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BookRounds - October 11, 2009
On October 11, 2009, we walked a "Round" our bookstore and talked about 17 "Books" we like, all in 30 minutes. Hear the voices of your favorite booksellers as they wax eloquent about the books they love!
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Here are the books, in the order we talk about them:
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (Hardcover)
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Published: Dutton Juvenile, 10/01/2009
It's been 80 years since the publication of "The House at Pooh Corner.” Now they’re back. - Sue
Telex from Cuba (Paperback)
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Published: Scribner, 06/01/2009
A fascinating, evocative view of Cuba in the 1950s, when Fidel Castro and his brother were starting a guerilla movement and American sugar cane plantations ruled the economy. - Janelle
Have a Little Faith: A True Story (Hardcover)
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Published: Hyperion, 09/01/2009
If you liked Tuesdays With Morrie you will love this book. - Debbie
Love and Summer (Hardcover)
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Published: Viking Adult, 09/01/2009
Once again long listed for the Man Booker Award and once again robbed, William Trevor never fails to deliver the perfect, dark Irish novel. - Kathy
The Meaning of Matthew (Hardcover)
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Published: Hudson Street Press, 09/01/2009
The book is both an intimate look at Matt and a call to action for still-unresolved issues in Congress and society as a whole. - Janelle
Hush, Hush (Hardcover)
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Published: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 10/01/2009
Partnered in biology with new student Patch, 16-year-old Nora Gray starts seeing things she cannot explain. - Sue
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Published: Razorbill, 10/01/2009
Hilarious story of a true nerd who rules! - Janelle
Going Bovine (Hardcover)
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 09/01/2009
A whole new genre from our beloved Libby Bray, “Going Bovine” tells the story of a boy taking a serious look at his life after being told he has Mad Cow Disease. - Kathy
Cutting for Stone: A novel (Hardcover)
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Published: Knopf, 02/01/2009
Once every few years – if you’re lucky – you read a book that you know you’re going to remember all your life, a book that you miss dreadfully now that it’s done, that reaches a part of you you don’t often get to feel, and you like. - Ron
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Hardcover)
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Published: Scribner, 10/01/2009
Walls writes this magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hardworking, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. - Debbie
Juliet, Naked (Hardcover)
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 09/01/2009
Who doesn’t love stalking their favorite band, even if the bad has been out of commission for over twenty years? - Kathy
A Friend of the Family (Hardcover)
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 11/01/2009
This is a story of what happens when all that could be good goes terribly wrong. - Debbie
Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same (Paperback)
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Published: Unbridled Books, 09/01/2009
What happens when a teenage gang member from Los Angeles is moved back to his mother’s childhood home in the smallest of towns in Alaska. - Ron
The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir (Hardcover)
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Published: Springboard Press, 09/01/2009
Kenison provides the reader the gift of how to accept and embrace the inevitable time in a mother’s life when her children depart. - Debbie
The Journal of Antonio Montoya (Paperback)
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Published: Unbridled Books, 09/01/2009
A reissue of a mystical story that haunts and pleases. Crisp, poetic writing marks this evocative gem. - Ron
Madewell Brown (Hardcover)
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Published: Unbridled Books, 05/01/2009
Collignon’s newest book is dusty, heartbreaking and complex, rich in character, brilliantly executed. - Ron
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
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Published: Doubleday, 09/01/2009
Krakauer ("Into the Wild") chronicles the riveting, tragic story of former NFL player Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004, in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. - Sue














