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		<title>Still Alice by Lisa Genova</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for March 30, 2011 From quailridgebooks.com: Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman&#8217;s sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official selection for March 30, 2011</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:</p>
<p><i>Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman&#8217;s sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. </p>
<p>Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what&#8217;s it&#8217;s like to literally lose your mind&#8230; </p>
<p>Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.<br />
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		<title>Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for February 23, 2011 (Classics Month) From amazon.com: Rebecca is a novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological tale of secrets and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called Manderley that is as much a presence as the humans who inhabit it: &#8220;when the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official selection for February 23, 2011 (Classics Month)</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com">amazon.com</a>:</p>
<p><i>Rebecca is a novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological tale of secrets and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called Manderley that is as much a presence as the humans who inhabit it: &#8220;when the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the pitter, patter of a woman&#8217;s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled satin shoe.&#8221; Manderley is filled with memories of the elegant and flamboyant Rebecca, the first Mrs. DeWinter; with the obsessive love of her housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who observes the young, timid second Mrs. DeWinter with sullen hostility; and with the oppressive silences of a secretive husband, Maxim. Rebecca may be physically dead, but she is a force to contend with, and the housekeeper&#8217;s evil matches that of her former mistress as a purveyor of the emotional horror thrust on the innocent Mrs. DeWinter. The tension builds as the new Mrs. DeWinter slowly grows and asserts herself, surviving the wicked deceptions of Mrs. Danvers and the silent deceits of her husband, to emerge triumphant in the midst of a surprise ending that leaves the reader with a sense of haunting justice.</i></p>
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		<title>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for January 26, 2011 From quailridgebooks.com: An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson&#8217;s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden&#8217;s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official selection for January 26, 2011</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:</p>
<p><i>An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson&#8217;s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.</p>
<p>Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden&#8217;s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.<br />
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		<title>The Secret History by Donna Tartt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for December 8, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official selection for December 8, 2010</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
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Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.</p>
<p>Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.<br />
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		<title>The Unseen by Alexandra Sokoloff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for October 27, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: A terrifying novel of suspense based on the Rhine parapsychology experiments at Duke University After experiencing a precognitive dream that ends her engagement and changes her life forever, a young psychology professor from California decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official selection for October 27, 2010</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
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A terrifying novel of suspense based on the Rhine parapsychology experiments at Duke University</p>
<p>After experiencing a precognitive dream that ends her engagement and changes her life forever, a young psychology professor from California decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University in North Carolina. She soon becomes obsessed with the files from the world-famous Rhine parapsychology lab experiments, which attempted to prove ESP really exists.</p>
<p>Along with a handsome professor, she uncovers troubling cases, including one about a house supposedly haunted by a poltergeist, investigated by another research team in 1965. Unaware that the entire original team ended up insane or dead, the two professors and two exceptionally gifted Duke students move into the abandoned mansion to replicate the investigation, with horrifying results.</p>
<p>The Unseen is Alexandra Sokoloff&#8217;s most thrilling novel to date: a story of deception, attraction, and the unknown.<br />
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		<title>Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for September 29, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister&#8217;s Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens&#8211;until the day its complacency [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official selection for September 29, 2010</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
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Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister&#8217;s Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.</p>
<p>Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens&#8211;until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state&#8217;s best witness, but she can&#8217;t remember what happened before her very own eyes&#8211;or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show&#8211;destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.<br />
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		<title>Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for August 25, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: Marisha Pessl’s mesmerizing debut has critics raving and heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of this “cracking good read” is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official selection for August 25, 2010</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
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Marisha Pessl’s mesmerizing debut has critics raving and heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of this “cracking good read” is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway school, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel—with “visual aids” drawn by the author—that has won over readers of all ages.<br />
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		<title>Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for July 28, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: Jennifer Weiner&#8217;s richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life&#8217;s most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Official selection for July 28, 2010</strong></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
