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January 8, 2010 - January 21, 2010

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During the holidays, did you read all the books you planned on reading? If not, what took you away from reading? Check as many as apply.

January 8, 2010, 340 voters

What recent book releases didn’t meet your expectations? Name up to five titles.

January 8, 2010

January 8, 2010

Thanks to all of you who wrote with holiday greetings and to tell us you missed us during these last two weeks. I shared your comments with the staff and they were much appreciated. As we start the new year, I wondered if I could ask you to forward this newsletter to any friends who you think might enjoy it. Consider it our “annual newsletter drive” to kick off the year/decade and a chance for you to “jumpstart” another reader. Thanks in advance for this.

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Barbara Delinsky, author of Not My Daughter

Barbara Delinsky explores the bonds between mothers and daughters in this topical, explosive novel as a high school principal struggles with the news that her daughter and friends are pregnant.

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Jeffery Deaver, author of Watchlist: A Serial Thriller

From International Thriller Writers comes WATCHLIST: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrilling cast of characters in one major suspenseful package.

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Gregory Funaro, author of The Sculptor

Dr. Catherine Hildebrant, professor of art history at Brown University, is trying to get her life back on track. Known in academic circles not only as one of the world’s foremost scholars on Michelangelo, she is also the author of a controversial book on his sculptures.

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Ken Wheaton, author of The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival

Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete’s church. Among his challenges are teenybopper altar girls, insomnia-curing confessions, and alarmingly alluring congregant Vicky Carrier.

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What book that was released for the first time in 2009 do you think was The Book of the Year? And since we know you may have trouble selecting one, you can name up to three.

December 18, 2009

December 18, 2009

This is the time of year when there is ALWAYS something to do. My life is busy enough, but layering in parties, presents, decorations and other holiday celebration items ratchets up life to a whole new level. Seriously, I think we all should campaign for Santa. I mean he gets all the credit, though I have NEVER seen him wrap a box around these parts. And did HE go shopping this week? The way I see it, he sits in a chair in the mall convincing children he has it all under control. Ha, I want that job.

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