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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
277 pp. New York
Dial Press, 2008
FIC SHA

Annotation
Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
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Airhead
by Meg Cabot
340 pp. New York
Point, 2008
FIC CAB
Annotation
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
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Cover image for The host : a novel The Host
by Stephenie Meyer 
619 pp. New York
Little, Brown, 2008
FIC MEY

Annotation
Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist.

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Cover image for Impulse Impulse
by Ellen Hopkins
666 pp. New York
Simon Pulse, 2008
FIC HOP)
Annotation
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
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by Robert J. Sawyer
320 pp. Tor, 2007
FIC SAW
Annotation
Eighty-seven-year-old Dr. Sarah Halifax, the woman who decoded the first radio transmission from aliens nearly four decades earlier in 2009, is offered a chance to rollback time through an experimental rejuvenation procedure that would allow her to work on the just-received alien reply, but life gets complicated when she and her husband Don agree to the treatment, which works for him but not for her, leaving her with a twenty-five-year-old spouse.
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Cover image for The uncommon reader The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
120 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
FIC BEN
Annotation
The Queen of England stumbles upon a mobile library while she is in pursuit of her wayward dogs, strikes up a conversation with the man in charge, and feels it her duty to borrow a book, transforming her view of the world through the written word.
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Need more ideas for good reads, check out:
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