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Jennifer Weiner&#8217;s richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life&#8217;s most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood. </em></p>
<p>Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim &#8212; and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who&#8217;s struggling to balance her work and motherhood while dealing with unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. Ayinde&#8217;s basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then, there&#8217;s Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband, and a tragic secret to start her life all over again.</p>
<p>From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, <em>Little Earthquakes</em> is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.</p>
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		<title>Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official selection for June 30, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Official selection for June 30, 2010</strong></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
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<p><em>Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly  that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional  twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they?</em></p>
<p><em>When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl  with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to  dance—mysteriously appears, she has one request: Lara must find a  missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than  seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. </em></p>
<p><em>Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems  as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find  Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these  very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from and  about each other. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor  that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, <strong>Twenties  Girl</strong> is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of  friendship and family. </em></p>
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		<title>The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for May 26, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official Selection for May 26, 2010</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
<i><br />
In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel.</p>
<p>Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew—a reclusive, real-life gentle giant—she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes.</p>
<p>Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson’s cakes—which is a good thing, because Julia can’t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she’s hurt in the past?  </p>
<p>Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in.</i></p>
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		<title>The Secret Life Of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for April 28, 2010 From quailridgebooks.com: An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official Selection for April 28, 2010</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
<i>An unsolved murder.</p>
<p>A missing child.</p>
<p>A lifetime of deception.</p>
<p>In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child.</p>
<p>CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth, and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies…</i></p>
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		<title>The Help by Kathryn Stockett</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for March 31, 2010 From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. What perfect timing for this optimistic, uplifting debut novel (and maiden publication of Amy Einhorn&#8217;s new imprint) set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia [...]]]></description>
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<p>From Publishers Weekly<br />
Starred Review. What perfect timing for this optimistic, uplifting debut novel (and maiden publication of Amy Einhorn&#8217;s new imprint) set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who&#8217;s raised 17 children, and Aibileen&#8217;s best friend Minny, who&#8217;s found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers. The book Skeeter puts together based on their stories is scathing and shocking, bringing pride and hope to the black community, while giving Skeeter the courage to break down her personal boundaries and pursue her dreams. Assured and layered, full of heart and history, this one has bestseller written all over it. </p>
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		<title>Dracula by Bram Stoker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official book club selection for February 24, 2010 for Classics Month From quailridgebooks.com: A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman&#8217;s confrontation with the evil Count Dracula. A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold [...]]]></description>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
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A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman&#8217;s confrontation with the evil Count Dracula. A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold readers spellbound a century later.<br />
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		<title>Look Me in the Eye:  My Life with Asperger&#8217;s by John Elder Robison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official book club selection for January 27, 2010. From quailridgebooks.com: Robison delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of growing up with Asperger&#8217;s at a time when the diagnosis simply didn&#8217;t exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as defective.]]></description>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
<i><br />
Robison delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of growing up with Asperger&#8217;s at a time when the diagnosis simply didn&#8217;t exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as defective.<br />
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		<title>Loving Frank by Nancy Horan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official book club selection for December 9, 2009 From quailridgebooks.com: &#8220;I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.&#8221; So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Official book club selection for December 9, 2009</b></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com">quailridgebooks.com</a>:<br />
<i><br />
