Barbara

 

Barbara Theroux, F&F founder and constant reader, loves to recommend bookgroup reading and find out where you want to travel/learn/explore through a book!  Helping her grand daughter learn new things is a new joy.   

Read some of her opinions on the F&F Blog

New release for back to school, back to bookclubs...

Grandpa Green (Hardcover)

$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781596436077
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Roaring Brook Press, 8/2011
A wonderful picture book about memory, gardening and everlasting gifts. When you read it, you will immediately go back and read it again--looking closely at all the illustrations. This will be a classic!

Birds of Paradise (Hardcover)

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780393064612
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/2011
Another story of family and food--but Miami is also the perfect setting for all the Bird family members to live, work and learn about whatit means to be a family

Press Here (Hardcover)

$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780811879545
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Chronicle Books, 3/2011
Great fun for an adult to share with favorite person of any age---but probably the younger the better!

$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780307408846
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Crown, 5/2011
Eric Larson does good research and tells an interesting history of Berlin, had the powers that be paid attention...

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307595867
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf, 5/2011
Nesbo gives us what we want in mystery and suspense

State of Wonder (Hardcover)

$26.99
ISBN-13: 9780062049803
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper, 6/2011
Travel to the Amazon...

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780385533317
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Doubleday, 3/2011
Wow, this is a great look at what happened and continues to happen in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Honest, sometimes humorous look at dateline reporting.