Annie's Book Stop of Worcester

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  This week’s new arrivals are actually pretty great. There are some memoirs that could prove to be pretty funny, what with Steve Martin’s Number One Is Walking: My Life in The Movies, cartoons and Lauren Graham’s anecdotes and laugh-out-loud observations about life as an actor in Hollywood, in Have I Told You This Already?: …

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  Hello everyone. As Autumn begins, and the weather cools, passions heat up. This week there are many books about love, romance, hardships, and heart adorning our shelves. We also do have a new R.A. Salvatore fantasy, one mystery, one literary fiction book and one Neil DeGrasse Tyson science book. Enjoy!   ROMANCES:   DRUNK …

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  Hello, everyone. It’s the start of the school year, possibly leaving some of you with some free time on your hands to do a little extra reading. Next week we will have some new romances, two of them very light (one a romcom), and the third, a paranormal romance. Let’s start with them.   …

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    Now that Summer is winding down and the weather is starting to cool off, you might start to think about getting some of the nice mysteries and thrillers you can curl up with next to a nice warm fire. Next week’s selections again proves that mysteries/thrillers are very popular books, so, let’s start …

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    Fiction:   How can we start the New Arrivals blog without a new James Patterson thriller? This week we have:   ESCAPE (BILLY HARNEY THRILLER #3) by James Patterson, which seems like a fun “escape” read with his Billy Harney character. Other mysteries/thrillers include:   THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE by Riley Sager. …

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  This week, our new arrivals include one of my favorites-er-favourites, and some heart wrenching romances of all sorts. My favorite is of course:   DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA: THE OFFICIAL FILM COMPANION by Emma Marriott. This is complete with photos and sneak peeks of the popular television series, now turned into another movie. …

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  The new arrivals this week are again following the pattern of many more non-fiction books than fiction or genre books. Memoirs/biographies top the list, but with a bit of a twist:   INTO THE INFERNO: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY INTO CALIFORNIA’S MEGAFIRES AND FALLOUT by Stuart Palley is actually a book of photographs, but it …

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    Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester is happy to shine our Friday spotlight on author Christine Feehan. Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of over 85 novels. She is also a 3rd degree blackbelt who taught self-defense for 20 years, a mother, grandmother and even great-grandmother who lives …

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    There are many books coming out this week that are geared towards helping oneself find what it is you really want to do in life, or how to channel your life in positive, creative ways. I thought I’d focus on some of these non-fiction books since life these days can be very difficult …

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  Hello, folks. This week there are several fiction books to tell you about in our New Arrivals area, albeit different types of fiction.   GROUNDSKEEPING: A NOVEL by Lee Cole is actually a biographical fiction story about coming of age in America, and families. KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro is a metaphysical/dystopian …

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