Mrs. Longo

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Mrs. Longos Compiled Reading Picks!

• (Organized into Groups By The Wizard of Oz)

- Action / Adventure
- Non-Fiction
- Religion
- Classics
- Fantasy
- Science
- Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Fiction (Continued)
- Thriller
- Historical Fiction
- War
- Inspirational
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Action / Adventure

• Angels and Demons---Larry Fletcher
• The Bleachers (John Grisham) Joel Lang
• Book of the Dead. Dolores Ballintyn
• The Firm Joel Lang
• Michael Chabon (contains adult themes). Tom
  Fleetman
• The Perfect Storm----Dan Kegelman
• The Relic (Lincoln Childs) Ballintyn
• A Time to Kill Joel Lang

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Classics

• Heart of Darkness Longo
• Jekyl and Hyde Longo
• The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)Tom Fleetman
• Sea Wolf Longo
• Uncle Tom's Cabin Longo

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Fantasy

• Bearing an Hourglass Rob Longo
• Blue Moon Rising Rob Longo
• The Children of Men (P .D. James)  Neil Kane
• Dark Tower series (Stephen King) Tom Fleetman
• Dragon Bone Chair series (Tad Williams) Rob
  Longo
• Earthsea series (Ursula K. LeGuins) Rob Longo
• I am Legend, Vampires Rob Longo
• Incarnations Rob Longo
• Lord of the Rings (Tolkein) Rob Longo
• On a Pale Horse Rob Longo

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Fiction

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  (James Rollins) Ballintyn
• Atlas Shrugged is always good for a challenge.
  Fleetman
• Caddy for Life (John Feinstein) Brendan Haley
• Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction  Fleetman
• The Complete Stories (one book anthology) (Flanner
  y O'Connor) Brian Cox
• Curious Incident Sianni
• Devil in the White City Bill McGowan
• Inspector Morse novel (Colin Dexter) White
• The Godfather (Mario Puzo) Katie Orga
• The Five People you meet in Heaven (Mitch Album)
  Shirley Hornyak

The Five People you meet in Heaven (Mitch Album)
Shirley Hornyak Fourth of July (James
Patterson) Cindy Pilipczuk Franny and Zooey.
Tom Fleetman The Human Stain (Phillip Roth)
Sean Tishler Hunt for Red October Joe
Talley Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) Amanda
McMillan (John Irving) The World According to
Garp, Hotel New Hampshire, Widow for One Year, a
Prayer for Owen Meany Sianni Detective story
(PD James) Patti White The Kite Runner Dan
Kegelman and Matt Kegelman Levitt and Stephen J.
Dubner Katie Orga Maniac Magee George
Horn John D. MacDonalds Travis Magee novels
Mark Quinn Mountains Beyond Mountains White
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Fiction (Continued)

• Native Son (Richard Wright) Amanda McMillan
• Nightfall. Mike Johnson
• Outsiders (SE Hinton) Jude Szczerba
• Peace Like a River Sianni
• Raise High the Roof Beam Fleetman
• The Reader (Bernhard Schlink) Shirley Hornyak
• Rule of the Bone (Russell Banks) Wes Fox
• A Simple Plan Matt Kegelman
• Snow in August Mike Gallagher
• The Story of B Tischler

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Historical Fiction

• Caravans (James Michener) Phil Vavala
• Pillars of the Earth Rob Longo
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• The Quiet Light (Louis de Wohl)  Neil Kane

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Inspirational

• The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) Father Bill
  McCandless and Jude Szczerba
• It's not about the Bike My journey back to life
  (Lance Armstrong) LoSapio
• Once a Runner (John L. Parker) LoSapio
• Richest Man in Babylon (George Clason) Joe
  Talley
• Touch the top of the World A Blind man's journey
  to climb farther than the eye can see (Erik
  Weihenmayer) (guy is blind and is on course to
  climb the top highest peaks of all 7 continents!)
  LoSapio
• Ultramarathon Man Confessions of an All-Night
  Runner ( Dean Karnazes)
• (this guy has run for 2 3/4 days
  straight!!!....awesome motivation to do some type
  of exercise a day) LoSapio
•  A walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on
  the Appalachian Trial (Bill Bryson)
• (is you like the outdoors this is a MUST read!)
  LoSapio

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Non-Fiction

• Code of the Streets Decency, Violence, and the
  Moral Life of the Inner City- (Elijah Anderson)
  (about Philly) Tischler
• Democracy Matters (Cornell West)-Every student
  who I have rec'd this to loved it.
• Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the
  Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D.) Katie
  Orga
• Heroic Leadership Best Practices from a
  450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World
  (Paperback) (Chris Lowney) Neil Kane
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• Jackie Chan My Life in Action Tom Vresics
• The Motorcycle Diaries (Che Guerva)
• A People's History of the United States (Howard
  Zinn)-This is a history book that will blow your
  mind.
• The Sacred Fire of Liberty James Madison and
  the of Founding of the Federal Republic (Lance
  Banning) Stacy Bartkowski
• The Shame of the Nation The Restoration of
  Apartheid in Schooling in America
• (Johnathan Kozol)
• Sean Tichler
• Unto the Sons, Phil Vavala

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Religion

• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Mass Market Paperback)
  Christian/Sci-Fi(Walter M Miller) Neil Kane
• Children of Men (P.D. James) Dolores Ballintyn
  and Neil Kane
• Confessions Father Spellman
• Dawkins' God Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of
  Life) Religion Science(Alister McGrath )
  Neil Kane
• That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis) Religious
  Fantasy Neil Kane
• Joshua (Father Joseph Girzone) Tom Vresics

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Science

• Clan of the Cave Bear Brown
• Jurassic Park Brown
• Tears of a Cheetah Monica Brown
• Uncle Tungsten Patti White

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Science Fiction

• Isaac Asimov and Foundation series White,
  Fleetman, and Johnson
• Robot Series (Asimov) Johnson
• Ender books (Orson Scott Cards)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
• Uplift books (David Brin) Tom Fleetman

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Thriller

• Eyes of the Dragon Joe Talley
• Graveyard Shift (Stephen King) Joe Talley
• House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski) Tom Fleetman
•  mystery/suspense/horror (Douglas Preston)
  Ballintyn
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Stacy
  Bartkowski

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War

• 13th Valley, Vietnam, Seniors mature topics,
  violence
• Catch 22, WWII
• Ghost Soldiers, WWII
• War
• Rob Longo