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Pat
“I am Captain of this crazy crew. We sail both
calm and rough seas singing soulfully all the way. Come aboard and join in.”
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Kristin
Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undsett |
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The
Nobel-laureate author tells the life story of a passionate and headstrong
woman in the 14th century. She paints a richly detailed backdrop of
day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious
undercurrents.
Cost: $13.00
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Independent People
by Halldór Laxness
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Cost: $15.00
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Translated from Icelandic, this mesmerizing winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize
in Literature deals with the struggles of two fiercely independent people,
a small farmer and his daughter, to survive and maintain their hard-won
freedom in the face of harsh realities and personal tragedy. At once
heroic and comic, bleak and touching, epic and deeply personal, this
powerful book will capture the reader’s imagination and memory. |
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Stephen
“Now is a goood time to eat books,”
says The Bookie Monster
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Brothers Karamazov
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.
Cost: $18.00
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Myndi
“I love wearing tiaras, even when it’s not my
birthday. If I have two daughters that are princesses, that makes me a
queen, doesn’t it?!”
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Two
Old Women by Welma Wallis |
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Wallis's award-winning, bestselling novel is about two elderly Native
American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan
winter. Line drawings throughout.
Cost: $12.95
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Nat
R.I.F = Reading is fundamental.
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Amy
Although the librarian was shhhhing the
students, she secretly wanted to throw her pencil into the ceiling tiles
too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A WRINKLE IN TIME
by Madeleine L'Engle, |
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Winner
of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and
time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe They are in search
of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work
for the government on the tesseract problem.
Cost: $6.99
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Astrid
'You can't do anything about the
length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.'
- Henry Louis Mencken
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Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned
and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a
passing train, he enters a world of
freaks, grifters, and misfits, a
second-rate circus struggling to survive
during the Great Depression, making
one-night stands in town after endless
town. A veterinary student who almost
earned his degree, Jacob is put in
charge of caring for the circus
menagerie. It is there that he meets
Marlena, the beautiful young star of the
equestrian act, who is married to
August, the charismatic but twisted
animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an
elephant who seems untrainable until he
discovers a way to reach her.
Beautifully written, Water For
Elephants is illuminated by a
wonderful sense of time and place. It
tells a story of a love between two
people that overcomes incredible odds in
a world in which even love is a luxury
that few can afford.
Cost:
13.95
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Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
Open Heart-Shaped
Box and you'll instantly be caught in one of the most compelling,
truly terrifying books I have ever read. Ex-rock god Judas Coyne thought
he was buying a ghost on the internet, a strange addition to his
sinister collection. But the ghost is far more than he bargained for,
and soon Jude is haunted, hunted, and running. Desperate to escape
echoes of his past and an endless future following the night road where
the dead drive, Jude must confront the person he has become ... before
the dead catch up.
Gritty with the taste of modern America and characters so real they seem
to breathe beneath the pages, Heart-Shaped Box still manages to
ooze menace with every well-chosen word. A must read.
Cost: $24.95
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Poemcrazy by Susan Wooldridge
Still
the best book out there for “freeing your life with words.” Wooldridge
gives permission to let the right brain romp, bringing expression and
creativity cascading.
Cost: $13.00
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Dave
"Clean that closet!"
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Endurance
by Alfred Lansing |
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Shipwrecked and marooned for months, an ill-fated voyage becomes a
triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face of
astounding obstacles.
Cost: $12.99
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Vicki
"It was pre-destined that I would
work in a bookstore, with a cat-in-residence named Paddington. It just took
me a very long time to arrive. I am waiting for Paddington. Has anyone see
Paddington?"
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Neither
Here
Nor
There by Bill Bryson |
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 Favorite book? I
don't really have one but instead get hooked on an author or a category
of books. Bill Bryson's "Neither Here Nor There" is my favorite of his
books. We share a similar history of first flying to Europe (Amsterdam)
in the 1970's on the original "cheap flights" - about $125 one way!
This book is about him repeating the same route that first time 25
years later before he returns to the US to live. Anyone who traveled in
Europe when Frommer's Guides were "$25 A Day" or has lived in Europe for
a while will find themselves laughing out loud frequently.
Cost: 14.00
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Katie
Bringing all the
most bizarre aspects of British humor to A Book For All Seasons.
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Jane
Eyre:
Although poor and plain, Jane Eyre
is a passionate and intelligent woman whose strength of character enables
her to overcome all the obstacles and unhappiness of her life until she is
finally united with her love, the brooding Mr. Rochester. Revolutionary when
it was first published, “Jane Eyre” has now become an undisputed classic.
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte.
Cost:
4.95.
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 The
Eyre Affair:
Witty, literary, and packed with
more puns than you can shake a pet Dodo at! This crazy, charming tale is set
in an alternate version of 1980’s Britain in which Literary Detective
Thursday Next struggles to foil fiction-related crimes, from the kidnapping
of Jane Eyre to a missing person in a Wordsworth poem. Can Thursday thwart
crime, find love, conceal her time-traveling farther and find out who really
wrote Shakespeare’s plays? And what is the secret of Chapter 13? “The Eyre
Affair” by Jasper Fforde.
Cost $14.00.
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Jipkiss
Having traveled the world in pursuit of delicious
pasta and deplorable puns, A Book For All Seasons roving gourmet mascot
Jipkiss (AKA Moi AKA Me, Myself and I) has finally returned to Leavenworth!
You can read about my antics and other misadventures in the Catablog, which
can be found in the Jaunty Jipkiss Jotter every month (I have a feline—I
mean feeling—that I am going to regret this…)
Click here for the latest Catablog entry!
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