BookRounds - October 11, 2009

On October 11, 2009, we walked a "Round" our bookstore and talked about 17 "Books" we like, all in 30 minutes.  Hear the voices of your favorite booksellers as they wax eloquent about the books they love!

 

 

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Here are the books, in the order we talk about them:

 

 

By Mark Burgess, David Benedictus
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9780525421603
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dutton Juvenile, 10/01/2009

It's been 80 years since the publication of "The House at Pooh Corner.” Now they’re back. - Sue


Telex from Cuba (Paperback)

By Rachel Kushner
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781416561040
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner, 06/01/2009

A fascinating, evocative view of Cuba in the 1950s, when Fidel Castro and his brother were starting a guerilla movement and American sugar cane plantations ruled the economy. - Janelle


By Mitch Albom
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780786868728
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Hyperion, 09/01/2009

If you liked Tuesdays With Morrie you will love this book. - Debbie


Love and Summer (Hardcover)

By William Trevor
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021239
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Viking Adult, 09/01/2009

Once again long listed for the Man Booker Award and once again robbed, William Trevor never fails to deliver the perfect, dark Irish novel. - Kathy


By Judy Shepard
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594630576
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Hudson Street Press, 09/01/2009

The book is both an intimate look at Matt and a call to action for still-unresolved issues in Congress and society as a whole. - Janelle


Hush, Hush (Hardcover)

By Becca Fitzpatrick
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781416989417
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 10/01/2009

Partnered in biology with new student Patch, 16-year-old Nora Gray starts seeing things she cannot explain. - Sue


By Josh Lieb
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9781595142405
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Razorbill, 10/01/2009

Hilarious story of a true nerd who rules! - Janelle


Going Bovine (Hardcover)

By Libba Bray
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780385733977
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 09/01/2009

A whole new genre from our beloved Libby Bray, “Going Bovine” tells the story of a boy taking a serious look at his life after being told he has Mad Cow Disease. - Kathy


By Abraham Verghese
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780375414497
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Knopf, 02/01/2009

Once every few years – if you’re lucky – you read a book that you know you’re going to remember all your life, a book that you miss dreadfully now that it’s done, that reaches a part of you you don’t often get to feel, and you like. - Ron


By Jeannette Walls
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781416586289
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner, 10/01/2009

Walls writes this magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hardworking, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. - Debbie


Juliet, Naked (Hardcover)

By Nick Hornby
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594488870
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 09/01/2009

Who doesn’t love stalking their favorite band, even if the bad has been out of commission for over twenty years? - Kathy


By Lauren Grodstein
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129160
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 11/01/2009

This is a story of what happens when all that could be good goes terribly wrong. - Debbie


By Mattox Roesch
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781932961874
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Unbridled Books, 09/01/2009

What happens when a teenage gang member from Los Angeles is moved back to his mother’s childhood home in the smallest of towns in Alaska. - Ron


By Katrina Kenison
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780446409483
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Springboard Press, 09/01/2009

Kenison provides the reader the gift of how to accept and embrace the inevitable time in a mother’s life when her children depart. - Debbie


By Rick Colignon
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781932961966
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Unbridled Books, 09/01/2009

A reissue of a mystical story that haunts and pleases. Crisp, poetic writing marks this evocative gem. - Ron


Madewell Brown (Hardcover)

By Rick Collignon
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9781932961652
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Unbridled Books, 05/01/2009

Collignon’s newest book is dusty, heartbreaking and complex, rich in character, brilliantly executed. - Ron


By Jon Krakauer
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780385522267
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Doubleday, 09/01/2009

Krakauer ("Into the Wild") chronicles the riveting, tragic story of former NFL player Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004, in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. - Sue