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Local Bestsellers September 20, 2009
FICTION HARD
1. The Lost Symbol - Brown
2. Homer & Langley - Doctorow
3. The Secret Speech - Smith
4. The Last Olympian - Riordan
5. South of Broad - Conroy
6. The Help - Stockett
7. Even Money - Francis
8. Inherent Vice - Pynchon
9. Day the Falls Stood Still - Buchanan
10. A Duty to the Dead - Todd
FICTION PAPERBACK
1. Mudbound - Jordan
2. Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – Shaffer/Barrows
3. Handle with Care - Picoult
4. Gourmet Rhapsody - Barbery
5. Given Day - Lehane
6. Summer Blowout - Cook
7. Widow’s War - Gunning
8. Story of Edgar Sawtelle - Wroblewski
9. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Larsson
10. House on Fortune Street - Livesey
NON FICTION HARD
1. True Compass: A Memoir - Kennedy
2. Last of His Kind - Roberts
3. Mastering the Art of French Cooking - Child
4. Jane Goodall – Bardhan-Quallen
5. Yankee Years - Torre
6. Darwin’s Armada - McCalman
7. Cooperstown Confidential - Chafets
8. Wisdom from Gift from the Sea - Lindbergh
9. Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith - Taylor
10. Finest Hours - Tougias
NON FICTION PAPERBACK
1. John Lennon: The Life - Norman
2. America’s Hidden History - Davis
3. My Life in France - Child
4. Hemingses of Monticello – Gordon-Reed
5. North River - Galluzzo
6. Last Fish Tale - Kurlansky
7. Lemon Tree - Tolan
8. Hopper’s Places - Levin
9. Evolution of Useful Things - Petroski
10. Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids - Ricci
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1.
That Old Cape Magic
by
Russo, Richard
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: Knopf Publishing Group, 2009
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Following" Bridge of Sighs"--a national best seller hailed by" The Boston Globe" as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"--Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents' respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. He'd left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they'd moved into an old house full of character; and they'd started a family. Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura's, on the coast of Maine, Griffin's chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?
"That Old Cape Magic" is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter's new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.
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2.
Bridge of Sighs
(Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback))
by
Russo, Richard
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.95
Published: Vintage Books USA, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
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Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. Perhaps for this reason Lucy is writing the story of his town, his family, and his own life that makes up this rich and mesmerizing novel, interspersed with that of the native son who left so long ago and has never looked back.
"Bridge of Sighs," from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Empire Falls," is a moving novel about small-town America that expands Russo's widely heralded achievement in ways both familiar and astonishing.
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3.
The Help
by
Stockett, Kathryn
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Putnam Adult, 2009
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The book everyone is falling in love with . . .
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. Black maids clean the toilets, but they have their own out back. Everyone stays within the lines. But, suddenly, three women - Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter - find themselves tired of the lines.
Aibileen is a black maid, raising her seventeenth white child. She is a smart, regal woman, but a bitter seed has been planted in Aibileen's chest after the death of her son. Aibileen's best friend, Minny, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi, and goes through jobs like water. And Skeeter is just back from college, a white woman with a degree but, to her mother's chagrin, no ring on her finger. Too tall and too smart for her own good, she now discovers her beloved maid Constantine has disappeared without a trace.
Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put all of them at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another.
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