Pink covers on a hardcover novel usually suggest a chick-lit book. The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden is much more than your typical boy meets girl story. The characters are older with the main character Joanna an empty- nester in New Jersey who misses her children.She is a…
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Memoirists can pick and choose the stories they tell, and while some have been known to outright lie or embellish (i.e. James Frey or Augustan Burroughs), Julie Klausner in her memoir, I Don't Care about Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers…
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Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day GeorgeCreelisel Carlbrun is the daughter of a poor farmer and a mother who is talented in sewing and embroidery.When they die, she and her brother go to live with their aunt.Her aunt hatches an elaborate plot to get Creel married, but she decides…
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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sidney Jacobson and Ernie ColónDid you like reading, Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl, but wondered what happened before they went into hiding and what happened after they were discovered in the Secret Annex?…
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If you pay attention to book buzz on Twitter and at publisher previews, the 1920s are the new vampires. Whether or not that's true, Diamond Ruby is thoroughly enjoyable. The book opens with a young girl, Ruby Thomas, at Ebbets Field, attending a baseball game where she catches a…
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