BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

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During my weekly browse through my Reader, I found this find: Bookseller Debra Linn’s list of great summer reads:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows(Dial Press, $22, on sale date: July 29)
A wonderful read told through letters from several people. This should/could/will be the [...]

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Check out this sneak preview of the ABA’s Indie Next List:

The September 2008 Indie Next List

In Hovering Flight: A Novel by Joyce Hinnefeld
(Unbridled, $24.95, 9781932961584 / 1932961585)
“In Hovering Flight is the story of a couple, Addie and Tom, a bird painter and a bird scientist, of their romance and marriage, [...]

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If you’ve been feeling like everyone and their neighbor is writing a memoir, well EW’s list proves your hunch to be true!  I realize this list is overwhelming, but it’s also kind of fun.  Be sure to check out which ones EW picks at the very end…  Ready, Set, Go!
Childhood
Grew up…
In Texas: [...]

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This week’s list of lovely summer finds from the Reader’s Advisor embraces a subject near and dear to my sport’s loving heart: Baseball!  I do love America’s favorite past-time — the pace, the rhythm, the bursts of orchestrated activity, the quiet lulls, the opportunity to spend 3 or 4 hours outside… 
Anyway, I [...]

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The end of July is fast approaching, but the summer reading lists just keep on coming…
Here’s Newsweek’s picks for vacation reading and I believe this list would veer toward the “substantive”:
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Nathan Englander (Faber and Faber) This pitch-perfect debut provides glimpses of the lives of Orthodox Jews. [...]