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…
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“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…
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.”
Title: Rhett Butler’s People Author: Donald McCaig Genre: Historical fiction Publication Date: 2007 Purchase Price: $8.99 (paperback) Misc. Info.: A fully authorized “sequel” to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind The Plot After writing what some have called “the best Civil War novel ever written,” Donald McCaig was handpicked by the Margaret Mitchell estate to…
Feminism: The New F-word?
Title: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture Author: Ariel Levy Genre: Non-fiction – Women’s Studies Publication Date: 2006 Purchase Price: Around $10.00 (paperback) Summary In the wake of Roe v. Wade, women should have come further. But instead of using our freedom to get more in touch with our feelings and…
“The story is in the cards.”
Title: Sepulchre Author: Kate Mosse (no, not the model–that would be Kate Moss) Genre: Fiction (quasi-mystery/horror) Publication Date: 2007 Purchase Price: $16.00 (paperback); I got a hardback on sale for $6.98 Misc. Info.: From the author of the bestseller Labyrinth Looking back, perhaps the fact that I found this week’s book in the discount bin…