Annie Barrows

We all thought Annie was very entertaining and she graciously signed all our books!

March

July 2009
March by Geraldine Brooks

From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war leaving his wife and daughters. To evoke him, Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May’s father, a friend and confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Read more...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

See the author discuss the book:

http://www.bordersmedia.com/bookclub/barrows?cmpid=SL_20090512_REW



She'll be at Borders in McLean on June 10th!

The Eyre Affair

April 2009

Kim's Pick

The Eyre Affair by Jasper FForde

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Moon Tiger

March 2009 DeeAnn's pick

From Library Journal:Lively recently won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. The heroine is Claudia Hampton, an unconventional historian and former war correspondent who lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer. Forced inward, Claudia moves randomly across time and place to reconstruct the strata of her life. But "most lives have their core, their kernel, the vital centre"; Claudia's is the brief, tragic encounter she had in Egypt during the war with Tom Southern, a British tank officer on leave from battle. Tom's voice, along with those of her brother and daughter, joins Claudia's to shape a narrative that is a complex, intricately composed fugue. This haunting evocation of loss is Lively's finest achievement yet. Read more...

A Buffalo in the House

February 2009 - Michelle's pick

A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but then Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary pet owners. Over a hundred years after Veryl’s ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the old American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household that redefines familyl in a really big way. Charlie has no idea he’s a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo. Writing in the tradition of great human-animal relationship stores like Born Free, Seabiscuit, and Marley & Me, R. D. Rosen relates the story of a single animal’s ability to touch human lives and reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past. Read more here....

Moonstone

January 2009 - Karen's Choice

Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

"The first and greatest of English detective novels."

T. S. Eliot

An enormous diamond is bequeathed to Miss Rachel Verinder by her uncle Colonel John Herncastle who has recently expired out in the colonies. In anticipation of Miss Verinders eighteenth birthday , the Moonstone is spirited out of India and brought back to England whereupon it goes missing. Stolen in the first place from a Hindu shrine, the ownership and indeed the whereabouts of the sacred diamond is the question around which the plot revolves. Credited with being the first example of detective fiction the tale is told as a series of eyewitness accounts which was partly necessitated by it being published by instalment in All Year Round in 1868. (Kirkus UK)