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Sept. 14,
2009 |
So Brave,
Young, and
Handsome
by Leif
Enger
At turns
merry and
wistful,
romantic and
tragic, this
saga of
redemption
set in the
early 20th
century West
is as
absorbing as
a campfire
tale, full
of winking
outlaws and
relentless
villains--the
sort of
story to
keep you on
the edge of
your seat
with hope in
your heart.
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Oct.
5, 2009 |
Olive
Kitteridge
by Elizabeth
Strout
At the
edge of the
continent,
in the small
town of
Crosby,
Maine, lives
Olive
Kitteridge,
a retired
junior high
teacher who
unapologetically
crashes
through life
like an
emotional
storm-trooper,
is the axis
around which
this "novel
in stories"
spins.
Olive
deplores the
changes in
her town and
in the world
at large but
doesn't
always
recognize
the changes
in those
around her.
Winner of
the 2009
Pulitzer
Prize.
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Nov.
2, 2009 |
River of
Heaven
by Lee
Martin
On an
April
evening in
1955, a boy
named Dewey
died on the
railroad
tracks
outside Mt.
Gilead,
Illinois,
and the
mystery of
his death
still
confounds
the people
of this
small town.
Fifty years
later,
Dewey's
friend, Sam
Brady, would
do anything
to keep from
telling the
story of
what really
happened.
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Dec.
7, 2009 |
Special
Topics in
Calamity
Physics
by Marisha
Pessl
Written
in the
format of a
course
syllabus and
studded with
footnotes,
some real,
many
invented,
this first
novel is
part
coming-of-age
story/part
murder
mystery.
It combines
the suspense
of
Hitchcock,
the
self-parody
of Dave
Eggers, and
the
storytelling
gifts of
Donna Tartt
with a
dazzling
intelligence
and wit
entirely
Pessl's own.
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Feb.
1, 2010 |
The Guernsey
Literary and
Potato Peel
Pie Society
by Mary
Ann Shaffer
and Annie
Barrows
AND/OR
84, Charing
Cross Road
by Helene
Hanff
These
two novels
are often
compared
because they
are both
written in
the form of
letters and
they both
deal with
the power of
books to
bring people
together.
Read one or
both and
we'll
compare.
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The Guernsey
Literary and
Potato Pie
Society
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March 1,
2010 |
The Book
Thief
by Markus
Zusak
Liesel
Meminger is
a foster
girl living
outside of
Munich
during World
War II.
With the
help of her
accordion-playing
foster
father she
learns to
read and
shares her
stolen books
with her
neighbors
during
bombing
raids as
well as with
the Jewish
man hidden
in her
basement
before he is
marched to
Dachau.
This is an
unforgettable
story about
the ability
of books to
feed the
soul.
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April 5,
2010 |
Anything by
Mark Twain
William
Faulkner
called Mark
Twain "the
father of
American
literature."
In honor of
the Mark
Twain
Centennial
and National
Library
Week, choose
any of
Twain's
books to
read:
The
Adventures
of Tom
Sawyer or
Huckleberry
Finn; The
Prince of
Pauper;
Roughing It;
Innocents
Abroad; A
Connecticut
Yankee in
King
Arthur's
Court, and
more.
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May
3, 2010 |
Julie &
Julia: 365
Days, 524
Recipes, 1
Tiny
Apartment
Kitchen
by Julie
Powell
The
story of a
woman
attempting
to
revitalize
her
marriage,
restore her
ambition,
and save her
soul by
cooking all
524 recipes
in Julia
Child's
Mastering
the Art of
French
Cooking,
Volume I,
in a
period of
365 days.
Anybody for
a potluck???
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