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Newsletter - August 2009

Howdy!

In today's newsletter: social media humor books, kids with issues, and a very special cat.

Plus, join us for a community discussion on planning your own funeral (another Fountain First...I have the weirdest job in the world...you just don't wake up in the morning anticipating hosting an event like this) and a wine tasting with mystery author Ellen Crosby.

And, heaven help me, I have a blog now.

Kelly

Bye-Bye, Baby! (Hardcover)

By Richard Morris, Larry Day
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780802797728
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Published: Walker Childrens, 9/2009
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Richard Morris' take on bringing home the new baby is good.  If you have a child that it not happy with the new addition to the family, this is a good place to start.  It allows the older child to express anger and gently addresses the fact that it would help his parents a lot if he chilled out. 

It has a happy ending that involves a sort of olive branch passed across the back car seat between the siblings.  Judging by baby sister's age in this picture, it looks like it takes this approach about two years to work.  So, maybe not so great if you're looking for immediate results. :)

Finn Throws a Fit (Hardcover)

By David Elliott, Timothy Basil Ering
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780763623562
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Candlewick, 8/2009
David Elliot captures the riot of a temper tantrum so well that you almost want to read the book with your arms outstretched as far as they will go. Ering's illustrations are nothing short of perfect as the pages get darker and darker, little Finn starts looking more and more mostrous until he tuckers himself out. We're breathing hard with him by the time the pages brighten again and the sun comes out and we don't remember what all the fuss was about anymore. A near flawless picture book

Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook (Paperback)

By Sarah Schmelling
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780452295735
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Published: Plume, 8/2009
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It was bound to happen. I am at least greatful that it is clever. It has quickly become a staff favorite. We were reading passages aloud to each other at Sunday's staff meeting. Some status updates: Juliet is loving her balcony right now. Gulliver is going on vacation! Eve could use a bite to eat. Van Helsing thinks lucy looks drained. All this and quizzes too. on the other hand....

The World According to Twitter (Paperback)

By David Pogue
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781579128272
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 8/2009
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is not my favorite book right now.

I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation (Hardcover)

By Bruce Chadwick
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780470185513
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Published: Wiley, 1/2009
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From Doc:

Georg Wythe, a signer of The Declaration of Independence, is buried in the cemetery of Richmond's own St. John's Church. Did you know he was poisoned? Wythe was a slave owner but later became an abolionist who freed his slaves and was going to provide for their support. One of Wythe's heirs his grand-nephew, George Wythe Sweeney, decided to avoid this dilution of his fortune by poisoning the slaves with arsenic. In the process, he killed Wythe as well, though Wythe lingered long enough to change his will to eliminate his bequest to his murderer.

The Magicians (Hardcover)

By Lev Grossman
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780670020553
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Viking Adult, 8/2009
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Ender's Battle School has relocated to Hogwarts and Narnia-obsessed Holden Caulfield is one of the new star pupils.

Need I say more...? Quentin Coldwater is an incredibly smart and unhappy young man in his senior year of high school. He has little connection to his parents and even feels like an outsider within his tiny circle (er, triangle) of friends, so when he finds out that magic is real and he is one of those rare people that can learn to wield it.... well, he leaps at the opportunity. The problem is, though, that magic does nothing to cure ailments of the soul, and despite getting so many of the wondrous, fantastic chances he has wished for all his life, Quentin's biggest problem isn't a giant demon or an evil wizard, but his own inability to recognize happiness. Grossman borrows from a number of well-established fantasy franchises, sure, but this is something original- the ultimate flip side of the gold coin, if you will. I wish I could go back in time and read this for the first time again.

The Natural Laws of Good Luck: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage (Hardcover)

By Ellen Graf
$22.95
ISBN-13: 9781590306918
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Trumpeter, 8/2009
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This is a great book for anyone who likes stories of cultural misunderstandings and/or long-shot love. Ellen Graf, divorced and 46, went on a blind date (in China!) and met her future husband. They got married in spite of not knowing each other's languages and having really not communicated much in any fashion before the union.

The memoir is by turns charming and funny, touching and heartbreaking. I learned an awful lot about contemporary Chinese culture and recent Chinese history while reading it. The bizarre collection of detritus that Zhong-hua collects through the book and his reasons why are fascinating and you really feel their hard times and pull for them to grow together as the pages turn.

Each spat and caress is delicately and deftly drawn. Would make an excellent choice for book clubs.

Homer's Odyssey (Hardcover)

By Gwen Cooper
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9780385343855
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Delacorte Press, 8/2009
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First, the only question you really want answered: The cat does not die in the end.

For lovers of Dewey and Marley comes a tale of a destitute single woman who takes on a blind kitten at a time when she can barely take care of herself. What follows is a great story of learning how to love and live bravely and openly from the lessons she learned from this little bit of sightless fluff. The other thing you probably want to know is how the cat lost his eyes. It was a disease in the first few weeks of his life, not some horrible episode of animal cruelty. That should take care of your concerns about the book. It's heartwarming and what saves it from being another book of pet pap is the quality of the writing. Gwen Cooper has some great writing chops.
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