Georgette's Picks

Co-Manager of our newest bookstore in Burr Ridge, Georgette has been selling (and reading) books for most of her professional career. A true expert.

Fathermucker (Hardcover)

By Greg Olear
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780062059710
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks, 10/2011
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Josh Lansky is a stay-at-home dad/struggling screenwriter who has to watch his kids for several days while his wife is on a business trip. All is going great until the mommy grapevine reports to him their suspicions that his wife is having an affair. Suddenly, that stuck-in-neutral writing kicks into overactive imagination as Josh imagines all sorts of insane scenarios involving his wife and a number of probable paramours. It's sarcastic, it's hilarious, and it's one of the best books we read in our store this year.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Hardcover)

By Ransom Riggs
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781594744761
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Quirk Books, 6/2011
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An abandoned orphanage, a mysterious island, a collection of very odd photographs, and the mysterious past of Jacob, the main 16-year old character. On the eve of his birthday, something momentous happens that splits his life into an unpredictable outcome. The true mystery of this book begins to unravel.

Vixen (Paperback)

By Jillian Larkin
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780385740357
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ember, 8/2011
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Three very different girls, all connected by family and friendship, living in Chicago in the time of the Jazz Age. Murder, intrigue, deceit, forbidden interracial love, all combine to make quite the young adult novel unforgettable and hard to put down. The first in a new series, Larkin is adept at writing strong female characters and situations that are believable even for the time they're written in. 

The Revisionists (Hardcover)

By Thomas Mullen
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780316176729
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mulholland Books, 9/2011
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Fascinating multiple intertwined character political thriller that takes placeon the precipice before the Great Conflaguration, a catastrophe so immense that it brings about world peace. Time traveling government agent "Zed" is back in current day to make sure the Great Conflaguration takes place but are his actions creating ripples that change the "perfect future"?

The Cookbook Collector (Paperback)

By Allegra Goodman
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385340861
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 6/2011
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  Two sisters who are total opposites move about their lives in hugely different ways. They struggle to connect with each other on an everyday basis, until tragedy strikes and casts their lives and differences in an unwelcome spotlight. This is just the sort of book that stays with you after you're finished, and a definite win for the book club set.
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