Title: Persuasion Author: Jane Austen Genre: Fiction Publication Date: 1818 Purchase Price: $7.95 (paperback) Seven years’ prior to the main events of Persuasion, Anne Elliott falls in love with Frederick, a Naval officer who is handsome and ambitious, but poor. Anne’s father and sister, obsessed with family distinction, oppose the match. Anne’s mentor and friend…
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“O, be some other name!” (Romeo and Juliet)
Title: The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove Author: Susan Gregg Gilmore Genre: Fiction Publication Date: 2010 Purchase Price: $23.00 (Hardcover) What is it with me and my recent reads quoting Shakespeare? Maybe it’s because no matter what anyone says or writes, it’s inevitable that Shakespeare said or wrote it better. Ah well, on to the…
“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 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…
“From the river, it looked as if two suns were setting over London.”
Title: Interred with Their Bones Author: Jennifer Lee Carrell Genre: Historical fiction Publication Date: 2007 Purchase Price: $5.38 (hardback, bargain book) Buyer Beware After careful thought, I have come to the conclusion that there is indeed such a thing as the Curse of the Bargain Bin Book. Picture this: you walk into your bookstore of…