The Newlyweds

Fiction by Nell Freudenberger.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Really good book about a woman from Bangladesh who comes to America as an internet "mail-order-bride."

Also this cover is gorgeous; it's much better than the one on the library copy I read.

(image from http://www.nytimes.com/)

 

 

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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Nonfiction by Mindy Kaling.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

A funny book. I like Mindy. I'd like her to be my friend.

And not just because she's famous either.

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The Chance

Fiction by Karen Kingsbury.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

A nice light romance. Better than the Bridge, not as good as A Thousand Tomorrows.

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The Storyteller

 

Fiction by Jodi Picoult.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Awesome book, as expected. Click here to see the last Jodi Picoult novel I also read and loved.

This one is about a girl with a grandma who is a Holocaust survivor, and she has plenty of issues of her own. There's also a story within a story.

Excellent.

(BTW, don't read the reviews on the link above if you don't want the ending spoiled!)

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Falling Together

Fiction by Marisa de los Santos.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Great book about three friends. It doesn't go where you think it will.

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The Blue Bottle Club

Fiction by Penelope Stokes.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

My Book Club book for this month, it's about four friends in 1929, and then again in 1994.(Plus some in-between of course.)

It's a good character story.

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This is How

Subtitled: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Nonfiction by Augusten Burroughs.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

This a book in which Mr. Burroughs tells us how to solve all our problems and live our lives properly.

That description sounds horrible but actually it is a LAUGH RIOT!

And incidentally contains some good advice.

Although it does get a little sad sometimes towards the end...

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No Direction Home

Fiction by Marisa Silver.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

This is a story about a pair of 10-year-old twin boys, a woman with Alzheimer's and a teenager in a hick town. Oh, and a kid in Mexico. Of course somehow their lives intersect.

A good character novel.

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The Kingmaker's Daughter

Fiction by Philippa Gregory.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Historical fiction set during the War of the Roses in England, this book joins The Red Queen, The White Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers in the "Cousins' War" series.

Philippa Gregory has an amazing talent for making history come alive. I recommend all her books.

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Cold Light

Fiction by Jenn Ashworth.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Cool tagline on the cover: "They found a body. I know who it is."

Good book, but a little dark.

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