BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

Need to add to your TBR list?  Let RUSA (the Reference and User Services Association of the ALA) help…  Each year RUSA names one book in eight genres as the top pick for 2010.  Here are the awards:

Adrenaline (Action, Thrillers, and Adventure) Winner: Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child 

Runners-Up
Beat the Reaper, by Josh Bazell
The Neighbor, by Lisa [...]

The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Release date: 2008 / 276 pages
Synopsis (from front cover): Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet.
First Line: When Josey [...]

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What a great year of reading I’ve had!  Here are my top recommendations…  Feel free to leave your own picks below in the comments, too!  I realize some of these picks were published prior to 2009, but I’ve decided to create my list according to what I read this past year…  I [...]

Cost by Roxana Robinson
Release date: 2008 / 420 pages
Synopsis (from front cover): “When Julia Lambert, a painter and art professor, settles into her old Maine farmhouse for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fraglie relationships with her father, an authoritarian neuro-surgeon, and her gentle-hearted mother, who is quietly losing her memory. [...]

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In case the holiday season is already a bit overwhelming… or if you are lucky enough to be going on a tropical vacation any time soon…  Here is Reader’s Advisory list of Uplifting Books!  I starred the ones I’ve read (and LOVED)…
Sarah Addison Allen – Garden Spells **
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice **
Laurie [...]