"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt~Incomparable!

SUMMARY :The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel.Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken...

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"The Silent Wife" by A.S.A. Harrison~"Gone Girl" gone haywire!

SUMMARY :"This summer's Gone Girl –  I gobbled it down in one sitting." – Anne Lamott, PeopleJodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides...

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"A Divided Inheritance" by Deborah Swift~Author Commentary

SUMMARY :A family divided by fortune. A country divided by faith.London 1609...Elspet Leviston’s greatest ambition is to continue the success of her father Nathaniel’s lace business. But her dreams are thrown into turmoil with the arrival of her mysterious cousin Zachary Deane – who has his own designs on Leviston’s Lace.Zachary is a dedicated swordsman with a secret past that seems to invite trouble. So Nathaniel sends him on a Grand Tour, away...

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"Tampa" by Alissa Nutting~Explicit Sex & Controversial

SUMMARY :In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste’s terms for a secret relationship—car rides...

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A Final October Book Haul~10/27/13

Is either of these a better picture?  I was having a hard time tonight...  I know I keep showing some of these same ones and don't get to acknowledge them specifically, so here's to the final effort of the month.Some of these are gifts, sends from authors and publishers, and some are my own purchases.I'm going to try to wrap this up as easily and quickly as I can...but you know me, those two words hardly fit my MO.LET me first talk about:OMG!!! ...

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"Songs of 3 Islands:A Memoir" by Millicent Monks~Madness Amongst the Wealthy

SUMMARY :Songs of three islands is a stunning memoir about the astounding Carnegie family's struggle with mental illness combined with a beautifully evoked meditation on motherhood and madness. In describing five generations of mental instability in the female line of her family Millicent Monks attempts to bring mental illness out of the shadows and comfort those who are suffering from thoughts and feelings they don’t always understand. In her own...

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