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Fall,  2011
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Book Club Suggestions

Contest: Recommend a Book

Your Club's Holiday Traditions

Fall Book Fairs

The Book Club Cookbook Second Edition


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Greetings:

If your book club took a break over the summer, we hope you're re-connecting and looking forward to a new season of reading.   We've got some terrific book suggestions to get your club off to a lively start.  Why not serve one of our tempting author recipes at your next meeting, such as Paullina Simons's Banana Bread, Kat Martin's Cheddar-Chive Biscuits, or Melanie Rehak's Prune Bread Pudding?  Your book club will thank you!

We'd like to hear from you.  Enter our book recommendation contest, and tell us about your book club's holiday traditions.

We're excited to take part in some local book festivals this fall.  And we're thrilled to announce that the second edition of The Book Club Cookbook will be released in late winter. 

Browse our latest edition of Buzzing About Books, a newsletter for curious readers, and enter to win a copy of these sensational new titles for your book club. 

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Happy Reading and Bon App�tit!

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BookRecs

BOOK CLUBS RECOMMEND
Reading Suggestions from Book Clubs

 

Teenage Werewolf Thursday Night Readers of Eugene, Oregon, recommend:

  

My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence by Lauren Kessler (Viking Adult, 2010), Nonfiction, 256 pages

 

"In this book, the author shadows her daughter, Lizzie, for about a year when Lizzie is in middle school. The author works hard to understand exactly what her daughter is experiencing while reflecting on her own teen years. Our club loved it. We discussed how our own lives are like Lauren's (the author) and Lizzie's and how things have changed since we were in middle school. We pondered whether Lauren had done the 'right' thing, and what other options she might have had in certain situations.  And we asked ourselves: In what ways did this experience strengthen their relationship, and in what ways might it have harmed them?"  

    

More New Book Recommendations  
Including:


The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Live Again by L.R. Giles
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper  
 

BookRecContest

TELL US WHAT YOU'RE READING
Book Recommendation Contest

Book stackWin a copy of Table of Contents for your book club!  Send us a brief book recommendation for a title your group has read and enjoyed, and you'll be entered into a contest to win a copy of Table of Contents.    

   

The book recommendation must include:

 

1.  A short description (a sentence or two) of the book's plot 

2.  A mention of any topics that came up during your discussion

3.  The name of your group (if you have a name) and the city and state where you're located 

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Simply send your recommendation by October 31 and we'll enter you in the contest.  We look forward to hearing from you! 



HolidayQuestionTELL US WHAT YOU'RE PLANNING
Ideas for the Holidays  

 
NetsapDoes your book club have any special holiday traditions?  Preparing a sumptuous feast, doing a project to benefit the community, or perhaps selecting holiday themed reading?  Are you planning book club holiday festivities for the first time?  Please tell us about your book club's traditions or future holiday plans. Be sure to include your group's name, if you have one, and location. We'll share your ideas in our December issue of Book Bytes.

JewishBook

FALL BOOK FESTIVALS
Meet Your Favorite Book Club Authors


Concord Festival of Authors Logo We look forward to sharing samples of delicious fall recipes from our author cookbook, Table of Contents, at the Concord (Massachusetts) Festival of Authors on October 22.  Featured authors Anita Diamant, Julia Glass, and Margot Livesey will sign books as readers sample the foods paired with their books in Table of Contents.  If you live in the Boston area, please stop by!

Some of the finest literary voices will speak at Jewish book JCC Logofestivals throughout the country this fall.  We're thrilled to co-sponsor the Boston Jewish Book Fair, running throughout the year and featuring novelists Julie Orringer, Jennifer Haigh, and Dani Shapiro.

To find an event in your area, visit the Jewish Book Council website.

ChooseABook

THE BOOK CLUB COOKBOOK
Revised and Updated


Book Club Cookbook Revised We're excited to announce that the second edition of The Book Club Cookbook will be released in late winter.  Featuring twenty new titles and recipes -- including Sara Gruen's Oyster Brie Soup paired with Water for Elephants, Abraham Verghese's Almaz's Ethiopian Doro Wot (Chicken Curry) paired with Cutting for Stone, and Chorizo and Potato Spanish Tortilla Bites paired with The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zaf�n -- this updated edition will inspire your book club.


 
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