Hi BBers,
We hope winter is going well and that on top of the sledding, skiing and shoveling :o( you've taken some time to curl up with some coco and a good book! :o)
BookBundlz has tons of fun coming your way to help with any cabin fever you might be experiencing:
1. We have a book give-away going on! (Get your FREE book right here!)
Click here and answer the question... "Will people suffer ebook fatigue, or will this craze continue to build?"... and you will be entered in drawing for a free copy of...
Sleeping TIgers
By Holly Robinson
2. Our 2012 Author contest is back!
That's right, we are once again looking to expose some under-exposed books that every book lover and book clubber SHOULD know about! Authors can start entering the contest Feb 1st, so if you have an author who's book you think needs some exposure, please let them know! Click here for more info on the author contest.
3. Next month BB's celebrating our 3rd anniversary!
Be sure to keep a look out for our NewzBundlz newsletter on February 9 for some fun news! What?! You just get our Books Unleashed newsletter, and don't receive our NewzBundlz newsletter with all the articles, lists of discussion questions, books that are movies and stuff? Never fear! Click here to sign up for our NewzBundlz newsletter.
Wondering who we are going to expose this year
(get your mind out of the gutter... I mean expose with the author contest!),
The Book Junky
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Weekly Featured Book
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World We Found
By Thrity Umrigar
University students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But much has changed in the thirty years since those heady days. Following different paths, the quartet has drifted apart, and the day-to-day demands of work and family have tempered the revolutionary fervor they shared. Then comes devastating news: Armaiti, who moved to America, is dying and wants to see the old friends she left behind. For Laleh, reunion is a bittersweet reminder of unfulfilled dreams and unspoken guilt. For Kavita, it is an admission of forbidden passion. For Nishta, it is the end of self-delusion and the promise of freedom from a bitter fundamentalist husband. As for Armaiti, it is an act of acceptance, of letting go on her own terms even if her ex-huband and daughter do not understand her choices. In the course of their journey to reconnect, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta must confront the truths of their lives - acknowledge long-held regrets, face painful secrets and hidden desires, and reconcile their idealistic past and their compromised present. And they will have to decide what matters most - a choice that just may help them reclaim the extraordinary world they once found. Exploring the enduring bonds of friendship and the power of love to change lives, and offering an indelible portrait of modern India - a nation struggling to bridge economic, religious, gender, and generational divides - "The World We Found" is a dazzling masterwork from the remarkable Thrity Umrigar. |
Newbies to Note in the World of Books!
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Glaciers
By Alexis Smith
(1/17/2012)
Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska. Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel’s sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories?the remnants?of those around her and she begins to tell her own story.
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Love in a Nutshell
By Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly
(1/3/2012)
Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer
Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she’s been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents’ summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene’s Harbor, Michigan. Kate’s plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory.
Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and Kate is just new enough in town that she can insert herself into Culhane’s business and snoop around for him. If Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But several problems present themselves. Kate despises beer. No one seems to trust her. And she is falling hard for her boss. Can these two smoke out a saboteur, save Kate’s family home, and keep a killer from closing in…all while resisting their undeniable attraction to one another? Filled with humor, heart, and loveable characters, Love in a Nutshell is delicious fun.
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BB Book Club Book Pick for January:
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Why The Sense of an Ending
By Julian Barnes?
Because...
“Elegiac yet potent, The Sense of an Ending probes the mysteries of how we remember and our impulse to redact, correct – and sometimes entirely erase – our pasts. . . . Barnes’s highly wrought meditation on aging gives just as much resonance to what is unknown and unspoken as it does to the momentum of its own plot.” –Vogue
... now how is that for intriguing?
Read the "buzz" and tell us what you thought....
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