There are few things in life people get as passionate about as books. If we love it, we LOVE it and insist that everyone we know also read it and LOVE it. Here are the books that I LOVE and would keep on my night table forever, even if it meant being unable to find my glasses or the alarm clock.
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When was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college. Ozma's The Reading Promise (explores the powerful daughter-father bond this reading habit created for both of them and the life lessons learned from the books he read to her ? books like Great Expectations by , the Oz books by , Harry Potter by , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by and plays. The Reading Promise contains a complete list of books from "The Streak," plus you can visit our in-store display and sample a selection.
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is a New York novelist, journalist, editor and screenwriter. He is the author of sixteen previous books including novels Forever and Snow in August, and a memoir A Drinking Life. Tabloid City is both a thriller and gripping portrait of today's New York. The murder of a wealthy socialite and her secretary forces the head of one of the city's last tabloids to stop the presses. But behind the headlines, a decadent playground crumbles in a historic metropolis eclipsed by modern times.
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Book of the Day: The Tiger by In December 1997 a maneating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through forest in brutal cold. To their astonishment they discover that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta. In his re-creation of the extraordinary events of that winter, gives an unforgettable portrait of the spectacularly beautiful region of forests and mountains where the once great Siberian Tiger now struggles to survive.
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War by . Over fifteen months, , bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, followed a single platoon based at a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan. His objective was both simple and ambitious: to convey what soldiers experience and what war actually feels like. He describes what few civilians will ever witness or go through - the endless, body-numbing anticipation of battle; the adrenaline-fueled confusion of being ambushed; the unquestioned risks soldiers take to protect their brothers. shows what it means to fight, to serve and to face down mortal danger.
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