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Driftless (Paperback)

By David Rhodes
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781571310682
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Milkweed Editions, 05/01/2009

Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, Driftless, came out in paperback in 2009. It's one of the best books I've read in a long time. I got it from a friend and it sat in a stack until Sunday afternoon. I found myself setting aside time so I could read it and finished it last night. Our store book group should read it. The author wrote 3 books in the 70's and was in a motorcycle accident and is paralyzed from the chest down. This is his first book in 30 years. It was worth the wait!

The Shadow of the Wind (Paperback)

By Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia Graves (Translator)
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143034902
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2005

Barcelona, 1945—A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax’s other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that The Shadow of the Wind is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its author’s identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret.

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