Danielle Recommends:

, by Alice Munro Alice Munro has given us another stunning collection of short stories. And they have a lot of weight to them. I feel implicated; like she's told me things I can never walk away from.

Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story, From Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
Michael Allin chronicles the journey of a remarkable animal, packing in enough history and giraffe lore to guarantee a unique and fascinating read

, by Ken Cuthbertson
Emily Hahn did it all, way ahead of her time. And she wrote about it in hundreds of articles for The New Yorker and more than fifty books. Yet not many people have heard of her. I found this biography because I knew she kept gibbons while living in China. But that's just a minor detail.

, by Daniel Woodrell
"Hillbilly Noir" is the best description of Woodrell's writing that I've come across. Tomato Red is a slick rendering of hapless, poetic, criminal-types set in the Ozarks.

The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of Animals : A Visual Who's Who of the World's Creatures, by Philip Whitfield
An absolutely gorgeous and comprehensive catalog of the vertebrates. It's worth having for the illustrations alone, but the descriptions and overviews are written by expert zoologists, making it a fine reference for the non-scientist.

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