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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Lesley)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Contemporary Fiction - Epistolary
2008 The Dial Press
Finished on 7/23/08
Rating: 4.75//5 (Fabulous!)
ARC - Release date of July 29th
“Here’s who will love this book—anyone who nods in profound agreement with the statement,’Reading keeps you from going gaga.’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel […]
Popularity: 28% [?]
Made in the U.S.A. (Lesley)
Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts
Contemporary Fiction
2008 Grand Central Publishing
Finished on 6/29/08
Rating: 2.5/5 (Fair)
Fate sometimes thought that God was looking out for him and Lutie. The notes left for them, and the food they found on the hood of the car and in the library. All of that came from someone. And if it […]
Popularity: 25% [?]
The Wednesday Sisters (Lesley)
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
Contemporary Fiction
2008 Ballantine Books
Finished on 5/28/08
Rating: 3.5 (Good)
ARC - Due out on June 17
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I […]
Popularity: 33% [?]
Stone Creek (Lesley)
Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader
Contemporary Fiction
2008 HarperCollins
Finished on 5/18/08
Rating: 3.5 (Good)
Publisher’s Description:
In a small town in upstate New York, a random meeting will offer hope and the chance of love for two lonely people.
Though he still grieves for the young wife he loved and lost, Danny, a widower, knows he must move on for the […]
Popularity: 27% [?]
The Space Between Before and After (Lesley)
The Space Between Before and After by Jean Reynolds Page
Contemporary Fiction
2008 Avon (HarperCollins)
Quit on 5/12/08
Rating: DNF
Product Description
Forty-two and divorced, Holli Templeton has just begun to realize the pleasures of owning her life for the first time. But the experience is short-lived. Her son Conner has unexpectedly fled college in Rhode Island and moved to Texas […]
Popularity: 38% [?]
Compulsion (Lesley)
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
Mystery/Thriller
2008 Ballantine Books
Finished on 5/7/08
Rating: 3.5/5 (Good)
Product Description
Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the […]
Popularity: 31% [?]
Summer Blowout (Lesley)
Summer Blowout by Claire Cook
Contemporary Fiction
2008 Voice (Hyperion)
Finished on 5/2/08
Rating: 4/5 (Very Good)
ARC - Due out on June 3rd
Book Description
Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family’s small chain of beauty salons […]
Popularity: 33% [?]
Keeper and Kid (Lesley)
Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
Contemporary Fiction
2008 Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin’s Press)
Finished on 4/29/08
Rating: 4/5 (Very Good)
Publisher’s Blurb
Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a fierce attitude. They got married, found a dog, and shopped for cilantro. But conflicting […]
Popularity: 35% [?]
The Girl with No Shadow (Lesley)
The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris
Contemporary Fiction
2008 William Morrow (Harper Collins)
Finished on 4/15/08
Rating: 4.5/5 (Terrific!)
Book Description
Since she was a little girl, the wind has dictated every move Vianne Rocher has made, buffeting her from place to place, from the small French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a […]
Popularity: 33% [?]
Valentines (Lesley)
Valentines by Ted Kooser
Poetry
2008 University of Nebraska Press
Finished on 4/1/08
Rating: 3.5/5 (Good)
For Valentine’s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that […]
Popularity: 33% [?]
Previous Stories
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Lesley)
- Made in the U.S.A. (Lesley)
- The Wednesday Sisters (Lesley)
- Stone Creek (Lesley)
- The Space Between Before and After (Lesley)
- Compulsion (Lesley)
- Summer Blowout (Lesley)
- Keeper and Kid (Lesley)
- The Girl with No Shadow (Lesley)
- The Prince of Frogtown (Lesley)
- Belong to Me (Lesley)
- Things I Want My Daughters to Know (Lesley)
- Change of Heart (Lesley)
- Dreamers of the Day (Lesley)
- The Middle Place (Lesley)
- The Winter Rose (Lesley)
- River (Lesley)
