{Confessions of bookaholic} Newsletter #4

If your book-hungry mind hasn't satisfied yet and you are looking for a make-over, then here we are, ready with a new menu card! Keeping all kind of bookaholics' tastes in mind, we have listed different genres. 

: Young Adult :

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets tienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, tienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?

 : Romance :

Sweet, delicate Annie Trimble was living in her soundless solitary world until an inebriated rich brat invades her sanctuary with cruelty. Her lonely, yet peaceful world trembles by the shocking attack. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie holds in her heart.
Tormented by guilt and eager to protect a unborn child, Alex Montgomery offers a marriage of convenience when he learns that his spoiled younger brother has forced himself on a helpless girl, who perhaps, doesn't even know the word rape. But soon he discovers the secret of his "daft" wife and in no time, his compassion for a innocent helpless girl turns into heart-warming love that he never had dreamed before to have in his life. He becomes determined to break through the wall of silence surrounding her; to heal... and to be healed by Annie's sweet song of love.

: Historical :

It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.

: Classic :

The year 1775- England and France tottered on the brink of revolution. And against this backdrop are the interesting characters spun by Dickens...
The ageing Dr. Alexander Manette, who is an ailing prisoner in the Bastille, finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie in England. There the lives the wicked Madame Defarge who schemes her kaleidoscopic designs of death, an exiled French aristocrat Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, who gives up his life for the woman he loves-Lucie. Their lives get intermingled, and they are drawn against their will, from the tranquil road of London to the bloodstained streets of Paris  and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

: Comedy :

Emma Corrigan lives a fruitless life with nothing but an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets from her best girlfriend: once she had a lesbian dream of her! But..well, all of this she spills to a handsome American stranger on a plane faced by extreme circumstance. As unlucky as she is, that perfect stranger turns out to be Jack Harper, the CEO of the company she works for, and who eventually knows every single humiliating detail about her... 

: Mystery :

In the village of King's Abbot, a widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secret affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study--but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. King's Abbot is crawling with suspects, including a nervous butler, Ackroyd's wayward stepson, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Cecil Ackroyd, who has taken up residence in the victim's home. It's now up to the famous detective Hercule Poirot, who has retired to King's Abbot to garden, to solve the case of who killed Roger Ackroyd--a task in which he is aided by the village doctor and narrator, James Sheppard, and by Sheppard's ingenious sister, Caroline.

 : Fantasy :

Audrey Niffenegger's dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry's unconventional love story. That their attempt to live normal lives together is not threatened by something they can prevent nor does control make their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Since we are all just a bunch of book-hungry folks, it might be worthwhile to get to know our fellow bookaholics while we are gathered here.

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