Monday, October 24, 2011

Something To Read About-A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster


http://pages.simonandschuster.com/somethingtoreadabout/wanderlust/
Can download to Kindle, Nook, or other e-reader. Check this out for a taste of some new reads.
 The Memory Palace: A Memoir
Mira Bartók
 
The Memory Palace is artist Mira Bartók's visceral memoir about the impact of her mother’s schizophrenia on her life. Told with rich imagery and resonant prose, this literary memoir about the ties that bind reverberates with a rare blend of passion, conflict, and raw emotion.
 The Memory Palace: AIncendiary
Chris Cleave

From the author of Little Bee,Incendiary is Chris Cleave’s stunning debut novel. A distraught, unnamed woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. With an emotionally raw voice alive with grief and startling humor, she tries to convince one of history's most notorious criminals to abandon his terror campaign.
 The Chemical Garden Trilogy: Wither
Lauren DeStefano

In the near future, a botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold to be a polygamous bride—a common practice by the wealthy, who are desperate to keep their family lines alive—she vows to do all she can to escape.Wither is the first book in a new trilogy by debut author Lauren DeStefano.
 The Red Queen
Philippa Gregory
  
Bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort—a proud and determined woman who plots to win the throne of England for her family—in this novel of conspiracy, passion, and cold-hearted ambition.
 The Dirty Life:
A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love
Kristin Kimball

When Kristin Kimball trades in her single life in New York City  to marry a farmer, she discovers the wrenching pleasures of physical work, learns that good food is at the center of a good life, falls deeply in 
love, and finally finds the commitment she craved in the form of a man, a small town, and a beautiful piece of land.

Skipping a Beat
Sarah Pekkanen

From the author of the acclaimed The Opposite of Me comes a poignant, witty novel about a woman whose husbands wants to rewrite the rules of their marriage and lifestyle after a near-death experience.

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