man by Shon Hopwood; Dennis Michael Burke

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Long Way Home : An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin

My Life in France by Julia Child; Alex Prud'homme

No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech by Lucinda Roy

Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich

Red Dog by Louis de Bernières

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson (Illustrator); Thomas Warburton (Translator)

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

8 1/2 by Federico Fellini

Chinatown by Roman Polanski

Collapse by Chris Smith

Desk Set by Walter Lang

Eames : the architect and the painter by Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey

The Future of Food by Deborah Koons

George Washington by David Gordon Green

Life of Pi by Ang Lee

Love Actually by Richard Curtis

My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki

Obselidia by Diane Bell

Raising Arizona by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Rare Exports by Jalmari Helander

Romantics Anonymous by Jean-Pierre Améris

The Shop Around the Corner by Ernst Lubitsch

Tetsuo by Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks

Sanjuro by Akira Kurosawa