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Best Sellers: Little Leap Forward A Boy in Beijing - Experience this coming-of-age tale that brings to life the time of the Cultural Revolution from a young boy's point of view. The first in Barefoot Books' Young Fiction line, this story also includes beautiful full-color illustrations, Herb the Vegetarian Dragon - Meet Herb, a vegetarian dragon faced with a difficult decision: will he eat meat in order to save his own life?, The Story Tree - Delight in reading these quirky tales aloud to the under-five crowd. Each of the seven stories imparts an important lesson while using humor and lovable characters to keep listeners engaged.
Babies: Clare Beaton's Action Rhymes - Small children love to act out simple rhymes! This collection features classic favorites like Incy Wincy Spider, Pat-a-Cake and One Potato, Two Potato in a sturdy board book format that is ideal for sharing with babies and toddlers,
The Sounds Around Town - Follow a baby throughout the day, listening to all the sounds of life in the city. The colorful spreads are adorned with sound words to try out, and the rhyming text uses repetition for easy learning,
Skip Through the Seasons - Jump into January and dance all throughout the rest of the year. This rhyming, seek-and-find book of months features plenty of seasonal objects on each page for readers to point out. Educational endnotes include facts about different calendars, seasons and days of the week.
Spanish: Oso en Casa Bear At Home - Come along with Bear and learn about the different rooms of his house. Rhyme and repetition help to introduce vocabulary building, and a full spread "blueprint" of Bear's house reinforces the learning layers,
El Mundo - Connect with the whole wide, wonderful world with this green book that rejoices in the marvels of our environment. The catchy rhyme in this new take on a traditional spiritual begs to be sung aloud. Includes facts about Earth's eco systems and tips on how to be eco-conscious. |
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Here's what my book club is reading for January 2012:
Wildflower
An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious
Death in Africa
by
Mark Seal
Wildflower is the gripping life
story of the naturalist, filmmaker and lifelong conservationist
Joan Root. From her passion for animals and her hard-fought
crusade to save Kenya's beautiful Lake Naivasha, to her
storybook love affair, Root's life was one of a remarkable
modern-day heroine. With a cast as wild, wondrous and
unpredictable as Africa itself, Wildflower is a real-life
adventure tale set in the world's disappearing wilderness. Rife
with personal revelation, intrigue, corruption and murder,
readers will remember Joan Root's extraordinary journey long
after they turn the last page of this compelling book .
(read more)
Other suggestions:
Out Stealing Horses by
Per Petterson
We were going out stealing horses.
That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I
was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was
1948 and one of the first days of July. Set in the
easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses begins
with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a
rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life
with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor,
however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.
(read more)
Fragile
by
Lisa Unger
Everybody knows everybody in The
Hollows, a quaint, charming town. But when the girlfriend
of Maggie's son disappears, and her husband becomes the lead
detective on the case, troubling questions - and eerie parallels
to and earlier case - arise. This psychological thriller
will leave you asking, "How well do I know the people I love?"
and "How far would I go to protect them?".
(read more)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by
Marina Lewycka
When an elderly and
newly widowed
Ukrainian immigrant
announces his
intention to
remarry, his
daughters must set
aside their longtime
feud to thwart him.
Their father’s
intended is a
voluptuous
old-country gold
digger with a
proclivity for green
satin underwear and
an appetite for the
good life of the
West. As the
hostilities mount
and family secrets
spill out, A Short
History of Tractors
in Ukrainian
combines sex,
bitchiness, wit, and
genuine warmth in
its celebration of
the pleasure of
growing old
disgracefully.
(read more)
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by
Kate DiCamillo
Age
Range: 7
Once, in a house on Egypt Street,
there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was
very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by
a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and
adored him completely.
And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline take us on an
extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net
of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside
of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the
streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true
miracle — that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn
to love, to lose, and to love again. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but
scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco
farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her
cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most
important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells
grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has
been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa
cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million
metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa
cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered
secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped
lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning,
and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains
virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in
scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific
discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
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