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Babe Ruth

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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Babe Ruth

Dave Barry

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

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Dave Barry

Max Müller

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

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Max Müller

April 2015

Spring keeps trying to arrive; last weekend in the New York area, it was a beautiful 80 degrees and today it is 40. We see reports of snow on patio furniture all over the country. Come on, Mother Nature! After what felt like a particularly brutal winter, we at FaithfulReader.com are delighted to welcome the daffodils and forsythia --- and, of course, new books!

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April 24, 2015

When I was in school, I had zip science aptitude. I remember studying the periodic chart in high school and the torture of trying to memorize it; like trigonometry, calculus and chemistry, it is something that I never use today. I took a course called “Energy” when I was in college to fulfill a science requirement. I went to class every day and drew pictures of nuclear reactors that I could not understand (though I drew them just like what was on the board), but I did write a killer 20-page paper about “Women on the Alaska Pipeline” that saved my grade.

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Elizabeth Alexander, author of The Light of the World: A Memoir

In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 49. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a re-energized devotion to her two teenage sons, Alexander channels her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose that describes a very personal and yet universal quest for meaning, understanding and acceptance.

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David Baldacci, author of Memory Man

Amos Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare --- his wife, young daughter and brother-in-law had been murdered. His family destroyed, their killer's identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. But over a year later, a man turns himself in to the police and confesses to the murders. Decker must endure the memories he would much rather forget --- and may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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Toni Morrison, author of God Help the Child

At the center of Toni Morrison’s first novel to be set in our current moment is a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There’s also Booker, the man Bride loves but loses to anger; Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths; and Bride’s mother, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”

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Jon Krakauer, author of Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Jon Krakauer chronicles the searing experiences of several women in Missoula --- the nights when they were raped; their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the way they were treated by the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys; the public vilification and private anguish; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. Krakauer’s dispassionate, carefully documented account of what these ladies endured cuts through the abstract ideological debate about campus rape.

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The Bone Tree

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Ray Palen

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Ray Palen

Greg Iles clearly knows the south and easily traverses both its landscape and history in his latest riveting literary thriller, THE BONE TREE. Iles is a native of Natchez, Mississippi, and most of the action takes place in or around that town. This is the second installment in a new series featuring lawyer-turned-mayor Penn Cage, following NATCHEZ BURNING. Read More

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THE BONE TREE is an explosive, action-packed thriller full of twisting intrigue and deadly secrets, a tale that explores the conflicts and casualties that result when the darkest truths of American history come to light. It puts us inside the skin of a noble man who has always fought for justice --- now finally pushed beyond his limits. Just how far will Penn Cage, the hero we thought we knew, go to protect those he loves?

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THE BONE TREE is an explosive, action-packed thriller full of twisting intrigue and deadly secrets, a tale that explores the conflicts and casualties that result when the darkest truths of American history come to light. It puts us inside the skin of a noble man who has always fought for justice --- now finally pushed beyond his limits. Just how far will Penn Cage, the hero we thought we knew, go to protect those he loves?

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Greg Iles continues the electrifying story begun in his smash New York Times bestseller NATCHEZ BURNING in this highly anticipated second installment of an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice, featuring Southern lawyer Penn Cage.

Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi’s most powerful men. But the real danger has only begun as FBI Special Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody wasn’t the true leader of the Double Eagles. The puppeteer who actually controls the terrorist group is a man far more fearsome: the chief of the state police’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Forrest Knox.

The only way Penn can save his father, Dr. Tom Cage --- who is fleeing a murder charge as well as corrupt cops bent on killing him --- is either to make a devil’s bargain with Knox or destroy him. While Penn desperately pursues both options, Caitlin uncovers the real story behind a series of unsolved civil rights murders that may hold the key to the Double Eagles’ downfall. The trail leads her deep into the past, into the black backwaters of the Mississippi River, to a secret killing ground used by slave owners and the Klan for over 200 years...a place of terrifying evil known only as “the bone tree.”

THE BONE TREE is an explosive, action-packed thriller full of twisting intrigue and deadly secrets, a tale that explores the conflicts and casualties that result when the darkest truths of American history come to light. It puts us inside the skin of a noble man who has always fought for justice --- now finally pushed beyond his limits.

Just how far will Penn Cage, the hero we thought we knew, go to protect those he loves?