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 Small Island (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780312424671Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Picador, 04/01/2005 Set in Jamaica and England in the 1940s - four different characters, with distinct and beautifully written voices, whose lives become intertwined. Captures struggles of immigration, class, and war-time. Multiple award winner.
 Out Stealing Horses (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9780312427085Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Picador, 04/01/2008 A mesmerizing and beautiful story set in the remote Norwegian countryside. Powerful imagery of the landscape and of the heart. Highly recommended.
 Life of Pi (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780156027328Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Mariner Books, 05/01/2003 An intelligent book by a creative, amazing story teller. It's a hard-to-put-down adventure/survival tale with magical and spiritual undertones. A thought-provoking book that considers what is real and what is perceived. Join 16 year old Pi on his journey from India to Canada on a lifeboat after an accident at Sea, with ultimately only a tiger as his companion. Winner of the Booker Prize. Ages 12 and up.
 Swallowing Stones (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780060781040Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Perennial, 01/01/2006 Brilliantly done and full of wit, a window into 20th Century Latin American history and politics through this invented memoir that spans decades and continents.
 Jake Stays Awake (Hardcover)$16.95 ISBN-13: 9780312367978Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Feiwel & Friends, 10/01/2007 Hysterical! My kind of read-aloud. . . fun for both the kids and the parent or adult reader. So many little touches in the art. . . fun!
 Journey to the River Sea (Paperback)$7.99 ISBN-13: 9780142501849Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Puffin, 10/01/2003 When English orphan, Maia, travels in 1901 to the Amazon jungle in Brazil to begin a life with distant relatives, she is filled with anticipation. The Amazon is as fascinating as she'd hoped, but her relatives turn out to be snobby, mean and deceitful. This book would have been exactly my type of book as a young reader - historical fiction with mystery, adventure, interesting characters and a strong heroine, and I thouroughly enjoyed it as an adult as well. Ages 8 and up.
 Wabi Sabi (Hardcover)$16.99 ISBN-13: 9780316118255Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2008 With its beautiful collages, simple text and Haiku, this book offers exposure to Eastern philosophy, is absolutely stunning. The art, by Caldecott award winning artist Ed Young, is a feast for the eyes. Wabi Sabi, a concept in Japanese culture that describes beauty through simplicity, is the name of a cat in Kyoto. He sets off on a journey to find the meaning of his name. Especially good for kids old enough to appreciate and understand, but also a beautiful opportunity to explore and discuss.
 Cloudstreet (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780743234412Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Scribner, 06/01/2002 Have you read anything by this fantastic Australian author yet? This is a gem - a powerful saga of several generations of two completely different working-class families who come to live in the same large home and whose lives become intertwined. Well worth the adjustment to Australian slang. Great book club choice, too!
 The Man in the Wooden Hat (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9781933372891Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Europa Editions, 10/01/2009 I had heard about, but not read Old Filth when I picked up this more recently released campanion novel. This book focuses on Betty's life (wife of Filth, a British Barrister living in Hong Kong) and wonderfully dovetails with the first book - filling in all the blanks! Read in either order!
 The Wave-Maker (Paperback)$13.95 ISBN-13: 9780393337334Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 01/01/2010 This new collection of poems by award winning poet Elizabeth Spires is just beautiful.
 Five Skies (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780143113461Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 05/01/2008 A beautifully written story of the developing freindship between three men who are running from their past. It is set in the open landscape of the West, which is a powerful part of the story.
 Clancy the Courageous Cow (Hardcover)ISBN-13: 9780061172496 Availability: Out of Print Published: Greenwillow Books, 03/01/2007 Check out Clancy - he's awesome! Very funny, and fun to read - plus it has a good message.
 The Hearts of Horses (Hardcover)$24.00 ISBN-13: 9780618799909Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/01/2007 Wonderful! The story of a female horse whisperer who travels from farm to farm in a remote Eastern Oregon valley in 1917. Memorable characters and landscape.
 $15.00 ISBN-13: 9780805090895Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Holt Paperbacks, 07/01/2009 The second collection of essays from this hugely popular project - originally on NPR and currently found online. Included are essays from the famous and the unknown - a diverse and inclusive list representing what we believe that will touch your heart.
 Breath (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9780312428396Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Picador, 05/01/2009 I always look forward to a new Tim Winton book, he's one of my favorite authors. His latest is a coming of age story, a story of risk-taking beyond normal limits, and a breath-taking (excuse the pun) work that is built around water and big wave surfing.
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TEEN. BOOK. CLUB.
Calling all the bookish youth!
Teen. Book. Club.
We have found the most wonderful and amazing teen-lit-world insider ever to lead our brand-new every-last-Wednesday-of-the-month group now forming. She is Liz Gallager and you can read all about her amazingly hooked-up and authorial self here. There will be yummy PIZZA provided by Ballard's own Snoose Junction Pizzeria. There will be sneak-peek book GIVEAWAYS for everyone!
If you are or have or know a teen as excited as we are about this, pass this info on!:
Our book for our next meeting: 25 August 6:30 - 8 PM is:
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, discounted @ Book Club rate
GET IN ON THE VERY BEGINNING
