Winning in the Trenches


Forrest Gregg and Andrew Toole offer "...a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era in professional football from one of the players who epitomized it. With candor, insight, and love for the game, Forrest Gregg takes the reader through a playing career that began in 1956 with the Green Bay Packers and ended, 188 consecutive games later, with the Dallas Cowboys in 1971. Later chapters chronicle Gregg’s coaching career, including his four tumultuous years as the Packers' head coach, and offer candid yet fair assessments of controversial owners Art Modell and Paul Brown."- Amazon.com

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Royal Blood

Ellen Schreiber was an actress and a stand-up comedienne before becoming a writer and moving to her own Dullsville. She is the author of Teenage Mermaid, Comedy Girl, and all of the books in the Vampire Kisses series. Vampire Kisses is an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and an IRA/CBC Young Adults' Choice.

 

Jeannette Walls: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

"For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another.

Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states—New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois—but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience." Publisher's Weekly

Best Friends Forever

World-renowned author Jennifer Weiner made her sensational debut with The New York Times best-seller Good in Bed. In Weiner's summer 2009 release Best Friends Forever, former childhood friends Addie Downs and Valerie Adler reunite in this hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets.

"Former mousy types, rejoice! In Weiner's delicious latezst, a popular girl hits trouble long after high school and only the geeky pal she once shunned can help." —People

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Garth Stein’s THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN (Harper; On Sale: May 13, 2008; $23.95; Hardcover),

"...a heart-wrenching love story and a moving tale of redemption narrated in the opinionated and insightful voice of an extraordinary mutt, Enzo, is one such novel."

About the Author:
Garth Stein is the author of two novels, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, winner of a 2006 PNBA Book Award, and Raven Stole the Moon. . Read more...

Louie!

Using the bare-bones outline of Ludwig Bemelmans' childhood, Hillenbrand brings to life the experience of countless children whose creativity sets them apart .... especially in school.

Louie, an artistic pig, thrives at home, where his mother tells him stories of her mischievous childhood in "a schoolhouse in Paris that was covered with vines". Sound familiar? Hint...

"Hillenbrand's gloriously colored, superbly executed illustrations—collages, fingerpaintings, gouache, inks, pencils-magnetically draw readers from page to page."--From School Library Journal

Weight of Heaven

*Starred Review-Umrigar (First Darling of the Morning, 2008) renders melancholy novels that resonate with rich prose and vibrant depictions of India, where she spent the first 21 years of her life before moving to the States. The Weight of Heaven is a bold, beautifully rendered tale of cultures that clash and coalesce From Booklist

"Umrigar beautifully illuminates how human relationships are complicated by cultural, geographical, and class divides." (More Magazine )

Before Oprah; Ruth Lyons, the Woman Who Created Talk TV

 

"She was an up-front, real woman who rose from humble beginnings. Her daily live television show drew millions of viewers. This may sound like Oprah Winfrey, but it s a description of Ruth Lyons, a pioneering broadcaster whose audience in 1960 equaled that of Winfrey's today. National magazines labeled her The most influential housewife in America. Her fame was such that throughout the 1950s and '60s, tens of thousands showed up for her remote broadcasts and other personal appearances. 100,000 people tried to get tickets for a 1957 event in her honor." * Read More...

*Source: http://www.amazon.com/Before-Oprah-Lyons-Woman-Created/dp/1933197498

Fingerprints of God

Starred Review. " In her first book, National Public Radio correspondent Hagerty acts as a tour guide through the rocky terrain of scientists who study religious experience. The real beauty of this book lies in watching Hagerty gracefully balance her own trust in faith and science and, in the end, come down with one foot planted firmly in both."- Publisher's Weekly

The Girls Guide to Rocking!

Jessica Hopper is a music and culture critic whose work regularly appears in Chicago Reader, LA Weekly, SPIN, ANP and Chicago Tribune and has also been included in DaCapo's Best of Music Writing 2004, 2005 and 2007. She is also the music consultant for the public radio show, This American Life. Her widely-anthologized essay, "Emo: Where the Girls Aren't" was described as "influential" by The New York Times.

Holding fast to the music-is-my-life credo, Hopper has also done time as a tour manager, band publicist, DJ, touring bassist, Girls Rock Camp booster, and fanzine publisher. She lives in Chicago