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The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan

January 2008

For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. She has a wonderful husband, two adorable children and a satisfying career. But she lives firmly in what she calls “The Middle Place” --- “that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap.” THE MIDDLE PLACE is a book about family --- about calling home, being home, returning home and making a home.

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January 2008

I love that "great" and "eight" rhyme; anyone else noticed that? It makes for such a nice greeting. I am poised for the start of the year with a calendar where the spine has not yet been cracked. For all my electronic devices --- cell phone, BlackBerry, iPod, laptop, desktop, swim headphones --- I still carry a paper calendar and scrawl notes in it for advance planning. By the end of the year it's stuffed with notes, receipts and papers. I keep the old calendars in a stack at the house; they tell their own story of me and where I was these past years.

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Outside of the book that your group is reading each month, how many books do you read?

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Shelter Me by Juliette Fay

December 2008

After the sudden death of her husband, Janie LaMarche’s life sweeps her up and unwillingly marches her on with a role as a solo parent to her two small children. As she stumbles through each day overwhelmed and dazed in a haze of grief and overwhelming sadness, she finds a cast of unlikely characters who help her unravel her feelings --- and set a new course. These include a contractor who shows up ready to build the porch her husband had commissioned without her knowledge and the parish priest who is unflinchingly nice even when Janie is acerbic and biting, as well as strong-willed Aunt Jude and a cousin named Cormac, who delivers bakery creations from his shop to match every mood. Along with these well-drawn characters, strong emotion and wry humor ensure that SHELTER ME is a story to savor and love.
 

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Jennifer Kaufman, author of A Version of the Truth

In Literacy and Longing in L.A., hailed as “the most delightful read of the year” by Liz Smith in the New York Post, authors Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack captivated readers with a brilliantly imagined first novel. Now Kaufman and Mack return, introducing a character with a unique voice you’ll never forget: Cassie Shaw, an irrepressible young woman who reinvents herself --- with unexpected consequences --- in a funny, wise, and utterly original novel about friendship, love, wildlife, and other forces of nature.

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Ron Leshem, author of Beaufort

By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshe's debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel's top award for literature and the basis for a prizewinning film. Charged with brilliance and daring, hypnotic in its intensity, BEAUFORT is at once a searing coming-of-age story and a novel for our times --- one of the most powerful, visceral portraits of the horror, camaraderie, and absurdity of war in modern fiction.

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Late December 2007

And just like that, 2008 is pushing 2007 out the door! This month on Kidsreads.com, we’re taking a look back at some of the noteworthy books that have been published this year, along with the author interviews that were posted in 2007. If you have procrastinated about holiday gifts and need some last-minute ideas (or if you know somebody who needs an idea for what to get YOU), then check out our What to Give/What to Get Holiday Guide.

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Late December 2007

And just like that, 2008 is pushing 2007 out the door! This month on Kidsreads.com, we’re taking a look back at some of the noteworthy books that have been published this year, along with the author interviews that were posted in 2007. If you have procrastinated about holiday gifts and need some last-minute ideas for a child in your life, then check out our What to Give/What to Get Holiday Guide.

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December 2007

And just like that, 2008 is pushing 2007 out the door! This month on Teenreads.com, we’re taking a look back at some of the noteworthy books that have been published this year, along with the author interviews we posted in 2007. If you have procrastinated about holiday gifts and need some last-minute ideas (or if you know somebody who needs an idea for what to get YOU), then check out our What to Give/What to Get Guide.

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December 2007

I love the holidays. Yes, the pace becomes a tad crazy, and I have been known to call this time the Holidaze, but I still love it. One of my favorite things is reflecting on holidays past and creating new traditions around our house. Last year, for the first time, we spent Christmas on the Outer Banks with my parents instead of traveling there after Christmas Day. On Christmas Eve we went to an inter-faith service at a small chapel in Corolla, and the memory of that evening stayed with me throughout the year.

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