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Book review: *The Girl Who Fell from the Sky* by Heidi W. Durrow

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books; 1 edition (January 11, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1565126800

Back-of-the-book blurb:  This is the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. 

With her strict African American grandmother as her new [...]

Book review: *Clara's Kitchen* by Clara Cannucciari

Clara’s Kitchen: Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression by Clara Cannucciari and Christopher Cannucciari
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (October 27, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-0312608279

Back-of-the-book blurb:  Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old grandmother whose Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara’s Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America’s spirits, [...]

Children's Book Review: *Here Comes the Garbage Barge* by Jonah Winter

Here Comes the Garbage Barge! written by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Chris Sickels (Red Nose Studio)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade; 1 edition (February 9, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0375852183

Back-of-the-book blurb:  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce [...]

Brief thoughts on *Brief Interviews with Hideous Men* by David Foster Wallace (audiobook)

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Unabridged audiobook; approx. 4 hours on 4 CDs
Publisher: Hachette Audio (September 8, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1600247378

Back-of-the-box blurb:  David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In this exuberantly acclaimed collection he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that [...]

Book Review: *Every Day in Tuscany* by Frances Mayes

Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway (March 9, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0767929820

Back-of-the-book blurb:  Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since her earlier memoirs appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty [...]

Book Review: *Pieces of Happily Ever After* by Irene Zutell

Pieces of Happily Ever After by Irene Zutell
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (September 1, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-0312540098

Back-of-the-book blurb:  What happens after “happily ever after”? Alice Hirsh is about to find out…

Alice was adapting, raising her 5-year-old daughter while trying to keep her job and make her new house a home.  When her attorney husband lands a [...]

Symphony Space and *Selected Shorts* audiobook series

Selected Shorts, A Celebration of the Short Story: American Classics (Audio CD set)
Publisher: Symphony Space (April 1, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1934033128

Back-0f-the-box blurb:  Recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 [...]

Book Review: *The Opposite of Me* by Sarah Pekkanen

The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Original edition (March 9, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1439121986

Back-of-the-book blurb:  Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsey Rose has long lived in the shadow of her beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of a major promotion at the elite New York advertising agency where she [...]

Notes from our book group discussion of *A Reliable Wife* by Robert Goolrick

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books; 1 edition (January 5, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1565129771

Back-of-the-book blurb:  He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for “a reliable wife.” She responded, saying that she was “a simple, honest woman.” She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her [...]

Book Review: *The Power of Half* by Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen

The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back by Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (February 10, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0547248066

Back-of-the-book blurb:  It all started when 14-year old Hannah Salwen, idealistic but troubled by a growing sense of injustice in the world, had a eureka moment when a homeless [...]