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In This Issue:

- Spotlight on: Life--The Lighter Side.

- New & Noteworthy for book groups

- This month's featured discussion guide: Sitting Practice

- Contest! Win a free advanced copy of Peter Stamm's new novel, On a Day
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True stories, we know, can sometimes be just as crazy as fiction. Many of
them are tales of abuse, drug addiction, genocide, psychosis, or oppression,
and, while necessary, aren't always what we want to discuss on a Sunday
afternoon at the library. Here are some uplifting, lighter memoirs your book
club will love.

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Wishing Year by Noelle Oxenhandler - Noelle, down on her luck, overcomes her
aversion to mixing the spiritual and the earthly by discovering "the art of
wishing brazenly." 
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Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami - Master of the
surreal makes his foray into the memoir world with his mesmerizing
meditations on running, and how it has affected his life and his writing.
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Planetwalker by John Francis - The story of Dr. John Francis' struggle to
save oil-soaked birds, his 17-year vow of silence, and his 22 years without
using motorized transportation. (Chosen as the Common Read for the
University of South Carolina Upstate english department.) 
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Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson - A young, stressed-out Englishwoman in
Paris discovers escape, excitement, and, possibly, true love when she
reinvents herself with a click of the mouse as
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This month's newest and most promising titles for book groups!



Christina
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at the Fair

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978-0385-51029-5 | $24.95 | Doubleday | HC | July

Set in small-town Wisconsin, a plot for revenge during the summer of 1963
ends in a near drowning and resonates a generation later on one single July
day. This is a novel about the lure of new attraction and the pull of
long-established love, and about the lengths to which people will go to
satisfy their desires.

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T. Wax
Kafka Comes to America

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978-1-59051-295-1 | $25.95 | 
Other Press | HC | June

“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were words public defender
Steven Wax never thought he’d hear himself say. Here, he tells the stories
of two of his team’s clients to whom he had to give that warning – men whose
civil liberties, under the Bush administration, had been all but eroded. 

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Elizabeth Maguire
The Open Door 

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978-1-59051-283-8 | $23.95 | 
Other Press | TR | June

A luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance
Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read and respected American authors
of the nineteenth century. Exploring themes of passion, life, death,
friendship, and art, the novel is a vivid evocation of the complex forces
behind literary creation as Woolson, with a letter of introduction to Henry
James in hand, sets sail to Europe to seek him out. 

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Gowdy
Mister Sandman

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978-1-58195-226-1 | $14.95 | Zoland Books | TR | June

This outrageous, hilarious, disturbing, and compassionate novel is about the
Canary family, their eccentricities, and their secret lives and histories.
The deepest secret of all is harbored in the silence of the youngest
daughter, Joan, who doesn’t grow, who doesn’t speak, but who can play the
piano like Mozart though she’s never had a lesson.

 


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Jarvis
The Necklace

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978-0-345-50071-7 | $24.00 | Bantam | HC | Sept.

Together, in 2004, twelve women purchased a diamond necklace valued at
$37,000. What started as a simple agreement to share a piece of jewelry
turned into a study of friendship and sharing, an exploration of the power
of consumer culture as well as the desire for family legacy and adventure.

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Kring 
Thank You for All Things

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978-0-385-34120-2 | $12.00 | Bantam Discovery | TR | Sept. 

At eleven, Lucy McGowan already knows she’ll be a psychologist when she
grows up. Her family, a “profoundly gifted” twin brother, commitment-phobic
mother, and New Age grandmother, provide plenty of opportunity for her to
practice her calling. Lucy delves into the family’s history and discovers
lessons about the paradoxes of love and the grace of forgiveness. 

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Ullmann; Translated by Sarah Death 
A Blessed Child

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978-0-307-26547-0 | $24.95 | Knopf | HC | August

Every summer, Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives
to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly
know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and each undergoes
the rites of growing up. When twenty five years pass and the three women
return to the island to visit their father, they finally face the specter of
one awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried.

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Hutchins
Victorine 

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978-1-59017-270-4 | $14.95 |
New York Review Books | TR | July

A coming-of-age tale, Victorine concerns the eponymous hero, poised on the
threshold of puberty, who finds herself completely overwhelmed by her own
physical nature in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence. Meanwhile,
her older brother must come to terms with their chilly, domineering father. 




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Practice: A Novel
by Caroline Adderson

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explores a novel about the complexities and expectations of a non-storybook
marriage. 

It only takes a moment for your life to be changed forever—as the characters
of this darkly comic novel discover early on. The fateful moment for the
newlyweds Ross and Iliana comes with the freak automobile accident that
leaves Iliana paralyzed, Ross grief-stricken, and both of them struggling to
come to terms with a married life nothing like they originally had in mind.
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Practice is a clever and insightful study of love’s collision with harsh
reality, told by an author with a remarkable instinct for the workings of
human nature, a nimble gift for language, and the ability to find humor in
the oddest places.

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free Advance Reader's Edition of Peter Stamm's book, On
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On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s
visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of
him—but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust? Andreas leaves
everything behind, sells his Paris apartment; cuts off all social ties;
quits his teaching job; and waves goodbye to his days spent idly sitting in
cafe;to look for a woman he once loved, half a lifetime ago. The monotony of
days has been keeping him in check; now he hopes for a miracle and for a new
beginning. 
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Be entered to win one of several ARE copies when you answer this question:
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Please email your answer along with your address to library at randomhouse.com
with the suject line, "Day Like This" for your chance to win. Don't forget
to include your address! (Offer open only to librarians in the U.S.)

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