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Bring Up the Bodies.
Author: Hilary Mantel
Book Description: The sequel to Hilary Mantel’s 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne’s head?
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The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
Author: Hans Christian Andersen / Translator, Contributor: Maria Tatar / Contributor: Julie Allen
Fairy tales are our first connection to literature and the blueprint for all storytelling in every other medium going forth from that. Growing up loving the stories as told by the Brother’s Grimm, by Perrault, and Andersen, the latter specifically holds a special place in my heart for all the beauty his language manages to convey. Maria Tatar, the book’s leading contributor (and translator in collaboration with Julie K. Allen), came to re-evaluate her views on Andersen’s sometimes brutal tales after her undergraduate Harvard students protested her analysis of their magical childhood experiences with said stories. Divided in two parts, starting with 12 Tales for Children and continuing with lesser known stories for adults, this book is a treasure trove for all generations, full of gorgeous turn-of-the-century illustrations and margin notes tending to historical contexts, folkloric influences, and critical interpretations. Snuggle up with your little ones (or your inner child) and let Andersen’s magic take you to that elusive place of childhood imagination and wonder without having to resort to such drastic measure as, say, fairy dust…
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Design Book Recommendation: Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior.
Author: Steven Heller / Mirko Ilic
Stop, Think, Go, Do demonstrates how typography and graphic design influences our human behavior. The book is full of examples and imagery from around the world that show creative ideas and innovative messages which lead us, move us to act, inform or simply entertain us.
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The Round House - National Book Award Winner.
Author: Louise Erdrich
Written with undeniable urgency, and illuminating the harsh realities of contemporary life in a community where Ojibwe and white live uneasily together, The Round House is a brilliant and entertaining novel, a masterpiece of literary fiction. Louise Erdrich embraces tragedy, the comic, a spirit world very much present in the lives of her all-too-human characters, and a tale of injustice that is, unfortunately, an authentic reflection of what happens in our own world today.
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Son - Book Recommendation
Author: Lois Lowry
In this thrilling series finale, the startling and long-awaited conclusion to Lois Lowry’s epic tale culminates in a final clash between good and evil.
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Defending Jacob
Author: William Landay
Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis—a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.
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Franz Kafka - The Complete Stories
Author: Franz Kafka
Book Description: The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume.
Lost at Sea - The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Author: Jon Ronson
In Lost at Sea The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test investigates with humor and acuity the weird sides of human personality. Jon Ronson digs deeper into strange things such as personality cult, spiritual healers, and dark beliefs. Ronson writes about the weaknesses of the modern world and contemporary culture. Lost at Sea is a poignant, disturbing, and amusing book you will love to read!
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Author: Ben Fountain
Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a devastating portrait of our time, a searing and powerful novel that cements Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation. Available on Amazon.com
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The Time Keeper
Author: Mitch Albom
Book Description: In Mitch Albom’s newest work of fiction, the inventor of the world’s first clock is punished for trying to measure God’s greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world—now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began—and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so. Told in Albom’s signature spare, evocative prose, this remarkably original tale will inspire readers everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it and how precious it truly is.
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Your Republic Is Calling You.
Author: Young-ha Kim, Translation: Chi-Young Kim
Spanning the course of one day, Your Republic Is Calling You is an emotionally taut, psychologically astute, haunting novel that reveals the depth of one particularly gripping family secret and the way in which we sometimes never really know the people we love. Confronting moral questions on small and large scales, it mines the political and cultural transformations that have transformed South Korea since the 1980s. A lament for the fate of a certain kind of man and a certain kind of manhood, it is ultimately a searing study of the long and insidious effects of dividing a nation in two.
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This Is How You Lose Her.
Author: Junot Diaz
A new book by Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’. This Is How You Lose Her includes nine stories. In the focus of the stories is Yunior, a young man with macho attitudes but also with the longing desire to be loved.
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When It Happens to You - A Novel in Several interconnected Stories.
Author: Molly Ringwald
A novel by Molly Ringwald written in eight interconnected short stories about the complexity of today’s relationships. The main story follows a family and their friends dealing with the complications of love and infidelity.
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The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Hig, the narrator is a sad man who lives in the hangar of an abandoned airport with his dog. He survived a flu that killed his wife and all his friends. Bangley, his only neighbor is armed to the teeth and well versed to protect himself from marauders. On a flight with his old Cessna, Hig gets a random transmission on his radio. Driven by the hope for a better life beyond the airport, he follows the broken voice on the radio with his plane and the faithful dog on his side.
The Dog Stars is such a lovely, poetic, funny but also very sad post apocalyptic story. If you loved to read “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy you will love “The Dog Stars” as well. The hardcover version includes 336 pages and is published by Knopf (August 7, 2012).
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