Check out these previews of great summer reading from Random House:
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
From the author of Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love and the Red Princess Mystery series comes this new novel which continues the stories of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls.
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found world of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
This book tells the remarkable story of the discovery of the most important cache of Jewish manuscripts which were retreived from an Egyptian geniza (repository for worn out texts).
Untied by Meredith Baxter
Star of the hit 1980s sit-com Family Ties, Meredith Baxter tells her story of emotional struggles as she led a life feeling unloved and unlovable. In this dramatic memoir she also discusses her coming out on live TV in 2009 on the Today Show with Matt Lauer.
My Teenage Beating Heart by C.K. Kelly Martin
A story about seventeen year old Breckon Cody who is tormented by the sudden death of his seven year old sister which he feels is his fault.
Book Review Title: The Rest Of Our Lives Author: Dan Stone Publisher: Lethe Press Released: May 25, 2009 Pages: 228 ISBN-10: 1590211472 ISBN-13: 978-1590211472
Reviewed By: Christine Bode
I’m pretty sure I must have been a gay man in a past life. I love gay men. No one else understands a woman or what she’s looking for in romance quite like a gay man. My first boyfriend in public school turned out to be gay, a major high school crush was gay; my first lover was bisexual and I spent the entire year from the summers of 1994 to 1995 in Vancouver hanging out with gay men. Man, do they know how to party! Up until October 2003, I always had a gay man for a close friend, but my dear friend Don died of HIV-complicated issues that month and there really hasn’t been anyone like him since. There’s definitely a pattern there and of course there’s the fact that I’m still single at 47. Yes, I’m quite sure I was a gay man in a past life.
Going into the Victoria Day long weekend, the first holiday weekend of the summer, it behooves us to keep in mind that May is also Zombie Awareness Month.
Book Review Title: Player One: What Is to Become of Us, A Novel in Five Hours Author: Douglas Coupland Publisher: House of Anansi Press Released: 2010 Pages: 246 ISBN-13: 978-0-88784-972-5
Reviewed By Nadine Bachan (Toronto)
When Philip Coulter, the producer of the Massy Lectures, invited Douglas Coupland (renowned author of Generation X and JPod) to be the speaker for 2010 lecture, Coupland proposed something different: instead of writing and presenting a lecture to broadcast on CBC Radio’s Ideas series, he told the committee that he would write a novel. The result was Player One: What Is to Become of Us, A Novel in Five Hours, a fiction written in the perspective of five characters who, together in an airport bar, witness the fate of the world comes to pass over the course five hours.
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