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• Arlene Alda’s new book, Did You Say Pears? (0887767397) , is a treat for the eyes and fun for the ears. Filled with homonyms (words that are spelled alike but have different meanings) and homophones (words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings), her book has clear, wonderful photos and a text of rhyme that makes it fun to read again and again.
• Uno’s Garden, as with all of Graham Base’s books, is a marvelously illustrated picture book. The story is about Uno’s garden and all the fantastic creatures and plants that grow and flourish in it. But Uno’s garden falls prey to advancing civilization and pollution and is almost utterly destroyed. This book not only educates children on environmental issues but also cleverly incorporates the math concepts of addition, subtraction, doubling and square roots.
• Lost and Found OLIVER JEFFERS
• Originally published in German, Sebastian Meschenmoser’s Learning to Fly (192913293X) is a great gift for any age. Beautiful pencil drawings that resemble etchings guide this simple story of a penguin learning to fly. While the reality of a penguin flying is far-fetched in reality, the message is clear: never give up.
• In Fancy Nancy (0060542098) author Jane O’Connor introduces Nancy, a little girl who believes that when it comes to fancy, more is always better. In this funny, charming picture book, Nancy transforms her ordinary family for an extraordinary evening together.

• Susan Cooper’s Victory (1416914773) is historical fiction written for boys and girls aged 9-11. Molly is trying to adjust to her new life and family. During a family outing to a bookstore at Mystic Seaport, she finds and purchases an old book about the life of Lord Nelson. Chapters alternating between Molly in 2006 and Sam, an 11-year-old sailor on the HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, make for a unique and interesting connection.
• Kate DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (0763625892) is original in the same vein as her other books. A china rabbit named Edward Tulane gets separated from his attentive owner, Abilene. Reminiscent of The Velveteen Rabbit, this bunny goes on many journeys to find just the right owner, but the true miracle is the story of love.
• Green Glass Sea ELLEN KLAGES
• Peter Pan in Scarlet GERALDINE McCAUGHREAN
• Magic Tree House 36 MARY POPE OSBORNE
• Clementine SARA PENNYPACKER

• London Calling EDWARD BLOOR
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (0385751060) by John Boyne is a powerful novel about the Holocaust for middle and high school readers. Bruno is an innocent and naive 9-year-old German boy whose world is being turned upside down by his family’s move from Berlin to a place he calls Out-With. At Out-With, he makes friends with a boy who is dressed in striped pajamas and lives inside a fenced area with other children and adults. Bruno visits Schmuel at the fence often, and although neither child understands the situation, Boyne stages the horror and injustice of the Holocaust very well.
• Hearts of Iron KATHLEEN DUBLE
• Much lighter than some of her other books, Lois Lowry’s Gossamer (0618685502) is a gentle story about the importance of memories. Littlest One is a delicate, invisible spirit who is training to be a dream-giver. She helps a tormented foster child at night, infusing healing recollections into his dreams. The characters’ daylight hours are bettered by the everyday sights and sounds threaded into their dreams. 
• Miracle on 49^th Street MIKE LUPICA
• Beka Cooper: Terrier TAMORA PIERCE 

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing M. T. ANDERSON
• Anne-Laure Bondoux’s The Killer’s Tears (0385732937) mesmerized me from the very first paragraph. Following a young boy who lives in the outer reaches of Chile, the story begins with a tragedy: Paolo Poloverdos’ parents are killed, but the murderer, Angel Allegros, decides to spare the boy. The story often focuses on Angel’s awakening conscience. Through his relationship with the boy, he begins to see the importance of life and love in a story about crime and redemption.
• Twice Told SCOTT HUNT
• Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger (0375830995) is a “highly original book [that] you really can’t put down… Even though the premise itself is fantastic, what sets the book apart is its characters…I recommend this book to anyone…who wants to read something different and fast-paced…” Student reviewer Perry D. gave high marks to Zusak’s The Book Thief (0375831002) writing, “This was one of the most incredible books I’ve ever read. This is a Holocaust story unlike any that has been published. It’s actually told from the mournful, gentle point of view of Death itself.”

• The American Story JENNIFER ARMSTRONG
• Cool Stuff and How it Works (0756614651) is new from the publishers who always produce the best nonfiction titles for kids. From iPods to robots, this fun new book teaches readers about the technology we use everyday but seems to work by magic! With bright and interesting photographs throughout, we learn about man-made inventions that mimic nature.
• Pirateology WILLIAM LUBBER
• Wandmaker’s Guidebook ED MASESSA
• Dragons: A Pop-Up Book KEITH MOSELEY
• Ryan and Jimmy HERB SHOVELLER

• Ted Kooser, our current Poet Laureate, wrote a book of essays about his midwestern home state, Local Wonders (080327811X) . He lives in Nebraska—“Willa Cather territory” as I call it and what jaded folks call “fly-over country.” You'll never call it that again after reading this homage to the land and people he loves. This is one of those sneaky books that stays with you and makes you look at nature in a whole new way.
• In Mary Oliver’s At Blackwater Pond (0807007005) , the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reads her work onto an audio recording for the first time ever. If you are not familiar with her work (or are a big fan), there’s nowhere better to start (or round out your collection) than to have Oliver read, with her own intonations, a variety of her favorites (that will soon be yours).

