Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears. . . . In the summer before Cullen’s senior year, a nominally-depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a species of woodpecker thought to be extinct since the 1940s in Lily, Arkansas. His rediscovery [...]
Hazel Grace Lancaster is a teenager living on borrowed time. She has terminal thyroid cancer that has metastasized to her lungs, but a miracle drug has prolonged her life thus far. How she chooses to spend her time rereading her favorite novel, An Imperial Affliction, for the dozenth time and watching marathons of “America’s Next [...]
“Faking Faith” by Josie Bloss Release Date: November 8, 2011, 240 pages, Flux “Dylan Mahoney is living one big unholy lie. Thanks to a humiliating and painfully public sexting incident, Dylan has become the social pariah at her suburban Chicago high school. She’s ignored by everyone—when she’s not being taunted—and estranged from her two best [...]
“Lola and the Boy Next Door” by Stephanie Perkins Release Date: Sept. 29, 2011, 384 pages, Dutton Books Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn’t believe in fashion . . . she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit – more sparkly, more fun, more wild – the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, [...]
“Jellicoe Road” by Melina Marchetta Synopsis: “Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn’t a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to [...]
Since we can’t possibly make every book we’re interested in an official Book Club Selection, we’re starting a new category called Editor’s Picks. While Books We Adore will feature recommendations for older books we want to rave about, Editor’s Picks will highlight new books we think are worth reading right this minute. “You Against Me” [...]
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