Books for Blazers 3rd edition (Summer Reading 2009)

Ben ... Bird By Bird

 Brandon ... Shogun

 Channing ... For Whom the Bell Tolls

 Dave ... Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

Greg ... A Few Words From the Chair

Jerryd ... The Red and the Black

 Joel ... Quiet Strength

 LaMarcus ... The Four Insights

 Martell ... Basketball Defense: Lessons from the Legends

 Michael ... Way of the Peaceful Warrior

 Nicolas ... The Count of Monte Cristo

 Raef ... Lush Life (Richard Price)

Rudy ... Sometimes a Great Notion

Sergio ... Journey to Ixtlan

 Shavlik ... The Immense Journey

Steve ... Summer of the Monkeys

Travis ... The Fearful Void

"Come to the edge, He said.

 They said, We are afraid.

 Come to the edge, He said.

 They came. He pushed them ... And they flew"

 Guillaume Apollaire)

 Blind Your Ponies, last year's selection for Steve, is an uplifting story about high school basketball. The title refers to the response by Crow warriors to great tragedy.

This is a re-post with potential modifications.  I'd appreciate suggestions for alternative titles. 

BEN … Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff

BRANDON … Into the Cool: Poems by David Saxton)

CHANNING … The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

DAVE … Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig 

GREG … Manchild in a Promised Land, by Claude Brown

IKE … Under the Sweetwater Rim, by Louis L’Amour

JERRYD … Assassin’s Apprentice, by Robin Hobb

JOEL … Power of One, by Bryce Courteney

LAMARCUS … The Way of the Coyote, by Elmer Kelton … change to … All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy?

MARTELL … Understanding Driving: Applying Cognitive Psychology to a Complex Everyday Task

NICOLAS … Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Dana ... change to ... Watch For Me on the Mountain, by Forrest Carter?

RAEF … Changing Lanes: Road Maps to Midlife Renewal

RUDY .… Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain

SERGIO … Love in the Fast Lane (by Jenna McKnight) ... change to ... Forced Entries, by Jim Carroll 

SHAVLIK … Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguru

STEVE … Blind Your Ponies, by Stanley Gordon West

TRAVIS … Trout Fishing in America, by Richard Brautigan