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What's in the trunk of your car? A teddy bear, a mixing bowl, a medieval arrow.

What’s your favorite memory? I know this question has ultimately no consequences, but I'm stressing out way too much about potentially picking the wrong memory, so I'm not going to answer it.

Who would play you in a movie? I'd play myself...but what I really want to do is direct.

Using only one word, describe yourself. Quirky

Author you love to hate: Most authors I hate, I hate begrudgingly, but I have to admit I love hating Stephanie Meyer, only because Reasoning with Vampires makes it so much fun.

Theme song to your life: "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe" by Okkervil River

What's your favorite smell? While I hate the taste of coffee, I love the smell.

What’s your porn star name? Kitty Monroe. So not even kidding.

If you had a super power, what would it be? The ability to stop time for everyone but myself without aging faster than everyone else as a result.  I have given this way too much thought.

Favorite pair of shoes (past or present): Purple ankle-strap wedges. They're pretty and it takes a few hours for them to get painful.

What’s your sign? I always thought it was Aries, but after the recent zodiac revamp, apparently I'm a Taurus. I don't approve.

Stick or Automatic? Shamefully, automatic only.

What do you think your job is at Left Bank Books? Convincing myself not to spend every paycheck entirely on books.

The Emerald Atlas (Paperback)

$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780375872716
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Published: Yearling, 4/2012
The Emerald Atlas is the first installment in the Books of Beginning series. This eventual trilogy tells the story of three children who are orphaned, but not really. Their parents are still alive, they just can't get to them. When they're transferred to an orphanage where they are the only children, and discover a magic book that can transfer them to the site of any photograph they begin to realize the amount of trouble their parents may be in.

$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780761361695
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Published: Carolrhoda Books, 1/2012
This is a fascinating look at a piece of the Civil Rights Movement too few people know. Utilizing Michaux's personal records, interviews with his family and government records to tell the story of a bookstore that succeeded against the odds.

Love and Leftovers (Hardcover)

$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780062023582
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Published: Katherine Tegen Books, 12/2011
I know novel-in-verse equals immediate disqualification for a lot of readers, but in this case Marcie's poetry journal gives us a direct line to her roller coaster emotions as her mother moves her across the country, away from her best friends, her boyfriend and her just-out-of-the-closet father. You will swoon along with her young love and long to explain to the people she hurts why they should just forgive her. She's going through a lot...

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781451618495
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 1/2011
I know I've often heard the term "tour de force" used to describe novels. Incendiary is one of the few I've thought to describe as one myself. This is relentless material, and not for the faint of heart or stomach. I won't presume to say Cleave's portrayal of a woman's increasingly desperate descent into madness when faced with her world falling apart around her is realistic, but I will say it is believable. Though we are dealing with a journey to the extremes of human existence, I was never left behind, thinking "I just can't see how she ended up here, doing this." Ultimately, due to the dark subject matter and emotional wringer this book put me through, I can't exactly say I enjoyed it, but I'm certainly not sorry I read it. In fact, it may be as close to a modern-day literary masterpiece as I've encountered.

$28.00
ISBN-13: 9781439192962
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Published: Gallery Books, 11/2010
The Kennedy Detail is a unique perspective on a national tragedy that most of us assume we already know everything about. The men of the Secret Service are in a position to analyze everything from a technical angle while neing too closely connected not to let emotions affect them. I guarantee you will learn something new from this book, probably something you had no idea you wanted to know.

   

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