~Mailbox Monday~ 7/6/09

I received 4 books last week!




Prairie Tale by Melissa Gilbert

Waking Lazarus by T. L. Hines:
~Jude Allman has died and come back to life three times, becoming a celebrity despite his best efforts to go unnoticed. When the world crushes in around this miracle man, this modern-day Lazarus, he chooses to vanish into the vastness of Montana. He changes his name and withdraws from the public eye, trying to forget all that came before. But the past, like Jude, won't stay buried.
A prowling evil circles his adopted hometown of Red Lodge, Montana. Children are disappearing - and Jude may have the key to solving the crimes, hidden inside the mysteries of his own deaths. His days as a recluse are over, and now he must face the questions that have haunted him for years. What if his resurrections aren't merely accidents? what is there's are reason behind it all? What if he's been brought back for just this moment?

Replay by Ken Grimwood:
~A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Time Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd make before?" Forty-three year old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and dead-end job, he dies in 1988 and wakes up to find himself in 1963, at the age of eighteen, staring at his dorm room walls at Emory University. It's all the same...but different: Jeff knows what the future holds. He knows who will win every World Series...every Kentucky Derby...even how to win on Wall Street. One thing he doesn't know is: Why has he been chosed to replay his life? And how many times must he win - and lose - everything he loves? Winner of the 1988 World Fantasy Award for best novel and published in eleven languages, Replay unravels the answers in a masterful skein that captivates our imagination.

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen:
~Halley and Scarlett have been best friends ever since they met. Halley has always been the quiet one; Scarlett braver and more outgoing. Halley has always turned to Scarlett when things get rough, and Scarlett has always known what to do. It's the perfect set-up. But everything changes at the beginning of their junior year. Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident; then she finds out that she is carrying his baby. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Now Halley has to learn how to be strong for Scarlett. It won't be easy, but Halley knows that she can't let Scarlett down. Because a true friend is a promise you keep forever.

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