Books 'n Munchies

Books 'n Munchies met at the Bohemian Coffee House in Brunswick for our June meeting. We each made book recommendations to the group for summer reading.

Amanda recommends:: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer; When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.; Last Man Down by Richard Picciotto; Richard Picciotto, the highest-ranking firefighter to survive the collapse of the World Trade Center, provides an account of his activities and those of his fellow firefighters on September 11, 2001, when he and his team put their own lives on the line to help evacuate the North Tower, working until the building collapsed around them.
Emily recommends:: Safe House (1-800-WHERE-R-U, #3) by Jenny Carroll; Even though she is trying to convince everyone that she no longer has psychic powers, sixteen-year-old Jess Mastriani uses them to aid in the search for a missing cheerleader, hoping her help will get her accepted by the popular crowd.; Teen Idol by Meg Cabot; High school junior and columnist for the school newspaper, Jenny Greenley is good at dispensing advice to others, but when nineteen-year-old film heartthrob Luke Striker pays a visit to research a role, he creates such havoc that not even Jenny is sure she can fix it.; Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #6) by Louise Rennison; After trying to take Hamburger-a-gogo land, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats.
Liz recommends:: Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton; Vampire hunter Anita Blake must shift her attention from catching vampires to helping them when she is hired to stop a serial killer from murdering any more vampires.; Into the Wild (Warriors, #1) by Erin Hunter; Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprenticed by the ThunderClan and must struggle to fit in when the group of feral cats is threatened by the enemy ShadowClan.; Mankind: Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley; Traces the personal life and career of professional wrestler Mick Foley.
Mrs. Gordon recommends:: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.; The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova; A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the darkest powers of evil.; Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard; In Small Plains, Kansas, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger makes a shocking discovery in his father's pasture during a deadly blizzard and is pulled into a murder mystery that will change his life forever.; Aftermath by Brian Shawver; In the aftermath of a brutal fight between students from an elite prep school and the local high school, the town of East Breed's Pennsylvania, struggles to overcome the shocking results of the fight and find a way to unify.