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Staff Picks
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The House of Tomorrow (Hardcover)
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780399156090Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 03/01/2010
Recommended by: Elena
Set in rural Iowa, this story explores the unlikely friendship between Sebastian Prendergast, a teen raised in a geodesic dome by his eccentric grandmother Nanna, and Jared Whitcomb, a punk-rocking, cigarette-smoking teenager who finds himself uncomfortably vulnerable after surviving a heart transplant. Finding freedom and connection through music and their shared isolation, these two grow together in their understanding of life. With highly entertaining and sharp dialogue, Bognanni captures the wit and sarcasm of these teens, and he shares with readers the exhilaration of experiencing punk music for the first time.
Set in rural Iowa, this story explores the unlikely friendship between Sebastian Prendergast, a teen raised in a geodesic dome by his eccentric grandmother Nanna, and Jared Whitcomb, a punk-rocking, cigarette-smoking teenager who finds himself uncomfortably vulnerable after surviving a heart transplant. Finding freedom and connection through music and their shared isolation, these two grow together in their understanding of life. With highly entertaining and sharp dialogue, Bognanni captures the wit and sarcasm of these teens, and he shares with readers the exhilaration of experiencing punk music for the first time.
Beautiful Creatures (Hardcover)
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780316042673Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 12/01/2009
Recommended by: Andi
If you couldn’t get enough of the Twilight series, help is here, in the form of Ethan Wate, a high schooler who minds his own business in a town of dark secrets when Lena Duchannes comes to town. Not vampire or wolf, she’s a…well, that would be telling. Suffice it to say, this small town will never be the same again. Fast-paced, fun and utterly chilling…
If you couldn’t get enough of the Twilight series, help is here, in the form of Ethan Wate, a high schooler who minds his own business in a town of dark secrets when Lena Duchannes comes to town. Not vampire or wolf, she’s a…well, that would be telling. Suffice it to say, this small town will never be the same again. Fast-paced, fun and utterly chilling…
Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Hardcover)
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780803734609Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Dial, 09/01/2009
Recommended by: Andi
This is one humdinger of a book, for anyone who loves a fast-paced book with lots of twists. Moose Flanagan returns as the son of a prison employee on Alcatraz island in the 1930’s, with even more problems, humor and real-feeling dilemmas. Will he help save the day when serious danger strikes? And most important, does Al Capone really shine his shoes? Stay tuned, Choldenko fans; the fun is just beginning!
For grades 5 and up.
This is one humdinger of a book, for anyone who loves a fast-paced book with lots of twists. Moose Flanagan returns as the son of a prison employee on Alcatraz island in the 1930’s, with even more problems, humor and real-feeling dilemmas. Will he help save the day when serious danger strikes? And most important, does Al Capone really shine his shoes? Stay tuned, Choldenko fans; the fun is just beginning!
For grades 5 and up.
South of Broad (Hardcover)
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780385413053Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Nan A. Talese, 08/01/2009
Recommended by: Carol
The poetry of Conroy’s writing drew me in immediately as he describes “the porcelain beauty of Charleston” and warns us that everything revealed to us will be “Charleston-shaped and Charleston-governed.”
We begin our story in the 60’s with racism and class division issues, using Broad Street as the City’s dividing line.
When Leo’s brother commits suicide, he leaves his nine year old brother unprotected and devastated in his fractured family. Leo eventually rebuilds himself but remains a loner until his senior year in high school. He finds himself surrounded by an eclectic group of friends – a glamorous set of twins with an alcoholic mother and a father who has escaped prison –brother and sister run-aways living in an orphanage – and a wealthy boy and his socialite girlfriend on probation because of a drug bust.
Their friendships continue for the next twenty years, their lives intertwined in Charleston where they survive marriages, unrequited loves, success, and failure. However, a trip to San Francisco and the AIDS crisis of the 80’s may prove to be the real test of friendship.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Hardcover)
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021390Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 01/01/2010
Recommended by Jenn
Hoffman's story of young Cecelia Honeycutt troubled from being brought up single-handedly by her psychotic mother, is deep and seemingly hopeless. But when her father finally returns to deal with the sudden death of her mother, CeeCee is then blessed with a the opportunity of a new life. At first she struggles internally with emotional embarrassment and shame, but with the help of her Great Aunt Tootie, Oletta, and her good friend and neighbor Mrs. Odell; CeeCee eventually turns a page in her life book, and allows her mother to reside in her heart as a fond and loving memory.
Hoffman's story of young Cecelia Honeycutt troubled from being brought up single-handedly by her psychotic mother, is deep and seemingly hopeless. But when her father finally returns to deal with the sudden death of her mother, CeeCee is then blessed with a the opportunity of a new life. At first she struggles internally with emotional embarrassment and shame, but with the help of her Great Aunt Tootie, Oletta, and her good friend and neighbor Mrs. Odell; CeeCee eventually turns a page in her life book, and allows her mother to reside in her heart as a fond and loving memory.
