Reading List from The Point with Mindy Todd
Titles Mentioned on The Point. Missed the show? Click HERE to listen online!
PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS
Pure sea glass : discovering nature’s vanishing gems / by Richard LaMotte
Shell chic : the ultimate guide to decorating your home with seashells / Marlene Hurley Marshall
In The Company Of Stone : The Art Of The Stone Wall : Walls And Words Dan Snow ; Photographs, Peter Mauss.
Pools by Kelly Klein
Poolside with Slim Aarons
ROMANCE
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
Life, Love and the Pleasures of Literature in Barsetshire (article that first got me interested in Angela Thirkell)
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
Published: January 4, 2008
Summer Blowout
By Claire Cook
The Beach House
By Jane Green
A Summer Affair
By Elin Hilderbrand
Some Assembly Requried
By Lynn Kiele Bonasia
MYSTERIES
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
The Fisher Boy by Stephen Anable
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
The Beijing Games by Pat DePaolo
Murder of an Irish Song by William Dougherty
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
Deadly Shoals by Joan Druett
Delusion by Peter Abrahams
Up All Night is a collection of ghost stories for teens, with one story written by Peter Abrahams
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
Paines Creek Mystery by F. Edward Jersey
CAPE COD/NATURE
The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky
Cape Encounters by Dan Gordon
Law and disorder in Old Nantucket / Frances Ruley Karttunen.
Image of America Series
Cape Cod confidential : true tales of murder, crime, and scandal from the Pilgrims to the present / by Evan J. Albright
Cape Cod harvest : a gathering in of Cape Cod stories / Jim Coogan & Jack Sheedy.
Cape Cod companion : the history and mystery of old Cape Cod / Jack Sheedy, Jim Coogan
Cape Cod voyage : a journey through Cape Cod’s history and lore / Jim Coogan, Jack Sheedy
Sail away ladies : stories of Cape Cod women in the age of sail / Jim Coogan.
Dennis journal / Jack Sheedy
The Cape Cod Canal : breaking through the bared and bended arm / J. North Conway
True accounts of Yankee ingenuity and grit from The Cape Cod voice / Theresa Barbo
Murder hill : a true story of 19th century crime & punishment on Cape Cod / Theresa M. Barbo.
Sloop : restoring my family’s wooden sailboat, an adventure in old-fashioned values / Daniel Robb.
Wildflowers of Cape Cod by Kate Carter
Backyard Birdsong Guide by Donald Kroodsma
MISCELLANEOUS
1001 books you must read before you die / general editor, Peter Boxall ; preface by Peter Ackroyd
Staying Put: making a home in a restless world by Scott Russell Sanders
Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck
LISTENER SUGGESTIONS
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Gathering by Ann Enright
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri