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Staff Picks
books we highly recommend
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Chuck |
The Outcast
Sadie Jones
As menacing as it is beautiful, The Outcast is a
devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new
voice who was just shortlisted for The Orange Prize.
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Cheryl |
Wolf
Totem
Jian Rong
An epic Chinese tale in the vein of The Last Emperor, Wolf Totem
depicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the Mongol
hordes who at one time terrorized the world-and the parallel
extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and
otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Winner of the Man Asia Prize.
hc $26.95
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Tricia |
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
“Stunning . . . The gulf that separates expatriate
Bengali parents from their American—raised children–and that
separates the children from India–remains Lahiri’s subject for this
follow-up to Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake.
. . . Lahiri’s stories of exile, identity, disappointment and
maturation evince a spare and subtle mastery that has few
contemporary equals.” –Publishers Weekly
hc $29.95
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Dave |
View from the Seventh Layer
Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin Brockmeier — award-winning author of The
Brief History of the Dead — has been widely praised for the
richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of
his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his
storytelling. And this dazzling collection once again affirms his
place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his
generation.
hc $25.00
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Mandy |
Book of a Thousand Days
Shannon Hale
I absolutely loved Shannon Hale’s new book. Hale won the Newbury
Honor Award for Princess Academy, which was just as great.
Book of a Thousand Days is about a princess who is locked in a
tower for seven years for refusing to marry a man who frightens her.
On the day that she is taken to the tower, Dashti, a maid who can
heal by singing, agrees to be locked up with her, even though all
the other maids have run away and abandoned their princess. As
Dashti and the princess live a very quiet life in the tower, a
prince, in love with the princess, visits and mistakes Dashti for
the princess when they speak through a small opening. Dashti falls
in love and tries also to heal her princess of a mysterious illness,
while trying to remain brave in captivity. This story is amazing and
is very much recommended.
hc $19.95
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Jocelyn |
What I Was Meg Rosoff
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appealing to a teenage audience writing such as this should not be
controversial, but it may be seen as such. This is cynical, dark,
and sexually ambiguous material. This is what teens are looking for,
and when not found, we see a pause until “adulthood” to resume
reading again.
Authors, as well as parents buying for their own, should be brave
enough to bring to this age group what they pine for. What I Was
tells of a youth dissatisfied by a peer group he perceives as
inferior, but upon falling into romantic fascination with an
unfamiliar lifestyle, he confronts his own need for further
evolution and the great impact of his heedless progression.
Meg Rosoff respects her audience with her language and content, and
just might incite uninspired young readers to develop an appetite.
PG-15
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