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Marilyn Recommends...

I will read a wide range of books from just about all genres. I am particularly drawn to light mysteries, books with subjects of art, New York, France, Japan, and spiritual development. I love books where the characters go to a foreign country and part of the story is their discovery of the culture and language.

Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People (Paperback)

By Emily Pilloton, Allan Chochinov
$34.95
ISBN-13: 9781933045955
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Metropolis Books, 10/01/2009

Fascinating look at what's new in inventions with a slant towards green design. A good gift book choice for the "arty" and inventive people in your life.


Baking Cakes in Kigali (Hardcover)

By Gaile Parkin
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780385343435
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Delacorte Press, 08/01/2009

Difficult stories of life and death in Rowanda and Africa are told gently and poignantly by the narrator, a woman who makes special occasion cakes and her own difficult story to face.


A Shadow Falls (Hardcover)

By Peter Singer, Nick Brandt, Vicki Goldberg
$50.00
ISBN-13: 9780810954151
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Harry N. Abrams, 09/01/2009

The pictures are magnificent. I gave it to a friend who has a Safari trip planned and she was thrilled. I'll be happy with armchair traveling!


Somewhere Towards the End (Hardcover)

By Diana Athill
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393067705
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 01/01/2009

Here's a favorite line that gives a wonderful taste of this memoir - "How then does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question?" Intelligent and absorbing!


Through the Heart (Paperback)

By Kate Morgenroth
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780452295896
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Plume, 12/01/2009

I enjoy books that have two voices as this one does with the man's and woman's version of their relationship. It develops very suspensefully, keeping you guessing until the very end. It was good, compelling and different than any mystery I have ever read.


Among the Mad (Hardcover)

By Jacqueline Winspear
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780805082166
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Henry Holt and Co., 02/01/2009

I am always excited to read the next in the Maisie Dobb's series. This one felt a bit darker than the previous books as she explores the world of mental illness and the institutions that existed in the 1920's for that care. It reminded me a bit of the bestseller The Professor and the Madman.


Tokyo Fiancee (Paperback)

By Amelie Nothomb, Alison Anderson
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781933372648
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Europa Editions, 12/01/2008

If you enjoyed my recommended book The Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers by X Guo, this is the book for you. But now, a woman from Belgium is in Japan tutoring a Japanese man in French. It is a wonderful exploration of language and love of all things Japanese. Ooh, la, la!


Serena (Hardcover)

By Ron Rash
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780061470851
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Ecco, 10/01/2008

I love this book so much, I would like the entire town of Wellesley to read it and talk about it with me. An epic tale about logging as the National Park Developers vs. North Carolina after the stock market crash of 1929. We follow Serena, the new wife of the logging owner -- and what an adventure it is!


Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)

By Dennis Lehane
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780380731862
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperTorch, 05/01/2004

If you are in the mood for a psychological thriller, a real page-turner, this is it!


Digging to America (Paperback)

By Anne Tyler
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780345492340
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 08/01/2007

Two families meet at the airport on the arrival day of their adopted babies. We follow these entwined lives with very different ideas about raising their children. Very thoughtful, at times funny and at times moving - rather light and straightforward for Anne Tyler. More like Back When We Were Grownups than Accidental Tourist.


Breakfast with Buddha (Paperback)

By Roland Merullo
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126169
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 08/01/2008

Driving cross-country with a man and a monk was a great trip! Armchair traveling at it's best with laughs and thoughtfulness in a delightful mix.


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