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Welcome to the Author Archive for Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
Wrapping Up Cannonball Read III: Everybody Wins!
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Best Books of Cannonball Read III
The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher by Robert Kraus (and Other Reviews from Our Junior Cannonballers)
Don't Call Me Ishmael by Michael Girard Bauer
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
Cannonball Read IV - What Do You Want to Read Before the Apocalypse?
Cannonball Read IV - A Changing of the Guard
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Prometheus Deception by Robert Ludlum
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Food Matters Cookbook by Mark Bittman
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
Pursuit by Karen Robards
Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Strong Shall Live by Louis L'Amour
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel Levitin
The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven: How a Ragtag Group of Fans Took the Fall for Major League Baseball by Aaron Skirboll
Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy by Louise Bates Ames
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World by Jenna and Bob Torres
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
That Day in September by Artie Van Why
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent
Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams
City of Dreams & Nightmare by Ian Whates
A Lady's Lesson in Scandal by Meredith Duran
The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bond
Cannonball Read III Presents: Summer Reads
Summary Reviews of the Shortlisted Books for the 2011 Carnegie Medal
Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, and Erin Torneo
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Papillon by Henri Charriere
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Walking In Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel by Karen Karbo
The Bourne Series: From Identity to Deception by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader
Wake series by Lisa McMann
Cannonball Read III: And the Winner Is...
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
The New Kings of Non-Fiction edited by Ira Glass
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything For American Women by Rebecca Traister
It Gets Better edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches by Zack Hample
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Judi Dench: With a Crack in Her Voice by John Miller
Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim Cooper
One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement by Rodney Rothman
Here's the Situation: A Guide to Creeping on Chicks, Avoiding Grenades, and Getting in Your GTL on the Jersey Shore by Mike Sorentino with Chris Millis
A Shore Thing by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Deus ex Machina by Andrew Foster Altschul
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Traitors' Gate by Kate Elliott
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Player One: What Is to Become of Us by Douglas Coupland
In Defense of Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
Trickster: An Anthropological Memoir by Eileen Kane
Lost and Found: An Afternoon Comment Diversion
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America by Kate Zernike
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow
Book Review: Carry Me Home by Sandra Krig
A Body to Die for by Kate White
PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
Electric Literature No. 1 Stories from Michael Cunningham, Jim Shepard, T Cooper, Lydia Millet, Diana Wagman
Sliver by Ira Levin
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! By Mykle Hansen
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Being Wrong by Katheryn Schulz
Vampire Hunter D Vol 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane
Journey into America by Akbar Ahmed
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? by Charlise Lyles
The Greatest Gift Is a Passion for Reading
Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley
The Body Shop by Paul Solotaroff
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
The Passage by Justin Cronin
I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
Hater by David Moody
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
Derby Girl by Shauna Cross
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
How to Cook Like a Top Chef
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees
H. P. Lovecraft: The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged by
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Book Review: "The Time of the Hero" by Mario Vargas Llosa
And They're Off!