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Don't worry, Summer is here. It seemed like it might never come, but here it is and it looks like it's going to be a great one. Now we can all happily move on to Summer Reading!
Click on "Read More" to see what's reviewed in this month's Flyer. Click on "Our Favorite Summer Reads" on the left-hand bar to see each staff member's list of top Summer reads.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Barrows, Annie Fiery,
Shaffer, Mary Ann Fiery
I recently went to an author dinner (not with these authors or for this book) and someone from the University Book Store was at the dinner. She asked what I thought of “Guernsey.” A cow? What? She was aghast I hadn’t yet read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Right then she made me promise to go home and pick up my advance reading copy of the book and dive in. She also mentioned that the novel is written as a series of letters (not always easy to read), but to not let that stop me. I didn’t. Thank goodness.
It is 1946 and Judith Ashton has finished a book tour around England. As she is trying to come up with a subject for a new book, she receives a letter from a man on the island of Guernsey (located between France and England) who happens to find a book that once belonged to Judith. Dawsey’s letter mentions The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which was a book club made up to give some of the islanders an excuse to be out after curfew during the island’s occupation by Germany. Judith’s curiosity is piqued by the letter and certainly by the group’s title, and thus begins a correspondence. Realizing the island’s five-year occupation by the Nazis would be an interesting topic for her next book, she is soon writing to Dawsey and to the entire book group. Eventually, other islanders decide to tell their stories of the long occupation and I found myself both laughing and crying as their stories are revealed -- it’s that kind of book.
This is such a lovely novel. I was once again reminded of the incredible courage demonstrated by so many people during that terrible war. I was also reminded of the atrocities. But most of all I was entertained by engaging storytelling and wonderful characters who were so real I wish I could somehow find a way to have dinner with them. Pick it up… you’ll see. ~Patti |
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Read Around the World - our Summer Reading Program
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Hurray for Summer and great reads! The fifth annual Queen Anne Kids Read is a little different. This year we're featuring 25 books, a passport with special stamps, and the chance to enter your name 25 times in our drawing for fabulous prizes.
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Hannah West in the Center of the Universe
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Johns, Linda
Hannah Westatwelve-year-old adopted Chinese daughter of Maggie West and aspiring detectiveais back on the scene in a third original adventure. Someone is kidnapping canines, and itas got the dog-crazy denizens of funky Fremontawhere Hannah and her mom have landed their latest house-sitting gigaall riled up. At first, Hannahas in heaven in dog-filled Fremont, but when her dog-walking business marks her as a suspect in the dognappings, she knows that this is one case that sheas got to get to the bottom ofafor her own sake, as well as for the sake of her canine companions |
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We offer two monthly book clubs. Both are "drop-in, no-guilt" groups which means that you don't have to sign up, nor are you expected to read every book. The current books for both groups are always 10% off. There are always cookies or snacks at both book clubs! How can you pass that up?
To learn more about our book clubs, what we're reading, or what we've read in the past, click on "read more".
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Mister Pip
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Jones, Lloyd
For August 6th and 11th:
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, "A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe." Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing. |
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Our Favorite Summer Reads for 2008
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What is a "Summer Read," anyway? Yes, there are a fare number of mysteries on these lists, and more than enough lighter reads (you might even call them guilty pleasures), but ultimately our Summer lists end up being more a collection of engrossing books - suited for the beach, backyard, or the airplane - rather than just trashy novels.
It doesn't have to be warm out to need a book like that!
Click on "Read More" for our latest picks as well as an archive of past years.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Barrows, Annie Fiery,
Shaffer, Mary Ann Fiery
"" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." "January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb....
As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends--and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society--born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island--boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
\Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.
Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways. |
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