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Books We Love

Favorite books of some prominent Multnomah County residents featured in a Collins Gallery exhibit October 15 - November 6, 2006.

Ardizzone, Edward: Tim and Charlotte

Selected by the Honorable Thomas Balmer (Oregon Supreme Court Justice)
Berch, Bettina: Radical by Design: The Life and Style of Elizabeth Hawes

Selected by Chloe Eudaly (owner, Reading Frenzy book store)
Boyle, Kevin: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Selected by Lucinda Parker (painter)
Forest, Heather (a folktale retold by): Stone Soup

Selected by Mayor Tom Potter (Mayor, City of Portland)
Frankl, Viktor Emil: Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy

Selected by Christopher Mattaliano (General Director, Portland Opera)
Fromm, Erich: Escape From Freedom

Selected by Ethan Seltzer (Director, Portland State University School of Urban Studies and Planning)
Galeano, Eduardo H.: Memory of Fire trilogy (Genesis, Faces & Masks, Century of the Wind)

Selected by Olga Sanchez (Miracle MainStage Artistic Director, Miracle Theater)
Goffen, Rona: Giovanni Bellini

Selected by Lucinda Parker (painter)
Goleman, Daniel and Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee: Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Selected by Preston Pulliams (President, Portland Community College)
Graham, Bob: Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate

Selected by Sharon Harmon (Executive Director, Oregon Humane Society)
Hawes, Elizabeth: (all books)

Selected by Chloe Eudaly (owner, Reading Frenzy book store)
Hemingway, Ernest: (all books)

Selected by M. Ward (singer-songwriter)
Him, Chanrithy: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Selected by Lillian Tsai (President, TsaiComms)
Jones, Robert Edmond: The Dramatic Imagination

Selected by Christopher Mattaliano (General Director, Portland Opera)
Keats, John: Letters of John Keats

Selected by David Biespiel (poet, Director of The Attic Writers' Workshop
Kerr, M. E.: Night Kites

Selected by Daria O'Neill (radio host)
Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion

Selected by Brian Rohter (Chief Executive Officer, New Seasons Market)
Kessler, Cristina: One Night: A Story from the Desert

Selected by Baba Wagué Diakité (ceramic artist, author and illustrator)
Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book

Selected by Lucinda Parker (painter)
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim

Selected by Ursula LeGuin (writer)
Lansing, Alfred: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Selected by Ted Wheeler (Chair, Multnomah County Board of Commissioners)
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird

Selected by Molly Raphael (Director, Multnomah County Library)
Mango, Cyril: Byzantium, the Empire of New Rome

Selected by Lucinda Parker (painter)
McHarg, Ian: Design with Nature

Selected by Ethan Seltzer (Director, Portland State University School of Urban Studies and Planning)
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita

Selected by Steve Duin (Oregonian Metro columnist)
Perkins, John: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Mayor Charles Becker (Mayor, City of Gresham)
Robb, Esther Chapman: There's Something About a River

Selected by Ethan Seltzer (Director, Portland State University School of Urban Studies and Planning)
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos: The Shadow of the Wind

Selected by Senator Kate Brown (Oregon State Senate)
Russell, Mary Doria: The Sparrow

Caprial Pence (chef, author, television co-host, owner of Caprial's Bistro)
Russell, Mary Doria: A Thread of Grace

Selected by Lucinda Parker (painter)
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de: The Little Prince

Selected by Vadim Riskin (co-founder, Slavic Coalition of Oregon)
Sholem Aleichem: Tewje the Milkman

Selected by Carlos Kalmar (Music Director, Oregon Symphony)
Smiley, Tavis (introduction by): The Covenant with Black America

Selected by Joyce Harris (Director, The Equity Center) and by Tony Hopson (President and Chief Executive Officer, Self Enhancement, Inc.)
Stafford, Kim: Having Everything Right: Essays of Place

Selected by Ethan Seltzer (Director, Portland State University School of Urban Studies and Planning)
Steinbeck, John: East of Eden

Selected by M. Ward (singer-songwriter)
Swift, Jonathan: A Modest Proposal

Selected by damali ayo (performance artist)
Thomas, Dylan: A Child's Christmas in Wales

Selected by the Honorable Thomas Balmer (Oregon Supreme Court Justice)
Van Allsburg, Chris: The Polar Express

Selected by Emily Powell (Director of Used Books, Powell's Books)
Warren, Robert Penn: All the King's Men

Selected by Nigel Jaquiss (journalist, Willamette Week reporter)
Waterston, Ellen: Then There Was No Mountain: The Parallel Odyssey of a Mother and Daughter Through Addiction

Selected by Eloise Damrosch (Executive Director, Regional Arts & Culture Council)
Werfel, Franz: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Selected by Carlos Kalmar (Music Director, Oregon Symphony)
Woolf, Virginia: Orlando

Selected by Wendy Radmacher-Willis (Executive Director, City Club of Portland)
Wright, Austin Tappan: Islandia

Selected by Ethan Seltzer (Director, Portland State University School of Urban Studies and Planning)
Yogananda, Paramahansa: Autobiography of a Yogi

Selected by Wade McCollum (actor and musician)