Readers Connect@the Library

Readers Connect @ the Library is on display now at the Petoskey District Library. The display includes posters of other library patrons along with collections of their favorite books. Display books are available for check-out and are updated frequently, so come and see what the community is reading!

Wendy Bean

Pride and Prejudice - Austen, Jane
The Simple Truth - Baldacci, David
The Da Vinci Code - Brown, Dan
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas, Alexandre
The Smoke Jumper - Evans, Nicholas
The Lost Painting - Harr, Jonathan
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour - L'Amour, Louis
Sarum: the novel of England - Rutherford, Edward
Almost French - Turnbull, Sarah
Sacajawea - Waldo, Anna Lee

Dianna Brown

The Mammoth Hunters - Auel, Jean
The Story of Little Black Sambo - Bannerman, Helen
The Sword of Shannara - Brooks, Terry
Journey to the River Sea - Ibbotson, Eva
The Lemonade Club - Polacco, Patricia
Harry Potter (series) - Rowling, J.K.
Skippyjon Jones - Schachner, Judy
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - Suess, Dr.
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Silverstein, Shel
Little House in the Big Woods - Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Cameron Brunet-Koch

The Velveteen Rabbit - Bianco, Margery Williams
The Secret - Byrne, Rhonda
Personal History - Graham, Katharine
Barefoot - Hilderbrand, Erin
The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindeness - Kaplan Thaler, Linda
The Last Days of Summer - Kluger, Steve
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee, Harper
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable - Lencioni, Patrick
The Last Lecture - Pausch, Randy
The Giving Tree - Silverstein, Shel

Nancy Dwan

Tess of d'Urbervilles - Hardy, Thomas
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne, Nathaniel
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee, Harper
A Sense of the World: how a blind man become history's greatest traveler - Roberts, Jason
Frankenstein - Shelly, Mary
Dracula - Stoker, Bram
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Born on a Blue Day - Tammet, Daniel
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne, Jules
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde, Oscar

Sue Fantini

The Zookeeper's Wife - Ackerman, Diane
The River Wife - Agee, Jonis
The Lace Reader - Barry, Brunonia
Molokai - Brennert, Alan
One Thousand White Women - Fergus, Jim
Water for Elephants - Gruen, Sara
Mistress of the Vatican - Herman, Eleanor
The Heretic's Daughter - Kent, Kathleen
Push Not the River - Martin, James Conroyd
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - See, Lisa

Ron Fowler

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Alexie, Sherman
Keepers of the night: Native American stories and nocturnal activities for children - Caduto, Michael J.
Hunger Games and Catching Fire - Collins, Suzanne
Magic Street - Card, Orson Scott
Little Brother - Doctorow, Cory
The Graveyard Book - Gaiman, Neil
Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs - Guthrie, Woody
Saggy Baggy Elephant - Ingoglia, Gina
Seven arrows - Storm, Hyemeyohsts
Knuffle Bunny - Willems, Mo

Patty Grace

Little Women - Alcott, Louisa May
A Year by the Sea - Anderson, Joan
The Power of Intention - Dyer, Wayne
Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken
The Kite Runner - Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini, Khaled
Yoga: the Path to Holistic Health - Iyengar, B.K.S.
The Poisonwood Bible - Kingslover, Barbara
Atlas Shrugged - Rand, Ayn
The Power of Now - Tolle, Eckhart

Judy Harvey

Things Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua
Peace like a River - Enger, Leif
Voyage: a novel of 1896 - Hayden, Sterling
Mister Pip - James, Lloyd
Ahab's Wife - Naslund, Sena
Giants in the Earth - Rolvaag, O.E.
...and Ladies of the Club - Sautmyer, Helen
Crossing to Safety - Stegner, Wallace
Saints Maybe - Tyler, Anne

Jay Haven

Chronicles. Volume One - Dylan, Bob
Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken
Stormy Weather - Hiaasen, Carl
The Dangerous Book for Boys - Iggulden, Conn
Downtown Owl - Klosterman, Chuck
A Girl Named Zippy - Kimmel, Haven
The Dark Tower (series) - King, Stephen
Under the Dome - King, Stephen
The King Raven Trilogy - Lawhead, Steve
The Vampire Chronicles - Rice, Anne
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut, Kurt

Jodi Haven

Reservation Blues - Alexie, Sherman
The Alchemist - Coelho, Paulo
Thinking In Pictures - Grandin, Temple
She Got Up Off the Couch - Kimmel, Haven
Killing Yourself to Live : 85% of a True Story - Klosterman, Chuck
Life of Pi - Martel, Yann
Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Millman, Dan
Lamb - Moore, Christopher
When You Are Engulfed In Flames - Sedaris, David
Born on a Blue Day - Tammet, Daniel

Joan Holec

Brooklyn Follies - Auster, Paul
People of the Book - Brooks, Geraldine
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Chevalier, Tracy
Chocolat - Harris, Joanne
Conspiracy of Paper - Liss, David
Suite Francaise - Nemirovsky, Irene
The Friendship Test - Noble, Elizabeth
The Lemonade Club - Polacco, Patricia
The Book Thief - Zusak, Markus
1776 - McCullough, David
Blood and Thunder - Sides, Hampton

Matthew Norcross

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams, Douglas
Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain, Anthony
The Forever War - Filkins, Dexter
From Beirut to Jerusalem - Friedman, Thomas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Haddon, Mark
Memoir from Antproof Case - Helprin, Mark
Watchmen - Moore, Alan
The Cabinet of Curiosities - Preston, Douglas
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut, Kurt
The Zero - Walter, Jess

