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A Few More of Our Favorite Things

Banner reviewers offer their top picks of the year
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Mixed Media

Phil Christman Jr.

Comics: by Italo Calvino (Penguin Classics)

Fiction: by Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

Nonfiction: by Joan Roughgarden (University of California Press)

            

Ron De Boer

CD: by U2 (Interscope Records)

Fiction: by Lawrence Hill (HarperCollins)
by Aravind Adiga (Free Press)

Juvenile Fiction: by William Bell (Random House Canada)

Movie: (Disney)


Bob Keeley

CD: by U2 (Interscope Records)
You Are Here, by thenewno2 (Vagrant Records)

Nonfiction: by Sarah Arthur (Upper Room)
, by Debra Rienstra and Ron Rienstra (Baker Academic)

TV: Ҡ(Syfy Channel)


Kristy Quist

CD: by Works Progress Administration (RED Distribution)

Fiction: by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam)

Movies: (Dreamworks Video)
Julie & Julia (Sony)

Picture Book: by Bill Staines, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Simon and Schuster)    


Jim Romahn

Nonfiction: by Ron Suskind (HarperCollins)

by Joan Chittister, Saadi Shakur Chishti, Arthur Waskow, and Karen Armstrong (Beacon Press)

by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

by Dambisa Moyo (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Free Press)


Otto Selles

CD: (Putumayo World Music)

Fiction: by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

Movie: (Disney)

Nonfiction: by Margaret Atwood (Anansi)

Website: Pandora Radio (Pandora.com)


Sandy Swartzentruber

Fiction: Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco)

by John Burnham Schwartz (Nan A. Talese)

Magazine: American Craft

Movie: Earth (Disney)        

Nonfiction: by Martha Sielman (Lark Books)


Ron VandenBurg (and family)

CD: (500) Days of Summer Soundtrack (Sire Records)

Game: Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

Movie: (Disney)

TV: Disney Comedies (“JONAS,†â€Hannah Montana,†“Sonny with a Chanceâ€)


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