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Book of the Week - 04/18/11

Request a copy of Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days

Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days
by Rachel Zucker

Starting Today contains 100 poems written during--and responding to--Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 04/11/11

Request a copy of All Souls

All Souls
by Michael Patrick MacDonald

In this searing, coming-of-age memoir, told through the eyes of the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child, MacDonald describes growing up in Irish South Boston. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 04/04/11

Request a copy of The Three Weissmanns of Westport

The Three Weissmanns of Westport
by Cathleen Schine

Ambient city sounds—horns, sirens—provide a fitting soundtrack for a recent conversation with Cathleen Schine, a New Yorker who has written so astutely about the lives of other New Yorkers. She does it yet again in her new novel, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a reimagining of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility that tells the story of three urbanites in exile, and the cast of characters in their orbit. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 03/28/11

Request a copy of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson

Alone since four members of the family died of arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance, and Julian Blackwood spend their days in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 03/21/11

Request a copy of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
by Heidi Durrow

This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, she confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 03/14/11

Request a copy of Black Water Rising

Black Water Rising
by Attica Locke

In the tradition of Greg Iles and Dennis Lehane comes a powerful new new voice in American fiction. Locke's debut thriller involves murder, greed, and redemption, set in the oil boomtown of 1980s Houston. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 03/07/11

Request a copy of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson

Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside is filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and contains a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of readers' own families. Their interactions are both hilarious and heartbreaking. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
Book of the Week - 02/28/11

Request a copy of Priceless Memories

Priceless Memories
by Bob Barker

Television icon Bob Barker, beloved by millions for his charisma and charm, shares his life--both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Read More... | Request a copy »

 
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