Lori Pall

The Last of the Mohicans - Cooper, James Fenimore
Asterix and the Roman Agent - Goscinny
Chocolat - Harris, Joanne
Coastliners - Harris, Joanne
Five Quarters of the Orange - Harris, Joanne
Rocket Boys - Hickman, Homer
No More Dead Dogs - Korman, Gordon
Liberated String Quilts - Martson, Gwen
The Last Resort: a Moroccan mystery - Posadas, Carmen
Lapham Rising - Rosenblatt, Roger
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, John

Mary Sue Prantera

All Over but the Shoutin' - Bragg, Rick
The Red Tent - Diamant, Anita
The Innocent Man - Grisham, John
The Kite Runner - Hosseini, Khaled
Into Thin Air - Krakauer, Jon
Anything Considered - Mayle, Peter
Angela's Ashes - McCourt, Frank
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - Sedaris, David
Ambulance Girl - Stern, Jane
The Map that Changed the World - Winchester, Simon

Gerald Rein

Deer Hunting with Jesus - Bageant, Joe
House of Cards - Cohan, William
Nickel and Dimed - Ehrenreich, Barbara
Unequal Protection: the rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights - Hartmann, Thom
Inside of a Dog: what dogs see, smell, and know - Horowitz, Alexandra
Merle's Door - Kerasote, Ted
Cesar's Way: the natural, everyday guide... - Millan, Cesar
Water: the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization - Solomon, Steven
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Stein, Garth
Shadow Elite - Wedel, Janine

Sandy Selden

Once More Around the Park - Angell, Roger
To Begin Again - Fisher, M.F.K.
The Year of the French - Flanagan, Thomas
Suite Francaise - Nemirovsky, Irene
The Last Lecture - Pausch, Randy
Out Stealing Horses - Petterson, Per
Brooklyn - Toibin, Colm
Cheating at Canasta - Trevor, William
The Touchstone - Wharton, Edith

Karen Sherrard

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Bradley, C. Alan
New England White - Carter, Stephen
My Life in France - Child, Julia
The Widows' Adventures - Dickens, Charles
Wolf Hall - Mantel, Hilary
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Meloy, Maile
Too Much Happiness - Munro, Alice
Water Touching Stone - Pattison, Eliot
The Help - Stockett, Kathryn
A Short History of Women - Walbert, Kate

Carlin Smith

American West - Ambrose, Stephen
The Greatest Generation - Brokaw, Tom
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bryson, Bill
Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bryson, Bill
Pirate Looks at Fifty: a journal - Buffett, Jimmy
Good to Great: why some companies make the leap, and others don't - Collins, Jim
The Five Temptations of a CEO: a leadership fable - Lencioni, Patrick

Donna Smith

Little Women - Alcott, Louisa May
Jane Eyre - Bronte, Charlotte
Devil in the White City - Larsen, Erik
When the Emperor was Divine - Otsuka, Julie
Tenderness of Wolves - Pinney, Stef
The Golden Compass Trilogy - Pullman, Philip

Emily Smith

Watership Down - Adams, Richard
Pride and Prejudice - Austen, Jane
Wuthering Heights - Bronte, Emily
The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster, Norton
A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle, Madeleine
Dreams from My Father: a story of race and inheritance - Obama, Barack
The Bell Jar - Plath, Sylvia
Me Talk Pretty One Day - Sedaris, David
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut, Kurt
The Book Thief - Zusak, Markus

Dave Snyder

Tuesdays With Morrie - Albom, Mitch
Everville - Barker, Clive
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Bugliosi, Vincent
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Castaneda, Carlos
The Coming Plague - Garrett, Laurie
Siddhartha - Hesse, Herman
When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Kushner, Rabbi Harold
The Search of the Manchurian Candidate - Marks, John
Moby Dick - Melville, Herman
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut, Kurt

Barbara Steele

Peace Like a River - Enger, Lief
The Smoke Jumper - Evans, Nicholas
The City of Shadows - Franklin, Ariana
Modoc - Helfer, Ralph
Shadow Divers - Kurson, Robert
Devil in the White City - Larsen, Erik
The Piano Tuner - Mason, Daniel

Karen Swick

Green Rider (series) - Britain, Kristen
The Sharing Knife (series) - Bujold, Lois McMaster
Redemption of Althalus - Eddings, David
Carpathian series - Feehan, Christine
Why Mermaids Sing - Harris, C.S.
Dark Hunter series and Dream Hunter series - Kenyon, Sherrilyn
Jouster (series) - Lackey, Mercedes
Skullduggery Pleasant - Landy, Derek
The Twilight Saga - Meyer, Stephenie
Maximum Ride (series) - Patterson, James
The Hollow - Roberts, Nora
The Book Thief - Zusak, Markus

Yertle the Turtle

Franklin's Reading World - Bourgeois, Paulette
Voice of the Turtle - Duffina, Mary
The Turtle Warrior - Ellis, Mary R.
Turtle Splash! - Falwell, Cathryn
Turtle Moon - Hoffman, Alice
A Million Visions of Peace: wisdom from the friends of Old Turtle - Garrison, Jennifer
The Legend of Mackinac Island - Wargin, Kathy Jo
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth - Wood, Douglas

Patricia Rodgers

The Princess Diaries (series) - Cabot, Meg
The Elm Creek Quilts album - Chiaverini, Jennifer
Ten Big Ones - Evanovich, Janet
The Benni Harper (series) - Fowler, Earlene
The Luxe (series) - Godbersen, Anna
Joanna Brady Mystery (series) - Jance, J.A.
Wheel of Time (series) - Jordan, Robert
The Mage Winds Trilogy - Lackey, Mercedes
Too Late to Say Goodbye: a true story of muder and betrayal - Rule, Ann
The Boxcar Children (series) - Warner, Gertrude Chandler