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Ask us for we’re looking forward to his latest story, The Ocean at the End recommendations! of the Lane ($25.99, Wm. Morrow, 978-0-062-25565-5). The Gift Ideas QDUUDWRUQRZÀIW\VRPHWKLQJUHWXUQVWR Books always make great gifts! his homeland in rural England to attend a For any age and any taste, funeral. Though his childhood home is long we’ve got something that they’ll gone, he is drawn to the Hempstock farm treasure. Remember, books are gifts they can open at the end of the road. The family was odd again and again. even then, with mother, grandmother, and 11-year-old daughter (who claimed that their duckpond was an ocean) seeming to be much older than their apparent ages. Drawing upon folk tales and mythology, oods , 8 c k 9 t d o 0 o 06I L Wo Gaiman’s bewitching and harrowing tale of Buren Van 129 mystery and survival, memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real. Avail. 6/18 Dear Booklover, MYSTERIES & MAYHEM Summer is here and we love that the season offers a And When She Was Good little break from the intensity of the rest of the year. Heloise Lewis’s life is definitely compartmentalized: It’s time to think about a little get-away, fresh fruits a devoted mother, a lobbyist at the state capitol, and and vegetables grown nearby, and taking time to sip in discreet hotel rooms, the woman of many a man’s a cool drink and watch the clouds in the sky. dreams. Now, after a decade, her life is under siege. Her accountant is asking questions, her employees Years ago at a book industry gathering, mega-bestselling author Stephen can’t be trusted, and another so-called suburban King told the story of his mother and how she would come back from the madam has been found dead, forcing Heloise to library with a sack full of paperbacks. He said she referred to them as her disappear and live long enough to remake her life “quick, cheap vacations”. It’s a delightful thought ... that reading can take once again. And When She Was Good ($14.99, Wm. us anywhere and really is quite an affordable escape. Morrow, 978-0-062-19773-3) is yet another example of why Laura Lippman has won so many prizes in the Available During the coming months, school children will have summer reading mystery genre. 6/4 assignments, but it’s also great to see them devour silly and fun adventures of their own choosing. Our feeling is that if a child loves comic books or graphic novels, silly ditties or activity books, they’re face is in a book ... and A Serpent’s Tooth that’s a good thing! Help the children in your life enjoy time to read this The A&E Channel has made Craig Johnson’s lead summer by offering a “Just Because” gift. There’s nothing better than giv- character, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire, quite A Serpent’s Tooth ing a child the gift of reading, the foundation for success in life. popular. 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