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Fiction:

• The Dovekeepers (Hoffman)
• Hometown Girl (Stewart)

Non-Fiction:

• 2009 Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories
• Cut
• Every Day a Friday
• You Are the Brand

"Stage Performance" was a FABULOUS book.

Taylor has a wonderfully candid way of explaining every aspect of a "performance" so that even the most rank beginner can feel comfortable getting up on stage. He goes through everything from overcoming your fears to managing the business side of a budding career, and the best part is he speaks from practical experience (unlike so many books I've found on this topic).

But where this book really shines is in his discussion of the 'magic' that happens on stage -- the communication between performer and audience. The reason is because 90% of the books on the market that tout being able to make a performer out of the reader do NOT even touch on the actual act of performing -- they only discuss the aspects leading up to the stage. There's usually very little discussion of the things that come during and after. Taylor, however, goes into great detail outlining what marks a good performance -- especially a good performer -- from a bad one, and his tips for success are very straightforward. I highly recommend this book for musicians, as well as anybody who has to get up in front of people for any reason. There is an immense amount of good to be found in this book for all form of public speaking, entertaining, or musical performance.

by Heather

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The guidelines are simple:

• Tell us about a specific book you've enjoyed recently -- this can be as short as just a couple sentences that explain what you liked and/or disliked about it
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Fiction:

• Flip (Bedford)
• The Visconti House (Edgar)
• Memento Nora (Smibert)
• Life on Mars (Strahan)

Non-Fiction:

• Honey Bees: Letters from the Hive
• Music Was It

Letters About Literature, a writing contest for readers in grades 4 through 12, gives students the opportunity to write a letter to an author describing his or her personal reaction to a book, story, or poem.

Letters must be postmarked by January 6, 2012. 

You can learn more about the contest at: http://lettersaboutliterature.org/how_to_enter

Picture books:

• Annie was Warned (Krosoczka)
• Song of the Stars (Lloyd-Jones)

Chapter books:

• The Flight of the Dragons (French)
• Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier (Moody)

Non-fiction:

• America is Under Attack
• Buddhism in Thailand
• Cars on Mars
• Christianity in Mexico
• Hi-Tech World: Cool Stuff
• Human Body: Mysteries Revealed
• Islam in Turkey
• Jungle Survival Guide
• Ocean Drawing Book
• Trail of Tears
• Usborne Encyclopedia of World History
• What is Atomic Theory?
• What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics

Fiction:

• Lost Memory of Skin (Banks)
• Shadow in Serenity (Blackstock)
• Seduced by Grace (Blake)
• Feast Day of Fools (Burke)
• The Affair (Child)
• Nightwoods (Frazier)
• An Angel for Christmas (Graham)
• The Lost Women of Lost Lake (Hart)
• Christmas at Timberwoods (Michaels)
• A Lawman's Christmas (Miller)
• The Visitation (Peretti)
• Southern Fried Sushi (Spinola
• Waking Hours (Wiehl)
• An O'Brien Family Christmas (Woods)

Non-fiction:

• 3-Degree Putting Solution
• 1000 Diabetes Recipes
• Columbus
• Debbie Macomber's Christmas Cookbook
• Joanne Fluke's Lake Eden Cookbook
• Killing Lincoln
• Lennon
• Life is Not a Stage
• Rin Tin Tin

Fiction:

• Sometimes It Happens (Barnholt)
• Blindsided (Cummings)
• Lady Macbeth's Daughter (Klein)
• Ophelia (Klein)
• The Limit (Landon)
• Always a Witch (MacCullough)
• Small-Town Sinners (Walker)
• Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials (Wiseman)

Non-Fiction:

• Fashion Design Workshop