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Found at Green Apple

December 29, 2011
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Found at Green Apple

Under the tree on Christmas morning, a swell stash of books that my personal Santa picked up from Green Apple The Jokers, by Albert Cossery I know nothing about this book, which is precisely why I love Green Apple: Santa will always find something he didn’t know he was looking for. A House with No Roof, by Rebecca Wilson A memoir by the daughter of labor leader Dow Wilson, who was murdered when the author was 3. Wilson writes about growing up with and later caring for a loving but mercurial mother, in the shadow of Rebecca’s violent and...

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3 Great Gifts for Booklovers

November 5, 2011
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3 Great Gifts for Booklovers

Blue Nights, by Joan Didion My Hollywood, by Mona Simpson: an incredibly nuanced take on the relationship between caregivers and the families who depend on them. Set in LA in the nineties, this book is a complex and thought-provoking counterpart to Kathryn Stockett’s The Help. The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes

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Bookstore ninja: Jane Lynch makes her own Happy Accidents

September 1, 2011
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We’ve all been there. After our book comes out, we do reconnaissance missions to bookstores all over town to find out where the book is placed, and how many copies the store has in stock. Upon finding a single, sad copy of our book hidden somewhere near the bathrooms, we stealthily move it to the front of the store, where we place it prominently in front of the books that people are actually buying in huge quantities. But Jane Lynch does Bookstore Ninja better than the rest of us. She is just so darn awesome. See for yourself! You...

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3 Books I Love Right Now

July 10, 2011
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3 Books I Love Right Now

Quiet Chaos, by Sandra Veronesi An Italian business executive rescues a drowning woman, then returns home to discover that, while he was saving a stranger, his own wife suddenly died. Now he turns his attention to his 9-year-old daughter. As an international merger of his company is underway, he goes AWOL from work, instead committing himself to a simple and, in his mind, completely rational existence: standing in front of his daughter’s school, all day, every day. A fascinating cast of characters visits him at his car–other executives, his disastrous and beautiful sister-in-law, and, eventually, the heiress whom he...

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A Stolen Life: Jaycee Dugard’s story

June 29, 2011
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A Stolen Life: Jaycee Dugard’s story

“In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.” Simon and Schuster has just released A Stolen Life, a memoir by Jaycee Dugard. A portion of the proceeds from the book and audio book (read by the author) will go to The JAYC Foundation, which provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiences. About the book :About the book : Dugard narrates...

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