Title: The Cookbook Collector Author: Allegra Goodman Genre: Fiction, with a bit of non-fiction and Psychology mixed in Publication Date: 2010 Purchase Price: $26.00 Emily and Jess Bach may look a lot alike, but the two sisters have almost nothing in common. Practical, hard-working Emily is making a fortune with her start-up company, and Jess…
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“Tomorrow, my journey as an English teacher officially begins.”
Title: The Freedom Writers Diary Author: The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell Genre: Non-fiction Publication Date: 1999 Purchase Price: Around $10 Erin Gruwell is twenty-three and teaching at Wilson High in Long Beach, California, where drugs and gang activity are the norm. The students are drawn along racial lines, and each group feels that everything…
“We only have a few hours, so listen carefully.”
Title: The Red Pyramid Author: Rick Riordan Genre: Fiction – Young Adult Publication Date: 2010 Purchase Price: $18.00 Misc. Info.: I got a copy signed by the author! Carter Kane is living what some would consider a perfect life: he travels the world with his Egyptologist father, exploring crypts and touching ancient history. Meanwhile Carter’s…
“We are such stuffe as dreames are made on…”
Title: The Book of Air and Shadows Author: Michael Gruber Genre: Fiction – Thriller Publication Date: 2007 Purchase Price: $15 Albert Crosetti is most definitely not living the American Dream. He lives with his mother in the dodgy end of New York, and works at a bookstore doing accounting and inventory for a pittance. His…
“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship.”
Title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Author: Mary Roach Genre: Non-fiction, science Publication date: 2003 Purchase price: $10 Today’s blog is all about serendipitous finds. Sometime during the summer of 2003, I was wandering around Barnes and Noble with my father. I didn’t have any particular purchases in mind, so I was just…