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RJ Julia Booksellers
768 Boston Post Road
Madison, CT 06443
203.245.3959
800.74.READS
books@rjjulia.com

Mon-Sat: 9am – 9pm
Sun 10am – 6pm

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THE FAITH MIDDLETON SHOW ON WNPR

Show Date: January 21, 2005

Roxanne's Picks:

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander

This is not a 'to-do list' book, but more about setting an atmosphere for change. Written by a musician and a psychologist, they present ways to rewrite the story of your life, to think about it from a different perspective, and to not edit out all the available possibilities. This should be required reading every year!

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn

These are the stories of people who were inside the World Trade Center when the planes hit on 9/11. A lot of lives, a lot of stories, and a testament to the accidental nature of survival. Personal, painful, and riveting.

Paddle to the Sea
by Holling Clancy Holling

Kevin's favorite book as a boy and now a family tradition. An award-winning story of a boy who builds a wooden canoe which then finds its way from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. With wonderful, old-fashioned illustrations.

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
by Mo Willems

My favorite of the new Caldecott honor books, this is the saga of a trip to do the laundry with Dad, a lost stuffed bunny, and the excitement of a toddler's first words. With illustrations that are a combination of photographs and animated characters, this is a sweet little picture book.

How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty: And Say Yes to More Time, More Joy and What Matters Most to You
by Patti Breitman, Connie Hatch

A book to keep by your bedside. This is a thoughtful study about the things that make us say 'yes'; it helps you to think about how you really want to spend your time, how to say 'no' nicely, and when it is OK to say 'yes.'

And also mentioned:

The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Lee's Picks:

Shakespeare After All
by Marjorie Garber

Written by a professor at Harvard who has taught Shakespeare for most of her career, this is the perfect book for the general reader who wants to know what goes on in any of Shakespeare's plays. It begins with a nice introduction to Shakespeare's life and times, then gives a good overview of each work - an intelligent 'Cliff Notes'. What is nice is that this is not just by 'somebody', but by somebody with great credentials.

One of three new Shakespearean books, the others being:

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom

And:

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt

(reviewed on the Dec. 24, 2004 show)

The Dying Animal
by Philip Roth

A brief book about the pleasure-seeking professor, David Kepesh, (who has appeared in earlier Roth books), and his affair with a former student, Consuela, who has the most beautiful breasts. Years later, when she develops breast cancer, Kepesh is forced to make a decision about his hedonistic life. A short, interesting work by one of America's foremost novelists.

Our Kind: A Novel in Stories
by Kate Walbert

Inspired by a character in one of her earlier novels, this is a series of short stories that thread together and tell the histories of several 'country-club wives', now divorced and looking back on their lives. In the same vein as the stories of Cheever and Updike, the writing here is careful, exquisite, and lyrical.

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Faith's Picks:

America the Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart, with the writers of The Daily Show

A vivid satire of American history by the creator (and writers) of The Daily Show, this was briefly banned by the Mississippi Library Association. Read a page of this a day (instead of the traditional inspirational fare) - you'll make yourself smile, and you'll go through the day in much better spirits.

The Ha-Ha
by Dave King

I am half-way through this incredible first novel, the story of an injured Vietnam vet, speechless for years (although the reader hears all that he is thinking), who takes care of his girlfriend¹s son. With characters that are wonderfully drawn and completely believable, this delivers a universal message in a very different way.

Rascal
by Sterling North

A quiet, wonderful, true story about a boy who lives much of the time by himself with his baby racoon, Rascal, which he rescued from the wild. This charming tale makes me want to go out to find nature in undiscovered woodland locales.

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And some readers' picks:

Mary Seacole: The Most Famous Black Woman of the Victorian Age
by Jane Robinson

The biography of an enterprising woman, born in Jamaica, who (among other things) ran a hotel in Panama and a hospital during the Crimean War. She became world-famous and then was soon forgotten. A quick and entertaining read.

The Carpenter's Notebook
by Mark Clement

Recommended by several listeners of The Home Show, this is the story of a man who understands his father's life, and his own, when he discovers his father's notebook.

The (Brother) Cadfael Series
by Ellis Peters

Highly recommended on the Mystery Book Show, this is a series featuring 12th-century Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk who practices medicine and solves crimes in medieval England.

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