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National Coalition Against Censorship Salutes Judy Blume

Some people may have difficulty finding humor in the issue of censorship. Thankfully, celebrated author Judy Blume isn’t one of them. Nor were the many actors, comedians, authors, and supporters who gathered at City Winery in New York City on Monday evening for “A Night of Comedy with Judy Blume & Friends.” Presented by the National Coalition Against Censorship, the event was both a celebration of the coalition’s 35th anniversary and an opportunity to honor Blume, who has actively battled censorship of her own books since the 1980s, and who has been on NCAC’s board of directors since 2000.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703348.html?nid=2788&source=title&rid=1189609311

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What comes after Vampires – The end of the world as we know it?

Vampires may live forever, but the recent vampire trend in YA fiction won’t. Author Michael Grant, for one, is “sick to death of vampires,” and he is not alone. But when one hugely popular trend ends, what will take its place? Some readers have their fingers crossed for post-apocalyptic fiction.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703373.html?nid=2788&source=link&rid=1189609311

Staying well with guided imagery – today’s read

staying well with guided imagery

How to Harness the Power of Your Imagination for Health and healing

by Belleruth Naparstek

Well-known guided imagery authority and psychotherapist, Naparstek provides a clear guide for using one's imagination for self-healing and health maintenance. She outlines a wide variety of imagery exercises and suggests these not only for general health but also for emotional resiliency and for dealing with common complaints. She provides the reader with ideas for developing specific imagery for individual needs, based on her experiential finding that our bodies do not distinguish between mental images and reality.

Information and background are shared in straight forward, easy to read terms.

“This book is excellent for beginning to understand how the mind can control our physiological responses and affect our ability to heal. Ms. Naperstek's imagery exercises are deceivingly simple yet effective.”

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Must-read – Clive Cussler’s Medusa

medusaMedusa

by Clive Cussler

Kurt Austin must stop a deadly virus from decimating the world in the latest NUMA Files novel.

Read more here

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This year’s Miles Franklin winner – Breath by Tim Winton

breath Breath Winner Miles Franklin award for Literature 2009

by Tim Winton

This slender book packs an emotional wallop. Two thrill-seeking boys, Bruce and Loonie, are young teenagers in smalltown Australia, circa the early 1970s. Their attraction is focused on the water—ponds, rivers, the sea—but they do little more than play around until they fall in with a mysterious, older man named Sando. He recognizes their daredevil wildness and takes it upon himself to teach them to surf. As the boys become more skilled, their exploits become more reckless; narrator Bruce (nicknamed Pikelet) has doubts about where all this is heading, while the aptly named Loonie wants only bigger and bolder thrills.

http://www.pivotalbookclub.com/breath.htm

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Must-Read … a masterpiece novel

Home by Marilynne RobinsonHome

by Marilynne Robinson

From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead

'Robinson makes us understand home isn’t just a place—it’s something we carry with us.'


--- Download the Book Club Guide

--- Listen to a podcast from the Philadelphia Free Library

--- Download the audio of an interview in which the author reads from her book

--- Listen as the novelist talks to Claire Armistead about the novel that has won her this year's Orange prize

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Must-read – the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Girl with the dragon tattoo

Girl with the dragon tattoo

Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family's remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller by muckraking Swedish journalist Larsson.
Already being compared to The Da Vinci Code in Europe, this Swedish bestseller (first in a trilogy) has come to America.

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$24.95 $14.97


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Must-read … The Fixer-upper by bestselling author, Mary Kay Andrews

The Fixer-upperThe Fixer Upper

by Mary Kay Andrews

The delightful New York Times bestselling author returns with a hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old house . . . and her life

Watch a video of Mary Kay Andrews talking about The Fixer Upper

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Must-read – the Boat by Nam Le

A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a masterful display of literary virtuosity and feeling.

http://www.pivotalbookclub.com/boat.htm

An International crystal ball? The next 100 years predicted.

The Next 100 yearsThe Next 100 Years

by George Friedman

In The Next 100 Years, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future wars will erupt (and how they will be fought), which nations will gain and lose economic and political power, and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we live in the new century.


List Price: $25.95

Discount Price: $14.53

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Also available as audio cassette, paperback, eBook, Amazon

--- Watch a video of George Friedman talking about The Next 100 Years