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Sarah Rachel Egelman
High school senior Andi Alpers is full of anger and sadness. The tragic death of her younger brother has wrecked her family, sending her father away, her mother into a paralyzing depression, and Andi into a state of rage and hurt so deep it feels like suicide might be the only way to relieve the pain. She tries to manage the overwhelming hurt and sense of responsibility over Truman's passing with prescription drugs, but the only thing that really helps is music.
Teaser
Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi Alpers finds Alexandrine Paradis's diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession.
Promo
Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi Alpers finds Alexandrine Paradis's diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession.
October 2010
Nicholas Evans has been a favorite author of mine for years. He writes brilliantly about human emotion and the human spirit. While he is best known for THE HORSE WHISPERER, I still am haunted by the story in THE DIVIDE, which brilliantly explored the unraveling of a marriage. There are lines he has written there that are brutally honest and refreshingly stark and bold. In each of his books, he treads into relationships that work only because he is brave enough to go there. And thinking of this, I realize how apt it is that his new book is called THE BRAVE.
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October 11, 2010
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In today's post, regular contributor Heather Johnson (Age 30+ ...
October 8, 2010
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Congrats to
Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in literature...
This
NYC librarian has put together a list of books about, inspired by or featured on AMC's hit show "Mad Men," and now there's a wait list for most of the titles...
October 8, 2010
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In today's post, regular contributor Denise Neary shares her review of the new movie It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on the book of the same name. Consider reading the book and then doing an outing with your book club to catch the movie.
Let’s hear it for a movie true to the book it is based on!
October 7, 2010
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Earlier this week the
Masters in Education website released a list of the
Top 50 Book Clubs to Inspire and Learn From and guess who made the list? ReadingGroupGuides.com of course!
We are proud to be a part of such a great list whose other members include:
October 6, 2010
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As members of reading groups and book clubs we are all clearly geniuses (I think I may have noted that earlier this week as well), but we have figured out that conversation (especially conversation about books) goes very well with food (and often wine -- but de
October 6, 2010
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'Tis the fall, the
FALL OF GIANTS by Ken Follett that is as the author returns with a project every bit as epic, ambitious and large (literally and figuratively) as his beloved bestseller THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH. FALL OF GIANTS, the first book in Follett's planned
Century trilogy hit shelves this week, but wasn't the universal No. 1 you might assume.
October 6, 2010
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Check
out Bookreporter.com's
Coming Soon list to stay up to date on all the latest titles as well as those coming in the weeks and months ahead!
October 5, 2010
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I don't why I'm so full of questions this week... I guess it's because I think sometimes the best ideas we get here at RGG are from you... our readers. You are out there in the trenches (or living rooms anyway) experiencing your book clubs and having all kinds of wonderful (or strange) discussions and tons of great ideas.