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If you would like to know what local book events your community is holding or add some yourself you might want to think about becoming a member. Here's a blurb from their website:


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Free Oprah book download

The download version of Suze Ormond's book *Women and Money*http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200802/tows_past_20080213.jhtmlDownload your free copy of Suze Orman's book in English before 8/7c theevening of February 14.It's about 300 pages.This offer was made on Oprah's show on 2/12/08

New Christopher Paolini book

The next book in the Eragon series will be called Brisingr. The release date is September 20th.


Click on the egg to see it hatch into a dragon!

Extras

Extras by Scott Westerfield. Book 4 in Scott's series that included Pretties, Uglies, and Specials.

This book will be published this month. It is the future of Earth where all people are judged by their face rank (kind of a YouTube society). A girl named Aya Fuse will kick up her face rank by exposing whoever is riding the Mag-Lev at night. Things go quickly down hill from there as she discovers aliens who are out to destroy the planet and meets Youngblood whose face rank is #1.

The Secret Life of Bees

Summer is just around the corner and if you are looking for a good summer read, might I suggest The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd? It is the story of a motherless 14 girl named Lily. The setting is just after the signing of the Civil Rights Act. When Lily and Rosaline (her housekeeper) go into town so Rosaline can register to vote all goes to pieces. Rosaline is arrested and Lily must break her out of jail so she won't be killed. The two leave on a quest to find out more about Lily's mother which leads them to Tiberon, SC and the answers to life's many questions.

Maus

We just finished Maus by Art Spiegelman for our teacher book club. You can borrow this book from the library (or maybe from a teacher who is finished). The story goes like this:

{Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.} This book introduces readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and history itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice, the Poles are pigs, the Americans are dogs, the Swedes are reindeer, the French are frogs), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. The two volumes tie together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.

The second part is called Maus II and goes on to describe the concentration camps and the atrocities committed.

These are both graphic novels and so are in a comic book form. If you are interested, stop by the library and check them out!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Ok-it seems a little early to have a review on this. It isn't due out in stores until July 21, 2007. I have preordered a copy for myself and for the library.

How many of you have ordered this book?

Who do you think will die?

Will Snape be friend or foe???

What is your opinion of this being the end of the series?

Curious minds want to know....