New books for 2010
The newest hardcover addition to the Book Buffs Book Club is The Singer’s Gun (Unbridled Books), by Emily St. John Mandel. This is the story of a young twenty-something as he tries to navigate into adulthood while still trying to overcome his past family life filled with crime and corruption. Emily’s first novel, Last Night in Montreal, received wide critical praise and was one of our book club selections last year. It is so good we had to break with our tradition of selectioning an author only once!
Arriving in October is the next hardcover selection, How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead Books). It is also a second novel from its author. This beautifully written novel follows the life of a son from an Ethiopian immigrant family. His geographical and emotional journey traces his parents’ travels from a war-torn Ethiopia to a life in America. Dinaw Mengestu’s first novel, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, was named as a New York Times Notable Book.
Our next paperback selection will also be delivered soon. This selection is by one of the foremost figures in Dutch history, Louis Couperus. Published in 1889, Eline Vere: A Novel of the Hague is a psychological novel inspired by the work of Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert and Leo Tolstoy. It captures a piece of Dutch society and all its trappings at the end of the nineteenth century. Award winning translator, Ina Rilke translated this work from the Dutch. Eline Vere is published by one of our favorite publishers, Archipelago Books.
Visit Current Selections for an indepth description of these exciting new books.
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Single Copies of Book Club Selections and Recommended Books are Still Available!
We will continue to order extra copies of our book club selections for individual requests and occasionally, we read wonderful books that don't make it into our Book Club Selections, but we think all you bibliophiles should read. Both of these options are now available to you.
Buy Extra Book Club Selections
An extra book is $24.00 for single hard cover books and $14 for single soft cover books. The prices include applicable sales taxes and the cost of shipping by media mail. With those included costs, the discount is approximately 25%. Of course, you can still join the book club and automatically receive our Hardcover or Paperback Original selections as they're released. Please note — to purchase on PayPal, you must have a PayPal account. If you order single books through the PayPal link, you must click the Add Special Instructions to Merchant link on the PayPal check out screen to indicate your book selection.
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