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Let the Great World Spin (Paperback)

By Colum Mccann
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812973990
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 6/2010
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A deserving winner of the National Book Award, this novel ties together its main characters during the tight rope walk between the twin towers, in 1974. The story weaves them together to a beautiful finish, with each character trying to find a balance in their own life.

The Dark Divine (Hardcover)

By Bree Despain
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781606840573
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Published: EgmontUSA, 12/2009
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Grace Divine knows something is up with her dark, mysterious friend/ more-than-friend, Daniel, but she can’t quite figure it out, and neither could I. This clean teen read has a whole new supernatural spin on it, tied in, of course, with forbidden love, family drama and high school scandal.

Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)

By Chuck Klosterman
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781416544203
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Published: Scribner, 10/2009
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Chuck is back again with his witty and satirical essays on pop culture, answering many of the questions we ask ourselves about heavy metal, presidential elections and America in general.

 

 


Kathy's Past Picks

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)

By Betty Smith
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780061120077
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 6/2006
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A book I re-read about three times a year and never tire of, it is a coming of age story about a girl living in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn tenements with her family during the depression and WWII. The family saga told by Francie Nolan beginning at age eleven and ending at age sixteen, is beautifully written, and something every girl can relate to, no matter what generation. It is a truly timeless piece of Americana.

Shiver (Hardcover)

By Maggie Stiefvater
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780545123266
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Published: Scholastic Press, 8/2009
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Shiver is the new Twilight! Vampires are out and Werewolves are in, in this new wonderfully written young adult novel about a girl in love with a Werewolf. Teen angst rears its ugly head in a whole new way when winter falls and Sam must leave Grace for his world in the woods with the pack. A cliff hanger ending leaves you hoping for a sequel.

Love and Summer (Hardcover)

By William Trevor
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021239
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Published: Viking Adult, 9/2009
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Once again long listed for the Man Booker and once again robbed, William Trevor never fails to deliver the perfect, dark Irish novel. The love affair between Ellie and Florian is exciting and poetic, unlike the love between Ellie and her husband which is quiet and respectful. Forced to choose, the book ends with the summer, and Ellie’s decision.

Juliet, Naked: a novel (Hardcover)

By Nick Hornby
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594488870
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 9/2009
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Who doesn’t love stalking their favorite band? Even if the bad has been out of commission for over twenty years? Annie and Duncan love Tucker Crowe, or at least Duncan does. When an acoustic version of his last album “Juliet” comes out (“Juliet, Naked”) Annie writes a review on the Tucker Crowe lovers Blog about how it could not compare to the real thing. Tucker reads it and starts an email correspondence and Duncan dumps her. What is revealed from there will make you laugh out loud with the traditional Hornby Brit Wit.

The Four Corners of the Sky (Hardcover)

By Michael Malone
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ISBN-13: 9781570717444
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Sourcebooks Landmark, 5/2009
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The long awaited new novel from Michael Malone, "Four Corners of the Sky provides us with the same quality of rich characters as his previous novels. A smooth flowing story of a girl left behind by her con artist father, at the age of seven to be raised by an aunt and uncle in North Carolina. With nothing but an airplane to remember him by, Annie soon forgets her father, only to be revisited at the age of 27 by his dying wish to see her and the plane. A country-wide adventure ensues.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Paperback)

By Marisha Pessl
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143112129
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 5/2007
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Part mystery, part homework assignment from senior year, but all literature, Special Topics has you on the edge of your seat with an ending that no one saw coming. Critics say it is reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” but having read both I say it is so much more.  A suicidal campout, secret society costume party and an enigmatic past of the heroine, Blue, tie together one of the best books I have ever read.

Prodigal Summer (Paperback)

By Barbara Kingsolver
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060959036
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial, 10/2001
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The most informative fictional piece of work I have ever read, written in true Barbara Kingsolver style it weaves together human love and nature in the Southern US. The story moves seamlessly through three lives in a small Kentucky town. The young native Deanna, who quietly studies coyotes in her government shack up on the mountain, the transplant, Lusa, who is coming to terms with death and inheritance of a farm and lifestyle that she knows nothing about, and the old timer, Garnett, who has dedicated himself to his Chestnut trees after his wife’s death and his son’s indiscretion. You will come away more informed about coyotes, and their return to the south, moth sex lives, the American chestnut and southern life in general.

Then We Came to the End (Paperback)

By Joshua Ferris
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780316016391
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Published: Back Bay Books, 2/2008
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Written with an omnipresent narrator (until disclosed on the last page) this book reveals the inner workings of the lives in what could be any office setting in the early stages of a lay off. The close talker, the annoying habit guy, and the gossip with 80’s hair are some of the characters that we can all relate to in our work environments, but Ferris develops their characters into something else entirely by the end.

The Oxford Project (Hardcover)

By Stephen G. Bloom, Peter Feldstein
$50.00
ISBN-13: 9781599620480
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Published: Welcome Books, 9/2008
Small town America captured one person at a time. In 1984 Peter Feldstein took one picture of everyone in Oxford, Iowa. He filed the 674 pictures and ignored them for 23 years. In 2006, he came back to Oxford and took everyone's picture again. Now each page has both pictures and a verbatim bio of the remaining Oxfordites.

Revenge of the Spellmans (Hardcover)

By Lisa Lutz
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781416593386
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 3/2009
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The third installment of the Spellman Series continues to deliver the ridiculous antics of the employees of Spellman Investigations, aka the Spellman family. Avoiding court ordered therapy, squatting, throwing the PSAT, ex boyfriend #12, and a Rae/Henry standoff are just a few things you have to look forward to, as we wait another year to find out if Izzy will ever grow up.

Going Bovine (Hardcover)

By Libba Bray
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780385733977
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 9/2009
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A whole new genre from our beloved Libba Bray, “Going Bovine” tells the story of a boy taking a serious look at his life after being told he has Mad Cow Disease. Yes, seriously. Accompanied by a punk rock angel, a garden gnome and a dwarf he goes searching for the cure. The content (unlike her previous books) is definitely for a teen audience, parents take note!
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