Happy: A Memoir (Hardcover)
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781416550235Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 12/01/2009
Recommended by: Jenn
"Happy" by Alex Lemon is a thoroughly deep and encouraging memoir. Lemon allows the reader to explore and experience the confusion and blurriness of his life after he discovers about his brain malformation. Lemon writes in such a way that makes the reader feel as if they are experiencing the blurred vision and black outs of life while trying to continue living as if nothing has changed. The depression and substance abuse that ensues as his escape from the reality of his condition reveals the fear of change and insecurities we all sustain. But this memoir specifically highlights the enduring and unconditional love of a mother watching her son suffer. Alex Lemon tells his story with engaging accounts that allow the reader to feel the dissolution and reconstruction of the human soul.
"Happy" by Alex Lemon is a thoroughly deep and encouraging memoir. Lemon allows the reader to explore and experience the confusion and blurriness of his life after he discovers about his brain malformation. Lemon writes in such a way that makes the reader feel as if they are experiencing the blurred vision and black outs of life while trying to continue living as if nothing has changed. The depression and substance abuse that ensues as his escape from the reality of his condition reveals the fear of change and insecurities we all sustain. But this memoir specifically highlights the enduring and unconditional love of a mother watching her son suffer. Alex Lemon tells his story with engaging accounts that allow the reader to feel the dissolution and reconstruction of the human soul.
The Unnamed (Hardcover)
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780316034012Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Reagan Arthur Books, 01/01/2010
Recommended by: Joanna
A book that I suspected would have little to offer a college-age reader like myself who has no perception of the sacrifices and commitment involved in marriage and career, The Unnamed turned out to be-in addition to a heartbreaking examination of those themes-a fresh and provocative story about the psychological battle between mind and body, and the lengths it is possible to go to in order to defeat the powerful pull of desire. Joshua Ferris, in the follow-up to his well-received debut Then We Came To The End, writes about Tim, a successful lawyer who suffers from bouts of a mysterious and untreatable disease that, when it surfaces, renders him helpless at the mercy of his body's will and destroys his job and domestic life. His struggle is compelling on a number of levels both emotional and medical, and Ferris' writing illuminates it in a blend of family drama, mystery, and thriller that pulls you in and effectively makes you question your own battles of the mental and physical.
Too Much Happiness: Stories (Hardcover)
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307269768Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Knopf, 11/01/2009
Recommended by: Milane
Too Much Happiness is a compelling, provocative, even daring collection of ten new stories by Alice Munro, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, she once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. Each story reads like a novel and has a profound lasting impact.
Too Much Happiness is a compelling, provocative, even daring collection of ten new stories by Alice Munro, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, she once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. Each story reads like a novel and has a profound lasting impact.
The Ticking Is the Bomb (Hardcover)
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393068160Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 01/01/2010
Recommended by: Emily
The title drew me in, and the writing kept me locked on through the end of this stunning memoir. Nick Flynn takes the seemingly disparate themes of his past personal history, torture at Abu Ghraib, and his fears about becoming a father and creates a beautifully textured quilt of remeniscence, indignation, horror, acceptance and enlightenment. Somehow Flynn pulls the threads of his past, our present and his future together in a way that makes perfect sense--a reflection of the chaos of life: his struggle to live with truth and move forward with hope is inspiring and exhilarating.
The title drew me in, and the writing kept me locked on through the end of this stunning memoir. Nick Flynn takes the seemingly disparate themes of his past personal history, torture at Abu Ghraib, and his fears about becoming a father and creates a beautifully textured quilt of remeniscence, indignation, horror, acceptance and enlightenment. Somehow Flynn pulls the threads of his past, our present and his future together in a way that makes perfect sense--a reflection of the chaos of life: his struggle to live with truth and move forward with hope is inspiring and exhilarating.
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780385522267Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Doubleday, 09/01/2009
Recommended by: Adele
Jon Krakauer is an eloquent storyteller and reporter who weaves a chronology of America’s war in Iraq and Afghanistan with the life of Pat Tillman, a young man who walked away from a $3.6 million dollar NFL contract to enlist in the U.S. Army in the aftermath of 9/11. Pat Tillman had a charismatic, self-confident, and adrenaline-charged personality, which was balanced by his sense of duty, honor, and humility. Krakauer extensively details the events that eventually lead up to the heartbreaking tragedy of Tillman’s death on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan, killed in combat by “friendly fire”. He reveals the complex, remarkable character of this young inspiring man through his journals and interviews, and exposes the story behind the suppression of the truth of Tillman’s death from his family and the American public by the military. Where Men Win Glory puts readers on the battlefield with soldiers and juxtaposes their difficult and demanding day to day lives with the government’s manipulation of propaganda and truth to the American people about this polarizing war.
