Books

Week 19: HAND WASH COLD by Karen Maezen Miller

May 16th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 19: HAND WASH COLD by Karen Maezen Miller

New World Library | 2010 | 200 pages | List price: $14.95 | Get it for less at Amazon Over the past few weeks, I have noticed a trend developing. I don’t get much allow myself to get enough reading done during the week. So I end up saving all 200+, 300+ or even some
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Week 18: THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

May 10th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 18: THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Penguin (Non-Classics) | 2005 | 487 pages | List price: $16.00 | Get it for less at Amazon So, I have another confession to make: I don’t ever read books again. Well, not ever. But aside from rereading all of Judy Blume’s coming of age novels right after college (which I actually loved just as
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PETER AND MAX: A Fairytale Brought to the Present

May 7th, 2010 | By Kathleen Richter
PETER AND MAX: A Fairytale Brought to the Present

Vertigo/DC Comics | 2009 | 368 pages | List Price $22.99 | Get it for less at Amazon In the world Bill Willingham constructs in PETER AND MAX: A FABLES NOVEL, the fairytales we grew up with are actually based on people who migrated to Earth from various other worlds—but, battered by time and word
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KINDRED IN DEATH: Crime in the Future Still Doesn´t Pay

May 5th, 2010 | By Kathleen Richter
KINDRED IN DEATH: Crime in the Future Still Doesn´t Pay

G.P. Putnam’s Sons | 2009 | 374 pages | List Price: $26.95 | Get it for less at Amazon KINDRED IN DEATH is the 29th installment of J.D. Robb’s somewhat futuristic police mystery series, starring the Lieutenant Eve Dallas. The year is 2060, and one of Dallas’ co-workers comes home after a vacation to find
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Week 17: ROUGH COUNTRY by John Sandford

May 2nd, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 17: ROUGH COUNTRY by John Sandford

Putnam Adult | 2009 | 400 pages | List price: $26.95 | Get it for less at Amazon ROUGH COUNTRY is the third in a mystery series (and my first) featuring Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers. Written by John Sandford, this installment has Flowers pulled from a fishing trip to investigate the
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Week 16: STINK: THE INCREDIBLY SHRINKING KID by Megan McDonald

Apr 26th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 16: STINK: THE INCREDIBLY SHRINKING KID by Megan McDonald

Candlewick | 2006 | 128 pages | List price: $4.99 | Get it for less at Amazon It’s Kiddie-lit this week in the Reading Room! At just 102 pages–and that’s with pictures, too!–I just know some of you are thinking: “Are you for real?” “Hey, that sounds like an easy out!” “That can’t count! C’mon
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Brett Easton Ellis’s follow-up to LESS THAN ZERO to be released this summer

Apr 23rd, 2010 | By Scott Hopkins
Brett Easton Ellis’s follow-up to LESS THAN ZERO to be released this summer

Author Brett Easton Ellis returns this summer to the glitzy land of cocaine and cocktails with his long awaited sequel to the cult classic, LESS THAN ZERO. Maintaining his theme of borrowing a title from the Elvis Costello song book, IMPERIAL BEDROOM revisits the characters Clay and Blair, twenty-five years later, as they struggle (and
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THE LOST SYMBOL: Another Exercise in Telling a Story Without Characters

Apr 22nd, 2010 | By Kathleen Richter
THE LOST SYMBOL: Another Exercise in Telling a Story Without Characters

Doubleday Books | 2009 | 528 pages | List price: $29.95 | Get it for less at Amazon In Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, the main character from his bestselling THE DA VINCI CODE, Robert Langdon, is presented with another series of puzzles to solve, another fanatic with skin issues to outrun, and another female
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Week 15: WHY I’M LIKE THIS: TRUE STORIES by Cynthia Kaplan

Apr 19th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 15: WHY I’M LIKE THIS: TRUE STORIES by Cynthia Kaplan

Harper Perennial | 2007 | 240 pages | List price: $13.95 | Get it for less at Amazon It was going to be a bit of a crazy week, and I knew this going into week fifteen. So, I took some time to find what I hoped would be a perfect book to serve as
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Week 14: OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION: A MEMOIR ACCORDING TO KATHY GRIFFIN

Apr 12th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 14: OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION: A MEMOIR ACCORDING TO KATHY GRIFFIN

Ballantine Books | 2009 | 368 pages | List price: $25.00 | Get it for less at Amazon Disclaimer: If you don’t like Kathy Griffin, you aren’t going to like this book. It doesn’t matter how many stars I give it or what I say about it (although, how flattering if that were the case),
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