&#8220;I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.&#8221; So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives. In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America&#8217;s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney&#8217;s profound influence on Wright. Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan&#8217;s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamah&#8217;s is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leading inexorably ultimately lead to this novel&#8217;s stunning conclusion. Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, &#8220;Loving Frank&#8221; is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story. Advance praise for &#8220;Loving Frank: &#8221; &#8220;&#8221;Loving Frank&#8221; is one of those novels that takes over your life. It&#8217;s mesmerizing and fascinating-filled with complex characters, deep passions, tactile descriptions of astonishing architecture, and the colorful immediacy of daily life a hundred years ago-all gathered into a story that unfolds with riveting urgency.&#8221;-Lauren Belfer, author of &#8220;City of Light&#8221; &#8220;This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention. It is engrossing, provocative reading.&#8221;&#8212;-Scott Turow &#8220;It takes great courage to write a novel about historical people, and in particular to give voice to someone as mythic as Frank Lloyd Wright. This beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate.&#8221;&#8212;-Jane Hamilton &#8220;I admire this novel, adore this novel, for so many reasons: The intelligence and lyricism of the prose. The attention to period detail. The epic proportions of this most fascinating love story. Mamah Cheney has been in my head and heart and soul since reading this book; I doubt she&#8217;ll ever leave.&#8221;-Elizabeth Berg &#8220;From the Hardcover edition.&#8221;<br />
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		<title>The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for October 28, 2009 In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene&#8211;a family is stabbed to death by &#8220;a man named Jack” &#8211;the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack&#8211;an 18-month-old baby&#8211;escapes his crib [...]]]></description>
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<p>In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene&#8211;a family is stabbed to death by &#8220;a man named Jack” &#8211;the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack&#8211;an 18-month-old baby&#8211;escapes his crib and his house, and toddles to a nearby graveyard. Quickly recognizing that the baby is orphaned, the graveyard&#8217;s ghostly residents adopt him, name him Nobody (&#8220;Bod&#8221;), and allow him to live in their tomb.</p>
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		<title>My Sister&#8217;s Keeper by Jodi Picoult</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for September 30, 2009 From Publishers Weekly The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance, etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as euthanasia (Mercy), teen suicide (The [...]]]></description>
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<p>From Publishers Weekly<br />
The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance, etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as euthanasia (Mercy), teen suicide (The Pact) and sterilization laws (Second Glance), turns her gaze on genetic planning, the prospect of creating babies for health purposes and the ethical and moral fallout that results. Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At 13, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned. Meanwhile, Jesse, the neglected oldest child of the family, is out setting fires, which his firefighter father, Brian, inevitably puts out. Picoult uses multiple viewpoints to reveal each character&#8217;s intentions and observations, but she doesn&#8217;t manage her transitions as gracefully as usual; a series of flashbacks are abrupt. Nor is Sara, the children&#8217;s mother, as well developed and three-dimensional as previous Picoult protagonists. Her devotion to Kate is understandable, but her complete lack of sympathy for Anna&#8217;s predicament until the trial does not ring true, nor can we buy that Sara would dust off her law degree and represent herself in such a complicated case. Nevertheless, Picoult ably explores a complex subject with bravado and clarity, and comes up with a heart-wrenching, unexpected plot twist at the book&#8217;s conclusion. </p>
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		<title>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for August 26, 2009 Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of [...]]]></description>
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<p>Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family’s decaying English mansion and Flavia’s father becomes the main suspect.</p>
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		<title>Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, and Erin Torneo</title>
		<link>http://www.kerryandgabe.com/bookclub/2009/04/07/may-book-suggestion-picking-cotton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for July 29, 2009 I heard about this one from the Innocence Project.  This would be a bit different than what we&#8217;ve read before within book club.  I, of course, have a passion for this subject matter and plan to read this one regardless&#8230; From Amazon: Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by [...]]]></description>
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<p>I heard about this one from the <a href="http://www.innocenceproject.org/" target="_blank">Innocence Project</a>.  This would be a bit different than what we&#8217;ve read before within book club.  I, of course, have a passion for this subject matter and plan to read this one regardless&#8230;</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312376537/interactiveda8087-20" target="_blank">Amazon</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken&#8211; but Jennifer&#8217;s positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released, after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face&#8211; and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives.</p>
<p>In their own words, Jennifer and Ronald unfold the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Are You There God? It&#8217;s Me Margaret by Judy Blume</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Selection for June 24, 2009 From Amazon: If anyone tried to determine the most common rite of passage for preteen girls in North America, a girl&#8217;s first reading of Are You There God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret would rank near the top of the list. Judy Blume and her character Margaret Simon were the first [...]]]></description>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon</a>:<br />
If anyone tried to determine the most common rite of passage for preteen girls in North America, a girl&#8217;s first reading of Are You There God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret would rank near the top of the list. Judy Blume and her character Margaret Simon were the first to say out loud (and in a book even) that it is normal for girls to wonder when they are ever going to fill out their training bras. Puberty is a curious and annoying time. Girls&#8217; bodies begin to do freakish things&#8211;or, as in Margaret&#8217;s case, they don&#8217;t do freakish things nearly as fast as girls wish they would. Adolescents are often so relieved to discover that someone understands their body-angst that they miss one of the book&#8217;s deeper explorations: a young person&#8217;s relationship with God. Margaret has a very private relationship with God, and it&#8217;s only after she moves to New Jersey and hangs out with a new friend that she discovers that it might be weird to talk to God without a priest or a rabbi to mediate. Margaret just wants to fit in! Who is God, and where is He when she needs Him? She begins to look into the cups of her training bra for answers &#8230; </p>
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