| "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~ Sir Richard Steele Popular Books in June | Cooking | Historical Fiction | Entertainment & Humor Popular Books in June  | Award-winning author Justin Cronin's latest book is also one of the Amazon Best Books of the Month. You don't have to be a fan of vampire fiction to be enthralled by The Passage. Cronin brings depth and vitality to this ambitious epic about a virus that nearly destroys the world, and a six-year-old girl who holds the key to bringing it back. Learn more
Members have added 3 Characters, 1 Important Place, 1 Quote & more... | | |  | Bestselling author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians starts a new series about two siblings who find themselves embroiled in a research project at the British Museum. Their father, Dr. Julius Kane, unleashes the Egyptian god, Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Learn more
Members have added 14 Characters, 2 Important Places, 9 Quotes & more... | | |  | The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures a moving story of a girl whose magical gift is a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. Learn more
Members have added 4 Characters, 2 Quotes & more... | | |  | This is the first book by the visionary CEO of Zappos, who explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success. Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too. Sound crazy? Learn more
Members have added 6 Characters, 1 Important Place, 2 Quotes & more... | Cooking  | The most ambitious book yet by America's bestselling, award-winning grill expert whose Barbecue! Bible books have over 4 million copies in print. Welcome to Planet Barbecue, the book that will take America's passionate, obsessive, smoke-crazed live-fire cooks to the next level. Learn more | | |  | This 2010 winner of the IACP Cookbook Award is the all-new, full-color cake lover's companion from Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Diva of Desserts! Eagerly-awaited by her legions of devoted fans, Rose's Heavenly Cakes is a must-have guide to perfect cake-baking from this award-winning master baker and author of The Cake Bible, one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. Learn more | | |  | This 2010 winner of the James Beard Award, by internationally acclaimed food and travel writer Colman Andrews brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland. Fast emerging as one of the world's hottest culinary destinations, Ireland is a country of artisanal bakers, farmers, cheesemakers, and butteries, where farm-to-table dining has been practiced for centuries. Learn more | | |  | Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. Learn more | | | Find more cooking books on the NPR's 10 Best Cookbooks, Celebrity Chefs, and the James Beard Foundation 20 Essential Books to Build Your Culinary Library community lists. | Historical Fiction  | Weaving together the stories of three very different women loosely tied to each other, debut novelist Blake takes readers back and forth between small town America and war-torn Europe in 1940. Blake captures two different worlds-a naïve nation in denial and, across the ocean, a continent wracked with terror-with a deft sense of character and plot, and a perfect willingness to take on big, complex questions, such as the merits of truth and truth-telling in wartime. Learn more | | |  | Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner brings Catherine to life in her own voice, allowing us to enter into the intimate world of a woman whose determination to protect her family's throne and realm plunged her into a lethal struggle for power. To some Catherine de Medici was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others she was the passionate savior of the French monarchy. Learn more | | |  | Highly decorated Marine veteran, Karl Marlantes bring us this intense, powerful, and compelling, epic war novel. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world-both its horrors and its thrills-and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature. Learn more
| | Find other historical fiction books in these great series: The Tudors, Outlander and Avalon. | Entertainment & Humor  | In this hilarious new book from the star of Chelsea Lately and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, comes a no-holds-barred account of life on the ridiculous side. Chelsea mines the wealth of material that is her family, her sex life, her career, and her distinctively outrageous worldview. Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irrevent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment. Learn more | | |  | While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Learn more | | |  | For every parent who's ever received a letter from a homesick child or anybody who's ever written their parents with crazy requests from their bunk, P.S. I Hate It Here will delight with hilarious and heartwarming real-life letters. This collection of real letters written by children ages eight to sixteen to their parents about their adventures at summer camp are laugh-out-loud funny and will have readers reminiscing about their own camp days. Learn more | | Find other humorous books on the Politically Incorrect Guides, or Classics Retold community lists. | _____________________
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