tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30772211925186573062024-02-06T20:24:27.250-08:00sorta naughty book clubSorta Naughty Book Clubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783610227928109262noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-11050042073799763472018-11-13T09:04:00.000-08:002018-11-13T09:04:58.328-08:00<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Pam's pic for December</span><br />
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<img alt="15096" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388374999l/15096.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><span id="freeText11199397330113367447" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. <i>Five Quarters of the Orange</i> represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story.<br /><br />When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen - the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Although Framboise hopes for a new beginning she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother.<br /><br />With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother's dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook - searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother's sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor - she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle's cryptic scribbles. Within the journal's tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.<br /><br />Rich and dark. <i>Five Quarters of the Orange</i> is a novel of mothers and daughters of the past and the present, of resisting, and succumbing, and an extraordinary work by a masterful writer.</span><a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388374999l/15096.jpg"><br /></a>Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12944274004634378117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-58336391851323516292018-04-04T10:42:00.001-07:002018-04-04T10:42:11.196-07:00April Book Club at Lauri's<h2>
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Read this thought-provoking, critically acclaimed novel from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year and Costa Children's Book Awards. -- In pursuit of justice and revenge, Faith hunts through her father's possessions and discovers a strange tree. The tree bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, delivers a hidden truth. The tree might hold the key to her father's murder—or it may lure the murderer directly to Faith herself. </div>
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Laurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04375951442664354720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-66457584075380288992017-11-27T18:44:00.001-08:002017-11-27T18:44:49.658-08:00Candy's pick for December:
We Were Liars
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.
We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.Candyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12518724628784811343noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-21534556739175006732017-09-24T13:10:00.000-07:002017-09-24T17:04:38.399-07:00Linda's Pick for October<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622604098825317409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-43265227795901377672017-08-13T21:19:00.001-07:002017-08-13T21:37:01.308-07:00Anne's pick for September <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I think you'll like this book! Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island</div>
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<span style="font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.</span></div>
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Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">not</i> a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.</div>
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<br />Annellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337095671986629362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-73935521387657196482017-03-13T12:38:00.001-07:002017-03-13T12:38:36.628-07:00Lauri's April Pick:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The Art of Hearing Heartbeats </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.</span>Laurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04375951442664354720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-47082549396786971932017-02-13T12:40:00.003-08:002017-02-13T12:58:23.131-08:00The Graveyard Book<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.</span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family... </span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.</span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12944274004634378117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-20630898419412996572017-01-10T12:20:00.002-08:002017-01-10T12:20:43.510-08:00The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty<b style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">From Goodreads:</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEqiXfsS07Uv4uVYJEkgbFEpuT2yOkFPECGOFGgDgkfacqU7BSnPvyto06LssVgahSTGch6_InITxB2w2DgekmDCzgGQBRGA6_kydwDwOpt80SBBcMboIOE0UXZiwwY4vV5QAyNyOyYuqq/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEqiXfsS07Uv4uVYJEkgbFEpuT2yOkFPECGOFGgDgkfacqU7BSnPvyto06LssVgahSTGch6_InITxB2w2DgekmDCzgGQBRGA6_kydwDwOpt80SBBcMboIOE0UXZiwwY4vV5QAyNyOyYuqq/s200/images.jpg" width="133" /></a><b style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read<br /><br />My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died...</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">hey too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.</span>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05974052280936847827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-14984371370380039922017-01-01T22:54:00.001-08:002017-01-01T22:54:23.867-08:00Lockwood & Co: The Screaming StaircaseA sinister problem has occurred in London: all sorts of ghosts, haunts and spectres are appearing throughout the city. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see and eradicate these unnatural foes. In 'The Screaming Staircase', the plucky and talented Lucy Carlyle teams up with Anthony Lockwood, the charismatic leader of Lockwood & Co, a small agency that runs independent of any adult supervision. After an assignment leads to both a grisly discovery and a disastrous end, Lucy, Anthony, and their sarcastic colleague, George, are forced to take part in the perilous investigation of Combe Carey Hall, one of the most haunted houses in England. Will Lockwood & Co. survive the Hall's legendary Screaming Staircase and Red Room to see another day?Candyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12518724628784811343noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-82676547163813256262016-12-11T16:47:00.003-08:002016-12-11T16:47:59.832-08:00The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a
poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in
1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for
developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and
more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions,
yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health
insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting
story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific
discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions
about the mother she never knew.<br />
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Stephanie :)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14136413099952504370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-27346976884063547832016-10-10T20:10:00.003-07:002016-11-13T20:10:54.810-08:00Linda's November Pick<div style="text-align: center;">
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My pic for November is Cinder by Marissa Meyer.<br />
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Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . </div>
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Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622604098825317409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-74506379896756135322016-09-11T21:55:00.003-07:002016-09-11T21:55:50.516-07:00Annell's pick for October<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The enduring toll of the loss of a parent. Family estrangement. Sisterhood. And the difficult choices life hands us.</div>
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Viann Rossignol was 14 and her sister Isabelle just 4 when their beloved mother died, leaving them with a shell-shocked father unable to overcome the loss of his wife to care for them. Tasked with caring for her sister, Viann finds love with Antoine and they marry, but a miscarriage at 17 leaves her emotionally spent. Isabelle is shipped off to the first of a series of boarding schools she is forced from or flees.</div>
Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06604846333024954941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-12813671626233308922016-07-19T08:17:00.000-07:002016-07-19T08:17:08.141-07:00Athena's pick for August: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />‘An incredible story of how one boy survived and prevailed through extreme circumstances to change his fortunes.’When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines.<br />
Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia.<br />
Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. When he was a young man the advent of Google Earth led him to pore over satellite images of the country for landmarks he recognized. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for.<br />
Then he set off on a journey to find his mother.<br />
<i>A Long Way Home</i> is a moving and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. It celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit – hope.<br />
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<em><strong>Manly Daily</strong></em><i><br /></i>‘★★★★★ I literally could not put this book down … [Saroo’s] return journey will leave you weeping with joy and the strength of the human spirit.’ <i><br /></i><br /><em><strong>Weekly Review</strong></em>‘We urge you to step behind the headlines and have a read of this absorbing account … With clear recollections and good old-fashioned storytelling, Saroo … recalls the fear of being lost and the anguish of separation.’<br />
<em><strong>Saturday Age</strong></em>‘A remarkable story … [Brierley] provides an informative and fascinating insight into how Third World families live with, and somehow survive, their poverty.’<br />
<em><strong>femail.com.au</strong></em><br /> ‘An incredible story of how one boy survived and prevailed through extreme circumstances to change his fortunes.’<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05824102851311161855noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-68517474641134646882016-05-09T16:29:00.000-07:002016-05-09T16:29:25.721-07:00<br />
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Oliver Jones is the most dangerous man in the world.
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<br />At least, someone out there believes he is. Oliver himself thought
he was one of the world's duller men, working as a financial analyst in
San Francisco by day and eating microwave dinners by himself every
night. That was until he befriended a stray cat, and then one lonely
night the cat began to speak to him.
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<br />Now Oliver is on the run, hunted by an inhuman assassin whose client
believes Oliver is the "Destroyer of Worlds." His only hope for
survival rests with a trio of unlikely new allies: A werewolf with a
fondness for Hawaiian shirts, an emotionless little girl who is much,
much older than she appears, and a genocidal gunfighter with a serious
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<br />And there's that talking cat, of course. But that's a little harder to explain...<br />
<br />Laurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04375951442664354720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-33819252491716058672016-04-18T19:51:00.000-07:002016-04-18T19:51:42.881-07:00Pam's pick for May<br />
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Originally written in the mid-1950s, <em>Go Set a Watchman</em> was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.</div>
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<em>Go Set a Watchman</em> features many of the characters from <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.</div>
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Exploring how the characters from <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, <em>Go Set a Watchman</em> casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.</div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12944274004634378117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-28189583368279875922016-04-07T10:26:00.001-07:002016-04-07T10:26:40.436-07:00April's Book<br />
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The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard<br />
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<em>Graceling</em> meets <em>The Selection</em> in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard's sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king's palace. Will her power save her or condemn her?</div>
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Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver- blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.</div>
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To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.</div>
Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05974052280936847827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-21583185362398852642016-02-21T14:15:00.002-08:002016-02-21T14:15:39.012-08:00I have tried a million times to post this, and every time I get interrupted. This time I'm not moving from the computer until it is done. :)
The book is the Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare. Some--if not most--of you have read it before, and I have probably picked it for book club before. If you have read it, you know you want to read it again. For those who haven't, it is one of my favorite books of all time, and I know you will love it. So read it! (You, too, Stephanie!)