• For One More Day MITCH ALBOM
• Ines of My Soul ISABEL ALLENDE
• Julia Alvarez’s Saving the World (156512510X) has two story lines woven together. In the present day, an author named Alma Huebner is married to a man who works for a humanitarian organization that is setting up a green center in the midst of a violent protest against a pharmaceutical company. In the alternating chapters, we read the story Alma is writing about an early 19^th C. mission to vaccinate Americans against small pox. Plagues, politics, altruism and idealism are the strings tying the two plots together.
• The Collectors DAVID BALDACCI
• Echo Park MICHAEL CONNELLY
• Next MICHAEL CRICHTON
• Debra Dean’s The Madonnas of Leningrad (0060825308) begins in the present in America’s Northwest and travels back in time to the siege of Leningrad where Marina, a docent at the Hermitage Museum, memorized whole rooms of paintings and sculpture—making a “Memory Palace”—to remain sane in the horrors of war. Now elderly and suffering from short term memory problems, she finds that she still remembers the beauty and joy in the treasures of the Hermitage.
• Wild Fire NELSON DEMILLE
• Act of Treason VINCE FLYNN
• Under Orders DICK FRANCIS
• Thirteen Moons (0375509321) by Charles Frazier is a big novel you can get lost in for days. Twelve-year-old Will Cooper is cast into the wilderness after his parents’ deaths and, as a “bound boy,” sent to run a remote trading post in the mountains of North Carolina. His love of books gives him solace (he reads Latin, Greek and French), and his adoption by a Cherokee chief saves his life. As he grows up, the terrifying wilderness becomes home, and he takes on the plight of the Cherokee Nation. He becomes a lawyer, a senator and a white chief of the tribe—a legend in the region.
• Allegra Goodman’s Intuition (0385336128) takes place in a Cambridge, MA laboratory. When a handsome, smooth-talking postdoc begins to get results with the R-7 virus, the fame and scrutiny placed on a potential cure for cancer draws out the personalities of a team of scientists. In particular, the discoverer of the dazzling results—Cliff Bannaker—draws the ire of his soon-to-be former girlfriend, a co-worker named Robin, who publicly doubts his findings. There, within the personal, comes a novel about American science, about ethics and about the interference of emotions in a supposedly antiseptic and objective profession.
• A Spot of Bother MARK HADDON
• Shape Shifter TONY HILLERMAN
• The Lighthouse P.D. JAMES
• Mitford Bedside Companion JAN KARON
• Lisey’s Story STEPHEN KING
• Mission Song JOHN LeCARRE
• The Road CORMAC McCARTHY
• Hundred-Dollar Baby ROBERT PARKER
• The New York Times calls Anna Quindlen’s new novel “her best yet,” and I agree. Rise and Shine (0375502246) is about two sisters, orphaned early in life and raised by a warm and caring aunt and uncle. One sister grows up to be the most famous woman on television and the other to be a harried but effective social worker in the Bronx. When Meghan mutters two unprintable words about a well-known politician after an interview, for the first time in her life, she is not in charge of her world and needs her sister’s help.
• Dear John NICHOLAS SPARKS
• Home to Big Stone Gap ADRIANA TRIGIANI

• Bill Bryson has written a riotous memoir about growing up in Des Moines in the 1950s, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (076791936X) . He convincingly and compellingly describes a time in history that is marked by optimism, hope and new discoveries but is also stained by the dawn of nuclear arms, flagrant racism and a rampant fear of communism.
• Mysteries of the Middle Ages THOMAS CAHILL
• My Life in France (1400043468) was composed from Julia Child’s letters and her conversations with her nephew Alex Prud’homme. Her voice comes through perfectly—the phooeys and other distinctly Julia idioms are nostalgic of her PBS show. As newlyweds, she and Paul moved to Paris for his job where she begins with language classes and moves on to cooking classes. Enrolling in the Cordon Bleu cooking school, she then meets the two women with whom she will write her classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (0375413405). It is in France where she will find her “raison d’etre,” becoming one of the best and most influential teachers of the twentieth century.
• Where Golf is Great JAMES FINEGAN
• Barefoot Contessa At Home INA GARTEN
• In Eat, Pray, Love (0670034711) , Elizabeth Gilbert, distraught after a difficult divorce, takes a year of her life to travel to Italy, India and Indonesia. In Italy, she studies the art of pleasure—eating her fill (to the tune of 23 added pounds), dabbling in language classes, meeting new friends and waking each day with no agenda. In India, she explores the art of devotion, concentrating on her spiritual side. In Indonesia, she combines both of these arts with the ultimate goal of balance. She wants, as many of us do, to find the way to have both earthly pleasure and conscionable existence.
• The Lost Painting JONATHAN HARR
• The United States of Arugula DAVID KAMP
• A Good Dog JON KATZ
• Thunderstruck ERIK LARSON
• The Blind Side MICHAEL LEWIS
• Easter Rising PATRICK MacDONALD
• The Audacity of Hope BARACK OBAMA
• Jamie’s Italy JAMIE OLIVER
• It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump JOHN O’HURLEY
• Moving the Chains CHARLES PIERCE
• Michael Pollan, the acclaimed author of The Botany of Desire (0375760393) , has just released a new book about what Americans are eating for dinner, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (1594200823) . Pollan paints a fascinating picture of our nation’s eating disorder—scientific but very readable to the unscientific.
• Finding the Deep River Within ABBY SEIXAS
• U2 BY U2 U2
• A Hand to Guide Me DENZEL WASHINGTON
• New England Rediscovered ULRIKE WELSCH

• Rejection Collection MATTHEW DIFFEE
• Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts About Being a Woman (0307264556) is a funny, rueful look at life from the point of view of a woman of a certain age. Her chapter “I Hate my Purse” is my favorite; any woman will laugh out loud. There is a moving chapter about the death of friends, but the greater part of the book is hilarious. All this fun is from the woman who wrote Heartburn (0679767959) and Sleepless in Seattle among other wonders.
• The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
• *America the Book JON STEWART 

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