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July
12, 2008 Great
Summer Reads!
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The
Garden of Last Days
by Andre Dubus III
Love it or
hate it, you won't be able to put this book down. Set in the days
before 9/11, this novel follows three characters as their lives
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Attachment
by Isabel Fonseca
Health columnist Jean
Hubbard is filing her columns from the remote Indian Ocean Island
where her husband, Mark, has moved them. One day she accidentally
receives a love letter meant for her husband and embarks on a
journey that will test the limits of attachment.
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Veil
of Roses
by Laura Fitzgerald
When Tamila Soroush turns
27 her parents give her a great gift, passage to the United States.
Now she just has to find a husband in 3 months or return to
oppressive Iran. But will marrying a man she doesn't love be just as
oppressive?
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Through
a Glass Darkly
by Karleen Koen
Barbara Alderley is 15
when she marries Roger Montgeoffrey, a man 27 years her senior. She
is constantly reminded of her duty and marrying Roger seems the only
way to save her family. Full of historical detail, this novel of
London in the early 1700s is a must read.
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Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill
Hans van den Broek, the
novel's Dutch narrator, seeks solace in both New York City and the
sport of Cricket after September 11, 2001. Van den Broek is adrift
and depressed after the terrorist attacks and this novel tells the
story of the people he meets and things he does.
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