Each holiday I do a huge holiday shopping trip at the grocery store. Each year I buy a carton of eggnog. Three of the last four years I have forgotten to open it. The last day of vacation when I was rummaging through the fridge at the beach house rental hoping to pull a meal together without again going to the store, I saw the carton there on a bottom shelf. It was Southern Comfort eggnog, by the way, which somehow in the store sounded a lot better than the other brands, though I am sure there was no liquor inside. I poured myself a glass and made notes for this newsletter, which is a holiday wrap-up. I just might make this a tradition. Of course I am trying not to think about the calories in eggnog. By the time the carton was done, I was into Friday's calories on Monday!
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January 2009
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
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January 2009
COLLEGE GIRL is a vivid portrait of life on a college campus and a poignant look at what happens to a 20-year-old college senior (and her self-esteem) when she loses her virginity and falls for the wrong guy. Patricia Weitz’s debut novel will resonate with anyone who remembers the often awkward transition from adolescence to adulthood.
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January 2009
Call her the French Anne Frank if you like, but Hélène Berr is more than just another Holocaust account. This true journal, newly translated into English, records at once the average life of a French college student in the 1940s and the horrors of World War II.
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January 2009
In a fascinating history, television critic Michael Davis details how a motley gang of educators, television professionals, musicians, actors and puppeteers got to Sesame Street. STREET GANG traces the evolution of the show from its inspiration in the civil rights movement through its many ups and downs via the remarkable personalities who have contributed to it.
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January 2009
In his previous books, Jon Katz introduced us to the delightful menagerie at Bedlam Farm, including Izzy, the unforgettable border collie rescue. Now, in IZZY & LENORE, Katz delves deeper into his connection with the beautiful, once-abandoned dog, learning yet again about the unexpected places animals can take us.
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