Book Passage picks on the Ronn Owens Show

Elaine Petrocelli was on the Ronn Owens Show on KGO on December 21st, where she and show host Ronn Owens discussed some recommended books. The shows feature engaging conversation and excellent reading recommendations! Here is a checklist of the titles they spoke about. A more fully annotated and illustrated page listing these books has been posted to the Book Passage website.

 GIFT BOOKS 

Grantland
McSweeneys $19.95
call (415) 927-0960 to place an order

Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees
Nancy Hugo $29.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781604692198

Italian Racing Bicycles: The People, The Products, The Passion
Guido Rubino $39.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781934030660

The Conference of the Birds
Peter Sis/Rumi $29.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781594203060

Italian Baker (revised)
Carol Field $35.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781607741060

Pilgrimage  *** 
Annie Leibovitz $50.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375505089

NON-FICTION

Extra Virginity  
Tom Mueller  $25.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780393070217

The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation about America
Tom Brokaw  $26.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781400064588

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert Massie $ 35.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780679456728

The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
Elizabeth Letts, $26.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780345521088

The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Adam Gopnik $25.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307593450

FICTION

The Language of Flowers  
Vannessa Diffenbaugh $25.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780345525543

-- companion book
A Victorian Flower Dictionary
Mandy Kirkby, Vanessa Diffenbaugh $22.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780345532862

The Cat’s Table  *** 
Michael Ondaatje $26.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307700117

The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka  $22.00
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307700001

The Drop
Michael Connelly $27.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780316069410

Love and Shame and Love  *** 
Peter Orner $24.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780316129398

Oracle of Stamboul
Michael David Lukas $13.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780062012104

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson  $15.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780307949493

Dead Love  zombie fiction
Linda Watanabe McFerrin $14.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781933330907

The Hunter not yet released
John Lescroart  $26.95
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780525952565

KIDS BOOKS & BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS

Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents Travel Book
Michael DuBois, Katri Hilden, Jane Price
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208145

Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents London: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208169

Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents Paris: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208176

Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents New York: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208152

Lonely Planet Not-for-Parents Rome: Everything You Wanted to Know
Klay Lamprell
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781742208183

Time Travelling Fashionista
Biana Turetsky $17.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780316105422

Inheritance *** 
Christopher Paolini $27.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375856112

Book Thief
Markus Zusak $12.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375842207

Here Comes Grandma!
Janet Lord and Julie Paschkis  $13.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780805076660

Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
Sherri Duskey Rinker (Author), Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator)   $16.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780811877824

Secrets at Sea
Richard Peck and Kelly Murphy  $16.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780803734555

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
Chris Van Allsburg $24.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780547548104

The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater $17.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780545224901

The Emerald Atlas
John Stephens  $17.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375868702

Bigger than a Bread Box
Laurel Snyder  $16.99
http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780375869167

 ***  some autographed copies available