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CMash September 8, 2012 25 Comments

SEPTEMBER 8th to SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2012

AMERICAN DERVISH
by AYAD AKHTAR

SYNOPSIS:

-Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.
-Mina is Hayat’s mother’s oldest friend from Pakistan. She is independent, beautiful and intelligent, and arrives on the Shah’s doorstep when her disastrous marriage in Pakistan disintegrates. Even Hayat’s skeptical father can’t deny the liveliness and happiness that accompanies Mina into their home. Her deep spirituality brings the family’s Muslim faith to life in a way that resonates with Hayat as nothing has before. Studying the Quran by Mina’s side and basking in the glow of her attention, he feels an entirely new purpose mingled with a growing infatuation for his teacher.
-When Mina meets and begins dating a man, Hayat is confused by his feelings of betrayal. His growing passions, both spiritual and romantic, force him to question all that he has come to believe is true. Just as Mina finds happiness, Hayat is compelled to act — with devastating consequences for all those he loves most.
-American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life. Ayad Akhtar was raised in the Midwest himself, and through Hayat Shah he shows readers vividly the powerful forces at work on young men and women growing up Muslim in America. This is an intimate, personal first novel that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page.

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CMash August 30, 2012 25 Comments

AUGUST 30th to SEPTEMBER 13th, 2012

BLAME IT ON TEXAS
by CHRISTIE CRAIG

SYNOPSIS:

Zoe Adams has always been content with her quiet nights at home, watching TV alone-until her life turns into a real-life episode of Unsolved Mystery Hunters. The story of a kidnapped girl triggers unexplained memories, and Zoe is dead-set on figuring out why. Her search leads her to one of the Lone Star State’s richest families-and to sexy PI Tyler Lopez.

Tyler has sworn off women, especially redheads with killer curves who poke their noses into his clients’ private lives. Still, he can’t deny the attraction any more than he can deny that some of Zoe’s crazy story makes sense. But when she becomes a hit man’s target, this cold case starts heating up. Suddenly, Tyler will do anything to protect Zoe-even risk his heart.

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CMash August 29, 2012 6 Comments

AUGUST 29th to SEPTEMBER 12th, 2012

ANGELS LANDING
by ROCHELLE ALERS

SYNOPSIS:

–Kara Newell’s dedication as a social worker is unwavering, yet her heart tells her that there is more to life than just work. When she shockingly inherits a large estate on a small island off of the South Carolina coast, the quaint town of Angels Landing awaits her – along with a secret family she never knew she had.
–After surviving war, loss, and heartbreak, ex-marine Jeffrey Hamilton takes his position as sheriff of Cavanaugh Island seriously. So he is the perfect person to watch over the beautiful, confident woman who has turned her new family’s expectations upside down-and stepped into the crosshairs of angry local residents.
–Soon Kara becomes more than just a job to him, and he begins to need her in ways he never expected. As Kara and Jeffrey confront the town gossips together, they’ll learn to face their fears and forgive their pasts in order to find a future filled with happiness in Angels Landing.

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GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “GROWING UP BRAVE” by Donna B. Pincus, PhD ENDED

CMash August 25, 2012 18 Comments

AUGUST 25th to SEPTEMBER 8th, 2012

GROWING UP BRAVE
by DONNA B. PINCUS, PhD

SYNOPSIS:

—Kids can have the strangest fears, and yet we all seem to treat such fears in the worst possible ways. We shrug them off and think that our kids will outgrow them, or we advise our kids to suck it up, or we refer to the abstract by saying, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself,” which probably means nothing to a 3-year-old or even a teenager.

—The dangers of mistreating a child’s fear can be, at its simplest, a lifelong mild phobia to, at its most complicated, self-harm, self-sabotage, and even substance abuse. So how do we know when to talk our children out of fear over milk and cookies and when to seek professional help? Donna Pincus’s GROWING UP BRAVE tells us how, and it’s nothing to be afraid of.

—With social and academic pressures at an all-time high, one in five children today suffers from a diagnosed anxiety disorder and many others go undiagnosed. More children than ever are being prescribed psychotropic drugs. In GROWING UP BRAVE, nationally recognized childhood anxiety expert Dr. Donna Pincus demonstrates that excessive anxiety is manageable and even preventable when parents learn how to identify and understand it and respond by using convenient and simple parenting techniques. The book’s effective tools teach parents:
– how to promote a warm, secure attachment with their child in only five minutes a day
-develop routines that help ward off anxiety
-implement Dr. Pincus’s “bravery ladder”
-and much more.
GROWING UP BRAVE is an empowering and valuable guide that will leave parents equipped to help their child regain confidence and happiness.
For more information on this topic, visit the following sites:

When should you be concerned about your child’s fear? Donna shares a quick guide to find out on the Growing Up Brave Facebook page.

Follow @DonnaPincus on Twitter to get quick tips like “Intervening early in establishing healthy sleep routines for children can actually prevent future psychological problems!”

You can also learn more at about Donna and child anxiety on GrowingupBrave.com and ChildAnxiety.net.

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…of What In God’s Name by Simon Rich

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GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE by Maria Semple ENDED

CMash August 11, 2012 31 Comments

AUGUST 11th to AUGUST 25th, 2012

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
by MARIA SEMPLE

SYNOPSIS:

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette’s intensifying allergy to Seattle–and people in general–has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence–creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world.
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GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB” by Sam Kean ENDED

CMash July 21, 2012 50 Comments

JULY 21st to AUGUST 4th, 2012

THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB

by SAM KEAN

SYNOPSIS:

There’s enough DNA in a single cell to stretch six feet tall, and enough DNA in our bodies to stretch almost to the moon. And within this DNA are stories that have been buried for millions of years–stories that can be used to solve historical mysteries about humans, and tell of our peculiar rise on earth.
In THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB, Sam Kean uses the forensic traces in our DNA to illuminate how humans evolved from primordial muck to the most dominant species on the planet, how studying language, art, and history can reveal the scientific workings of DNA–and vice-versa, and how the human line almost went extinct, twice, causing us to be more closely related than any other species.
There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, a love of reckless activities, and a talent for the violin; genes that could allow someone to survive in the arctic. THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB uses genes to reveal so much about our past, and leaves us wondering if and how scientists will manipulate DNA to alter our species’ future.

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