She sees talking inanimate objects…
I admit it. I’m a wimp. I don’t like scary movies and I DON’T like scary books. While I did read the likes of R.L. Stine when I was little, I’ve never gone near Stephen King or anything that really...
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Close call on the Booker
As many of you know, the Man Booker prize was announced yesterday, and we’d first like to congratulate our friends at Macmillan on their win for Wolf Hall! Please check out their post about it here....
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Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away book trailer…
Click here to watch the book trailer/author video. This author video of Christie Watson, offers the reader a closer look at what inspired her to write about twelve-year-old Blessing in Tiny...
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Early Read: Excerpt of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
If you’d like to pick up a moving story this January we suggest Jan-Philipp Sendker’s The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. It is a suspenseful love story set in the exotic Burmese countryside, where a young...
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Drowned… get your book clubs READING again!
Ok- so many of us may not plan ahead for certain things like packing for a trip, or saving for retirement- but when it comes to picking the perfect book for our book club, or what book we want to read...
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Lunch Lit: Crossing the Borders of Time ~ Leslie Maitland
Today’s Lunch Lit excerpt is Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed by Leslie Maitland. It tells the true tale of love lost during WWII and then found again fifty...
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Lunch Lit: Lies with Lunch
True… a novel about deceptivness. Today for lunch read an excerpt from the newly translated novel True by Riikka Pulkkinen. From a new international literary voice comes a novel about the deceptiveness...
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Lunch Lit: The Elephant Keeper's Children by Peter Hoeg
Today for Lunch Lit we have an THE ELEPHANT KEEPER’S CHILDREN excerpt from Peter Høeg. From the author of Smilla’s Sense of Snow, The Elephant Keeper’s Children is an epic novel about faith and the...
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Friday Reads: Story of My People by Edoardo Nesi: Check Out Book and Request...
We’ve decided to start bringing you a new book we’re excited about and give you a sneak peek every Fridays. New books … a great way to start the weekend don’t you agree? This week we’d like to...
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#FridayReads Whisper Hollow by Chris Cander
WHISPER HOLLOW BY CHRIS CANDER “[A] sweeping novel…Cander divinely delves into multiple points of view, crafting a collage of vibrant, layered characters while charting six decades of poignant,...
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