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New Books (week of August 23)

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

MOCKING JAY by Suzanne Collins - The big news around here today is the release of the final book in Collins’s amazing Hunger Games trilogy! This series is gripping, leads to compulsive reading, and causes angst when each book is done and one must wait for the next to come out. Though classified as a [...]

new books (week of August 16)

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Wow, where has the time gone?! This summer has been incredibly busy! I know this is my first post in about a month, and I apologize for the lapse. But here’s some great new titles from this week and last to get us back into the swing of things (click on an image for more [...]

Digging Up The Dead

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Digging Up The Dead by Michael Kammen

I wanted to like this book, in fact I expected to like this book. I mean, who wouldn’t want to hear bizarre stories of people being dug up and reburied for various reasons? I love sort-of “weird history” books, and this one definitely fit that category. And the actual [...]

The New Dead

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

The New Dead - a Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden.
Like with many anthologies, this collection had some that hit it out of the park and some that were less successful. There were definitely enough good ones to make it worth reading, though I did find myself a bit “zombie’d-out” after a while (I [...]

New Books (week of July 5)

Monday, July 5th, 2010

New Books (Week of June 21)

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Summer’s officially here and the new books are heating up! This week’s releases include (click on an image to learn more about a title or to request a book):

Down with Summer Reading!: 19 Memoirs for the Recovery Crowd

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

I came across this Library Journal article and thought I’d share it to let you know of these great new memoirs:
Down with Summer Reading!: 19 Memoirs for the Recovery Crowd.

Best Friends Forever

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
When I was about a third of the way through this book, someone suggested to me that it was basically a retelling of Thelma and Louise. So then for the rest of the book I couldn’t get that comparison out of my head. And while I did find it reminiscent [...]

New Books (week of June 14)

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Whiplash by Catherine Coulter. In Coulter’s 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller, FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany’s Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical, which has its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut, might be deliberately [...]

New Books (week of June 6th)

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Books releasing this week (click on a cover to learn more about a title or to request a book):