Love to you all!
CandyCandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12518724628784811343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-18064515733240270472016-01-28T20:22:00.001-08:002016-01-28T20:22:24.565-08:00February -- Spoiled Brats, by Simon RichHere's a collection of short stories to read. Enjoy!<br />
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<br />Stephanie :)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14136413099952504370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-55063634793807519432015-12-15T18:21:00.000-08:002016-01-02T23:09:38.799-08:00Linda's pick for January<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622604098825317409noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-60588949588364183122015-11-14T20:50:00.000-08:002015-11-14T20:50:03.103-08:00Athena's Pick for December: A Man Called Ove<br />
<img alt="Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman | 9781476738031 | NOOK Book (eBook ..." id="yui_3_10_0_1_1447562346290_1593" src="https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/YtX_Hoxre5Be81EvOGhNUQ--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NDAwO3E9OTU7dz0yNjA-/http://img2.imagesbn.com/p/9781476738031_p0_v2_s260x420.JPG" style="height: 400px; width: 260px;" /><b>NPR Bestseller<br /> <i>Boston Globe </i>Bestseller</b><br /> <br /> In this “charming debut” (<i>People</i>)
from one of Sweden’s most successful authors, a grumpy yet lovable man
finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young
family moves in next door.<br /><br />Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind
of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught
outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines,
and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But
must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile
plastered to his face all the time?<br /> <br />Behind the cranky exterior
there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty
young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and
accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and
heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the
ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky
old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations.<br /> <br />A feel-good story in the spirit of <i>The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry</i> and <i>Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand</i>,
Fredrik Backman’s novel about the angry old man next door is a
thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless
others. “If there was an award for ‘Most Charming Book of the Year,’
this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would
win hands down” (<i>Booklist</i>, starred review).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05824102851311161855noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077221192518657306.post-48521411511487333972015-10-20T09:16:00.000-07:002015-10-20T09:16:00.167-07:00ANNE'S BOOK FOR NOVEMBER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded, and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors, and through meticulous and sensitive reporting we see her subjects fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we witness their profound, life-altering disillusionment with the government and their realization that, rather than providing them with lives of abundance, their country has betrayed them.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, eight trick-or-treaters gather at the haunted house by the edge of town, ready for adventure. But when Something whisks their friend Pip away, only one man, the sinister Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud, can help the boys find him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">Baba's Daughter: Memoirs of a Persian-American Girl</span> </span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">by Jessica Shahriari Nicely</span></h1>
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When Jessica Shahriari Nicely stepped onstage in the Miss USA pageant,
she was a young woman who projected poise and confidence to the world.
This image, however, masked the pain and anguish of growing up in a
turbulent home ruled by an alcoholic, abusive father. Even early on,
Jessica knew that life with her Iranian father was not typical, nor was
it normal for a mother to abandon her family. And yet normalcy was
something this girl yearned for, something that spurred her to dream and
create a detailed vision for her future—a vision that became her
lifeline.<br />
In these pages, Jessica bravely tells her story. She
recounts a childhood marked by loss and punctuated by physical violence,
emotional abuse, and shocking neglect. She describes letdowns from
helping professionals and rays of hope from extended family members and
friends. You’ll learn how she developed the fortitude and incredible
spirit to not only endure incredible suffering in her home but to emerge
a happy, productive adult.Laurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04375951442664354720noreply@blogger.com2