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Week of August 20, 2012

UNMEASURED STRENGTH by Lauren Manning is the story of Lauren’s remarkable recovery after she has gotten 80 percent of her body burned in the fall of the World Trade Centers.

 In THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE by Adriana Trigiani, Ciro has caught the local priest in scandal. He is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker. He leaves his love Enza, but soon her family faces disaster and she is forced to go to America too.

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Week of August 13, 2012

In CLOSE YOUR EYES by Iris and Roy Johansen, FBI agent Adam Kyle consults with music therapist Kendra Michael to help him solve his case, a case that has Kendra's ex in the path of a known serial killer. Will Kendra and Adam be able to save him in time or will there differences get in the way?

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August 8, 2012

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Thursday, August 9th at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of CATHERINE THE GREAT: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Henry Ward Beecher

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

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Henry Ward Beecher

August 7, 2012

The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of August 6th and August 13th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.

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—The Sunday Times, London

City of Women by David R. Gillham

August 2012

CITY OF WOMEN, a debut novel from David R. Gillham, is set in Berlin during World War II at a time when the city has become a city of women as the men are off fighting on various fronts. Picturing wartime Berlin, we typically think of the Nazis with swastikas and artillery moving through the streets, or the faces of Jewish families being ushered from their homes. But what of those left behind? Who were they, and what were their stories?

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August 7, 2012

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Wednesday, August 8th at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of BEAUTIFUL LIES by Clare Clark. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Lisa Jackson #3

Links to http://www.bookreporter.com/spend-your-summer-with-lisa-jackson.