November 16: \;Midnight in the Garden of Goo d and Evil by John Berendt
\nShots rang out in Savannah's grande st mansion in the misty\, early morning hours of May 2\, 1981. Was it murd er or self-defense? For nearly a decade\, the shooting and its aftermath r everberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks an d shaded squares. \;In this \;sharply observed\, suspenseful\, and witty \;narrative\, John \;Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugel y entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of th e Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder c ase.
\nDecember 21: \;Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
\nEverybody loves Mother Paula's pancak es. Everybody\, that is\, except the colony of cute but endangered owls th at live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new ki d and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owl s' fate cemented in pancake batter?
\nJanuary 18:&n bsp\;The Hel p by Kathryn Stockett
\nAibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson
\, Mississippi\, who's always taken orders quietly\, but lately she's unab
le to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue
but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speec
hless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambit
ion\, but without a husband\, she's considered a failure.
Together\,
these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book abo
ut work as a black maid in the South\, that could forever alter their dest
inies and the life of a small town.
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