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Book Sense Picks

Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
by Brashares, Ann
"After completing their first year of college, Bridget, Carmen, Lena, and Tibby begin to realize that staying in touch is much more difficult than they had ever imagined. Their dreams have taken them down different paths and they fear that their time as close friends has passed. Ann Brashares' realistic portrayal of four young women trying to find their way in the world is bittersweet yet ultimately hopeful in this fourth and final volume of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants quartet." --Tish Gayle, The Blue Marble Bookstore, Fort Thomas, KY

Tax Time

125 famous authors recently created top ten lists of their most beloved books. Want to know what they chose?

The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
by Zane, J. Peder
If you asked 125 celebrated authors to choose ten books they loved, which ones would come out on top?
Editor J. Peder Zane did just that and came out with some likely suspects and a vast number of books he would never have suspected, including some thoroughly obscure ones. Did Alexander McCall Smith and Lee Smith have any in common? They are both partial to a famous adulteress. And while Paul Auster and Melissa Bank don't agree on anything, they picked top ten Tolstoys, though different ones. And was it Douglas Coupland or A. M. Homes who chose "Fight Club" as their fave? Other great lists, like the top ten mysteries, round out the list making. Zane also includes essays by authors on favorite books, as well as an essay by Sven Birkerts trying to understand the top ten. With synopses of every book listed, "The Top Ten" will be your guide to the classics you've always wanted to read, books cherished by your favorite writers, and many years of reading pleasure ahead.

Author Birthday

If today is your birthday, you share it with Sir James Barrie.

Quote of the Day

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

- Oprah Winfrey

From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)

Virago Modern Classics -- A Classic is Always in Vogue

The Virago Modern Classics series puts the "class" into classics!

Time After Time
by Keane, Molly
The Swifts--three sisters of marked eccentricity, defiantly christened April, May, and baby June, and their only brother, one-eyed Jasper--have little in common, save some vivid memories of their darling mother and a long lost youth particularly prone to acts of treachery. Into their world comes cousin Leda from Vienna, a visitor from the past, blind but beguiling: a thrilling guest. Within days, the lifestyle of the Swifts has been dramatically overturned--and desires, dormant for so long, flame fierce and bright like never before. Molly Keane (1904-1996) also wrote under the pen name M.J. Farrell; among her many timeless novels are The Knight of Cheerful Countenance, Conversation Piece, Devoted Ladies, and Good Behavior.