Tag: 2010 Releases
Walls Within Walls
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Title: Walls Within Walls Author: Maureen Sherry Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, June 2010 Summary/Review: CJ, Brid, and Patrick Smithfork (along with little sister Carron) don’t want to move from their cozy Brooklyn apartment to a sprawling penthouse in Manhattan. But ever since their dad...
Christmas is Here
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Title: Christmas is Here : Words from the King James Bible Illustrated by: Lauren Castillo Publisher: Simon & Schuster 2010 Summary/Review: Christmas is Here is a beautifully illustrated story for younger children depicting a live Nativity Event in a small town. The two page...
Light Between Oceans
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Title: Light Between Oceans Author: M.L. Stedman Publisher: Scribner, July 2012 Summary/Review: After surviving four years of war on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a position as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. Although the island is completely isolated, a...
The Language of Trees
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Title: The Language of Trees Author: Ilie Ruby Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, July 2010 Summary: Ilie Ruby’s debut novel opens with a canoeing accident in the waters of the Canandaigua Lake. The three small Ellis children have stolen a canoe and are making their way out...
Room
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Title: Room Author: Emma Donoghue Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, September 2010 Summary: This is a raw, astonishing story of a boy and his mother who live as prisoners in a single, small room. It may be a reminder of headline grabbing kidnapping cases,...
The Thieves of Manhattan
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Title: The Thieves of Manhattan Author: Adam Langer Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (2010) Summary: Ian Minot is a struggling writer working at the Morningside Coffee diner. Ian works alongside Joseph, a struggling actor, and Faye, an aspiring artist. Of the three, Ian has been the...
Death Echo
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Title: Death Echo Author: Elizabeth Lowell Publisher: HarperCollins, June 2010 Summary: Emma Cross, former CIA agent now working for St. Kilda Consulting, must rustle with Russian spies and a terrorist plot in Elizabeth Lowell’s latest book. Emma needs to chase down “The Blackbird” a yacht...
Red Hook Road
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Title: Red Hook Road Author: Ayelet Waldman Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing, July 2010 Summary: A young couple is killed on the way to their wedding reception in coastal Maine. Red Hook Road takes the reader on a journey with the surviving members of their families...
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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Title: Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food Author: Paul Greenberg Publisher: Penguin Group, July 2010 Summary: The title refers to four types of fish popular for consumption: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. I found this book to be very well-written and...
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
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Title: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Author: Helen Simonson Publisher: Random House, March 2010 Summary: I fell in love with widower Major Ernest Pettigrew about six pages in! The story takes place in a quaint English village, where the Major’s brother’s sudden death and the propriety of...