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This Week’s New Releases

August 9, 2010 posted by Jaclyn Abergas
Tagged as: Choosing Books, Fiction, New Releases, Nonfiction, Reading
Here are this week's newest releases. Fiction Red Queen (Philippa Gregory) Red Queen is a fictional account of Margaret Beaufort, future queen of Scotland, from the time she was an innocent nine-year-old, full of grand dreams of her own, to an unloved wife and widow at 13, and a mother at 14, determined to give her son everything, even if it could cost her her life. Business Mentor Leader (Tony Dungy) "Your only job is to help your players be better." Tony Dungy heard this from one of his earlier mentors and has been his guiding principle ever since. This simple principle has led to...

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New Releases

August 4, 2010 posted by Jaclyn Abergas
Tagged as: Choosing Books, Fiction, New Releases, Nonfiction, Reading
Here is a line-up of the newest releases. Entertainment Sliding Into Home (Kendra Wilkinson) We all know Kendra Wilkinson as one of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends and one of the stars of The Girls Next Door. In Sliding Into Home, Kendra talks about growing up without a father, messing up and how she recovered to  graduate from high school. She also talks about life with her husband, NFL star Hank Baskett and their newborn son, and their secret relationship while she was still living in the Playboy Mansion.Learn more about Kendra in this riveting and entertaining biography. Mystery Star Island (Carl Hiaasen) In Star Island,...

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Coming Soon: Upcoming Book Releases

July 5, 2010 posted by Jaclyn Abergas
Tagged as: Fiction, New Releases, Nonfiction
Travel Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (Bill Streever) Bill Streevers is not one to shy away from any challenge and adventure. He ventures out in a year-long adventure to the world’s coldest places - all 40-below cold. In July, he’s dressing down to take a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole. In September, he’s using his tools to dig the planet’s ancient ice ages. And in October, he’s exploring the hibernation habits of different animals, including humans, wood frogs and bears. He will visit where no other normally visits and he will take the challenge no one...

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New Releases

May 26, 2010 posted by Jaclyn Abergas
Tagged as: Choosing Books, Fiction, New Releases
Looking for new fiction books to read? Here's a list of new releases to read. Swan: A Novel by Frances Mayes From the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes brings us another story about the family secrets and mysteries in the deep South. In her first novel, Mayes depicts the story of the Masons, a prominent family living in generations at Swan, Georgia. The Mason children have to deal with the death of their mother nineteen years ago, through suicide. And now, after a mysterious exhumation, they find out that suicide might not have the cause after all. Sweet Tooth...

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Reading a Book by its Cover

November 23, 2009 posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Authors, New Releases, Nonfiction
Former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, hit stores this week. I haven’t read it. Very few people have so far. But that hasn’t stopped a whole lot of people from forming an opinion. In terms of content, this probably is going to be just another politician’s self-serving autobiography. But in terms of reaction, this is something different altogether. Pre-orders were so strong that Going Rogue has been on top of the major best seller lists for weeks. Thousands, literally thousands, of people sat outside a bookstore in...

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