Jon Krakauer is an eloquent storyteller and reporter who weaves a chronology of America’s war in Iraq and Afghanistan with the life of Pat Tillman, a young man who walked away from a $3.6 million dollar NFL contract to enlist in the U.S. Army in the aftermath of 9/11. Pat Tillman had a charismatic, self-confident, and adrenaline-charged personality, which was balanced by his sense of duty, honor, and humility. Krakauer extensively details the events that eventually lead up to the heartbreaking tragedy of Tillman’s death on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan, killed in combat by “friendly fire”. He reveals the complex, remarkable character of this young inspiring man through his journals and interviews, and exposes the story behind the suppression of the truth of Tillman’s death from his family and the American public by the military. Where Men Win Glory puts readers on the battlefield with soldiers and juxtaposes their difficult and demanding day to day lives with the government’s manipulation of propaganda and truth to the American people about this polarizing war.
The Little Prince Pop-Up (Hardcover)
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9780547260693Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HMH Books, 10/01/2009
Recommended by: Jet
After being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot comes in contact with a captivating little prince who recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search for what is most important in life.
A brilliant, philosophical fairy tale with an unforgettable little protagonist.
This exciting pop-up edition of the French classic includes the complete original text accompanied by de Saint-Exupery's beautiful illustrations brought to life through paper engineering.
I got it as a birthday present.
It makes The Perfect Gift.
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780547241449Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/01/2009
Recommended by: Lucia
To read The Pattern in the Carpet is to witness the wide-ranging power of a keen and curious mind. By her own admission "not a tidy writer," Margaret Drabble's "personal history with jigsaws" is a memoir for readers who are willing to stray from the path and possibly never return. It's about jigsaws, certainly, but also about history, philosophy, cartography, literature, poetry, obsession, depression, and the delight of the digression. If you like your timelines linear, your themes clearly laid out, and your narrator a reliable tourguide with a checklist, you'll likely run screaming after the first chapter. But if you're willing to surrender to her charms, you'll find that Drabble is an irresistibly eccentric guide with a rigorous curiosity and wicked wit.
Read the full review on BookBrowse!
To read The Pattern in the Carpet is to witness the wide-ranging power of a keen and curious mind. By her own admission "not a tidy writer," Margaret Drabble's "personal history with jigsaws" is a memoir for readers who are willing to stray from the path and possibly never return. It's about jigsaws, certainly, but also about history, philosophy, cartography, literature, poetry, obsession, depression, and the delight of the digression. If you like your timelines linear, your themes clearly laid out, and your narrator a reliable tourguide with a checklist, you'll likely run screaming after the first chapter. But if you're willing to surrender to her charms, you'll find that Drabble is an irresistibly eccentric guide with a rigorous curiosity and wicked wit.
Read the full review on BookBrowse!
Sonata for Miriam (Paperback)
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143114703Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 03/01/2009
Recommended by: Edith
The book starts with a quote by Szymon Laks: "But words must be found, for besides words there is almost nothing."
Adam Anker is 60 years old, lives in New Zealand, when he loses his 18 year old daughter, Miriam. Now he is a man with no relatives, no memories, no mementos. He starts a journey which takes him to Krakow, where he was born, and uncovers secrets never told about his and his family's past, where he came from, who he is. Finally he meets his daughter's mother in Sweden after 19 years of silence. It's a beautiful story about loss and love, the value of words, written with great insight by the the author of "Astrid & Veronika".
As God Commands (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780802170675Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Black Cat, 10/01/2009
Recommended by: Lisa
Leave it to an Italian to write a book like this. This is not Italian romance: nobody is rebuilding Tuscan villas or falling in love at the Trevi Fountain. The novel is closer to an opera in its proportions, but not the opera buffa — forget about Cosi Fan Tutte or Le Nozze Di Figaro. As God Commands is Italian tragedy at its height, a tale of desperation and madness in a bitterly depressed industrial town. The forces of religion and family play violently in the story of young Rino, his father, and the rough characters whose obsessions and addictions harken their ultimate destruction. This book will rock you.
Leave it to an Italian to write a book like this. This is not Italian romance: nobody is rebuilding Tuscan villas or falling in love at the Trevi Fountain. The novel is closer to an opera in its proportions, but not the opera buffa — forget about Cosi Fan Tutte or Le Nozze Di Figaro. As God Commands is Italian tragedy at its height, a tale of desperation and madness in a bitterly depressed industrial town. The forces of religion and family play violently in the story of young Rino, his father, and the rough characters whose obsessions and addictions harken their ultimate destruction. This book will rock you.
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