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.

Hourglass (Paperback)

By Myra Mcentire
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9781606843840
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Published: EgmontUSA, 5/2012
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17-year old Emerson Cole is haunted by apparitions that are inexplicable and her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secret organization called The Hourglass to help get the apparitions to stop. Meeting Michael- the consultant- changes her life in a multitude of ways that a mere blurb cannot merely explain.

Ready Player One (Paperback)

By Ernest Cline
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780307887443
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Published: Broadway, 4/2012
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The year 2044 isn't a nice place. The only time Wade, our main character, catches a break from ugly reality is when he's logged into the electronic matrix OASIS, where the creator of the electronic utopia has set a series of impossible puzzles and tasks, for one of the participants to unlock and seize the reigns of power at the helm of OASIS. This book is awesome and full of 1980's pop culture references. If you're a nerd who likes a good read, this is the one.

Bring Up the Bodies (Hardcover)

By Hilary Mantel
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780805090031
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Published: Henry Holt and Co., 5/2012
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Mantel's latest picks up where Wolf Hall left off. Thomas Cromwell is still tiptoeing his way through the court of Henry VIII, and you get to read his firsthand account of the fall of Anne Boleyn. The novel is laregly about her fall from grace and subsequent betrayal and beheading. The thing that's really fantastic about her books are that she doesn't take an easy way out with her narrative. It's fierce, deceitful, and downright addictive to the end.

How to Be a Woman (Paperback)

By Caitlin Moran
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780062124296
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Published: Harper Perennial, 7/2012
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Caitlin Moran is well known in England for her forthright manner in speaking of all things female. Now we get a taste of it in the States. Caitlin addresses the power of feminism in everything from puberty to motherhood and all things in between. A truly humorous and intelligent read.

Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Paperback)

By Ben Loory
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143119500
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Published: Penguin Books, 7/2011
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40 stories that are wry, ominous, and humorous. Surreal is the best word to describe a collection that includes gigantic octopi, televisions that talk, people flying through space and falling in love in wells, finding love on a Ferris wheel, and a terrified moose running for his life. Sounds bizarre? Indeed it is, but it's also riveting to the point of not putting down.

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