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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